Game Dev Tycoon is a business simulation game where you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.
A disappointing throwback to great management sims like Transport Tycoon or Theme Hospital, but it fails to impress with its lack of depth.
It's pretty similar to The Movies (2005) by Lionhead games, where your main source of income relies on you betting money on projects to earn even more money by exploiting current news events or the mainstream media, while climbing to the top of the charts.
Obviously, this game isn't even close to being as advanced as The Movies, which isn't even that advanced compared to other "tycoon games".
Overall, it's a bare minimun of what I'd expect a management sim would do, and many times feel as a quick IOS time waster. Go play The Movies, instead.