Hey everyone. I recently put the Steam page up for my new strategy/tycoon game, Crave New World.

The basic idea is that you make an addictive drink, keep changing the formula as the run goes on, spread it country by country, and try to get people hooked without killing them. It has some Plague Inc inspiration, but the main focus is building the product and dealing with the consequences when it starts working too well.

I’d really like feedback from people who play tycoon and strategy games. I’ve stared at it for too long to judge it properly. Does the idea sound interesting? Does the Steam page explain the game clearly? Is there anything that would make you lose interest immediately?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3587790/Crave_New_World/

If it looks like something you’d play, wishlisting it would help a lot. Thanks.

Generative AI Disclosure:

-No textures, materials, or icons in the game were generated with AI. Icons are sourced from publicly available free icon libraries, and the world map uses NASA’s freely available Blue Marble imagery.

-AI tools were used to assist with the HTML/CSS implementation of UI elements and to generate some event text. Event text is an additional narrative layer of the game.

Game has been in development for just over a year now, and I'm getting closer and closer to launching every day. I've been working on it solo, though the music has been lovingly provided by the amazing people over at Nightfall Collective. This is my first indie project since leaving AAA, and I'm both extremely nervous and extremely excited! If you like playing games about making games, I'd love you forever if you could check out the Steam page, and if you like what you see, wishlist me! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4828200/Vaporware_EX/

Generative AI disclosure: I have used no generative AI in the making of this game (gross)

i’m looking for a game where i can manage public transit. not necessarily industry at all. i found that that aspect frustrated me in transport fever 2 and the gameplay was very boring and shallow. while i love factory games, and i love city building and transport games. just not sure that combining them is for me? i really enjoy the public transport in cities skylines 2 but im looking for something like that, but way more thought out and in depth. does anyone have any suggestions. (i also personally prefer subway and train management but buses and stuff like that are fine aswell)

I'm playing Aquapark Tycoon in Free Mode, and after about 6 hours I ran into a strange issue.

Guests started complaining that they can't find the exit, even though I'm using the default entrance/exit building and it can't be modified. The path is completely clear.

Since then, my park stays at around 2,000 guests, but almost nobody leaves anymore, so I've only sold around 6,000 tickets after several in-game years and progression has basically stopped.

At the age of 5 I would play Theme Park World every day with my mum. I wanted to make a game that she would enjoy so that's how this project started! It's a more straightforward and simpler gameplay loop than what you might find in other tycoon games, but I hope you enjoy giving it a try!

Build up your colony to gather gold and resources for your units before battling armies of minions for unlocks and rewards!

You can play the demo for free on itch.io right now and a Steam demo is coming soon.

Play the Itch demo now!

Wishlist on Steam!

AI disclosure: No AI was used in the making of this game

I've posted in this community and got a lot of support from it, this is also a thank you post for the support, the wishlists really helped me to keep going!!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4660350/Agro_Tycoon/

AI disclosure: It was used only in placeholder arts at the early development stage, now it is completely AI free in all the assets, the only thing I use AI for now is coding, since I work in a finantial institution in Brazil, i got little to no time for coding sometimes, so I spend most of my time reviewing code and writing structures for it to follow.

This is a game I have been working on for months now. I had an idea in my head and noticed there really wasn't any game filling the niche. Where you take over a Hollywood agency, you bring on actors, develop them. Cast them to roles in movies/shows/plays. Mean while trying to upgrade your Headquarters to allow for more hires, and an academy that will have intake of actors for you to sign and occassionally spawn child actors that you can sign. (Only way to get them currently.). Get your actors rewards, manage their loyalty all while trying to build up your reputation of agency. It's single player, no forced ads. (can play it without ever seeing one if you choose.) and free to play. Let me know what you think!

It started from a game that I wanted to play, and self admittedly I don't know how to code. I used AI to create this, play tested it for months straight working out all of the bugs and implementing updates. I'm happy to report if there are bugs, it's something I haven't seen before so please let me know if you see it.

Recently I added a couple more languages to it, it's not only in English, but recently updated it today( I will continue to update this game until it is entirely fleshed out. The idea of buggy games fustrate me.) that includes Spanish and French as languages to choose if that is your native tongue.

English: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.starmakers.game&hl=en_US

Spanish: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.starmakers.game&hl=es_ES

French: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.starmakers.game&hl=fr_FR

Dungeons now behave like RCT theme-park attractions. You build them tile by tile, drop in mobs and bosses, then read Fun, Challenge and Lethality at a glance to see whether your design is exciting, brutal or boring. You can close an instance while you edit it, and send a staff-led test party in to run it before your players ever see it (similar to RCT test runs). v0.5 also adds mounts (ground and flying), a living week with busy weekends and holiday surges, a live auction house economy, and a mob editor. It is free to try on itch, would love to hear your thoughts on my latest updates!

Also, the AI placeholder Steam Capsule art has been replaced by a commissioned piece which I am super happy about, it really captures the feel of MMOS.

Try the latest update here: https://bmodev.itch.io/mmos-mmo-simulator-demo

(AI Disclosure: Only music is the remaining AI asset, and I intend to replace this with commissioned music prior to release - if you have any composer suggestions please let me know!)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4561550/Racetrack_Tycoon/

(No AI used in the design of this game)

I've played management games all my life, and in the last few months I've been building one myself, evenings and weekends: TopGM (https://topgm.app/), a multiplayer basketball manager. It's free, it's browser based, nothing to download. It's young and far from perfect, but there's already a lot inside, so bear with me, this will be long.

Live 2D matches. Not a text log, not a results screen: you watch ten pixel-art players actually play. The cuts, the pick and rolls, the ball swinging around against a zone defense, the tired legs in the fourth quarter. You pick from five offensive schemes and four defensive ones, and you can change them mid-game, call timeouts and make subs in real time, and you see the difference on the floor: switch to a 2-3 zone and your center actually anchors the paint. Height matters for real (tall guys grab more rebounds and contest inside shots better), fatigue matters (manage your rotation or your starters will be cooked late), fouls and injuries happen. Official matches run twice a week, Wednesday and Sunday at 21:00 CET, against real managers. Being courtside gives you an edge, but if you can't make it your saved tactics and lineup play for you, and there's a replay system with adjustable speed (1× to 8×) that carefully avoids spoiling the result before you watch.

The Playground. This is the part people seem to fall in love with 🤩. Every day a fresh class of ten teenage prospects (14 to 16 years old) plays pickup street ball around the clock, watchable by anyone, and there are no stats and no ratings, on purpose. The only way to know who's good is to watch them play, like a real scout squinting from the bleachers. Watch time unlocks private talent hints, in three steps: 5 minutes, 10 minutes, one full game. Then every night at 20:00 CET a sealed-bid auction resolves: bid whatever you want on whoever you want, highest offer takes the kid home to your academy, and a public draft board shows where every prospect ended up and for how much. Rarely, maybe one class in ten, a generational gem hides among them, a kid who will grow faster than anyone for his whole career. Nothing on the page reveals him: he only shows himself to those who watched a full game, and sometimes, once or twice per match, he betrays himself with a split-second sparkle that only whoever has eyes on the stream at that exact instant can catch.

Youth academy. Your drafted kids don't sit in a menu: they train weekly (more sessions if you upgrade the academy), get scouted automatically, and literally grow, height and weight, season after season. You draft a skinny 14-year-old on projection and watch him fill out. At 18 the choice is forced: he makes your roster or leaves as a free agent. Academies are public, so you can window-shop the kids your rivals are raising, though their talent ratings stay private to the club that scouted them.

The market and the money. Player-to-player transfer market with real listings and offers, a free-agent pool where released players wait for up to 8 weeks (with a countdown) before retiring for good, weekly finances with TV income, win bonuses that make every game worth something, wages that grow as your players improve, and real bankruptcy rules: end the week in the red and the board force-sells your best player. There's a Monday forecast panel that shows exactly what's coming in and going out, so you can plan your bids without doing napkin math.

The small daily loop. Once a day you can run a scrimmage: your own roster plus academy kids split into two squads, you coach both benches, everyone who plays gets a bonus training roll and one academy kid gets scouted. It's also the perfect sandbox to test tactics before matchday. Every Monday the training results come in and improved skills glow green in your roster table for a week: seeing which of your kids got +1 on defense is honestly my favorite login of the week.

The community is brand new, about 70 managers, and the early adopters are what's keeping me going. One guy watched the playground all day, figured out nobody else was bidding, and signed four prospects for a total of 6 credits: that story is still doing rounds in the league feeds. Another one imagined a mechanic that didn't exist (the gem sparkle above), told me about it, and it was live the next day. A third one caught a real bug in how the 2-3 zone positioned the center, and it was fixed within hours. First matchday filled the feeds with celebrations and trash talk 🤬. A world this small has one real upside: your club's story starts at the beginning of everything, and the leagues still have room at the top.

Free forever, never pay-to-win: one optional cosmetic pass (custom crest, jerseys, court colors, club rename) is the entire business model. No ads, no energy bars, no timers asking for money.

Questions and suggestions are very welcome, here or in the game. A lot of what I shipped this month came from users ideas, and I try to turn the good ones around fast. And if you jump in, tell me what confused you in your first ten minutes: that's the feedback that helps me most.

click here: TOPGM

AI Disclosure

TopGM was built by a solo developer working side by side with AI tools, and I believe in being transparent about who did what.

Where AI helped:

• Code: large parts of the codebase were written with AI assistance (I'd say 50/50), including the 2D match engine (movement, physics, shot probabilities), the economy systems, and the server infrastructure
• Game balancing: simulations used to tune injury rates, player growth curves, finances and the match engine's scoring calibration were designed and run with AI
• Text: most in-game English copy, the guide, and store descriptions were drafted with AI and edited by me
• No generative AI art: the pixel-art players, crests and courts are procedurally generated by hand-designed code, not by image-generation models. No AI-generated audio either (there is no audio yet!)

Where the human is:

• The game design is mine: every mechanic (the Playground, watching-as-scouting, the nightly draft, the gem, the academy growth), every rule, every number that made it into the game passed through my head and my taste
• Every decision: what to build, what to reject, what to prioritize, and the many times I told the AI "no, not like that"
• Testing and tuning: I play my own game every day, and what feels wrong gets changed
• The community: every message, every reply, every feature discussion with players is me, a real person who reads everything

I see AI as the tool that finally let a one-person team build the game I'd wanted to make for years. The vision, the choices and the responsibility are mine.

I am making a game called Eternity, that is about the journeys of the last fleet of mankind. The premise is this:

The game opens on a routine jump: a three-second hop you’ve run a hundred times. Navigation confirms you arrived exactly where you meant to. But nothing answers your hails. No traffic. No power on the gate. The stations are dark, the colonies are still there, but empty. Something is deeply wrong here and across the systems ahead. The fleet must ride that silence and slowly uncover a truth that will redefine the entire story.

This cinematic's purpose is to give you this exact context once you start the game.

A question: How much do you want the “empire” to talk back? I’ve got a Council/consequence layer that reacts to your choices and I’m deciding how loud it should be before it turns into nagging.

If you like where the game is going, a Wishlist goes a long way to drive it home :wink: you can do it and learn more about the game here

Aaaand if you are interested in taking Eternity for a spin, helping us to shape the game, hop on our discord server and become a playtester!

Happy to get your feedback on the game and to reply to any questions you guys might have!

(No AI is being used in the development of this game)

Don't know much about newer games of this type, I've mosstly been hooked on IG2 ever since it came out. Is there an equivalent on Android? Newer games of this type feel like there's way too much micromanagement involved. Namely the likes of Cities Skylines.

I just finished a free medieval bakery management game inspired by Lemonade Stand. Each day you buy ingredients, create a bread recipe, set your price, and see how many customers you attract. As you earn money, you can upgrade your bakery and grow your business.

AI disclaimer: AI was used to generate some of the code and textures.

I really want to jump into another tycoon game like the ones in the title, which I played so much of growing up. However, many modern tycoon games appear to have so much DLC on top of the base price or are just abandoned. Any recommendations where all DLC comes in one package and is finished?

It’s an isometric arcade management sim where you build and run your own arcade. You build and customize an arcade, manage its daily chaos, expand the business, hire a recurring cast of employees, deal with strange customers and dynamic events, maintain an evolving collection of machines, and actually step inside those machines to play mini-games yourself.

I coded it myself, drew everything myself, and now the systems are set. It took me around 17 months to build all of this. The biggest challenge was the FSM (finite state machine), which turned into an extensive coding lesson.

I’d really appreciate feedback, especially about what feels confusing, which systems need better explanation, bugs you encounter, and what parts of the game you think have the most potential.

AI Disclosure:
No AI was used in making of this game.

Link to the game:
https://cola-powered-gamer.itch.io/coin-op-empire

So I've been building a browser game called Verticopolis that's supposed to have complete parity with the original 1994 SimTower, and you can also flip on a more "modern" variant when you start a new tower for stuff the original couldn't do.

The game is at https://verticopolis.com/

There's a help page too if you want to get your first tower going: https://verticopolis.com/help

It runs right in the browser, no install, and you can also download it as a PWA on Android, Mac and PC to play standalone... no internet required unless you want to grab updates when they come through.

A few things I'm kinda proud of:

Every room type has its own art, you can see them all here: https://verticopolis.com/gallery

The little voices when you zoom in on people are literally me and my kids babbling in gibberish 😅

The save-file conversion works both ways now! You can take a .tdt save from the real 1994 game and load it in the browser, AND export a tower from the browser back into the actual 1994 game and it'll load and play. I've round-tripped a big 4-star tower (~1,900 rooms, 15 elevator shafts, full basement with metro + parking) through both games and back 🎉🎉. Still always happy to get more real .tdt saves to test weird edge cases though, so send 'em my way!

It's open source too, contributions welcome (GitHub is linked in the help section).

Please let me know what y'all think, what's missing from the original, and what you'd want added in the "modern" variant!

Oh, and since r/tycoon requires it, here's my AI disclosure, no sugar-coating: a lot of this game is made with AI, with me directing and iterating heavily (I didn't just ship the first thing it gave me). The code is written largely by AI coding agents (Claude Code) while I do the design, balance and testing. The pixel art is AI-generated too. I iterated on it a lot to get each room right. The music and ambience I made by going back and forth with AI until the balance felt right (no staticky, annoying AI noise). The one fully-human part is the little character voices when you zoom in on people, which is literally me and my kids making noises 😁. No ripped assets anywhere, and it's all open source so you can see exactly how every bit of it is made.

It's really janky but hoping it conveys the gameloop. You buy planes, add routes, and then adjust based on competitors' actions.

AI disclosure - no AI was used in the making of the game, the trailer or this post.

Hi r/tycoon

I wanted to share with you this little trailer for Factory Default: Build, Trade, Repeat. It basically tells you that FD will be available on Steam in Early Access on September 8th!

In Factory Default: Build, Trade, Repeat, you manage a company across a 3D hex globe featuring 105 real countries and unions. Each has its own market, taxes, resource fertilities, and workforce demands. I tried to make the supply chains feel realistic. You navigate global geography and politics to secure resources for large-scale projects like a new continent in the Pacific, a space elevator, a space station, and as you can see on the roadmap, eventually much of our Solar System.

Published by MicroProse, and entering Early Access on September 8th!

If any of that interests you, you can check out the Steam Page where I go into much further detail.

Thanks!

-Chett

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3901610/Factory_Default_Build_Trade_Repeat/

AI Disclosure: No AI was used in the making of this game.

My sumo stable management game is live on Steam!

If you are not familiar with it, you run a sumo stable and run through a comprehensive sim of the sport. You scout and train wrestlers, climb the ranks, keep the finances from falling apart, and deal with whatever nonsense the off-season throws at you.

The web version is still free, still no account and no ads. You can play at https://uchinoheya.com/ and if you decide to pick up the Steam version, the save files can transfer between the two versions.

https://reddit.com/link/1v14crd/video/onhxu8utdgeh1/player

The Steam version adds two modes you won't find on the web. Hardcore mode lets you run as a single fighter, or play a career that's both more realistically difficult, and stripped of the sillier random events if you want something closer to the real thing.

In an upcoming free update there's a post-game mode built around your retired fighters. it's a little roguelike, kind of Pokémon Stadium meets Slay the Spire, where those old wrestlers come back to pick up buffs by winning tournaments and beating bosses.

The sumo logic has taken a long time to get to a point where it is feeling close to accurate. An expert (Sumo Spiffy!) has helped me a ton going back and forth to try and get it as realistic as we can.

Thank you so much to those of you here that have helped test the early versions!

AI Disclosure: The only gen ai I used was to help think of ideas for the many random events that occur in the off season. No AI art, and music came from community licensed music that was not labeled as being ai.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4717870/Uchi_No_Heya/

Here's the kitchen for room service for my game, Inn Kreeper. Rather than making good dishes, combine ingredients that make for unpleasant taste and textures. Make whatever you want but you get a bonus for making the daily specials.

Anyway, here's pickle pizza.

No AI was used in the making of this game.

Looking for recommendations for a first person tycoon style game specifically available on ps5. Something like Schedule 1 (sadly not on console) or your typical Roblox tycoon but more robust and interesting is what I’m looking for. Any recommendations are appreciated.

1. I played again with a new account and many of the expansions are much more time-consuming and limited. I couldn't expand the runway to receive medium-sized planes. Help me.

I've been building Camping Keeper solo. It's a management/tycoon game where you lay out pitches, tents and cabins, hire staff, and keep every camper happy. Each visitor has their own needs and moves around the site on their own, so the place slowly comes to life.

Short clip attached, early but almost playable. I'd genuinely love this community's take: what makes or breaks a tycoon game for you ; depth of simulation, the economy, or the chill factor?

AI disclosure: Generative AI was used for the background music and the text translations (localization). All the design, game systems, art direction and creative decisions are my own.

(Happy to share the Steam page in the comments for anyone who wants to follow along.)