Game Dev Tycoon (GDT) is one of the most addicting formulas I've ever experienced, and I've smoked cigarettes.
The gameplay for GDT goes like this:
You pick a platform, genre and topic for your game
You enter 3 different stages of development
On each stage you have to divide your development time between different aspects of the project (Engine, Gameplay, Story for example.)
Depending on the genre and topic combination you picked, there's a sweet spot where the game will get great reviews and you make a lot of money.
And that's the main gameplay for the most part, you get to twiddle around with some other things but it all feeds into that process. It's insanely addictive when first learning all the combinations and values, and then sort of loses that charm after around 2-3 playthroughs.
The first time I played this game around 2014, I stayed up until 5 AM on a school night and bombed a history test because of it, and I'd do it all over again if I could.
The gameplay for GDT goes like this:
You pick a platform, genre and topic for your game
You enter 3 different stages of development
On each stage you have to divide your development time between different aspects of the project (Engine, Gameplay, Story for example.)
Depending on the genre and topic combination you picked, there's a sweet spot where the game will get great reviews and you make a lot of money.
And that's the main gameplay for the most part, you get to twiddle around with some other things but it all feeds into that process. It's insanely addictive when first learning all the combinations and values, and then sort of loses that charm after around 2-3 playthroughs.
The first time I played this game around 2014, I stayed up until 5 AM on a school night and bombed a history test because of it, and I'd do it all over again if I could.