Last updated on December 10th, 2025 at 11:29 pm
Dev Tycoon Idle Games Offline – Business Game Review
Dev Tycoon Idle Games Offline is a Business/Simulation/Strategy game from MEEDLIGHT OU, first launched in 5th December 2019.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 2,862+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Dev Tycoon Idle Games Offline Stand Out
Do you want a truly unique IT gaming experience and classical 2D pixel design? Dev Tycoon is a business simulator for talented gamers, where you can create and develop different video games.
All developers start out in an old garage with no Hardware labs or employees and limited money for the first application. As creativity blooms and new applications are developed, the players can unlock additional options and modules, learn more about basic business and strategic ideas as well as various programming languages including Python, JavaScript, C++ and many others.
All the players will have an opportunity to move to new offices and hire staff, to open R&D and Hardware labs in order to create consoles and devices, to host major projects and unlock online shops similar to App Store etc.
Dev Tycoon gives you an incredible opportunity to be involved in the Mobile Games industry. Inspire yourself to create your own projects and connect your life with the IT industry.
Your to do’s:
- Learn different programming languages, including Python, JavaScript, C++ and many others;
- Research new technologies;
- Create custom game engines;
- Move into bigger offices;
- Unlock secret Hardware labs;
- Conduct industry changing projects;
- Unlock achievements and upgrade techniques.
… and become the best one!
This Business game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Dev Tycoon Idle Games Offline is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 1st December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Overall performance improvements and minor bug fixes
Download & Availability
Dev Tycoon Idle Games Offline is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Dev Tycoon Idle Games Offline on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Such a good game love it. We are so speechless right now.
Game is fun but there are so many ads like to do anything. We get them for certain bonuses but to publish a game or research is just dumb.
Game is as close to game dev tycoon as possible with all the topical mobile ADs tho we like it but we give up mid AD most days and just exit the game until we want to play again instead of watch our 10 AD in a hour.
Id like a mode where every game is a perfect game, just a suggestion.
Very fun game and has lots of potential.
Its a simulator and you make games you choose upgrades for them and they have a rating of your games and you can buy adds for your games for even MORE hype for your games and you can get a studio and people to work to make your games better and go faster we love this but its Single player we highly recommend to get it because its also FREE we really think you should get it HAVE lots of FUN.
Great game! Really good job really love the mechanics and we will watch ads for extra stuff but to watch more ads on top of that every minute or two is crazy still gonna play it though.
Please add a Anti-Virus 1 (AV1) Chip that you can put into your PC that deducts the chance of someone hacking when you are making a game. For example, the AV1 would deduct a 10% chance of a hacker. Then the AV1 Pro comes out and deducts a 15% chance of a hacker. Then the AV2 would come out and deduct a 20% chance. Then the AV2 Pro would come out and would deduct a 25% chance. We think you see the pattern now. A normal AV deducts by tens, and a pro AV deducts by fives.
We really do enjoy the game but maybe Im not paying attention, but we dont see anyway to see all the games that you made, if you can write back telling us if thats not an option or if it is but we're just not looking good enough that would be very much appreciated.
There is no offline progression, this makes this so time consuming & boring And add more stuff.
We love this game, and often find ourselves playing it in our off time. And seeing as this is one of, if not it IS our first review, it should show we care about this game. That being said, Ive found that even through its fun gameplay, its still a cycle – and can feel a bit empty sometimes. So here are some simple ideas that we feel would improve the game; 1. Add More Customization; You can customize the office you work in, but we feel it would be a lot nicer if you could customize your main character, employees, and maybe even name the fake newspaper, and/or choose some names for random rival game companies (we know Id choose Electronic Farts or Fubisoft) 2. Add More Ambience; Ive seen this mentioned before but maybe have it so, occasionally, you can hear it raining outside, or smth. 3. Fan Mail; we know this is weird, but Ive seen it in a similar game, and we think its a novel concept. Maybe every once and a while youll receive a letter from a fan discussing how much they love your company, or a game of yours. These are just some simple ideas, but we think theyd make this game feel more alive. So we wish you the best on further production, and we also wish you good luck.
Thought it would kinda be boring but its really fun.
Ive played this game for many years and Im still clueless on the design technology ratio, please update it or explain to us how to make it other than Very bad please.
Sometimes it just freezes and you cant do anything pls fix great game.
Still ads after buying ad blocker.
There was nothing bad about this game, if you like fast-sucess, time wasting games this game will be your best bet.
Please fix this it wont save when we close the game it takes our money but the game wont save Ive made 15 games we closed the app came back and the money was gone and our games.
To start we enjoy the game quite well. The only issues we have are minor but do affect the gameplay for us at least. First off, we have recently bought the studio and have filled the seats but we see no way of upgrading the studio. Secondly there should be a way to see how much youre spending on whatever it is rent or something Im guessing but we lose money and the small pop up disappears too fast. Thirdly the interface at the studio should not move to the top that is inconvenient and visually unpleasant it should be left how it is at the apartment. Also you should be able to speed up the cooldown for your workers energy as you do for yourself or at least be able to see how long they have left. Finally there should be a way of remembering good genre to the other thing combos Bc we keep making bad ones lol. All in all though a fun game just needs some work.
Ads seem to be forced on some screens and it forms a loop of locking up and having to restart. We would be happy watching just the user choosen ads but it seems that just wont be enough.
Sooooo we truly digo this game.but if we paid for ZERO ADS we expect ZERO ADS.so why am we still getting and OVER ABUNDANCE OF ADS..even AFTER PAYINGGGG!!!! For ZERO ADS. Please help us to understand this logic.idc we want our money back. Asap.
This caught our eye like now it looked pretty good like with the rip offs of apps we know youCan create your game and you can create apps even competition people its so cool we give this a five star review this is a cool game its downloading So we think youre pretty good game creator fan made game perfect.
The game is amazing, there is a little too much ads, but other than that, they did everything outstanding. We really enjoyed playing this game and testing its abilities. This game really can make itself fun to play and all the aspects about promoting a game you designed, what type of game it is and etc. We are amazed by it, all we recommend is to lower the amount of ads, because we cant upgrade something without seeing an ad in about 1-3 minutes.
We love this game you guys are doing great with this game keep up the good work.
Really interesting and fun to play but is difficult to progress after a certain point. Can be rarely buggy.
We wanted to play game dev tycoon and this is the free replacement! Although it has ads it are mostly 5 second ads, plus the game is addictive.
We dont write reviews but this game is very good would we recommend too everyone.
We bought Avery thing with research points but there is no sport themes.
As a game dev our self we found this pretty accurate to what you would do, the time and way you would go about designing it is accurate. Upgrading your pc and Geting licenses is also very accurate. But theres a couple things we noticed that can be added. First, the ability to coninute a series. We made a game called world of kings and when we did WOK 2 it did bad. Second, different engines and coding languages. This could have a interesting touch. Each language and engine can have a big impact on how the final product comes out. But DONT think Im bashing the game, this is a 5/5 game, theres just a couple of things we think they can add to Dev tycoon 3 to make it even more realistic.
As someone who has a very specific taste in games, this is something outside of our taste that we actually enjoy, and we only got this a couple hours ago! So, we give the devs our personal A game outside of Concordskis taste that he enjoyed as well as one of our top 5 games like that. (Also, we like Russians, so theres bonus points there).
Its a fun game and honestly super addictive. We recommend.
We like the game Ive been playing it a lot but you need to make it easier to figure out everything like put in a help tab or something bc Ive been releasing indie games and cant figure out how to unlock AAA games Ive looked everywhere in the app and searched online but it dont tell us how to unlock it anywhere everything else is great tho.
For a small indie project this is pretty fun and a surprisingly large set of gameplay mechanics! We're enjoying it.
We enjoy the game a lot, our only issue is how it takes all our energy on one game where its complete with no bugs and Im down to 20% or less without anyway to regain it until our game releases and we have down time. Not sure how you could remedy this but great game no the less.
Great game, only issue is that when you spend the blue potion( idk whats its called), there should be an option to spend all of them at once or in maybe in multiples of 10s or 25s. Otherwise no other complaints.
The game is great it runs smoothly and its very fun but Im suggesting to add the PS 4 and the next Xbox it would be a great update and where you get a new engine is way too expensive and it takes forever because after you get everything you still cant get it cause it takes A long time to get research points! So can you make it more easier to get a better engine.
When we finish developing a game and we get to the part where it asks if we want to release or trash it, right under the game title it shows the theme icon then to the right of that it shows a tractor icon followed by a multiplication sign then the type of game icon, im not sure why but everytime we develop a game the tractor icon is always there no matter what combinations we use. Making a total of 3 icons. (Theme, Tractor, Game type, x) we dont know what this means or if we can change or delete whatever the tractor icon is there for. Besides that 10/10 game for us.
We have been playing for 2 years now and it stays fun. It would be amazing if you did make it so we can make sequels to games.
Tbh we thought this was another typical tycoon game but its a pretty well done game about making games. If you are considering installing this, do it and play it.
One of our all time favorite mobile games hands down! *****.
We haven't found much games like this one, so this one is the one we NEEDED hehe. And that's it.
Our only complaint at this moment is to our knowledge we cant see all our games only how many there are.
This game is incredible but it has one flaw hiring is very annoying but other than that we cant believe this is a mobile game seems like something on steam or epic games.
Best dev simulator Ive played, only problem Ive found is purchasing No Ads still gives you ads if you want boosts.
Every time we have enough money to do it, it wont do anything when we click it but when we run out of money and click on it we gets message that says we dont have enough cash. So can you please fix this.
Why doesnt it work on the screen when we opened it.
This game is really awesome, and easy to beat, pls dont make it harder so people will rage quit, also can you add more epic things to spice up a gameplay, which is like pause mode for making more games, sandbox mode if you reached to 300,000,000 in net profit and (if owned this will be permanently.), More designs like (lets you to make a game cover, disc, and game logo), easier to beat the game (which will be awesome!), also for sandbox mode you have endless fans and cashes includes console, PC creators will be awesome! If you add those you get endless people.
You guys should do more updates and make game rewards by the end of every year that would be cool.
Great game, super addicting to the point of us not going to sleep at night because Id rather play this.
Imma be honest. When we saw this game in the AppStore we thought oh look another p2w idle clone of gamedevtycoon. But after playing it for a bit we can say this game is far from p2w. Yes its very much inspired by gamedevtycoon but that doesnt mean its a bad game. Id say give it a try. You wont regret it.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.9.37
- Size: 189.99 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, PT, RU, ES, UK
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: MEEDLIGHT OU
Last updated: 1st December 2025 | Genre: Business, Simulation | Developer: MEEDLIGHT OU