Last updated on December 1st, 2025 at 04:51 am
Video Game Tycoon: Idle Empire – Strategy Game Review
Video Game Tycoon: Idle Empire is a Strategy/Roleplaying/Entertainment game from Romit Dodhia, first launched in 4th May 2017.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 17,163+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Video Game Tycoon: Idle Empire Stand Out
Video Game Tycoon is an idle clicker business strategy game where you are the creator and in charge of running a game studio company that develops PC / Computer, console, mobile games and more. Your end goal is to expand your business as much as you can to come out to the top as the leader of the mobile gaming market inc.
You start and run as an independent video game dev working on PC / Computer, console, mobile video games and then slowly and smartly progress through hiring more people and making more video games managing operations. This is a perfect game for everyone who are interested in game dev business and who wants to make games or someone who wants to run and become a video game dev tycoon in game development and create the best game dev story simulation inc. You can create your own video games, how cool is that? It’s better than becoming a tuber and run the empire. You can run your own Video Game empire better than the tuber business.
FEATURES
*Run your own video game company
Become the creator, Tap & Build your game company by making games, hire employees, make money, upgrade and build your idle studio! Tap! Tap! Tapped! Upgrade & grow – Plan your cash investments and level up your studio with multiple storey upgrades. Create an empire from scratch.
*Make awesome games
Make different games, customize them, name them and launch them! You can even update them! Customize game icon using icon customization tool and create, select, edit, modify your game icons and design the best game icon for your games. Profit from a smart game or two to boost your economy and create your own video game dev company story. Make games for PC / Computer, Consoles, Mobiles and more! Become the best video game creator for PC / Computer Consoles, Mobile.
*Game analytics and more
As a creator, you must check ratings and reviews of your games created on PC / Computer, Console, Mobile. Also check statistics such as number of installs and uninstalls of your games and become the best video game creator and a leader of games industry.
*Hire Employees
Hire and manage employees to increase your money per click. Automate your tap tap workflow to increase your idle income. Hire employees, name them, customize them and hire them! Every employee has a special clicker tycoon effect. Get a glimpse of the story of their lives by reading cool and funny messages from employees either thinking or talking.
*Run Operations & Earn Passive Income
Get idle cash, even when you are offline. As a creator of games you have to buy PCs / Computers, consoles, laptops, mobiles for testing games, get internet etc. Get whatever it takes to keep the company going and earn benefits in the form of passive income.
*Customize Your Office
Unlock cool items / accessories as you level up followed by in-game cash bonuses. You can re-arrange and move everything from employees to office tables, PC / Computer desks and all kinds of props that you unlock in the game, very easy to customize your own office the way you want!
*Prestige Option
When the game goes slower than you would want, you can use the prestige option to make the game simulation more interesting by getting multiplier bonuses and working your way back to the top even quicker than you could possibly do before!
Run a realistic game business simulator make some cool cash. This is a first hand, clicker simulation for becoming an idle Video Game Dev Company. SUPER CASUAL CLICKER / TAP / IDLE GAME PLAY Just keep tapping the screen. The perfect video game dev tycoon story! Become the sole creator of PC / Computer, console and mobile games and become the market leader and build an empire in this fun interesting, addictive tycoon simulation idle game.
We're always listening to all feedback we receive! We want to make Video Game Tycoon the absolute best Idle Clicker Tycoon and idle/incremental game and your feedback helps us reach that goal. We read everything you send us, so please let us know what you'd like to see!
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Video Game Tycoon: Idle Empire is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 19th January 2024
Recent improvements include:
- bug fixes and game improvements
Download & Availability
Video Game Tycoon: Idle Empire is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Video Game Tycoon: Idle Empire 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:
We wish you could play the game you make so please make it so u can play ur games overall really good game.
Not much to say just your average mobile game with a slight twist alright for relaxing.
Too many adds we would get an add like every 2 or 1 minute.
We really like this game because of all of the possibilities you can make like for us we made a game named fartnite and people have loved and really just a good tycoon game 5 stars.
This is literally the best game Ive ever played on mobile. And trust us we are addicted to getting games like we get 15 new games on an AVERAGE day. We can not recommend this game anymore.we would pay hundreds for this game there are literally no forced adds that we have seen so far. Just get this game what else can we say.
Good game for bigginers no ads but when you get good it is very hard to progress without spending money but overall its great for gamers like us who are going for games to play all day (bugs) when you collect passive income sometimes it well give nothing: when you go to the dark web option it glitches and ether says all guiltily or not not guilty so pls fix that LOVE THE GAME.
This game is good. We have played it a lot. But there needs to be some improvements to the game. Also, can you make it so that we can friend our friends.
We paid for no ads but we still get ads.
Theres way to many adds in the game if you click on the wrong thing youll get a add then if you press the same thing a minute later youll get another add.
The game is ok but the ads are getting worse with interruptions. Fix this and bring more content. The upgrade pricing is too high for the games, employees or the store items, lower those prices.
Solid game but hitting us with a two minute ad before the game even opens is an instant uninstall for us.
It was fun but we couldnt delegate it.
We love this game sooooooo much we play it a lot but they need to add a sports theme to the game.
We wish when people want the game to be better with reviews or etc. We wish u could fix and even maybe the games u name though that is cool too game is great tho.
This game is really great you should download it everything about is amazing.
Fun game we like naming our games but it could have more interesting mechanics.
It is the best game in the world.
This game lets you be a developer and a boss! Its easy to make money and tons of games to make too, and you build your company to be the best there is we love it so much.
We like this type of idle game, and this one does a decent job. Our big issue is that the "no-ads" purchase isn't working. As someone else pointed out, this game has A LOT of ads, which made the purchase a must, except it didn't work. We will change the review, if the feature is fixed.
We downloaded the wrong game anyway, there was another game dev sim we used to play and was looking for that one. We gave this one a go anyway, havent been able to get far. Its just ad after ad. No matter what youre doing, an ad, the kind that take you out of the app too. We dont see why these developers make games like this, do they truly believe theyll maintain player bases forcing everyone to watch an ad every 5 seconds.
Well made game. You should download this if you want to create your own video game.
OMG the game is so fun we really like it but one problem,the money process to slow.please make it faster.
We love this game because Im a gamer and Ive found no glitches or anything like that so we think that this game is perfect for us and our friends :).
So we stared this game 1 year ago and It had no bugs at all and barely any adds this is amazing.
The NPC have downloaded our game about 11.4k times, and they have uninstalled our game 23.7k times any qutions? Good game but do you math pls we beg you.
We think game is good, passes time, but it seems no matter what you do you cant seem to change the outcome of how your games preform.
You get to a point where its way to hard to progress and it gets kinda boring after a while. Still a great game we love how you can name and make logos for your games. Super cool game.
The game is overall pretty good cant really complain about the ads given that its a free game. One huge issue is how crowded the layout gets, though. You get items faster than you can get new employees, which opens up new floors, and so the layout gets incredibly cluttered. An update, and sticking with a new floor per 3 employees, would be a huge help.
The game is not bad and is not good at the same time but we think the game should have a multiple choice of the online game and a shooting game so you can choose both of those options for the game, also please add where you can type about the game update so when you do update the game you can tell the people about the update that went live,and please add where you can delete the game or the game is old and you What to delete the game you created, we think there is a bunch of potential in this game please read this post.
Im leaving this review because theres no help/support option within the app. We purchased the no ads option, but still receive ads. Even worse, we purchased the permanent auto click option, and now Im stuck on a mission that requires no clicks for 20 seconds impossible.
This game is so enjoyable and some games are trash BUT THIS GAME IS THE complete opposite so we really appreciate the hard work and we want to say that god gave you a talent thanks for all the hard work stay safe Much,Love Eric.
We love the game it is 1 of the best tycoon game on the App Store.
We WILL NEVER WRITE A BAD REVIEW AGAIN!!! ( now can you tell us how to get more people to play our game on our company?) Help! By: MoMoPo, our companys (fake) name.
We like this game so much that we cant stop playing.
It is a great game. We only have 1 suggestion, that is to make it so you may delete items in your studio, every level you get furniture to place in the studio, we would love it if you add this thing where you can remove the stuff. Great game, we rate it V stars. (V is 5 in Roman numerals).
This game is absolutely amazing.we have played this before but now am back playing it and its 2x better for some reason. Would recommended playing this game.
We really like playing it and its a great way to show people what being a game developer is like. Also how do you change the character on the leaderboard.
Is it just us or is there no ads in our game? We havent had an ad and Ive played for FIFTEEN days! We dont know what is happening but Im just liking this game.
No cap we love this game we just signed up for full sail for game design and down loaded this 3 weeks before school.
Hey uh Im one of the players who played this game but there is a glitch were the things that let you hire and edit layout and watch ad is broken were when you scroll up it follows you so uh can you please fix this.
Could use some work but really great game should be able to costume game pics and multiple game surfaces for games so u can have a game that can be on pc console and mobile.
This game is really fun. We find ourselves going back to it after a couple hours to collect everything. This game more fun than any idle game cause its simple. There isnt too much to focus on and thats great. We hope the devs see this and know that they made a really fun game. :).
Ok we love this game because all we wanted to be is a game dev and now we can be a founder not a dev but yeah.
Esta muy bueno para matar el tiempo y no tiene anuncios Esta muy bueno y us encantan las miniaturas de los juegos, son muy divertidas Felicitaciones a todos los de la produccin del juego.
We downloaded this game and we really liked it. But why does it take SOOOOO long to get another employee??? Take the one who costs 720M. From 7.20M to 1.73B Thats another BILLION. With a B.
Good but its pretty hard because you have to make tough choices.
We normally dont write reviews, but we figured we would write one here, because we feel like this has the potential to be a really good game. We agree with many other people that the ads can be a little annoying, but we normally just turn our wifi off so it doesnt really bother us. But, what does bother us is the limited effect you actually have on the game no matter what you do. Whether you change the name, genre, version, image, or effects, it doesnt change the positive or negative reviews, which to us are just an annoying way for you to endlessly click. We think it would be so much cooler if you could actually change things about the game, see gameplay, or even write about what your changing in the version update. And our one other big complaint, is that theres no point in upgrading your earlier games, because your first game on version 15, makes you about 50, while your 15th game on version 1 makes you about 50 billion. Pls try to make some updates, because as someone whos not great at coding, this could be a great way to make our game imaginations a reality :).
Game is pretty decently solid for an afk game, its relatively fun but we hate how predatory the ads are every time we log into the game. It almost makes us not want to play at all, we start the game, AD, we click on the upgrade screen (which is essential to progress through the game) AD, and then theres an ad window at the bottom of the screen the entire time youre playing the game. Its very annoying. Not to mention the game practically begs you to watch ads to skip unlock levels or gain a few extra in game currency just to be hit with other ads anyway. MAKE ADS OPTIONAL and dont throw them in our faces like that. It ruins the experience. We understand you need to monetize your game but cmon theres better ways to do it. We would have considered spending money to support your game if it didnt irritate us like this. And also? $2 dollars for just 2 million in game currency? All our stuff costs billions. Thats literally useless to us. You should make your currency scale with your level so that the micro transactions actually count and give us something meaningful. Thats all.
Being greeted by an ad as soon as we open the game is an instant close and delete for us. Sorry.
We tried deleting unwanted apps and its still not loading.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.4.4
- Size: 301.54 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Romit Dodhia
Last updated: 19th January 2024 | Genre: Strategy, Roleplaying | Developer: Romit Dodhia