Cursed Game Dev Simulator

Design games and try to keep your sanity. Take on freelance work, pay the rent on time, and grow from a solo game developer into a real studio with staff and fans. AIDE, your AI assistant, helps you run things, but a slow, consuming dread seeps into your waking hours. Something is not right.

From the creators of the DERE EXE series, Cursed Game Dev Simulator is a startup tycoon and roguelite life sim with a psychological horror story about making games as the world ends.

MAKE GAMES
Start your own indie game startup in a one-room apartment and try to make it big. Mix genres and themes, release on new platforms as you grow, and find the combinations players love. Some ideas become viral hits. Some flop, and the critics will let you know. A few are better left unmade.

RUN YOUR STUDIO
Manage your money, energy, and focus day by day, and try not to let the madness take over. Hire staff, take commissions from clients, and compete with a rival game maker for the same players.

UNCOVER THE STORY
Read your mail, follow the strange events, and get to know AIDE. Every career ends one way or another, and there are thirteen endings to find.

BEGIN ANOTHER LIFE
Each career is a new roguelite run with new starting options. Unlock upgrades that carry over, piece together what happened in the last life, fill your Codex, become a legendary game developer, and climb the Google Play Games leaderboard.

FEATURES
• Game development tycoon and studio management sim with short, replayable roguelite runs
• Psychological and cosmic horror story set in the AppSir Games universe
• Retro pixel art with 23 skins, from modern looks to classic desktops and handhelds
• Thirteen endings and 21 Google Play Games achievements
• Haptics, mechanical keyboard sounds, and eerie sound effects
• Cloud saves with Google Play Games
• Plays great on phones and tablets
• Paid once. No ads, no in-app purchases, no tracking

This game contains horror themes and jumpscares. Jumpscares can be turned off in Settings.