Cursed Game Dev Sim

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 studio 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 consume you. 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.

Resurrect. 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, and climb the Game Center leaderboard.

• Game dev 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 Game Center achievements
• Haptics, mechanical keyboard sounds, and eerie sound effects for full immersion
• iCloud sync between your devices
• Plays great on iPhone Duo
• Paid once. No ads, no in-app purchases, no tracking

⚠️ Content warningThis game contains horror themes and jumpscares. Jumpscares can be turned off in Settings.

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