Game Dev Tycoon (2012)

Topics, genres, platforms and development priorities give each fictional release a different commercial proposition. Reviews and sales then feed back into which projects the studio can afford next. Choose it for an approachable company story where creating a catalogue feels more personal than moving anonymous units. Its evaluation rules are deliberately abstract and can become a matching exercise once learned; the appeal is a readable game-business simulation rather than a detailed model of writing or producing real software.