History YMMV / GameDevTycoon

** The Playsystem 5's design ended up looking like a colorswap of the UsefulNotes/Playstation5 after Sony announced it.

** The inability to see how long until employees need to go on vacation and the inability to send them on vacation at any time. It essentially forces you to save right before any huge project just in case your employees start getting exhausted halfway through or very carefully managing the whole team and keeping track when the next vacation cycle will start.

** Unobtanium (seriously?). No really, the parentheses is part of the achievement name. This involves shifting a gargantuan 100 million copies of a single game without a publisher. [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV Only]] [[VideoGame/{{Tetris}} three]] [[VideoGame/MineCraft games]] in real life have accomplished this feat, and accomplishing it here is going to be just as hard. Hope you're prepared to sink hours upon hours into the game to get this one. It's telling that as of January 2022, a grand total of 8.4% of Steam players have this achievement, making it the rarest non-secret one in the game. Was it mentioned that this has to be done with a game that ''isn't'' an MMO?

** The inability to see how long until employees need to go on vacation and the inability to send them on vacation at any time. It essentially forces you to save right before any huge project just in case your employees start getting exhausted halfway through.

* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: This game is accused by some people of ripping off VideoGame/{{Game Dev Story}} despite having different gameplay mechanics.

** The Playsystem 5's design ended up looking like a colorswap of the Playstation 5 after Sony announced it.

** Remember the fact that pirating the game made you go inevitably go bankrupt from piracy? The devs eventually implemented that mode for the legitimate game, and there are two achievements for it, Statistical Anomaly (reach level 2 in Pirate Mode) and Against All Odds (''beat'' Pirate Mode). Pirate mode was [[NintendoHard deliberately designed to be almost impossible to win]], and it's telling that only 2.4% and 1.0% of the fanbase managed to do it, respectively.

** Unobtanium (seriously?). No really, the parentheses is part of the achievement name. This involves shifting a gargantuan 100 million copies of a single game without a publisher. [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV Only]] [[VideoGame/{{Tetris}} three]] [[VideoGame/MineCraft games]] in real life have accomplished this feat, and accomplishing it here is going to be just as hard. Hope you're prepared to sink hours upon hours into the game to get this one. It's telling that as of this typing, a grand total of 5.9% of Steam players have this achievement, making it the rarest non-secret one in the game. Was it mentioned that this has to be done with a game that ''isn't'' an MMO?
** Remember the fact that pirating the game made you go inevitably go bankrupt from piracy? The devs eventually recreated that mode for the base game, and there are two achievements for it, Statistical Anomaly (reach level 2 in Pirate Mode) and Against All Odds (''beat'' Pirate Mode). Pirate mode was [[NintendoHard deliberately designed to be almost impossible to win]], and it's telling that the achievement for reaching ''only the second stage'' has a Steam completion rating of only 1.9%, while ''winning'' has mere ''0.7%!''[[note]]Meanwhile Unobtanium (seriously?) has risen to 8.1% since the original entry above.[[/note]]

* CriticalResearchFailure:
** For some reason, Horror and Adventure is considered a bad combination despite the fact that [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil1 many]] [[VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent acclaimed]] [[VideoGame/AloneInTheDark horror]] [[VideoGame/CallofCthulhuDarkCornersOfTheEarth games]] have their roots in the adventure genre. Thankfully, this was fixed through updates.
** This game says "Dialogues are bad for Simulation or Strategy games, so keep it below 20% development time". [[VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} But]] [[Creator/{{BlizzardEntertainment}} Blizzard]] [[VideoGame/StarCraft says]], [[Creator/{{Toonami}} "That game needs an ass-whoopin'"]].
** The original version considered the [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Time]] [[VideoGame/RadiantHistoria Travel]]/[[VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia RPG]] [[VideoGame/DarkChronicle combination]] to be an "odd" combination scoring low points. This was fixed as a result of player feedback.
** When designing a new game, "online" and "multiplayer" are mutually exclusive choices.
** According to the game, Wild West and Adventure is a bad combination. Creator/AlLowe [[VideoGame/FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist would likely disagree]].
** The game completely neglects appeal of {{Retraux}} and you are outright prohibited from gaining high scores for Large and AAA titles if they are in 2D. This includes things like Strategy and especially Casual games (which demand extreme focus on cutting-edge graphics).

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The aformentioned post on the site chastising people for pirating the game, saying that if they dislike "Pay to play" games they should stop pirating games like these.
-->''"If you don’t care about all of this and just want to get a cracked and illegal version then we can’t do anything about that, but if years down the track you wonder why there are no games like these anymore and all you get to play is pay-to-win and social games designed to suck money out of your pockets then the reason will stare back at you in the mirror."''

** Unobtanium (seriously?). No really, the parentheses is part of the achievement name. This involves shifting a gargantuan 100 million copies of a single game without a publisher. Only [[VideoGame/{{Tetris}} two]] [[VideoGame/MineCraft games]] in real life have accomplished this feat, and accomplishing it here is going to be just as hard. Hope you're prepared to sink hours upon hours into the game to get this one. It's telling that as of this typing, a grand total of 5.9% of Steam players have this achievement, making it the rarest non-secret one in the game. Was it mentioned that this has to be done with a game that ''isn't'' an MMO?

* ScrappyMechanic: The opportunity to do a game report being limited in time. You shouldn't do a game report immediately after release, because it gives you less information. But if you wait too long after a game leaves the market (say, it happened just as you were starting to develop a new AAA game), the opportunity expires and you don't get a game report at all! And of course, the game doesn't warn you.

** The original version considered [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Time]] [[VideoGame/RadiantHistoria Travel]]/[[VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia RPG]] to be an "odd" combination scoring low points. This was fixed as a result of player feedback.

* HilariousInHindsight: The Playsystem 5's design ended up looking like a colorswap of the Playstation 5 after Sony announced it.
** The 2014 April Fool's joke became this when the game was officially released for the iOS platform in late 2017 and for Android devices in early 2018. Thankfully, they only paid versions of the game were released and they do not have any freemium elements.

* ThatOneAchievement: Unobtanium (seriously?). No really, the parentheses is part of the achievement name. This involves shifting a gargantuan 100 million copies of a single game without a publisher. Only [[VideoGame/{{Tetris}} two]] [[VideoGame/MineCraft games]] in real life have accomplished this feat, and accomplishing it here is going to be just as hard. Hope you're prepared to sink hours upon hours into the game to get this one. It's telling that as of this typing, a grand total of 5.9% of Steam players have this achievement, making it the rarest non-secret one in the game. Was it mentioned that this has to be done with a game that ''isn't'' an MMO?
** That one cowers in the face of Statistical Anomaly (reach level 2 in Pirate Mode) and Against All Odds (''beat'' Pirate Mode). Pirate mode was [[NintendoHard deliberately designed to be almost impossible to win]], and it's telling that the achievement for reaching ''only the second stage'' has a Steam completion rating of only 1.9%, while ''winning'' has mere ''0.7%!''[[note]]Meanwhile Unobtanium (seriously?) has risen to 8.1% since the original entry above.[[/note]]

* GameBreaker: Doing a ''casual'' game for young audiences on the Gameling is very likely to earn you a couple of million dollars.

* GameBreaker: Doing a game for young audiences on the Gameling is very likely to earn you a couple of million dollars.

* CriticalResearchFailure: For some reason, Horror and Adventure is considered a bad combination despite the fact that [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil1 many]] [[VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent acclaimed]] [[Franchise/AloneInTheDark horror]] [[VideoGame/CallofCthulhuDarkCornersOfTheEarth games]] have their roots in the adventure genre. Thankfully, this was fixed through updates.