The management game progression is supposed to be: zoo, then theme park, then hospital, then school. Apparently, no one told Springloaded Software that they were going to follow up their 2021 tycoon 'em up Let's Build A Zoo with an MMO building game.
Let's Build A Dungeon combines the business aspects of Game Dev Tycoon with a more hands-on approach to building your company's game. Check out the game's first trailer below.
Players will need to hire designers, coders, and testers to work in development studios, as well as place buildings and trees to fill the fantasy gameplay within the game, as well as fill dungeons with traps and chests to keep virtual players busy and happy, and to keep them paying their monthly subscription fees.
I think the anecdote underlying management games is that you make the chips at the theme park saltier so customers will buy more soda – regardless of whether that's actually possible in the game – and I hope something similar will happen with Let's Build A Dungeon. I want to make the final dungeon boss incredibly hard to beat, so that players never feel like they've actually finished the game, until we add a new dungeon with a new hard boss and then we can go back and weaken the old one.
It turns out you can test your RPG the way a real player would, and there's enough of a toolset here that you can create your own story, dialogue, and cutscenes, then share your creations with other real players to try them out in the wild.
You can find more screenshots of Let's Build A Dungeon on Steam , and there's also a beta coming that you can sign up for.