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V1.6 All Topic / Audience Combinations

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Combined the old topic / audience combinations guide with the new data from the wiki and threw it into Excel.

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Overview

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Updated Topic/Audience Combinations (v1.6.11)

Raw Data 1/2

Raw Data 2/2

Single Table

Sources

Comments

Forward: Does this feel like cheating to you?

This is a pretty complex game. It takes more than a couple data tables to achieve an easy victory. Still, the game clearly intended that you use your intuition (or guess), and then generate a game report to see what worked well and what didn't - slowly piecing together the data in this table.

That said, people enjoy games in different ways. Some do several quick playthroughs to learn on their own, some prefer to do research on the side and be methodical. Sometimes I wonder if I would enjoy myself more doing the former, but I can't help it, I'm an upfront-research min/max kind of gamer.

If it makes you feel any better, real-world game developers probably do research too rather than trial-and-error :)

Updated Topic/Audience Combinations (v1.6.11)

I combined the old topic / audience combinations guide with the new data from the wiki and threw it into Excel.

DISCLAIMER: My understanding is that many of the *existing* values were tweaked between 1.4 and 1.6. Since my source (the wiki) did not update the existing topics, just added a page with new topics, some of the values from the original topics may no longer be correct!

Anyways, here's the data cut in two for easy viewing:

* Since 1.4, some missions can modify the values of this table. Topics that can be modified are marked with a * and display the default values only. (Source: Raw Data for Review Algorithm[gamedevtycoon.wikia.com])
** As per the disclaimer, some values may be out of date. Apparently there's a mode called "Hints" that will unlock all in-game hints you get from reports immediately, so if it matters to you, maybe give that a shot. I'm happy to make updates if anyone can has updated raw data and can provide it in the comments.

Raw Data 1/2

And here's the raw data if someone wants to search or make it prettier:

Topic

Action

Adventure

RPG

Simulation

Strategy

Casual

Abstract

+++

---

+++

Airplane

+++

---

+++

Aliens

+++

---

+++

Alternate History

+++

---

+++

Assassin

+++

---

+++

Business

---

+++

---

+++

City

---

+++

Colonization

---

+++

Comedy

---

+++

---

+++

Construction

---

+++

Cooking

+++

---

Crime

+++

---

+++

Cyberpunk

+++

---

+++

Dance

---

+++

---

+++

Detective*

---

+++

---

+++

Disasters

+++

Dungeon

+++

---

+++

Dystopian

+++

---

+++

Evolution

---

+++

---

+++

Expedition

---

+++

---

+++

Extreme Sports

+++

---

+++

Fantasy

+++

---

+++

Farming

---

+++

---

+++

Fashion

---

+++

---

+++

---

Game Dev

---

+++

---

+++

Government

---

+++

---

+++

Hacking

+++

---

+++

History

+++

Horror

+++

---

+++

Hospital

---

+++

Hunting

+++

Law*

---

+++

---

+++

Life

---

+++

---

+++

Raw Data 2/2

Had to split it into two parts since there's a character limit for each section.

Topic

Action

Adventure

RPG

Simulation

Strategy

Casual

Mad Science

+++

---

+++

Martial Arts

+++

Medieval

+++

Military

+++

---

+++

---

+++

Movies

---

+++

---

+++

Music*

+++

---

+++

---

+++

Mystery*

---

+++

---

+++

Mythology

+++

Ninja

+++

---

+++

Pirate

+++

Post Apocalyptic

+++

---

+++

Prison

+++

---

+++

Racing*

---

+++

Rhythm*

+++

---

+++

Romance

---

+++

---

+++

School

+++

Sci-Fi

+++

Space

+++

---

+++

Sports*

+++

---

+++

Spy

+++

Superheroes

+++

---

+++

Surgery

---

+++

---

+++

Technology

---

+++

---

+++

Thief

+++

---

+++

Time Travel

+++

---

+++

Transport

---

+++

---

+++

UFO

+++

---

+++

Vampire

+++

---

+++

Virtual Pet

---

+++

Vocabulary

---

+++

---

Werewolf

+++

---

+++

Wild West

+++

---

+++

Zombies

+++

---

+++

Single Table

Here it is as one big long table if for some reason that works better for you:

Sources

Original data from: 1.4.3 Audience Combinations[gamedevtycoon.wikia.com]
Additional data from: v1.6.11 New Topics[gamedevtycoon.wikia.com]

27 Comments

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fazfan1987 27 Sep, 2023 @ 10:45am

Extremely helpful but can you add the console data?

Bravo1c 13 Sep, 2021 @ 6:34am

Nice little Excel spread sheet with slicers for easy filtering.

{LINK REMOVED}

Diatere 29 Jul, 2021 @ 12:16am

Really good guide, it helped me a lot.

Nova Vitae 25 Jul, 2021 @ 11:32pm

hi all

庄碧凡 20 Jul, 2021 @ 5:41am

I need Chinese translation

BhetLess 21 Apr, 2021 @ 3:40am

If you added slider guide section It would be very convenient

Luckybudda89 21 Nov, 2020 @ 9:24am

Straight from the GHG Forums for people struggling with Level 2 (medium games):

"Some tips I found.

try to build your team to be specialize for some specific gene. If you want to make action/simulation/strategy games ,you need your team to focus on Tech, if you want to make rpg/adventure/casual games, you need to focus on Design,
for medium game, team of 4 is better than 3, why? because you won’t get work overload and will get exp bonus.
For example, I decide to focus on RPG/Adventure game only, my team of 4 will be 2 design, 1 tech and 1 balance(myself)
Use publisher until game tell you that you can publish your medium/large game. gain more fan is important on this state
Rule of Thumb for each field of works
Engine - Hight tech
Gameplay - High design
Story/Quest - High design
Dialogue - High design
Level Disign - Balance
A.I. - High tech
World Design/Graphic/Sound - Balance"

Moncher 12 Oct, 2020 @ 3:13pm

The game has been updated, and some combos have been changed.

casey 3 May, 2020 @ 10:31pm

10 - Great Research

10 - Really Did Great Formatting Work

10 - Best Guide To Date Right Now

9 - Beautiful

littlee37 29 Apr, 2020 @ 12:02pm

Does anyone know if they plan to add a "search" function to the topic section?
Every time I try to use the expansion pack mod in my save it crashes it and I'd love for them to add that so we didn't have to mod it in.

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