Game Dev Tycoon is a casual game dev simulator where players are tasked with building a gaming empire from humble beginnings all the way to a game dev mogul.
The gameplay consists of point and click interface where players use fine grained controls to research and develop video games to slowly build an empire through incremental upgrades.
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Pros
Pro You can create "own" your games
You can decide whether you want to make to be a free developer (riskier) or did you use a publisher want (Restricted) to your games.
Pro Fun real life gaming representations
In game there are many interpretations on real life gaming history. Seeing how the game represents the NES or the Dreamcast is fun and drives the player to see what will come next as to see how it appears in the game itself.
Pro You can interact with the community
There are conventions, interviews and requests from fans for old engines that you can possibly ask for free.
Pro It is easy to understand
The gameplay and the construction of its own studios is easily explained and easy to use. It also seeks not to the whole menus to the by, see what you just need.
Cons
Con It can be very easy
If you have created a blockbuster and the reviews are simply superb, the game can be quite easily after that, you should have been working without a publisher, because you've got quite a lot of money then and thus the economies slightly indented backwards.