• Who are we?

    Pocketwatch Games makes hand-crafted video games about animals and the environment.

    You can download demos of our tycoon games from this site, or you can buy the full versions and get playing instantly! Our payment handling is safe and secure (all transactions are handled by a large and reputable payment processing company), and we offer complete refunds if you are not happy with your purchase.

    Try our games out, you'll be surprised at how thought-provoking and entertaining a video game can be!

    -Andy Schatz
    Founder, Pocketwatch Games

Pocketwatch Games is proud to be a corporate sponsor of

The WILD Foundation - Protecting animals and wilderness around the world

4% of revenue donated in 2007 5% of revenue donated in 2008

Venture Arctic

2007 Sim Game of the Year -GameTunnel
2008 Honors Award -National Parenting Publications
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Venture Arctic
 
 

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Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa

Grand Prize finalist - 2006 Independent Games Festival
Grand Prize finalist - 2006 Slamdance
Demo Tycoon Games
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Game Info…

Venture Africa
 
 

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Dino-a-day: TRex

June 17th, 2009 | 23 Comments »

And now… for our final dino-of-the-day… Tyrannosaurus Rex!

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We’re still in development of course, but this is a shot of the dinosaur in our latest build of the game. Click on the thumbnail to see the full image. Let us know what you think!

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Pocketwatch Casual Game Store

April 27th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Oooh, did you notice the new link to “More Games…” in the left sidebar?  That’s a link to the Pocketwatch Games Casual Game Store.  We’re now selling tons of great casual and downloadable games along with the Venture games!

Check out games like:

The great thing about buying these games from us is that you will support our efforts to make more great Venture games in the future.

So if you like the Venture games (or the fact that we give a significant portion of our revenue to charity), please make your downloadable game purchases through us!

OK, enough with the sales pitch… start playing some great games!

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DinoProgress: 28%

April 7th, 2009 | 7 Comments »

The progress bar took a big bump up today! We’re at 28 percent!

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We’re taking a different approach to development with Dinosauria than we did with our previous two games. In the past, we’ve gotten into publishing deals early on, which forced us to ship on tight schedules. This time around, we’re not signing with anyone until the game is largely complete. We don’t want to be beholden to any schedule that may cause us to ship the game before it’s the best darn animal game ever.

So, what have we been up to lately? The fun stuff: gameplay!

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