• 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
Download Arctic Animal Game
Buy Now ($19.99)
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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
 
 

You’ve never seen dinosaurs like this before…

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Announcing Dinosauria

January 5th, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Dinosaurs live in our collective imagination as the end of things - the crumbling bone, the violently deceased.  We imagine flesh ripped from scales and meteors scarring the earth.  Through dinosaurs we imagine our own extinction - grey, dusty, lifeless.

If you were to look to the sky a year before the meteor came hurtling from the sky, what would you see?

If you were to peer through the foliage, would you notice the teeming life in the valley beyond?

Venture Dinosauria is about the chaos and color of life on Earth in the first days of flowers, in the last days of lizards.

We’re working hard, follow our progress right here on this blog…
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Venture Arctic is free until the New Year

December 24th, 2008 | 15 Comments »


From now until New Years Day, Venture Arctic is free for non-commercial, personal use! Merry Christmas everyone! Use this coupon on the Buy Now page to unlock the full game:

CPN5867042685

Somtimes it takes a little while to get to know a game before you fall in love with it.  This is one of those games.  That’s why it has received so many awards and glowing reviews but hasn’t really been able to crack into wider press coverage.  I just want everyone else to be able to get to know it as well.

Merry Christmas!

NOTE: This offer is now over, I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season.  Now get back to work!

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Video of IGF 2008

November 1st, 2008 | No Comments »

Full streaming video here

Last March, I hosted the annual Independent Games Festival Awards show. The show was attended by 2500 people and awarded the highest honors that an independent game developer can receive.

A few of the big winners were:
Crayon Physics Deluxe
World of Goo
Audiosurf

Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa was a finalist for the IGF Grand Prize in 2006.

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