Devices Tycoon Perks: Character Choices and Progression

How Devices Tycoon Perks Work

Your company's direction starts taking shape before you design its first device. Devices Tycoon perks give your business bonuses, but their permanent choices make them part of your long-term strategy. Understanding Devices Tycoon perks helps you connect your character's background, everyday business decisions, and future expansion into a coherent plan.

In the PC Steam version, the perk system includes 80 unique perks across five independently progressing groups. Your starting character profile establishes initial attributes and perks. As you develop your company, actions associated with each group raise that group's level and open further choices.

At a new level, you choose one of two perks. That decision stays with you: selected perks cannot be changed or rolled back.

System element	How it works
Total perk selection	80 unique perks across the system
Development groups	Five groups, each progressing independently
Starting attributes and perks	Shaped by answers about your character's life
Group progression	Advances through actions related to that area
Level-up choice	Select one of two perks
Changing a selection	Perks cannot be changed or rolled back

The important decision is how a bonus fits the company you are actually building. Many perk choices offer different development paths rather than an obvious winner. Their effects reach into company management, economics, and your position in the market.

Read both options before committing. Compare what each one supports with your current activities and planned expansion. A permanent choice deserves more attention than a device setting you can edit while designing your next model.

Official page: Devices Tycoon (roasterygames.com)

Shape Your Starting Character Before Building the Company

Devices Tycoon perks begin with your character's history. Before a new game starts, you answer questions covering life from early childhood through adulthood.

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Those answers shape your starting attributes and initial perks. They also influence your opening business opportunities and the direction your company takes.

The questionnaire covers these stages in order:

• Early childhood
• Childhood
• School years
• University years
• Adulthood

Treat the profile as part of planning your business. Before answering, decide what you want to spend your time doing. Devices Tycoon lets you create hardware, operating systems, and processors while managing employees, offices, marketing, stores, and acquisitions. That gives you several possible priorities to keep in mind when reading the choices.

Read each answer for its stated consequences. Keep your intended company direction in view throughout the questionnaire, and review the resulting attributes and perks before moving into business development.

For example, if you want research and manufacturing to be central to the run, keep that goal in mind when comparing the effects shown during character creation. Later, Production and Technology progression connects directly to research, R&D investment, factory contracts, and production improvements.

The questionnaire also gives a new playthrough a different starting point. Your background choices affect how the company begins, while subsequent perk selections continue shaping its development.

Keep these decisions connected. When a later perk choice appears, consider the initial perks you already have alongside the new options. Build a direction you can explain clearly: what your company focuses on, which activities you pursue, and how the offered bonus supports them.

Understand the Five Perk Groups

The five Devices Tycoon perks groups develop independently. Raising one group's level unlocks choices within that group; each area has its own progression.

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Perk group	Progression structure
Management	Its own level progression and perk selection
Economy and Infrastructure	Its own level progression and perk selection
Production and Technology	Its own level progression and perk selection
Market and Audience	Its own level progression and perk selection
Influence and Domination	Its own level progression and perk selection

Your activities matter because group levels increase through actions related to their area. Company development therefore connects to what you spend time doing during the run.

Check the corresponding group when planning your next perk unlock. Keep the distinction between the five tracks clear as you compare your available opportunities.

Production and Technology progression

Production and Technology provides a concrete example of this system. Its related activities include:

• Conducting research
• Investing in R&D
• Signing contracts with factories
• Improving production processes

Work on these activities when pursuing Production and Technology progression. Connect them to the devices and technology you intend to develop, so the work also serves your wider business plans.

There are two decisions to keep separate here. One is which activities advance the group. The other is which perk you select when a level creates a choice. Progressing the group gets you to that decision; reading the offered effects determines which direction you take afterward.

Keep the whole company in view

Devices Tycoon also gives you employees to hire, offices to purchase and upgrade, products to present, and stores to open around the world. Those systems provide the business context for your decisions.

Evaluate each perk against your actual operation. Look at what you currently manage, what you intend to expand, and the wording of the two available options. Use those details when choosing your company's direction.

Choose Permanent Perks With a Clear Plan

The central challenge of Devices Tycoon perks is choosing between lasting alternatives. With 80 unique perks in the system, the goal is to make selections that support a development strategy throughout the run.

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Many choices have no clearly superior option. Different selections can lead to significantly different playthroughs, which makes your company's goals important when comparing them.

Use the following checklist whenever a new choice appears:

Before selecting	What to examine
Read both perks	The complete effects of each option
Review your starting profile	Your existing attributes and initial perks
Review your company	The activities and business systems you currently use
Consider your next expansion	How each option fits your intended direction
Commit carefully	The selection cannot be changed or rolled back

Match the choice to activities you pursue

Choose with your current business in mind. If you are conducting research, funding R&D, and arranging factory contracts, compare the offered effects against those activities.

Apply the same reasoning to other parts of the business by reading the actual perk descriptions. The category name gives you context; the option's stated effect gives you the detail needed to decide.

Avoid choosing entirely on the strength of a perk's name. Read what the bonus does and consider where it fits into your operation.

Think beyond the next product

Devices Tycoon lets your company develop smartphones, tablets, laptops, smartwatches, headphones, TVs, operating systems, and processors. Your plans can extend well beyond the device currently in the editor.

Consider your intended product range before committing. Compare the offered bonus with both your present work and the direction you want to pursue later.

For example, decide whether your next projects continue your current focus or take the company into another area. Then assess the two perk effects with that decision in mind.

Reassess at each choice

Review your company again whenever another selection becomes available. Earlier choices remain permanent, but each new decision gives you another opportunity to shape development.

Look at your current products, staffing, research, and expansion plans. Keep the consequences of previous selections in view as you compare the next pair. This makes the decision about the company you now operate, including the direction established by your starting character.

Use Company Tools Alongside Your Perk Strategy

Devices Tycoon perks sit within a broader management game. Financial statistics, research controls, employee bonuses, and device editor improvements help you manage the activities surrounding those choices.

The post-launch updates add several tools worth incorporating into your routine.

Update	Relevant additions
First post-launch update	Employee bonuses from fatigue notifications; autosave every 90 in-game days; unlimited money in Sandbox Mode
Update 1.1	Copy settings from previous device models; Sandbox Mode available from the start; time acceleration
Update 1.2	“Collect Research Points” in the game menu; Sandbox “Research All” buttons and “Employees Are Always Happy” toggle
Update 1.3	More detailed income and expense information; employee bonuses from the office sidebar; customizable Sandbox Devicesgram follower count

Review finances before planning expansion

Update 1.3 adds more detailed company income and expense information. Review that breakdown when planning research investment or expansion.

This gives you financial context for the activities you want to pursue. Keep your company's spending and income in view alongside the development direction established by your perk selections.

The device review system matters too: higher review scores improve sales. Consider customer scores alongside financial results when evaluating a product launch. Use both when planning what to develop next.

Keep research and employee tools within reach

Update 1.2 adds a “Collect Research Points” button directly to the game menu, so collecting them no longer requires a laboratory visit every time.

Use that menu shortcut while managing your research activity. For a company pursuing Production and Technology progression, keep research and R&D investment on your planning checklist.

Update 1.3 also places a button for bonuses to all employees in the office sidebar. Use the sidebar control when you want to issue company-wide employee bonuses.

Explore designs in Sandbox Mode

Sandbox Mode is available from the start as of Update 1.1. Its post-launch additions include unlimited money, editable company fans, research controls, employee happiness settings, and customizable Devicesgram followers.

Use Sandbox Mode to explore device designs and company tools with unlimited money. Keep its adjustable settings in mind when assessing the business you create there.

For Devices Tycoon perks, keep the permanent selection rule at the center of your planning. Read the choice, consider your company, and commit to the direction you want that run to take.

FAQ

How many Devices Tycoon perks are there?

The PC Steam version has 80 unique perks across five development groups. Each group has its own level progression and perk choices. Your character profile also shapes your initial perks and starting attributes.

Can you reset or change perks?

Perks cannot be changed or rolled back. When a level offers two perks, you select one permanently. Read both effects and compare them with your company's plans before choosing.

How do you unlock more perks?

Increase the level of the corresponding development group through related activities. For Production and Technology, those activities include conducting research, investing in R&D, signing factory contracts, and improving production processes.

Do character creation answers affect your business?

Yes. Answers covering early childhood, childhood, school years, university years, and adulthood shape your starting attributes and initial perks. They also affect your opening opportunities and the direction of company development.