Schedule I

Schedule I was made single-handedly by Tyler, an Australian (Tyler Luke Hankinson, @Tyler_TVGS, studio TVGS). He started on Roblox at the age of ten, moved to Unity as a teenager, and worked on the game for years before its launch in Early Access (a pre-release version with access to all updates) on March 24, 2025. By the end of 2025, TVGS was no longer a solo project: Tyler hired a second developer, opened an office in Sydney and grew the team to about 4 people. The game is in active development and follows a public roadmap. The Early Access exit date has not been announced.

The core loop is business management on top of a criminal sandbox. You start as a lone dealer: you grow marijuana, meth, cocaine and psilocybin mushrooms, and mix them with ingredients (from soda to paracetamol), which produces unusual effects on NPCs and raises the sale price. As you grow, you hire dealers for sales, cooks for production, cleaners and botanists, buy apartments and warehouses, and build fully automated chains from growing to the street. The game also has stealth against cops, and character and vehicle customization.

Online co-op for up to 4 players is one of the main hooks of the game, not a token mode. Drop-in/drop-out play with friends is built into the main loop from the first day of Early Access. It was the co-op streams of CaseOh and Moistcr1tikal that made Schedule I take off in spring 2025: Twitch showed +148% growth in Q2 2025, and CaseOh's viral clip "I killed Jessi" became one of the triggers of its popularity. Tyler added Easter eggs for specific streamers as a sign of respect for the community.

In the first month after launch the game sold 3 million+ copies, and its peak of concurrent players, 459,075 (per SteamDB, April 6, 2025), put it in the Steam top 5, ahead of Monster Hunter Wilds at the time. Its Steam rating is "Overwhelmingly Positive" at 97% from more than 200,000 reviews, and it has stayed stable since launch, which is unusual for a viral hit. In 2025 the game received the Breakthrough Award at the Golden Joystick Awards and was nominated for Best Early Access Game.

Official localization is English only (interface, subtitles, audio). Russian is available through the unofficial RTLC Russian Translation mod (Thunderstore + Nexus Mods; installation requires the Unity mod loader MelonLoader and XUnity_AutoTranslator). An alternative translation is by dimalooper on Playground.ru. Note: this is a community mod with a non-trivial installation threshold, not built-in localization. Look for a current guide in the Steam Community before buying.

Schedule I is an open-world criminal business simulator: you start as a small street dealer in the fictional Hyland Point, grow and mix four types of drugs, hire staff, buy real estate and build automated production chains. Online co-op for up to 4 players. A spring 2025 hit with 459 thousand concurrent players at its peak. The interface is in English only (there is an unofficial community translation).