I feel like it's saturated and, yes, highly competitive. They use game dev to get the kiddos interested in coding and have been hitting that hard for the last decade, starting out with scratch and raspberry pi and going on from there. The Universities have grasped the opportunity to sell their products to the kids coming out of school. Soooo many of them have cobbled Game Dev Degree courses together and sold them to the kids (yes they are businesses selling products). When you look at how many Unis are churning out these courses and how many kids are graduating from those courses - do the maths. Then look at how many game studios there are and how many jobs they have going. Crazy disparity. It feel it's somewhat of a con. I went to a games festival and attended a talk by a guy who was compelled to set up a games hub in the UK to help these kids set up their own games companies because he was so annoyed by all the jobless graduates. I also used to know someone who was high up in recruitment at a very well known game studio and it seemed to me like they basically just constantly poached the "good ones" off each other and to make sure the competitors couldn't have them either. The had very little interest in training new devs up. It's seemed so backward. This is all based on my research as one of kids studied game dev but not at degree level. He decided to do something else but he's still a dev in the creative industry. It, honestly, didn't give us the impression that it was the nicest industry. You might have more success going indie but not sure how many people make it. I actually have the youngest kid making an indie game right now lol but he also has a part-time remote job and I think he has the entrepreneurial skills to do other things, so I'm not too worried. I wish you all the best.