Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

From nobody to famous game producer in 3 years: that’s the journey you will live! Experience the trials and tribulations of game development in this life simulation game: live through the process of founding a small team and learning how to work together to develop a successful game.

Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story is a simulation, cute and story rich game developed by DarkKnight and published by 2P Games.
Released on June 24th 2021 is available only on Windows in 2 languages: Simplified Chinese and English.

It has received 324 reviews of which 219 were positive and 105 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.5 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 8.19€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS: Windows7 SP1 or Windows8.1 or Windows10
  • Processor: 1.8 GHz Intel Core i5 or equivalent
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel(R) HD Graphics 630 or equivalent
  • Storage: 800 MB available space

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Nov. 2021
have fun playing this with the broken english
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Feb. 2021
这个游戏还是挺好玩的,npc有各自的故事和背景,互动了会慢慢了解他们,独立开发者前期需要从零开始(各种意义上)的艰难也表现得蛮好的,玩的时候是EA游戏,所以有一些bug什么的在所难免,期待完整版的游戏还有后续的DLC等
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Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story
6.5
219
105
Online players
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Developer
DarkKnight
Publisher
2P Games
Release 24 Jun 2021
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