Game Dev Story on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Game Dev Story is a management, building and real time tactics game developed and published by Kairosoft Co. and Ltd.
Released on March 27th 2022 is available only on Windows in 14 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Thai, Turkish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi and Portuguese - Brazil.

It has received 1,166 reviews of which 1,064 were positive and 102 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. ๐Ÿ˜Ž

The game is currently priced at 7.99โ‚ฌ on Steam.


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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10 64bit
  • Processor: Intel Atomยฎ x7-Z8750
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • DirectX: Version 10
  • Storage: 250 MB available space

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Jan. 2025
Better to play in mobile environment. I bought same two games, but it's OK. Worth it.
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Jan. 2025
This is fun, cute, and cheap. However, after about my 4th game release, I can't help but get all 8-10 rating on every game no matter how weird the combination is (baseball + shooter, etc). There's seemingly no way to fail.
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Oct. 2024
Warning, although this game looks like a quick bite size game, you will lose some sleep playing this game. It's hard to stop. I managed to complete all achievements in 2 sitting. It is short but for that price, it is worth it and absolutely can fill your management itch!
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Sept. 2024
very first kairosoft game that I've played when it came out on app store. Nostalgic. Still doing a good job i guess but it doesn't feel right to play with my computer. There are much better tycoon computer games with so much depth. With this graphic and this depth, i dare say it's an audacity of them to pull it out as a computer game. Perhaps the nostalgia is the selling point. <๋ฒˆ์—ญ> ์•ฑ์Šคํ† ์–ด์— ๋‚˜์™€ ์ฒ˜์Œ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋‚˜์˜ ์นด์ด๋กœ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ ๊ฒŒ์ž„. ์ถ”์–ต๋‹๊ณ , ๊ดœ์ฐฎ๊ฒŒ ๋ฝ‘ํ˜”์ง€๋งŒ ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ๋กœ ํ•˜๊ธฐ์—” ๋ญ”๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ๋ถ„์ด ์ด์ƒํ•˜๋‹ค. ํƒ€์ด์ฟค ๊ฒŒ์ž„์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ํœ ์”ฌ ๋‚ซ๊ณ  ๊นŠ์ด๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ ๊ฒŒ์ž„์ด ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ. ์ด ๊ทธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ๊ณผ ์ด ๊นŠ์ด๋กœ, ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฐํžˆ ์ด๋“ค์ด ์ด๊ฑธ ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ ๊ฒŒ์ž„์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ธ๊ฑด ์ผ์ข…์˜ ๋ป”๋ป”ํ•จ์ด ๋Š๊ปด์ง€๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ถ”์–ต์ด ์…€๋งํฌ์ธํŠธ์ธ ๊ฒƒ์ผ์ˆ˜๋„
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July 2024
Completely inaccurate game development simulation. When you attempt to release a game before it's finished, your secretary will tell you that "You can't release an unfinished game" and you're not allowed to ship it. But hey, at least I can fire all my employees for no good reason, so that's spot on! :) Jokes aside it's a great game and after a decade still holds a spot in my heart. Plays perfectly on the Steam Deck, has a lot of charm, and scratches a management itch that so few games do. Well worth playing for full price or on sale.
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Game Dev Story
8.6
1,064
102
Online players
10
Developer
Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Publisher
Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Release 27 Mar 2022
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