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City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins

City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins

Manage a game studio from the dawn of the gaming industry in 1976. Your journey starts with small indie titles and grows into a gaming empire. Develop, design, and conquer the industry. From humble beginnings to gaming legend – it’s your story, your studio, your legacy!

Released Aug 24, 2021 Developer Binogure Studio 🐺 Platforms Windows · Mac · Linux ManagementSimulationBuildingEconomySandbox
View on Steam ↗ $19.99 (US · as of 2026-09-10)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.

91.8%positive1,895 reviews
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“Really An Step Up From Game Dev Tycoon! Really Enjoying the game!....Hopefully Devs Provide us With new Updates to add some more exciting element into the Game Scenario :)”

— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“For me, this game is a replacement to Game Dev Tycoon ever since it stopped receiving updates and new mods. It simply got boring. I switched over to this game in hopes of this game receiving regular updates and mods. So far it has met and exceeded my expectations.”

— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“This game is just amazing. The content is very replayable and it is very well made. Props to the creator on making this awesome game. 11/10”

— a player, Steam review · 24 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.

638all-time peak
0 50 100 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 No data collected for this period 94 avg · Sep 2025

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.

87achievements
35.8%median completion
0.9%rarest: It is alive! ALIVE!
98.0% of players 95.6% of players 93.4% of players 93.3% of players 93.1% of players 80.3% of players 79.2% of players 77.4% of players 75.7% of players 71.3% of players 70.5% of players 69.5% of players 67.6% of players 67.2% of players 64.1% of players 62.4% of players 60.1% of players 59.9% of players 57.6% of players 55.3% of players 52.7% of players 52.5% of players 51.5% of players 50.9% of players 50.5% of players 49.6% of players 48.0% of players 47.3% of players 45.2% of players 44.8% of players 44.3% of players 43.8% of players 42.5% of players 41.4% of players 40.1% of players 39.8% of players 39.7% of players 39.2% of players 38.6% of players 38.4% of players 37.6% of players 37.5% of players 36.0% of players 35.8% of players 34.2% of players 33.2% of players 32.9% of players 32.5% of players 30.2% of players 30.0% of players 29.1% of players 29.0% of players 28.5% of players 28.0% of players 27.3% of players 26.9% of players 26.8% of players 26.3% of players 25.8% of players 25.7% of players 98.0% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
98.0%I want more! — Unlock one platform
95.6%It is an INDIE game — Release one game
93.4%What's up Doc? — Create a postmortem for one game
Rarest badges of honor
0.9%It is alive! ALIVE! — Create a postmortem for 1000 game
1.1%Mistakes were made — Sign an exclusivity deal of 96 months for the Joycast
1.7%Worst game ever — Hidden achievement

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-25. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$19.99current · sampled 2026-09-10 20:53 UTC
$8.99lowest since tracking began2026-07-25
US19.99 USD
EU18.50 EUR
UK15.99 GBP
Australia29.50 AUD
Canada19.99 CAD
Japan2,300 JPY
Brazil39.99 BRL
China59.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

Brazil≈$7.8 China Canada Japan US Australia EU UK≈$22

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-10). Relative comparison only.

$0 $25 $50 07-25 08-03 08-12 08-22 09-01 09-10

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Sep 09, 2026
Patch v1.28.0-rc9

Changelog - rc9 Bugfix Dark mode: Font colors were not adjusted when using the dark theme. It was due to an improvement of the theme handler, but it led to that bug. Sorry folks, it's now fixed. Previ

Sep 04, 2026
The Date Is Set: September 23rd

Hello everyone! It's back-to-school season, and v1.28 is coming up fast. I've planned to release it on September 23rd, 2026! There you go, I've dropped the release date for v1.28.0! I hope you're just

Sep 02, 2026
Patch v1.28.0-rc8

Changelog - rc8 Bugfix Rework the User Interface popup algorithm to prevent a soft lock, meaning you cannot click on anything. Rework the scene management algorithm, fixing an issue when trying to loa

Aug 28, 2026
Back-to-School, Meet v1.28

Hello everyone! Summer is already well underway, back-to-school season is coming, and with it, v1.28. Obviously it's not quite complete yet, there are still a few small things missing. But already, th

Aug 26, 2026
Patch v1.28.0-rc7

Changelog - rc7 Game genre Friendslop games Rework the game genre algorithm to hide the composed game genres. Not removed though, to stay backward compatible Bugfix Some USB devices might crash the ga

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.

GenresAdventure, Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Player tagsManagement · Simulation · Building · Economy · Sandbox · Game Development · Capitalism · Strategy · Moddable · Programming · City Builder · Character Customization (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Workshop · Adjustable Text Size · Camera Comfort · Custom Volume Controls · Adjustable Difficulty
LanguagesEnglish, French, Russian, Spanish - Spain, German, Portuguese - Portugal, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Turkish, Korean, Czech, Ukrainian
Achievements87
Official sitehttps://www.city-game-studio.com/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11 Processor: Single Core Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: OpenGL 3.0 (1280x720) Storage: 512 MB available space Sound Card: Stéréo