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Game Dev Story
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What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-29 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“Great Game! Game Dev Story is actually a Japanese 1997 Windows game. This game got ported over to Android/iOS in 2010 when App games started booming and it became a hit. This Steam version is just another port but it's still a great game.”
— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs played“The game that started it all I used to play this game on my iPhone in 2010 and seeing it on PC, it brought back a lot of memories and I only bought it out of nostalgia. DO NOT EXPECT an incredible level of simulation, with deep meaningful choices that brings world-shattering…”
— a player, Steam review · 14 hrs played“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…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-20.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
About keyboard
Added button for keyboard mapping. Alt + Enter to toggle full screen mode.
About volume
Adjusted the phenomenon that the change in volume is difficult to understand. You can adjust it from the game setting screen.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Management · Building · Real Time Tactics · City Builder · 2D Platformer · Game Development · Programming · Life Sim · Strategy · 2D · Casual · Cute (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Thai, Turkish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Portuguese - Brazil |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 6 |
| Official site | https://kairosoft.net/game/appli/gamedev.html |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 64bit Processor: Intel Atom® x7-Z8750 Memory: 1 GB RAM DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 250 MB available space