Last updated on January 5th, 2026 at 12:03 am
Game Dev Story – Entertainment Game Review
Game Dev Story is a Entertainment/Strategy/Simulation game from Kairosoft Co.,Ltd, first launched in 9th October 2010.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 2,732+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Game Dev Story Stand Out
Manage your own game company and try to create a million-selling game in this unique simulation.
Features the ability to develop your company's own game console, plus a system for changing your staff members' professions.
Hire talented people and train them to develop their skills.
As your staff gets more experience, you will unlock a wider array of game genres and content to develop. Try to find the most popular combinations and develop for the latest platform!
Your staff members can have a variety of game-related professions, from programmer to sound engineer.
Work hard and you may reach the top of the video game industry!
Try searching for "Kairosoft" to see all of our games, or visit us at https://kairopark.jp.
Be sure to check out both our free-to-play and our paid games!
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This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Game Dev Story is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 21st February 2024
Recent improvements include:
Fixed minor issues.
Download & Availability
Game Dev Story is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Game Dev Story on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Been playing this game for 6+ years. Super fun.
Hard to go out of business. Hard to win Game of the Year.
We played this back when it was free a few years ago, and its just as fun as it used to be, and worth the extra few bucks.
Remember playing this long ago. Thanks for the memories.
Always love this game and keep coming back to it. Easy, fun, great time.
Love this game. One of our favorite in the Kariosoft lineup.
Ive been playing it for days straight now.
Ive played this game since we were a kid. Its brilliant as an adult. The intuitiveness of being your own game developer sparks unlimited creativity.
Our dad introduced us to this game a few years back, and we both became absolutely HOOKED. WE LOVE THIS GAME SO MUCH AND TALK ABOYT IT ALL THE TIME. Its beautiful, amazing. The best game ever!! We are your biggest fans and we are so grateful for this magnificent masterpiece that has changed both of our lives. We will play this game forever. Thank you.
This game can be played offline which makes it perfect for flights. If you ever wanted to run your own game studio, this is the game for you.
Just the best, Makes us want to achieve our dreams.
The game offers an amazing challenge, that keeps you hooked. PSS would love for them to add more things like creating a deadline/release date, more console options, and support to online games like keep the servers up.
Now we can gon run our own game studio! Just need that $.5 mill startup capital.
Update this beauty of a game please been playing it since we were like 10.
Amazing game we love playing this game 10/10.
Awesome time pass great way to fulfill the desire to develop your favorite games.
Felt good to win, played this game over and over. Finally got the grand prize.
We really enjoyed this game. Its short, sweet and simple. We always love a game you can pick up and put down.
Honestly, they did a good job with this game time killer with you own unique story.
What an amazing app. All we can say negative about it is that it is a little easy towards the later levels, also we would like to see more characters and content. A lot more than we were expecting. This game is awesome.
Score 10 from all four reviewer. Simple but extremely fun and challenging, even with the multiple play through design is amazing.
Fun game. Made us procrastinate doing college work tho be careful.
Like an in depth clicker with a perfectly easy to grasp concept, some of the sysyems in the game aren't explained well which requires some guides to perfect, but we always come back to this game.
This game scratches an itch in our brain we didnt know we had, no pay walls, no adds, no pay to win mechanics it is literally a game made by gamers for gamers about games and gamers. The perfect combo and execution we hope there are updates to add more content to keep it interesting.
Needs to be updated remade or sold to somebody to further develop would be cool and we have ideas for it.
Love the simplistic design with retro graphics.
Played this since we were young, classic ever since. Look up combinations online and you eventually snowball into progress.
Been playing for a week and enjoying it.
Very fun, chill game to unwind to.
Honestly have played this game on and off for years now. Its really addicting. We just need more. Why cap it at 20yrs? Why not 50? Some of the top gaming companies are STUPID old.
Theyve put a lot of effort into it and it is an instant classic.
Super addictive But a lot of fun.
This game by Kairosoft is honestly one of our favorites. We enjoy playing games, so being able to make them and see the company slowly rise from the ground up is super fun. If youre looking for a first Kairosoft game, this is it.
Such a fun game. Cant stop playing.
On our 3rd play through we finally got our grand prize with 10/10/10/9 score.
We get sucked into this game often. We hope there is a sequel.
Super fun casual game to play, great for traveling and passing time, super addictive.
Somehow took us a dozen plus kairosoft games to play this classic but encapsulated the best of them all.
We won the Global Game Awards Grand Prize and all we got was the opportunity to write this review.
This game was a lot more addictive than we anticipated. Great game! We have no complaints, especially since we went out of our normal routine to comment on a game that didnt force us to give them ratings.
We love this game we have only gotten the grand prize twice but there is so much to learn in this game. Its so simple yet to master it is so complex.
Our Game – Shadow Shen: O Block The 6th sequel in the ninja series Shadow Shenanigans won the grand prize. This game is lots of fun and has no adds or inn app purchases.
Played all day for 2 days straight.
Great game to play when youre waiting somewhere like a doctors office or on a long flight as it doesnt need internet.
You can easily spend hours on it before you know it. No extra purchase, no in game ads. Just focus on enjoying the game.
This game is addicting. Finally hit Grand Prize and we feel accomplished.
This game has its hooks in us. A Classic.
Theres something about the combination of a really simple gameplay loop and the ability to name your own games with the guides of genre and type that really makes it stick for us. Completely worth it.
The title is a little bit of a joke as theres a rating system in the game for your games and this can be one of the reviews lol. Honestly love this game, been playing it on and off for years. Super fun.
We love this game so much. We play it every day for hours. Im at like game #300 this goes to show how much love we have for this game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.61
- Size: 73.58 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, HI, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Last updated: 21st February 2024 | Genre: Entertainment, Strategy | Developer: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd