Game Dev Story iOS
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86 out of 100

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8.9 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 28 Ratings

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  • Summary: --LIMITED TIME OFFER! 25% OFF!-- 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!

    Universal app supports iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Fully touch screen interface.
    The game now lets you switch between English and Japanese.    … Collapse

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. Slide to Play
    Jan 27, 2011
    100
    Game Dev Story is a challenging, interactive overview of our shared gaming experience.
  2. TouchArcade
    Jan 27, 2011
    100
    Game Dev Story won't impress you with stellar visuals or an iPhone specific feature set, but it is a well thought out and thoroughly enjoyable time sink, and is even more intriguing if you're familiar with the last few decades of video game history.
  3. Gameblog.fr
    Mar 18, 2011
    80
    Game Dev Story promise is undeniably alluring: create your game studio and try and make it prosper. It seems pretty rich at first, with recruitment, advertising, genre level-up, training of your employees, advertisement, game reviews etc. to play with, but after 3 or 4 runs, most players will have seen almost everything and understood how to maximize profit and success in the game. Let's hope that the sequel will run deeper for a prolonged satisfaction.
  4. Edge Magazine
    Jan 27, 2011
    60
    But what GDS ends up proving about game development is this: making simple, fun and, yes, casual games that can keep rewarding players after that first flush of fun is so much harder than it looks.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Millow
    10
    Simply the best Kairosoft game yet, its highly addictive and very time consuming(in a good way), it also involves creativity and sometimes also luck, it starts of slow but over the ingame years the game just gets better and better. Can't wait for Game Dev Story 2… Expand
  2. markbrown89
    10
    Very Similar to Game Dev Story on iOS. This is much polished and smooth graphics! More realistic Consoles like we get in actual life. Overall thanks but PLEASE release for iOS! Much better market for you guys Ignore these comments about copying! Only little features are the exact same but so what! Thankyou :D… Expand
  3. heychrisfox
    10
    Don't you dare count this game out just because it's for phones. This is a sweepingly fun game. It takes the absolute essential mechanics of a sim game, and makes them the most interesting and fun little ongoing puzzles you can imagine. It's all budgeting and planning, and hiring cool guys to get the job done. Everything is in cutesy retro graphics for a nostalgia feel, and that fact that you're making games seems like an inside meta-joke. You can even watch as the generations of consoles pass by, all with little humorous names. This is an amazing experience!… Expand
  4. TechnologoDoom
    10
    Kairosoft has struck gold! Their recent release, Game Dev Story, has light up iOS review sites left and right, and earned high marks from players as well (it's currently the #1 player-rated iphone app). After pouring 25 hours into 2 different game companies, smashing sales records, and hardly sleeping for a week out of obsession, I can easily say this is one of the most addictive games I've ever played.… Expand

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