City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins
Fair · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, OpenGL 3.0 (1280x720), 512 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
September 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $6.99. It has been discounted 41 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 35 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Mad Games Tycoon 2 ($24.99, scores 84) outscores it, and so does Software Inc. ($22.99, scores 76). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Steam's global achievement data puts 26 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 411 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 156 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
98% start to 26% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
25 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 01:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/726840/city-game-studio-your-game-dev-adventure-beginsReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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