Game Dev Studio
Fair · Strategy · 2018
The verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $1.49, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Mar 2018. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 12h
- Value
- $0.12/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 690 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Welcome to your own Game Dev Studio! How will you run your own offices and ascend to greatness in the gaming industry?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 128 MB VRAM, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was June 2025. It has been discounted 78 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Game Dev Tycoon ($3.99, scores 94) beats it on value, while it beats City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins ($19.99, scores 56).
More about Game Dev Studio
Of the 263 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
34% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 4 when we last checked, on Oct 18, 11:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
workshop of the game was insane, they even got a topdown shotgun mod which you can kill all of the employees of your enemy company
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This the the best game dev game ever, it's just so clean and makes you feel like you own the company for real.
It's fine. Just fine. Issues pop up once you expand beyond a single building, because new employees seem to randomly get assigned a desk. It doesn't matter which team they're in, they'll just show up wherever they feel like, and you deal with the penalty or spend multiple minutes micromanaging your staff assignments. But until you get too big for one building, it's quite fun.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Game Dev Studio scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/773580/game-dev-studioReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.