I think the second mobile game I bought was probably one of its follow-ups, too.

Hot Springs Story expands that into running a hot spring resort, building amenities and such.

Station Manager has you build and decorate a fancy train station.

A screenshot of Game Dev Story showing an office of people at computers, with several people seemingly on fire.

And Dream House is about running and decorating apartment blocks.

I like their style of management games.

They’re simple and gentle but it’s satisfying when things go right.

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Also, it’s fun to create things with silly names.

They’re all quite similar beyond Game Dev so hey, start with whichever theme most appeals to you?

The games areavailable now on Steam, each with a regular price of 9/10/$12.

Beating up a cute dragon in a Dungeon Village screenshot.

Some have launch discounts making them cheaper right now.

You might see that some early reviews complained about keyboard input not working.

That was a bug, which Kairosoft havefixed and apologised for.

They’ve also sinceadded options to remap keyboard controls.

But it still sounds like they’re pretty scrappy PC editions.