Game DevelopmentProgramming
3 games that share both with Game Dev Story
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ManagementBuilding
7 games that share both with Game Dev Story
City BuilderManagement
5 games that share both with Game Dev Story
And more like Game Dev Story
Each with the kinds it shares, under its name.
Two Point Museum
Game Dev Story, but three times the hours, and even better loved
Loved · 95%City Builder · Building
Software Inc.
Game Dev Story, but co-op, and five times the hours
Loved · 94%Game Development · Management
Stronghold Crusader HD
Game Dev Story, but military, and medieval
Loved · 98%Real Time Tactics · City Builder
The Sims 2 Legacy Collection
Game Dev Story, but story-rich, and more divisive
Mixed · 73%Life Sim · Building
Braid, Anniversary Edition
Game Dev Story, but full of puzzles, and bending time
Loved · 92%Game Development · 2D Platformer
Autonauts
Game Dev Story, but with crafting, and three times the hours
Liked · 89%Programming · Building
Stronghold 2
Game Dev Story, but medieval, and twice the hours
Liked · 89%Real Time Tactics · City Builder
Jurassic World Evolution
Game Dev Story, but with dinosaurs, and sci-fi
Liked · 87%Building · City Builder
How this list is made
A game is here when it shares the strongest of Game Dev Story's Steam community tags, Steam genres and IGDB themes, each shared tag counting for more the fewer games carry it: two metroidvanias are alike, two action games barely. Games of Game Dev Story's own series that play like it stand apart, above the list, and take no place on it. A similar typical length breaks near-ties, and a game sold twice is shown once. Games that share the same kinds with Game Dev Story stand together, under those kinds. Up to 30 games are shown, and the list stops where they grow much less alike. Where to start: the closest; the best loved of the closest fifteen with 10,000 reviews or more; the shortest of the ones 80% or more recommend; and a hidden gem, 90% or more but under 10,000 reviews.
Under each name, how it differs from Game Dev Story: a kind of game it is that Game Dev Story is not, a feature its strongest Steam tags carry that Game Dev Story's barely do, how many hours people play it beside Game Dev Story, and how its reviewers feel beside Game Dev Story's.
The sticker on a case is the hours its own page leads with: half of the game's Steam reviewers had played that long or less when they gave their verdict. It is not a time to beat. Under a name, the share of its Steam reviewers who recommend it: loved at 90% or more, liked at 80%, mixed at 65%.