Games like DevLife
If DevLife is your kind of game, the closest matches are Code Tycoon, Aislebound and Game Dev Story — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its aging system adds urgency, furniture and office customization and atmospheric. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About DevLife: In DevLife you start your career just before hitting 18. It's up to you to choose who you want to be - a graphic designer or maybe a programmer? Will it be a Website design or Mobile Applications? It is up to you to decide! And what if you chose wrong? Well... You will have to live with that!
Players who liked DevLife also play
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Code Tycoon
WHY THIS
Top pick for DevLife fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with DevLife.
Start in 1980 in your garage and build your software empire. Unlock languages from BASIC to Python, develop projects, hire programmers and upgrade your office. Survive deadlines, bugs and demanding clients in this tycoon simulation.
Aislebound
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for DevLife fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with DevLife.
Aislebound is a first-person retail management simulator. Start with a small empty store and build it into a thriving retail operation by ordering inventory, stocking shelves, managing deliveries, hiring staff, and keeping customers satisfied.
Game Dev Story
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for DevLife fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with DevLife.
Work hard and you may reach the top of the video game industry!
Life of a Lonely Indie Game Developer
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for DevLife fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with DevLife.
"Create the games you want, at the time you want, and live doing only what you love." In this realistic life simulation game, an independent game developer dreams of such a life, struggling with money and time while paying taxes until death. Whether this life is happy or truly lonely, you decide.
The Games You Make
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for DevLife fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with DevLife.
“Quit your job, take out a loan and make a top seller game” sounded like a great idea two months ago. Now, you’re chasing bizarre bugs, combining features that should never go together, and striving to capture that mysterious thing called “fun”. Every decision is yours—and so are the consequences.
Legend of Homebody
WHY THIS
Shares project creation and a contemplative mood with DevLife.
Ranked #6 for DevLife fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with DevLife.
The simple game of a shut-in learning from home and earn money. (The game is purely fictional, do not try this out in reality. This is a somewhat serious and heavy game, so don't be fooled by appearances.)
King of Retail 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with DevLife.
Ranked #7 for DevLife fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with DevLife.
Build a retail empire across dozens of locations with hundreds of employees. Design every inch of your stores with a deep building tool, then fine-tune pricing, staffing, and product mix to stay profitable. Scale up, customize everything, and manage the details that make or break your bottom line.
Crypto Mining Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for DevLife fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with DevLife.
Realistic Mining simulator with custom builds mechanics! A lot of GPUs, CPUs, Motherboards, RAMs, SSDs, PSUs and more! Build your dream farm with 1000+ GPUs!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below DevLife at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under DevLife on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with DevLife.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under DevLife on Steam right now. Shares Casual with DevLife.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under DevLife on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with DevLife.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under DevLife on Steam right now. Shares Casual with DevLife.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~73% under DevLife on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with DevLife.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under DevLife on Steam right now. Shares Casual with DevLife.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Human Fall Flat
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under DevLife on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with DevLife.
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under DevLife on Steam right now. Shares Casual with DevLife.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with DevLife.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with DevLife.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with DevLife.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with DevLife.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with DevLife.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Frequently asked about DevLife
- Does DevLife work on Steam Deck?
- DevLife is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does DevLife cost?
- DevLife is listed on Steam at 10.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to DevLife?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside DevLife are Code Tycoon, Aislebound, Game Dev Story.
- Who developed DevLife?
- DevLife was developed by Roman Studio and published by Mesote Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on DevLife.
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