Games like Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story
If Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story is your kind of game, the closest matches are Office Life, Love, in Debt!? and 메스가키 영애님! — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its inheritance system adds replayability, challenging and cozy. 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 Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story: From nobody to famous game producer in 3 years: that’s the journey you will live! Experience the trials and tribulations of game development in this life simulation game: live through the process of founding a small team and learning how to work together to develop a successful game.
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Office Life
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story.
Top pick for Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story.
Dive into a massive 2-million-word immersive life sim. Use card-based strategies to survive office politics, rise from a rookie intern to a business tycoon, and find true love. Career, Romance, Wealth—why choose when you can have it all?
Love, in Debt!?
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Second-strongest match for Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story.
Love, In Debt!? is a romance simulation game. You once had a beautiful relationship, but overnight you were fired, cheated on, and even got yourself in a huge debt! In order to survive, all you can do is work tirelessly! But why does it seem like you became a chick magnet after you're in debt?
Beach Love Shop
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Ranked #4 for Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story.
Welcome to Forever Summer City! You just moved to the city and you are ready to start a new business: a Beach Shop !
在线教育开发实习生 Elearning Development Intern
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Ranked #5 for Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story.
An internship at an educational startup begins. No matter which computer is in front of you (inside or outside), you just need to, work and learn!
Volcano Princess
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Ranked #6 for Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story.
Prepare the next monarch by finding her hobbies, training her for battle, and befriending the citizens she'll one day protect. Dive into an all-new parenting-simulator-RPG adventure, where every decision you make will not only affect the future of your daughter but that of an entire empire!
花奴令 Huanu Poems
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story.
Ranked #7 for Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story.
Huanu Poems is a multi-ending love adventure game. As a photographer, carrying the secret of being a bloodline inheritor of HuaNu Town, you will take lovely Peach to run a B&B, encounter gentle Cloudia. Your choices will affect the direction of the story.
Sani Yang's Laboratory
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Shares a cozy mood with Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story.
Ranked #8 for Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story.
You wake up in the world of anthropomorphic creatures. After finding you've been the subject of a certain lab's experiments, you must find the ulterior goals hidden from sight. Is this lab secretly a threat to the human world? Or is there more to it that you simply cannot understand?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story at current Steam store prices.
The Vagrant
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Priced ~47% under Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story.
Guide Vivian the Vagrant, through vibrant and dynamic landscapes while hacking and slashing a path from a quiet coastal village through mysterious forests, haunted castles, and wrecked battlegrounds. When the endless barrage of enemies have been vanquished, what solace will be left for our hero?
Mining Mechs
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Priced ~60% under Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story.
Unleash your inner miner as you commandeer a high-tech Mining Mech! Mine for valuable resources and upgrade your mech for even bigger hauls as you explore the underground. Fun to play alone or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer!
ULTIMATE HARDBASS DEFENCE
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Priced ~60% under Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story.
SHOOT. SURVIVE. DANCE HARDBASS.
Your Mother
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Priced ~50% under Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story.
《Your Mother》is a computer desktop companion. Experience the love and kindness from mothers.
LIZARDS MUST DIE
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Priced ~47% under Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story.
The great exploits of the Ancient Rus in the war with the lizards. Immerse yourself in the world of Hyperborea and defeat hordes of Lizards and other unholy who encroached on holy places Ancestors. Choose a blessed hero and go save the world from the green plague.
QUICKERFLAK
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Priced ~67% under Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
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Priced ~67% under Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story
- How much does Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story cost?
- Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story is listed on Steam at 1.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story are Office Life, Love, in Debt!?, 메스가키 영애님!.
- Who developed Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story?
- Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story was developed by DarkKnight and published by 2P Games.
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