GameDev Life Simulator 🎮🕹

First-person life simulation balancing game development with everyday needs

Octo Games studio · Released Feb 18, 2023

Reviews: Mixed; 60% of 158
Recent reviews: Not enough recent
Players: 0; daily peak, Oct 28, 2026
Steam Deck: Playable
Last update on Steam: 3 years ago; Feb 24, 2023
Minimum PC: Direct X compatible; 4 GB RAM · 4 GB disk; Full requirements

What is GameDev Life Simulator 🎮🕹?

A single-player life sim about starting a career as a solo game developer. You create and publish games from your apartment, make development decisions, look after personal needs, decorate your home, and mine cryptocurrency.

For you if...

+you enjoy juggling personal routines and work decisions

Not for you if...

−you want to focus entirely on developing games

What players say

60% of 158 reviews are positive

Some players like the life-sim premise, but recurring complaints focus on limited game variety and shallow development tools. Earlier reviews also report crashes and purchased items failing to arrive.

Screenshots and trailer

GameDev Life Simulator 🎮🕹 system requirements

Minimum: Direct X compatible, 4 GB RAM, 4 GB of disk space.

As published by the developer.

Can my PC run GameDev Life Simulator 🎮🕹?

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Minimum

OS: Windows 7 or above
Processor: Intel or AMD
Graphics: Direct X compatible
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 4 GB available space

Does GameDev Life Simulator 🎮🕹 have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Single-player

Does GameDev Life Simulator 🎮🕹 run on Steam Deck?

Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.

Default controller config not fully functional
Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck

PC version details

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows
Achievements: 20
Steam features: Family Sharing, Trading cards
Languages: Full audio: English. Text only: French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Catalan, Cherokee, Croatian, Dari, Estonian, Filipino, Galician, Georgian, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, K'iche', Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Konkani, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Odia, Persian, Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Quechua, Scots, Serbian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Sorani, Sotho, Swahili, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Tigrinya, Tswana, Turkmen, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Valencian, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu.

Does GameDev Life Simulator 🎮🕹 use AI-generated content?

No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam