Games Like Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story

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.

★ WHIMEL ACADEMY ★ I WANNA BE A GAME DEV! ★ 小白兔电商~BUNNY E-SHOP ★ GROWING UP ★ MAGICAL PRINCESS ★ VOLCANO PRINCESS ★ BINGUS: MY BELOVED ★ TASTE OF THE WIND ★ PRINCESS MAKER 5 ★ TALK TO STRANGERS ★ I WAS A TEENAGE EXOCOLONIST ★ ROOM OF DEPRESSION ★ WE ♥ IT 
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小白兔电商~Bunny e-Shop

94% 👍 OF 10K
About This Game

Experience a hilarious and adorable e-commerce game in a magical world where humans and monsters are at war. Help a humble rabbit fairy expand her online store selling homegrown carrots. Uncover hidden secrets while growing the business and becoming a successful entrepreneur.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …watch a miracle elixir turn into the one supply chain that can choke an entire civilization.
  • …keep a cute e-commerce routine going while humans and monsters escalate a trade war in the background.
  • …play through Naitang going from plague survivor to human-style idol, getting exposed as a monster, and choosing to protect Tuya at any cost.
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Growing Up

88% 👍 OF 3.7K
About This Game

This is the story of your life. Experience the entire journey from toddler to adulthood. Go to schools, learn new things, meet new friends, and have wild adventures! Every choice you make will influence your future career, and decide who your romantic partner will be. Who will you become?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Skills, Balance Mood
  • …Solve Matching Exams
  • …Meet Friends, Find Romance
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Magical Princess

97% 👍 OF 8.4K
About This Game

Raise your daughter while she attends a magical academy. Choose which classes she attends, jobs she does, training she undergoes, and more in a character raising sim packed full of story and over 50 endings to reach. How she grows up to be the world's cutest princess depends on you!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Schedule Academy Life
  • …Train for Monster Battles
  • …Take Night Jobs
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Volcano Princess

98% 👍 OF 49K
About This Game

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!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …raise the same kid into a warrior, a researcher, a courtesan, a mafia boss, or a world-ending demon on different runs.
  • …send her to etiquette school and have her come back with a sword, two boyfriends, and an existential crisis.
  • …date almost everyone, including girls, and even end up in a poly marriage with multiple partners at once.
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Princess Maker 5

66% 👍 OF 610
About This Game

Discover magic in our world with Princess Maker 5! A lone princess needs your care in a realm where fantasy meets reality. Guide her growth and shape her destiny. Create unforgettable memories as you raise her.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Raise a Modern Princess
  • …Set Her Monthly Rules
  • …Balance Classes and Jobs
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Talk to Strangers

93% 👍 OF 501
About This Game

Talk to Strangers is a game of everyday survival. Survive door to door conversations ranging from bizarre to mundane (in this order) while trying to sell products to strangers. But beware: nothing is what it seems in this neighborhood.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …revisit the same house at different times of day to meet a totally different person behind the door.
  • …buy a motel time machine to rewind a bad choice or even undo your own death.
  • …knock on doors and find a reaper, a robot, cultists, or a sentient mass of spiders instead of a normal customer.
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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

96% 👍 OF 4.8K
About This Game

Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Grow Up on Vertumna
  • …Turn Memories into Cards
  • …Explore Alien Wilderness
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Room of Depression

76% 👍 OF 910
About This Game

"Same encounter, different world." Moon is a young woman who lives an ordinary city life as an office worker. However, because she suffers from depression, she reacts and deals with things in a way that is very different from regular city folk.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Drag Heavy Words
  • …Walk the Thought Tunnel
  • …Make Small Tasks Heavy