Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story overview

Overview

Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story comes from DarkKnight and is published by 2P Games. It arrived on Steam on Jun 24, 2021, and it sits naturally among Single-player and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 26 September 2026 - 01:40:44 UTC, with a tracked peak near 73. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 67% positive across 332 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story is available in 2 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story has sold up to 9,960 units and has 288 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $63,440. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story overview details

Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story is a life simulation and management game that invites you to experience the life of a game developer: start from scratch as a one-man studio and take off from there to become a successful game producer in a 3 years-long journey! Experience the trials and tribulations of this hard job on your own and, also, supervising a small team where everyone counts on your organization and leadership skills. Work hard every day to develop a successful game that catapults you to the stardom of games in a reasonable time. As the leader of your studio (sometimes caricatured as a talking cat) you have to organize its members’ work – but also care about your own welfare. It’s easy to forget the world when you’re developing a game, so make sure your developer eats, sleeps, exercises his body and has fun, so his physical and mental health doesn’t suffer. But even when you’re living the dream of being a game developer, there’s more to life than work: you’ll meet people while hanging around, and it will be up to you if you work on your personal skills to be likable enough, and if you want to dig deeper into their lives and stories. You decide what kind of game producer you want to be in this slice-of-life story! KEY FEATURES Take decisions in game development. What art style fits your vision better for the game? Which music suits the mood and setting? You’ll need to take a lot of decisions and work hard to push the game forward and make it shine so the audience notices it. Keep learning! Lots of different skills are involved in developing a game: programming,…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story is listed as a game with $9.99. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player and Family Sharing, and is associated with Indie, Simulation, and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 26 September 2026 - 01:40:44 UTC, a tracked peak of 73, and 67% positive reviews.

Support and legal notes

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