# Game Dev Story+ — user reviews > 2,050 indexed App Store user reviews of Game Dev Story+ by Kairosoft Co.,Ltd, rated 4.80/5 from 11,495 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/game-dev-story-plus/id1557657042/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/game-dev-story-plus/id1557657042.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 10,112 · 4★ 981 · 3★ 194 · 2★ 87 · 1★ 121 ## What do users think of Game Dev Story+? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Addictive and fun gameplay - 👍 Charming retro-inspired graphics - 🕰 Easy to pick up and play - 💰 No in-app purchases or ads - 🤖 Satisfying progression and sense of accomplishment **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional save issues and data loss - 🤔 Repetitive gameplay after a certain point - 🤖 Limited options for expanding the business - 🕰 Steep difficulty curve early on **Commonly reported bugs** - Inconsistent save data - Inability to hire certain key staff roles **Most requested features** - More office/staff expansion options - Ability to develop multiple games simultaneously - Longer game timeline beyond 20 years - More diverse game genres and themes - Customization options for the company and characters ## Newest reviews (19 of 2,050) ### 3/5 — Won the grand prize and didn’t get my $1 mill *2026-08-30, version 3.07* Whyyyy I grinded ): ### 5/5 — Very easy game *2026-08-15, version 3.07* Very very easy, then boring ### 5/5 — Relaxing *2026-08-14, version 3.07* Very fun and it’s got a lot of little things to it ### 5/5 — YAY *2026-08-12, version 3.07* YAY ### 5/5 — Fun and relaxing *2026-08-08, version 3.07* remind me of punch club on steam in a way kind of like a auto battler ### 2/5 — Fun, but too much RNG *2026-08-07, version 3.07* Enjoying the game, core gameplay loop is okay. A bit repetitive. Also some features are really annoying like option to upgrade office comes around randomly it feels like. If i say no first time i don’t know when it’ll ask me again. Also, anything involving pick a character to develop feels so unpredictable. I can spend 3mil on a 300 coding/300 creativity character just for them to give me an 8 fun 3 creativity proposal. Feels very unfair. Finally getting a hardware engineer required googling. in game doesn’t teach you anything ### 5/5 — Good *2026-08-05, version 3.07* Good ### 4/5 — Very fun but… *2026-08-04, version 3.07* All of to say there is a lot of grind. ### 4/5 — Difficulty Scaling is Broken *2026-08-04, version 3.07* Don’t get me wrong, this game is absolutely fantastic. It’s addictive and so fun, and I would play it over and over. The point I am trying to make is that you essentially have to be a god at this game from the very beginning if you don’t want to get screwed over in the long run. At the start of the game, everything is affordable and easy to dev for. As the game goes on, the console’s become more expensive, not a surprise to anybody. But they get ridiculously expensive really fast. The Game Box is like 60,000 dollars or something. At that point in the game, you don’t really have that much money to spend. Even if you are rich enough to buy it, you probably don’t have the money to immediately make a game for it, and the consoles only get more expensive from there. If you want to avoid this, you need to be able to know which game combinations go together, where to allocate your points, and have really good staff members. Chances are, this isn’t that hard to do, and this problem has an easy fix: if the consoles come out either cheaper, or further apart from each other, I would have no issues with this game. Other than that, this is a five star game, and I would absolutely recommend this to anyone who is reading this review and thinking about getting the game. Just learn the strats first. ### 5/5 — Simplesmente incrível *2026-08-04* O jogo é muito bom, mecanicas incriveis e viciantes, acredito que poderia ter um método de pesquisar as melhores combinações para o jogo. Fora isso, simplesmente joguem! ### 2/5 — Game saves does not load *2026-08-02* I have tried multiple times manually saving, but it never stores the save file, making me start from the beginning. ### 5/5 — Highly addictive *2026-08-01, version 3.07* Not gonna lie at first I struggled getting the hang of everything but after I played for awhile I couldn’t put it down ### 5/5 — Que jogo incrivel!!!! *2026-07-29* Esse jogo me fez passar muito tempo pensando sobre combinações e funcionarios mas quando eu finalmente entrei no hall da fama eu gritei muito, fiquei muito feliz e quando eu ganhei o melhor jogo do ano eu fiquei mais feliz ainda. Porfavor joguem este jogo, é muito bom ### 5/5 — Great Game *2026-07-27, version 3.07* This game feels 99% accurate to real life. Any grievance doesn’t compare to the fun of this game. ### 5/5 — Потрясающе *2026-07-26* Браво разработчикам ### 5/5 — Sick oldie *2026-07-25, version 3.07* Love this game sine 2018 ### 5/5 — Fun and addictive *2026-07-23, version 3.07* I am always playing it and I am just addicted! ### 5/5 — Would love an update *2026-07-20, version 3.07* Love the game but more consoles need to be added ### 5/5 — Scarily addicting… *2026-07-19, version 3.07* Absolutely love this simple but in depth game, and after many hours of playing I’ve finally won the grand prize! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Good game but saving sucks *2026-08-05, version 3.07* It is an awesome game but it does not save I keep trying to save but it resets me to my first game ### 1/5 — Does not save your progress. *2026-07-05, version 3.07* Played this game on 4 hour flight. Saved manually multiple times as it is very easy to do in the game. Came back home to play again, just to find out the game never autosaved or kept any of my manual saves. ### 1/5 — Fantastic game that WILL NOT SAVE *2026-04-11, version 3.07* No matter what l do, when I boot the game to continue it says there is no loadable data present. I’ve saved manually from the button, from the menu, reinstalled, nothing. ### 1/5 — Save Issues *2026-04-09, version 3.07* I have repeatedly saved this game and always have to restart a new save. ### 1/5 — DO NOT PLAY UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES *2026-03-14, version 3.07* This game completely erased my save for no reason after thirty years of playing! I lost everything!!! ### 1/5 — Broken game save *2026-02-23, version 3.07* The game is amazing, however I cannot save the game. At some point it stops saving and no matter what I do it will not load my correct save even though I’m on year 4, it’ll load year 2 all over again. Super unplayable and breaks the game. ### 1/5 — Saves aren’t loading *2026-02-16* Every time I save a game and then go back to load it, it only loads the auto save version, unless I uninstall and install again. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2026-01-21, version 3.07* I’ve tried a number of times now to get this to work. But it doesn’t seem to work and is constantly in a loading screen. I’ve tried many different methods to get it working. It’s literally been loading for an hour or it throws up an error message. ### 1/5 — Savings keeps disappearing *2026-01-20, version 3.07* Can't save my progress, it lose my savings everytime after restarting the game ### 1/5 — Can’t save *2026-01-16, version 3.07* You make progress and it takes you back to start when log back in. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Timeless Classic *2026-08-30, version 3.07* Saw this while browsing Apple Arcade and remembered playing it years ago. It’s still as fun as it was back then. It would be good to see an update with current consoles but what you get here is still more than enough ### 5/5 — Fun *2026-08-28, version 3.07* Super fun ### 5/5 — Nice *2026-08-27, version 3.07* Nice ### 5/5 — Loads of fun *2026-08-26, version 3.07* Great game to lose yourself in. A bit repetitive, but in a good way. ### 5/5 — Good Game *2026-08-24, version 3.07* Love it on PC and it’s been really fun on the phone. wife says I play too much ### 5/5 — Great fun *2026-08-23, version 3.07* Enjoyed this game a lot! ### 5/5 — Grand Prize *2026-08-22, version 3.07* Omg I won the grand prize! But playing this game is the real grand prize 🙌 ### 5/5 — Awesome game *2026-08-21, version 3.07* Play it ### 5/5 — Loveee *2026-08-20, version 3.07* I love this game so much!!!! ### 5/5 — Addicting *2026-08-20, version 3.07* Love this game --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-08.*