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Games like I Wanna Be A Game Dev!

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Games like I Wanna Be A Game Dev!

A casual school-life RPG about balancing classes and game development, with visual-novel storytelling and a light mystery, spanning roughly 15 hours.

LuGame: Lunchtime Games Club!
A cute, heartwarming single-player visual novel dating sim set in a quirky games club, with multiple endings and a ~10-hour story.
2019-06-20
- Adventure
- Indie

Romance

Visual Novel

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Consume Me

A compact eight-hour life-sim RPG about navigating high school with humor and heart.

2025-09-24

Comedy
Puzzle
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Side view
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Romance

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Game Dev Studio

A single-player simulation strategy game about managing a game development studio, producing hits, and growing your company, with a fun but occasionally unbalanced economy.

2018-03-12

Strategy
Indie
Simulator

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Whimel Academy

A cozy magic school life-sim that balances studying, jobs, and romance, with grindy stat progression and a short, replayable run.

2025-10-24

Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Simulator
Text
Role-playing (RPG)

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Super Life (RPG)

A casual single-player life-sim RPG set in Sun Villa, where you finish school, get a job, and move out, offering multiple money-making paths and a lengthy ~44-hour reviewer experience.

2019-07-18

Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)

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Cool Kid Cody

A playful indie RPG about questing for godhood by turning a school's biggest loser into a cool kid.

2022-04-08

Adventure
Indie

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To Pixelia

A casual single-player life simulation RPG where you pick a career path and live out a pixel-art life, with reviewers praising its variety while noting some technical issues.

2025-05-01

Bird view / Isometric
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)

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Growing Up

A single-player, hand-drawn life sim charting a character's journey from toddler to adulthood, with career and romance shaped by your choices across roughly 22 hours.

2021-10-13

Strategy
Indie
Simulator
Text
Arcade
Drama
Visual Novel

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RPG Time: The Legend of Wright

A hand-drawn, narrative-driven after-school adventure where a chatty game master guides you through his handmade notebook RPG.

2022-09-13

Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Side view
Role-playing (RPG)

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Game Builder Tycoon

A compact casual tycoon sim about running an indie game studio, with mixed player feedback and roughly two-hour reviewer playtimes.

2024-09-30

Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Business

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The Good Life

A quirky single-player life-sim RPG blending murder mystery, debt repayment, photography, and cat/dog transformations in an idyllic town; roughly 15–18 hours.

2021-10-15

Adventure
Third person
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Mystery

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GameDev Life Simulator 🎮🕹

A roughly six-hour single-player indie simulation of a game developer's work and daily routine, covering industry workings and the challenges of solo development.

2023-02-18

Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)