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.
Estimated lifetime revenueMedium confidence
$76.5Kgross
$34.4Klow → high range$168.2K
Net to developer$50.9K
Modeled estimate, not a reported figure. How we estimate →
Est. copies sold
11.7K
mid estimate
Discounts
What happened when the price fell
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Price cut of Aug 20
1 marketUnited States$9.99$1.49−85%no chart position on both sides of this date
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0/day in the week to Aug 20 → 0/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 25 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 10 places towards #1, and the 2,413 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
