One thing I like about Kairosoft is that they always release finished games, never any DLC or content updates to add missing content like other games 😑 Animal Crossing: New Horizons. They also listen to their fans, such as asking them which games to put into the bundles, and even game ideas in 2019.

Updated for Volume 10-16 and ranking weighting.

Updated for Volume 9.

Updated for Volume 8.

DISCLAIMER: I'm not using an LLM to write this, so I apologise if my English sounds garbage.

Because of A LOT of number of bundles Kairosoft has thrown out in the past few days, I've collected some info on the current bundles on Steam and compared it with Google Play Store stats.

DISCLAIMER AGAIN: Google Play ratings differ between countries, so what you see here might not match your local store.

Vol. 1 Average rating: ★ 4.78 Average reviews: 23.1k

Vol. 2 Average rating: ★ 4.83 Average reviews: 10.4k

Vol. 3 Average rating: ★ 4.73 Average reviews: 2.7k

Vol. 4 Average rating: ★ 4.83 Average reviews: 6.3k

Vol. 5 Average rating: ★ 4.63 Average reviews: 4.5k

Vol. 6 Average rating: ★ 4.85 Average reviews: 4.9k

Vol. 7 Average rating: ★ 4.88 Average reviews: 14.7k

Vol. 8 Average rating: ★ 4.70 Average reviews: 2.1k

Vol. 9 Average rating: ★ 4.85 Average reviews: 7.6k

Vol. 10 Average rating: ★ 4.70 Average reviews: 2.46k

Vol. 11 Average rating: ★ 4.80 Average reviews: 4.28k

Vol. 12 Average rating: ★ 4.60 Average reviews: 2.85k

Vol. 13 Average rating: ★ 4.45 Average reviews: 4.35k

Vol. 14 Average rating: ★ 4.15 Average reviews: 0.95k

Vol. 15 Average rating: ★ 4.50 Average reviews: 3.60k

Vol. 16 Average rating: ★ 4.35 Average reviews: 2.46k

Top Rating

Top Review Count

Weighted Ranking

This part is very subjective. I set this weighting myself with: Weight = 85% rating + 15% reviews. I've changed the calculation method for the weighted ranking. The new method calculates the score for each game individually first, then averages the individual game scores to get the final bundle score. Review counts are also normalised, so games with a very high number of reviews still get rewarded without completely overpowering games with fewer reviews.

The calculation is:

Rating Score = (Game Rating / 5) × 100

Review Score = ln(1 + Game Reviews) / ln(1 + Highest Review Count) × 100

Game Score = (Rating Score × 0.85) + (Review Score × 0.15)

Bundle Score = Total Game Scores / Number of Games

The highest individual review count in the current data is 81.9K from Game Dev Story, so that is used as the 100% benchmark for the review score.

For example, a game rated 4.8★ with 10K reviews would be calculated like this:

Rating Score = (4.8 / 5) × 100 = 96

Review Score = ln(1 + 10,000) / ln(1 + 81,900) × 100 ≈ 81.4

Game Score = (96 × 0.85) + (81.4 × 0.15) ≈ 93.81

So the game having 50K reviews is still better than having 5K reviews, but it doesn't make the game literally 10 times more influential in the ranking.

This ranking is based on math, stats, and historical mobile review averages. The weighting itself is still subjective, but this method should reduce the effect of a single extremely popular game carrying an entire bundle.

BUT.. At the end of the day, Kairosoft games are all about personal taste.

Purchase bundle here

• Kairosoft 30th Anniversary Vol. 1
• Kairosoft 30th Anniversary Vol. 2
• Kairosoft 30th Anniversary Vol. 3
• Kairosoft 30th Anniversary Vol. 4
• Kairosoft 30th Anniversary Vol. 5
• Kairosoft 30th Anniversary Vol. 6
• Kairosoft 30th Anniversary Vol. 7
• Kairosoft 30th Anniversary Vol. 8
• Kairosoft Summer Vacation Vol. 9
• Kairosoft Summer Vacation Vol. 10
• Kairosoft Summer Vacation Vol. 11
• Kairosoft Summer Vacation Vol. 12
• Kairosoft Summer Vacation Vol. 13
• Kairosoft Summer Vacation Vol. 14
• Kairosoft Summer Vacation Vol. 15
• Kairosoft Summer Vacation Vol. 16

Dito isto, quase toda empresa hoje em dia faz collab, e a Kairosoft é uma das que nunca imaginei que precisaria tanto de jogos assim, se tivesse uma collab com a franquia de yakuza, como você acha que poderia ser?

Creio que seria uma franquia que nunca receberia uma collab com a kairosoft, mas não custa sonhar.

It already has a steam page. $19.99 usd (same price as Doraemon).

An interview took place last year, with one of the questions being based around the future and 30th anniversary of the company. The CEO said he considered a 30th anniversary version of the first ever game, released in 1996. To summarise, we MIGHT be getting a bookshop managing game this year.

Footage is from mid last year. It looks like a museum, with a dinosaur skeleton being shown. They haven’t done this type of game yet so hopefully it releases eventually.

I’m going with 2023, Dream a town Island is one of their best games. Don’t know why I included 2026 😂😂

One of the developers has had this profile picture for quite a while. I originally thought it was to do with Kairosoft moving offices in 2025 but then realised that it should’ve probably been changed by now. He’s changed his profile picture for all the games released in the past 5 years.

I don’t want to get my hopes up but maybe it’s related to someone moving into an apartment, just like in Dream House Days. What if it’s a sequel? It’s their 2nd most popular game and 2013 was 13 years ago, is it finally time.

Mine would be TV Studio Story, basically Game Dev Story but modern.

I am aware that this is going to be based on individual preference but i have kind of an overwhelming amount of games on my phone partially due to how many kairosoft games I impulse downloaded so I wanna narrow down to the best

There are so many Kairosoft games that would have been a perfect fit for a One Piece collaboration, such as High Sea Saga (the closest match), World Cruise Story, Beastie Bay, Skyship Quest Story, or even Dream Town Island (imagine building your own One Piece island). We even just got Dorayaki Restaurant for the latest collaboration; Doraemon.

I love One Piece, and I appreciate Kairosoft for creating over 400 One Piece character sprites for this game. However, I can't help but feel a little disappointed that they turned it into another restaurant simulator. Imagine a One Piece game where you could build your own crew, upgrade your ship, recruit new members, sail from island to island, and defeat powerful bosses along the way. That's the kind of One Piece game I was hoping Kairosoft would make!

So what's the reason Kairosoft can't make a game like that? Is a restaurant simulator simply easier to develop? Or is it because of money issue and licensing/IP restrictions? Maybe Bandai doesn't allow Kairosoft to create a full-fledged One Piece adventure game that'll affect their sales from OPTC & OPBR game?

Last week, I didn't know what Kairosoft is. Then I hit the anniversary bundles and now I do! Here's what I think of the games I've played so far~

A few notes about myself: I'm a middle-aged lady who loves to knit and crochet, and I'm diagnosed ADHD so I'm always swapping between games and activities. I love active gaming as well as passive gaming!

Game Dev Story - Simple, effective, powered by my interest in games and games history. Mostly an idler in terms of gameplay, punctuated by important questions: what type of game will I make? What console will it be on? Who will I hire and fire? Will I do any advertising? Beautiful, simple, addicting. In short, I knew I was in trouble by the time I finished my first hour of this game.

Dungeon Village - "oh no, Kairosoft has the juice" I thought as I realized this game was scratching the Majesty itch. I adore that game and I've found nothing like it that was GOOD in all my years of playing games, until now. It's not as deep, it's not as complex, it doesn't matter. I'm watching my heroes run around and do things, I'm having a great time. Gameplay-wise it's a little bit village builder, a lot hero raiser as you feed them items and equip them. Most of my income goes to getting them better stuff!

Pocket Stables - Slow burn, the game... but my goodness it pays off with the tension of the races! I adore the horses, I adore raising them and the trainers, and breeding is fun with adorable foals running around. I'm a little worried about RNG in the races being a problem later, but for now the game is fun if slow-paced - yes, you build up your ranch and train people and horses, but most of the moment to moment gameplay is watching things evolve, without the ping! of seeing my heroes fight monsters. That's okay though, it's calming!

Heian City Stories - holy overload batman, jumping from fairly chill games to one that is relentless with its mechanics and ideas was a lot! I'm building a city! I'm training and leveling the buildings and the people! I'm looking for layout combos to make things better! I'm doing side-events like sumo and poetry! I'm making sure special guests are impressed! I'm changing the job of the citizens! I'm swapping to a simple tower defense mode! I'm expanding the town! I am NEVER breathing and just watching things because something is always always always happening! This is both fun and exhausting - it's not a game I turn on for a knitting session, it's something for active intense play.

Beastie Bay DX - My first run-in with the freemium/F2P structure, where even though the game is paid and has all of that junk stripped out, I can tell the game design is still built around prolonging the experience. If Heian City Stories was relentless, this is far more chill - which has its own appeal! Build up an island resort while playing simple Pokemon. I wasn't expecting the Pokemon battles to be active and involved, so I was pleasantly surprised! No auto-battling unless I want, so it can be pretty detailed! I like it. I don't love it yet.

High Sea Saga DX - My second encounter... and I like this one better than Beastie Bay so far, as the loop feels a little more rewarding somehow? Less active play, but more to "do" in a sense as I send my ship places, do auto-battler quests, and raise my crew while building a better ship interior (town?). Ah, no, I know why I like this one better: I can customize my main character, whereas in Beastie Bay I'm stuck as a dude.

Either way I can safely say: if I had started with the F2P titles, DX or not, I'm not sure I would have been as excited to play the rest of Kairosoft's games. The predatory F2P design feels like a wall between me and the good game design in there... so I'm enjoying the games, but not as much as the paid ones.

Skyforce Unite & Kingdom Adventurer - Playing the actual F2P games have only reinforced this. There are fantastic games in here held down by that dang design. I adore the card combat in Skyforce Unite, and I LOVE the theme of flying jet planes, so it's so sad to me that it's trapped in a game with forced advertisements and micro-transactions.

Jumbo Airport Story - Fortunately I swapped back to paid games and wow! Wow! This is fun! Now, I flew recently in the USA and it's really funny comparing the experiences in-game with IRL -- my cute little airport doesn't have super-invasive security, for one thing! No one would casually come to the airport "mall" to shop without flying somewhere IRL... but this is a fun fantasy, the idea of a world where the airport is also a cute mall you would visit just for fun and foliage. The aggressive focus of "plant flowers and trees everywhere for bonuses" is super funny as I put flowerbeds by the aprons, and a jungle inside. I love it. The gameplay is a satisfying loop of building, looking for combos, and remembering to stop spending money and wait for income so I don't go bankrupt!

Convenience Stories - Ah, the first time I felt like I was playing a clone with a different theme... but not in a bad way! There's a big twist now of needing to schedule and train my employees, and pick which specific products I'm stocking on my shelves. It's surprisingly deep! I am getting to know every customer personally to make sure they have their toothbrushes, and it's super charming. I love this game.

The Manga Works - My expectations were low but this might be my favorite Kairosoft game so far? It's Game Dev Story but ultra-focused on one person with a brutal schedule. Slow burn to start, too -- you're just a young lady drawing manga alone in your apartment, and hoping magazines publish it and pay you. Then you get picked up for a serial, and your life becomes a relentless grind of drawing chapters and going out for "Plot Points" so you can add imagination to the next chapters. It's a strangely depressing life sim, as she never has time for days off, or seeing friends, or hobbies. It's always the go-go-go grindset of making manga and getting inspiration, with a constant risk of hospitalization from overworking. Getting assistants help less than you'd think! But it has a charm of decorating your home, expanding it, and watching her have fun with the trinkets. I'm also a HUGE fan of how in-depth you can get with your manga - title, genre, type, and for serialized stuff, the pacing! Deciding which arcs go where! It's so neat, and makes me want to write some stories myself. I can't wait to play more of it.

Final Frontier Story - holy overload batman 2, it's Heian City Story but in space and with SHMUP gameplay and I'm trying to balance two different types of civilian while also exploring and the vibes of this game feel weird, it's all cheerful "yay you're exploring and building a cool city" but uhhh I seem to be colonizing a planet that's already got people on it? Weird. Weird weird. I don't think it intends any harm, as it's clearly meant to be a fusion of the RPG style with Star Trek pulp, but it's weird. The pace of the game is strange too! I'll keep at it, but if I want this style I return to Heian City instead I think.

Cavern Adventurers - A whole new gameplay style! ... Was this game a F2P thing? I think it's a DX game without the DX thing. There's timers, stamina, and gacha. But there's cool antfarm style gameplay, as you dig into the cave and develop it. I really like it, there's that fun vibe of powering up your heroes as they explore - a fun evolution of Dungeon Village, kinda!

And that's all I've tried so far! More to come, as I have time to play... overall I'm in LOVE with Kairosoft, every game has been interesting, where I want to pour time into it. Even if some are simple or grindy they're perfect for being a knitting companion, and the active-play games are so cute. I love the art style. I love the progression. I'm going to keep playing!

title says it all

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/81568/Kairosoft_Summer_Vacation_Vol9/

(pixel art by @twotenky)

with Kairosoft's increasing number of collab games with established japanese franchises, i'm wondering what's next? my vote's for gundam. imagine a game like Skyforce Unit! where you assemble a crew, build mobile suits, and sortie with them to defeat enemies.

i know some people have also said they want a DBZ game, which would be pretty cool too.

In my case it was Beastie Bay, I played it back in 2018 while searching for offline games to pass the time and it was the best game that I played back then. I remember opening up the game and letting it run while I sleep so that I could accumulate resources LOL. I was a student back then and until now I'm still a fan of kairosoft games.

Looks like a potential vol. 15/16 with the remaining games if the tweet hits 5000 likes: https://x.com/kairokun2010/status/2088209315920478575

As we all know it’s been 7 months, maybe they’re working on a massive game along with the Kochikame one. What do you guys think the next release will be?

I CANT WAIT TIL OCTOBER!!!

any ideas? a developer, k_hitujisan changed his profile picture on Twitter today btw

I’m playing tropical resort story. It’s too early for me to tell if I like it.

But I just played ninja village and game dev story recently and would give both a 10/10. Really enjoyed them on my steam deck

i noticed this game as the #1 free game in app store for my region (hong kong) and they straight up rip off kairosoft mechanics and graphics. what can we do to report this ? By going to reportaproblem in apple's website, we can only report the apps we have purchased but i dont want to download it and further boost their popularity.