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Dev Guy

Daniel Jonathan Bourke · Project Tranquil · 2015-05-20

Steam

AdventureFree To PlayIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 20, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

With your final build missing, and only till the end of the night to publish his game, Warren must take up the difficult adventure to make a new build before the end of the night through whatever means necessary. Join Warren's quest to publish his title before the end of the night and become an indie dev.

Dev Guy is a free-to-play Adventure, Free To Play, and Indie game released in 2015, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (79% of 1773 reviews).

0
playing now
79%
positive of 1.8k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 18 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 10% of 28,690 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
121220172026Week of 2017-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-14 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Completion

7
achievements tracked
34%
earned "Returned"
22.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,57869%7

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

FunnyIndieMemesShortCasualComedyAdventureFree to PlaySingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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