Kairosoft

Kairosoft are a Japanese video game developer who mainly specialise in small simulation games. Despite first appearances, the games are usually very vast and complex, with many mechanics and strategies to discover as you delve in further. They made their English debut with Game Dev Story in 2010, which met a huge success from casual players, proper gamers and even game developers across the world. Since then, they've kept localising their games over the iOS and Android platforms.

Their localised works include:

• Game Dev Story
• Hot Springs Story
• Mega Mall Story
• Pocket Academy
• Grand Prix Story
• Pocket League Story
• Oh! Edo Towns
• Venture Towns
• World Cruise Story
• Epic Astro Story
• Dungeon Village
• Pirate Life Story (Upcoming)

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Kairosoft provides examples of the following tropes:

• Arab Oil Sheikh: King Ackbar.
• Follow the Leader: Not surprisingly, Kairosoft has been subject to a number of developers attempting to follow their success. One particularly notable developer goes as far as to use the same naming convention.
• Running Gag: Certain out-of-place characters become recruitable/move to your town during all of Kairosoft's works.
• Masked Luchador: Mr. X, one of the reoccurring characters, remains a mystery through all of his appearances.
• New Game+: After each games Time Limit, it will save your score at that point and the game will technically end. From that point, you can continue the current game and keep going to see how good you can get, or you can start a new game and have certain unlockables available from the get-go.
• One More Turn: A good number of reviews for their games start with some statement of how the review ended up late since the reviewer lost track of time.
• Sequel First: Our Pocket Academy is the second School Sim game. The first wasn't localised.
• Theme Naming: Until Pocket Academy, all the games localised titles were a variation of 'X Y Story'. Grand Prix brought it back, and it followed with World Cruise and Epic Astro.
  • Oh! Edo Towns and successor Venture Towns. Dungeon Village sort of works there too.