Kairosoft
Industry	Video games
Founded	1996 (original) September 2007 (incorporated), 2014 (large business)
Founder	Kazuyuki Usui
Headquarters	,
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Website	kairosoft.net

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Kairosoft (カイロソフト - Kairo sofuto) is a Japanese video game developer located in Tokyo, Japan that has created a number of simulation games for cell phones, PCs and Nintendo Switch. Founded in 1996, the company has developed a number of mobile games for the Japanese market and has found great success in porting them to the modern iOS and Android operating systems.^[1] The company was ranked 30th in Pocket Gamer's 'top 50 developers of 2012' list.^[2]

History[edit]

Kairosoft was founded as a dōjin games developer in 1996, and is currently located in the Nishi-Shinjuku district of Tokyo with only nine employees. They started out developing simulation games for the Windows platform, the first of which was released in 1996 and simulated a used bookstore, and another example was the original Game Dev Story released in 1997, with a sequel released in 2001.^[3] In 2001, Kairosoft switched to developing mobile simulation games for the Japanese cell phone market, which was much more developed than America's.^[1]^[4] The company was incorporated in September 2007, and launched a new website on November 4, 2008.

With the release of Game Dev Story for iOS and Android in 2010, Kairosoft found itself a large hit, which reached the top ten in iPhone app sales in its first week.^[5] Kairosoft continued to port over games that it had previously developed for other platforms. Pocket Gamer ranked Kairosoft 30th on its 'top 50 developers of 2012' list, calling Kairosoft games a 'genre in their own right' but noting that they still were mostly a niche in the market.^[2]Now they are releasing a port of World Cruise Story for the Windows 10 platform.

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List of Kairosoft's English games for WildTangent[edit]

Name	WildTangent release date	Latest update
Anime Studio Story	June 7, 2015 ^[6]	August 15, 2016 (1.19)
Beastie Bay	April 10, 2013	June 10, 2016 (3.12)
Biz Builder Delux	May 16, 2016	Not yet updated
Bonbon Cakery	August 23, 2016	Not yet updated
Legends of Heropolis	Christmas 2016	N/A
Dungeon Village	August 15, 2013	June 30, 2016 (2.31)
The Manga Works	Thanksgiving 2016	Not yet updated
Skyforce Unite!	June 17, 2016	Not yet updated
Mega Mall Story	April 10, 2012^[7]^[8]	October 1, 2016 (4.15)
Magazine Mogul	August 15, 2015	June 17, 2016 (1.27)
Kairobotica	April 16, 2013	June 7, 2015 (2.51)
Game Dev Story	June 10, 2011	October 2, 2016 (5.83)

List of mobile games available in English[edit]

8-Bit Farm
Anime Studio Story
Beastie Bay
Biz Builder Delux
Bonbon Cakery
Dream House Days
Fish Pond Park
Grand Prix Story 2
High Sea Saga
Home Run High
Kairobotica
Legends of Heropolis
Magazine Mogul^[9]
March to a Million
Ninja Village
Oh! Edo Towns
Pocket Academy
Pocket Arcade Story
Pocket Clothier
Pocket Harvest^[10]
Pocket League Story
Pocket League Story 2
Pocket Stables
Pool Slide Story
Shiny Ski Resort
Silver screen story
Skyforce Unite!
Station Manager
Tennis Club Story
The Manga Works
The Pyraplex
The Ramen Sensei
The Ramen Sensei 2
The Sushi Spinnery
Venture Towns
Wild Park Manager
World Cruise Story

List of computer games available in English[edit]

Game Name	Platform	Ref.
Blue Sky Squadron	Windows 10
Cafeteria Nipponica	Windows 8
Departure!! Shipping Freighter	Windows 10
Dragging Cat Rebel	Windows 8
Excitement! Manga Dojo	Windows 8
Game Center Club	Windows 10
Manga Path	Windows 8/10
Mega Mall Story	Windows 7/10
Million March	Windows 7
Munch Munch Kairo-kun	Not defined
Outdoor Excavation Company	Windows Vista/7/8
Pool Slide Story	PS4	^[11]
Piko Piko! Game Expo	Windows 10
Prestigious Pocket Academy	Windows 7
Prestigious Pocket Academy 2	Windows 7
Royal Gallery Academy	Windows Vista
World Cruise Story	Windows 10

List of untranslated games[edit]

Mobile[edit]

Departure!! Shipping Freighter (Keitai only)
Dragging Cat Rebel
Excitement! Manga Dojo (iOS and Keitai only)
Friends Entertainment Building
Game Center Club
Good Ramen Museum ~National Hen~
Manga Path
Million March (Keitai only)
Munch Munch Kairo-kun
Outdoor Excavation Company (Keitai only)
Piko Piko! Game Expo (Keitai only)
Prestigious Pocket Academy 1 (Android and Keitai only)
Royal Gallery Academy (Keitai only)
Social Game Dev Dream (Android and Keitai only)
Start!! Hero Base
Wai Wai! Game Dealer (iOS and Keitai only)
Witch Quest

PC[edit]

Bookstore Story
Game Developing Countries
Game Developing Countries II DX
The Narrow Path to Manga
The Secondhand-book Store
The Secondhand-book Store 2

References[edit]

^ ^a^bBrown, Mark (August 5, 2011). 'Kairosoft: Game Dev Story's game dev story'. Wired. Archived from the original on August 3, 2014. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
^ ^a^bJordan, Jon (February 26, 2012). 'The PocketGamer.biz top 50 developers of 2012: 30 to 21'. Pocket Gamer. Archived from the original on May 2, 2012. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
^Lada, Jenni (June 1, 2012). 'Important Importables: Kairosoft'. Technology Tell. Retrieved June 1, 2015

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