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Business Magnate

Ambiera · 2019-03-01

Steam

SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 01, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Business Magnate is a tycoon business simulation game where you can create all types of businesses: Cars, rockets, phones, tanks, trucks, airplanes, computers, and ships. Design, produce, market and sell them. You can even run multiple companies at the same time.

Business Magnate is a Simulation and Strategy game released in 2019, priced at $12.99, with a Mixed review sentiment (67% of 218 reviews) and an owner estimate of 50,000 .. 100,000.

0
playing now
67%
positive of 218 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$12.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-16 02:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (77 reviews).
  • · Top 30% of 17,128 Simulation games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 5.5k–13k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 218 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.80 at Steam (2023-05-15)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $12.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
484820192026Week of 2019-03-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-16 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 2 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-16 02:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$12.99$4.802019-03-022026-07-092019-03-02 — best price $11.692019-05-17 — best price $12.992019-12-03 — best price $12.992020-01-27 — best price $12.992020-12-01 — best price $12.992021-02-15 — best price $12.992021-07-08 — best price $12.992021-11-14 — best price $12.992022-01-05 — best price $12.992022-02-25 — best price $12.992022-05-21 — best price $12.992022-08-22 — best price $12.992022-11-29 — best price $12.992023-02-06 — best price $12.992023-04-10 — best price $12.992023-07-17 — best price $5.192023-11-21 — best price $6.102024-01-08 — best price $5.972024-03-14 — best price $6.232024-06-03 — best price $5.062024-07-29 — best price $6.492024-10-28 — best price $6.492024-12-19 — best price $6.362025-03-13 — best price $5.842025-05-26 — best price $6.232025-09-08 — best price $6.232025-10-20 — best price $5.972025-12-18 — best price $5.842026-03-19 — best price $5.842026-06-01 — best price $6.102026-07-09 — best price $12.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

7 supported languages: English, German, Simplified Chinese, French, Russian, Italian, Spanish - Spain

Player tags

IndieCasualEconomySandboxBuildingStrategyIsometricManagementSimulationSingleplayer

Census log

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

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