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Game Store Simulator

Pex Entertainment · 2024-08-20

Steam

IndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 20, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Buy and sell video games, upgrade your shop,load the cargo in your vehicle and take it to your store. Sell them to customers, make improvements and purchase new items to increase customer satisfaction and earn your place in the video game sales empire.

74%
positive of 240 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 38% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 24% of 46,835 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.8k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 240 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.24 at Steam (2024-12-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 8 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
232320232026Week of 2023-11-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 negativeWeek 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 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$1.242023-11-202026-07-202023-11-20 — best price $4.492024-01-08 — best price $3.992024-03-14 — best price $3.492024-04-18 — best price $3.742024-06-03 — best price $3.742024-06-27 — best price $2.992024-08-05 — best price $3.742024-08-20 — best price $3.492024-10-28 — best price $3.742024-11-27 — best price $2.992024-12-11 — best price $4.992025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-01-17 — best price $4.992025-02-23 — best price $4.992025-03-20 — best price $4.992025-04-07 — best price $4.992025-05-19 — best price $4.992025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-07-28 — best price $4.992025-09-08 — best price $4.992025-10-06 — best price $4.992025-10-20 — best price $4.992026-01-05 — best price $3.992026-03-22 — best price $2.992026-03-30 — best price $3.492026-05-11 — best price $4.242026-06-25 — best price $2.742026-07-13 — best price $3.992026-07-20 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

20
achievements tracked
68.3%
earned "First Game Sale"
18.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)14214%20

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

Player tags

IndieDrivingEconomyLife SimRealisticOpen WorldSimulationFirst-PersonSingleplayerThird Person

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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