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Grocery Store Simulator

EXPERIMENT ONE · 2024-11-21

Steam

ActionCasualIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Jun 10, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Grocery Store Simulator is a 1-4 player co-op game where you build and manage your own supermarket by stocking shelves, setting prices, hiring staff, and customizing your store, all while expanding your business and keeping customers happy.

67
playing now
91%
positive of 6.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
62/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

67 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 02:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Cooling
  • · 67 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 358 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~45/week).
  • · Review velocity down 51% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,434 reviews).
  • · Top 14% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 123k–278k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 6,169 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.99 at Steam (2026-05-20)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 9 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.4k1.4k20242026Week of 2024-06-01: 243 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 528 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1,350 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 84 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 498 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 337 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 487 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 294 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 157 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 166 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

118372026-08-07 00:00 — 81 players2026-08-07 04:00 — 66 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 50 players2026-08-07 12:00 — 82 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 85 players2026-08-07 20:00 — 89 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 77 players2026-08-08 04:00 — 73 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 70 players2026-08-08 12:00 — 86 players2026-08-11 17:00 — 105 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 61 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 49 players2026-08-13 16:00 — 72 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 66 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 67 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 118 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 67 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 66 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 80 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 37 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 62 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 107 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 50 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 60 players2026-08-21 12:00 — 70 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 38 players2026-08-22 19:00 — 81 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 72 players2026-08-24 03:00 — 65 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 71 players2026-08-25 11:00 — 48 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 57 players2026-08-26 19:00 — 71 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 70 players2026-08-28 03:00 — 53 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 67 players2026-08-29 10:00 — 79 players2026-08-30 02:00 — 67 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$5.992024-06-102026-08-122024-06-10 — best price $7.192024-06-17 — best price $7.992024-08-15 — best price $6.392024-08-22 — best price $7.992024-09-24 — best price $6.392024-10-01 — best price $7.992024-11-21 — best price $14.992024-12-21 — best price $7.492025-01-02 — best price $14.992025-02-01 — best price $11.992025-02-08 — best price $14.992025-03-13 — best price $8.992025-03-20 — best price $14.992025-04-06 — best price $7.492025-04-20 — best price $14.992025-05-22 — best price $8.992025-05-29 — best price $14.992025-06-27 — best price $8.992025-07-10 — best price $14.992025-08-07 — best price $10.492025-08-14 — best price $14.992025-09-29 — best price $8.992025-10-06 — best price $14.992025-11-06 — best price $7.492025-11-13 — best price $14.992025-12-18 — best price $7.492026-01-05 — best price $14.992026-02-05 — best price $7.492026-02-12 — best price $14.992026-03-19 — best price $7.492026-03-26 — best price $14.992026-04-09 — best price $7.492026-04-16 — best price $14.992026-05-20 — best price $5.992026-05-27 — best price $14.992026-06-25 — best price $7.492026-07-09 — best price $14.992026-08-05 — best price $8.992026-08-12 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Twitch viewers

002026-08-26 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 06:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

25
achievements tracked
60%
earned "And So It Begins"
18%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsColor AlternativesCustom Volume Controls#category_playable_at_your_own_pacePlayable without Timed InputSave Anytime

14 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Japanese…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,4944%25

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

Co-opIndieCasualEconomySandboxRelaxingManagementSimulationMultiplayerFirst-Person

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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