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Grocery Store Simulator

EXPERIMENT ONE · 2024-11-21

Steam

ActionCasualIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person

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.

Grocery Store Simulator is an Action, Casual, Indie, Simulation game released in 2024, priced at $14.99, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (91% of 6185 reviews).

62
playing now
91%
positive of 6.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
62/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
24
Nexus mods (26k downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

62 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

Grocery Store Simulator trailer thumbnail

Grocery Store Simulator | Game Trailer

≈433,156 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Cooling
  • · 62 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 6% of 27,606 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 124k–278k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 6,185 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 8 of 16 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

105302026-09-14 22:00 — 54 players2026-09-16 06:00 — 39 players2026-09-17 13:00 — 55 players2026-09-18 21:00 — 70 players2026-09-20 04:00 — 63 players2026-09-21 12:00 — 45 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 65 players2026-09-24 03:00 — 44 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 43 players2026-09-26 18:00 — 102 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 65 players2026-09-29 09:00 — 59 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 101 players2026-10-02 00:00 — 59 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 74 players2026-10-04 16:00 — 105 players2026-10-05 23:00 — 63 players2026-10-07 07:00 — 60 players2026-10-08 14:00 — 77 players2026-10-09 22:00 — 44 players2026-10-11 05:00 — 50 players2026-10-12 13:00 — 63 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 57 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 62 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1.4k65Jun 2024Aug 2026Jun 2024 — avg 183 · peak 377Jul 2024 — avg 484 · peak 1,796Aug 2024 — avg 1,379 · peak 3,930Sep 2024 — avg 700 · peak 1,720Oct 2024 — avg 471 · peak 1,191Nov 2024 — avg 407 · peak 1,465Dec 2024 — avg 398 · peak 865Jan 2025 — avg 343 · peak 904Feb 2025 — avg 263 · peak 565Mar 2025 — avg 191 · peak 439Apr 2025 — avg 327 · peak 750May 2025 — avg 203 · peak 389Jun 2025 — avg 161 · peak 342Jul 2025 — avg 151 · peak 296Aug 2025 — avg 138 · peak 262Sep 2025 — avg 110 · peak 227Oct 2025 — avg 102 · peak 266Nov 2025 — avg 107 · peak 244Dec 2025 — avg 94 · peak 198Jan 2026 — avg 103 · peak 200Feb 2026 — avg 96 · peak 212Mar 2026 — avg 80 · peak 176Apr 2026 — avg 77 · peak 165May 2026 — avg 69 · peak 142Jun 2026 — avg 65 · peak 136Jul 2026 — avg 86 · peak 165Aug 2026 — avg 71 · peak 137
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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).

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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