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Retail Company Simulator: Prologue

Business Tycoon · 2024-07-19

Steam

CasualIndieSimulationFree To Play

Run your retail company in this free prologue version of the game. Sign contracts with leading brands, order new products, meet customer needs, and never let your customers leave the store empty-handed. Hire new workers, expand your store, and enjoy the growth of your retail company.

87%
positive of 658 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 39 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity down 49% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (355 reviews).
  • · Top 25% of 10,344 Casual games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
31531520242026Week of 2024-07-01: 315 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

7
achievements tracked
82.3%
earned "Contracts"
77.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

20 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)68691%7

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

Census log

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