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Vending Machine Business Simulator

Crow Interactive · 2025-07-23

Steam

CasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 08, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Build your business! control every aspect of a thriving vending machine business. Buy, place, and restock machines to increase profits. Do you have what it takes to manage, expand, and dominate the vending industry?

0
playing now
75%
positive of 200 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$8.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 50% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (56 reviews).
  • · Top 44% of 9,562 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.0k–9.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 200 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.49 at Steam (2025-06-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $8.99 · on sale 9 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
393920242026Week of 2024-11-08: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-11-08: 17 negativeWeek of 2024-11-15: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-15: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-11-22: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-11-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-06: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-20: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-27: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-03: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-10: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-31: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-07: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-21: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-21: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-07: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-07: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-21: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-28: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-11: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-18: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-16: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-23: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-30: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-27: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-04: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-18: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-25: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-08: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-15: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-31: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-07: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-14: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-21: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-28: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-02: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-06: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-22: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-26: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-14: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-08-25 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 2 players2026-08-30 13:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$8.99$4.492024-11-082026-07-092024-11-08 — best price $7.192024-11-22 — best price $8.992024-12-19 — best price $6.742025-01-02 — best price $8.992025-01-06 — best price $7.192025-01-13 — best price $8.992025-02-17 — best price $6.742025-02-24 — best price $8.992025-03-13 — best price $5.392025-03-20 — best price $8.992025-04-14 — best price $6.742025-04-21 — best price $8.992025-05-26 — best price $7.192025-06-02 — best price $8.992025-06-27 — best price $4.492025-07-10 — best price $8.992025-07-23 — best price $7.192025-08-06 — best price $8.992025-09-15 — best price $6.292025-09-22 — best price $8.992025-09-29 — best price $4.492025-10-06 — best price $8.992025-10-29 — best price $5.392025-11-13 — best price $8.992025-12-18 — best price $4.492026-01-05 — best price $8.992026-02-02 — best price $6.292026-02-09 — best price $8.992026-03-19 — best price $4.492026-03-26 — best price $8.992026-04-06 — best price $6.742026-04-13 — best price $8.992026-05-18 — best price $6.742026-05-25 — best price $8.992026-06-25 — best price $4.492026-07-09 — best price $8.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

20
achievements tracked
93.7%
earned "Break Time"
45.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

11 supported languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Turkish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1706%20

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

Player tags

3DFPSModernDrivingEconomySandboxLife SimRealisticCapitalismSimulation

Census log

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

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