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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?

Vending Machine Business Simulator is a 2025 Casual, Indie, Simulation game priced at $8.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Mostly Positive sentiment (75% of 201 reviews).

2
playing now
75%
positive of 201 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$8.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 23:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 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 21% of 29,120 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.0k–9.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 201 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 7 of 14 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

602026-09-15 08:00 — 4 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 2 players2026-09-21 22:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 3 players2026-09-27 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 3 players2026-10-05 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 23:00 — 2 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.

Recent updates

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