Internet Cafe Simulator

Internet Cafe Simulator

Skip · Strategy · 2019

The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

It scores 32, under the fair line, at $9.99.

Cost per hour▼
$1.75/hr
Reviews▼
73% of 10,412
Genre rank
Top 45% Strategy

Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
5.7h
To 100%
6.9h 1.2x the story

Price and sales

Sales
72 on record
Typical cut
60% off
Steam low
$0.99 May 2026
Sale every
32d last October 2026
Lowest now $0.99 at Fanaticalall-time low $0.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
34 now
Recent reviews
68% 30 days
Cheaper than
29% of its genre
Better reviewed
45% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

Across all 72 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 45 percent. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Streamer Life Simulator ($19.99, scores 37) beats it on value, while it beats Internet Cafe Simulator 2 ($19.99, scores 27).

More about Internet Cafe Simulator

18 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 648 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 48 percent of the 1,234 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 9 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Cost per hour$1.75/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds18 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Internet Cafe Simulator is an internet cafe business simulation game. Build the best internet café in the world!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4000 or better, 4.4 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Internet Cafe Simulator scores 32/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1136160/internet-cafe-simulator
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperCheesecake Dev
PublisherCheesecake Dev
GenreStrategy
Released2019
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate