Crowd Simulator

Crowd Simulator

Skip · Strategy · 2019

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 30, under the fair line, at $2.99.

Length
1.5h 2.1h to 100%
Value
$1.99/hr
Reviews
71% of 547 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Value$1.99/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews71% positive
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
Refunds5 of 337 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

It's really crowded!!! Crowd Simulator is a unique, fun experience that places you in different crowd scenarios. The main objective is to move with and against crowds.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

62 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 48 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 79 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Wobbledogs ($4.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Food Truck Simulator ($6.99, scores 24).

More about Crowd Simulator

Of the 337 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 334 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 84 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

90% start to 6% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 12, 00:53 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

It is interesting to compare Crowd Simulator with the game KIDS by Frei and Rickenbach, which also features monochrome renderings of large crowds of abstract little gum-figures. In KIDS, the controls are almost too responsive, too smooth -- everything reacts and everything is surreally coordinated, in a way that makes group-think uncanny and disturbing. In Crowd Simulator, by contrast, trying to move your poorly...
jeremydouglassRecommendedafter 1.3h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
1 more review
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IKEA pencil thiefRecommendedafter 2.4hDec 2024Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Crowd Simulator scores 30/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1141650/crowd-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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

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Details

DeveloperZHANG FAN
PublisherSHEN JIAWEI
GenreStrategy
Released2019
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements28