Gas Station Simulator
Fair · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $8.99. Buy it if you want it.
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- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 4GB VRAM, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
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What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $8.99. That was September 2026. It has been discounted 52 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $8.99 at 55 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, House Flipper ($24.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats The Tenants ($19.99, scores 49).
72 from critics against 88 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 26 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2024 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 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 822 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 1,094 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Still 958 concurrent players, 5 years in.
The drop-off
94% start to 2% rarestNo 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
958 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
Cite this score
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Gas Station Simulator scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1149620/gas-station-simulatorThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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