Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet
Skip · Action · 2021
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 42, under the fair line, at $5.99.
- Length
- 2.1h
- Value
- $2.85/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Radeon HD 7500G/Intel HD Graphics 3000, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Shop Tycoon is a store simulator. Create a supermarket, sex shop, games store or a store with good Polish vodka. Place your logo, hire employees, expand your car fleet, build offices and parking lots, create a chain of stores and more!
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.89, set in July 2026. It has gone on sale once in the 38 days tracked here, most recently in July 2026.
On value it sits in the top 24 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 62 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, (the) Gnorp Apologue ($6.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Plutocracy ($24.99, scores 33).
Steam's global achievement data puts 29 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. None of the 349 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 124 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 36 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 2.1 hours; clearing it takes 4, which is 2.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
63% start to 29% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet scores 42/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1392340/shop-tycoon-prepare-your-walletReviews 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 29, price as of Jul 15.
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