Best Forklift Operator

Best Forklift Operator

Skip · Strategy · 2022

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 35, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Length
7.1h
Value
$2.82/hr
Reviews
77% of 240 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 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 207 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$2.82/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews77% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 76% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 224 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

Welcome to the world of warehouses, transport, and forklifts. Join us and show that you deserve to be called the best forklift operator.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 970 or equivalent, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

19 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 30 weeks ago.

On value it sits in the top 38 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 64 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Car Detailing Simulator ($1.91, scores 38) beats it on value, while it beats KartKraft™ ($24.99, scores 30).

More about Best Forklift Operator

Of the 224 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 119 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 53 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

52% start to <1% 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

What players say

Picked this game up after getting a coupon with the badges I made from other games. In all honesty, I feel better using a forklift or a pallet jack now after playing this game in real life. It is a great pastime game if you're bored and throw on some music in the background. The only problem I have with this game are the tire pallets (as of now, haven't done the 3rd warehouse yet). That singular pallet would not...
TrisRecommendedafter 6.8hSep 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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Best Forklift Operator scores 35/100 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/1684670/best-forklift-operator
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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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSimmersiv
PublisherGamedust
GenreStrategy
Released2022
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements17