Supermarket Simulator

Supermarket Simulator

Worth it · Strategy · 2025

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 4 of 4 sales

Worth it at $19.99. Typically $11.99 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.

Cost per hourS
$0.93/hr
ReviewsS
92% of 84,902
Genre rank
Top 3% Strategy

Holding it back: AI content

Why
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
21.6h
To 100%
111.2h 5.1x the story
Achievements
15

Price and sales

Sales
22 on record
Typical cut
30% off
Steam low
$8.44 November 2024
Sale every
45d last September 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $8.14 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
2,205 now
Recent reviews
88% 30 days
Cheaper than
7% of its genre
Better reviewed
97% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

92% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Across all 22 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 30 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Supermarket Together (free, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Storage Hunter Simulator ($24.99, scores 41).

More about Supermarket Simulator

This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 3,010 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 21.6 hours; clearing it takes 111, which is 5.1 times the campaign.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 4 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 29 days ago.

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

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.93/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
Replayability~111h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 22h main story
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
AI contentDisclosed
The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score takes a heavy dock
For context
Refunds6 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked

What players say

I played Supermarket Simulator when it first came out and, while I really enjoyed the idea of the game, I eventually stopped playing because managing the store became more frustrating than fun. The placement of shelves and objects could be awkward, and moving stock from one shelf to another was especially annoying. Having restockers constantly refill a shelf while you were trying to empty it made reorganising the...
MoccawGamingRecommendedafter 291h14 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
The game get's very draining and repetitive towards the end, but the first 10-20 hours were very fun!
w4rpedRecommendedafter 40hOct 2026Read on Steam
So addicting. Always look forward to unlocking more items and getting a bigger store and seeing how much more of a profit I can make.
zwmartinRecommendedafter 73hOct 2026Read on Steam

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

About the game

Run your own supermarket! Stock shelves, set your prices, take payments, hire staff, expand your store, handle shoplifters, and design your layout. Purchase goods from online or local markets around town, and personally deliver online orders to your customers.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 1050 / AMD R9 270X, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Supermarket Simulator scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2670630/supermarket-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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperNokta Games
PublisherNokta Games
GenreStrategy
Released2025
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements15