Grocery Store Simulator
Worth it · Action · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 29.6h
- Value
- $0.51/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 2GB or AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Grocery Store Simulator is a 1-4 player co-op game where you build and manage your own supermarket by stocking shelves, setting prices, hiring staff, and customizing your store, all while expanding your business and keeping customers happy.
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.
The value story
May 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 18 in the 2 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Supermarket Together (free, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Ale & Tale Tavern ($14.99, scores 72).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 24 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 337 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
60% start to 4% 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
190 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Grocery Store Simulator scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2961880/grocery-store-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 3, price as of Sep 22.
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