TCG Card Shop Simulator
BANGER · Strategy · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $16.99.
- Length
- 30h
- Value
- $0.57/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVidia GeForce GTX 1050, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Open your own local game store. Stock shelves with the latest booster packs, or crack them and collect the cards for yourself. Set your own prices, hire staff, host events, and expand your card shop.
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
September 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $7.79. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 10 in the 2 years tracked, about 13 weeks apart. Today's $16.99 at 15 percent off still sits 118 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, Supermarket Simulator ($19.99, scores 87) and Big Ambitions ($25.99, scores 79) both come in lower.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $42.67. It costs $16.99.
17 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 1,381 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 30 hours. Doing everything runs 89, 3.0 times as long.
The drop-off
93% start to 1% 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
1,661 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Unironically helped me to stop wasting my money opening boxes/packs. I used this to scratch that itch digitally without wasting hundreds of dollars. All other aspects of gameplay are super enjoyable, but this one was the most important to me.
Do I enjoy the game? Kinda…Do I think that it's lazy? also yes. This game has made enough money that there should be no reason for using cheap assets for the npcs or the world for that matter. A lot of games were able to imitate or straight up copy this game because at its core it's an asset flip that had a good idea and never built on it. I wish the developers would take some pride in their work and show more...
i would like to recommend you to buy this game, the game games pretty hard i have a fever of 102 while i write this... My hair hurts and i ordered Panera soup.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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TCG Card Shop Simulator scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3070070/tcg-card-shop-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 Sep 13, price as of Sep 23.
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