Thrifty Business
Worth it · Strategy · 2026
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $12.99, a BANGER if it drops to $10.69.
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.33/hr
- ReviewsS
- 98% of 1,469
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Strategy
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $10.69 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.9h
- To 100%
- 9.5h 2.4x the story
- Achievements
- 37
Price and sales
- Sales
- 3 on record
- Typical cut
- 10% off
- Steam low
- $11.04 October 2026
- Sale every
- 99d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 61 now
- Recent reviews
- 95% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 23% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
93% start to 22% rarestThis 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
It has been discounted 3 times in the 6 months tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 10 percent, about 14 weeks apart. No sale on record has reached $10.69, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Its score sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Goat Simulator ($9.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Sticky Business ($9.99, scores 80).
More about Thrifty Business
1 of the 331 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2026 to October 2026.
Finishing takes 3.9 hours; clearing it takes 10, which is 2.4 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.9 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $11.04 (15% off). Predictions like this were right 91% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 16 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
About the game
Run your very own thrift shop in this laid-back management sim! Sort through boxes to find hidden treasures and arrange nostalgic displays of clothes, antiques, toys & more. Befriend the regulars, help with their requests and expand your store into a hub for the local community!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 530, 2 GB or AMD Radeon R7 250, 1 GB, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Thrifty Business scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3693650/thrifty-businessReviews 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 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.