Gabe Newell Simulator

Gabe Newell Simulator

Skip · Shooter · 2015

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 0, under the fair line, at $2.99.

Length
0.9h
Value
$3.32/hr
Reviews
52% of 696 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 11 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$3.32/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews52% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 53% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 157 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

In Gabe Newell Simulator you can manage Steam releasing and creating new games and also in the story mode you can play as Gaben and help him in his fight against other software house, talk with his employees and decide the fate of Half Life 3!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GPU with 512 MB Video RAM, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

Across all 47 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 67 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is cheaper than 88 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 94 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Cart Racer ($1.99, scores 45) and Mr.President! ($9.99, scores 54) both outscore it.

More about Gabe Newell Simulator

Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 395 reviews written there were positive, against 52 percent overall, and those are 76 percent of everything written about it.

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 9, 09:55 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

this game truly showed me what life is like for gaben. a bit stressing on a 12gb gpu though. i wish i could make money like gaben so i could play with optimized quality on a 5090 but fast is decent enough looking.
Vault DwellerRecommendedafter 60h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Gabe Newell Simulator scores 0/100 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/407420/gabe-newell-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 Sep 28, 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

DeveloperDIG Games
PublisherDIG Games
GenreShooter
Released2015
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate