I Know a Guy: Shady Life Simulator

I Know a Guy: Shady Life Simulator

Worth it · Strategy · 2026

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $9.74.

Length
7h
Value
$1.39/hr
Reviews
90% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Cite this score
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Length
7h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
9h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.39
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$9.74
as of Oct 1
Reviews
90%
463 reviews, as of Sep 25
Released
2026

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX580, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.

Run your pizza shop up front and handle shady business out back. Help hand-crafted NPCs with favors that never go as planned. Play solo or online co-op with up to four players and expand your operation across Hobarey Town. In this darkly comedic management sim - become that guy everyone knows.
Description from the Steam store page.

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$1.39/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews90% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 88% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length7 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 339 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

The value story

September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $9.74. 4 discounts in the 6 months on record. They run about 20 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.

On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. It scores the same as Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition, which costs $34.99. This one is $9.74.

2 of the 339 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to September 2026. In its first 30 days on sale, none of 149 sampled reviews came from refunders.

The drop-off

98% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

591 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 05:54 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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I Know a Guy: Shady Life Simulator scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/4173620/i-know-a-guy-shady-life-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 25, price as of Oct 1.

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Details

Developer Bunch'o'Nerds
Publisher Bunch'o'Nerds
GenreStrategy
Released2026
Achievements33