Another Brick in The Mall
Fair · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $16.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.2h
- Value
- $4.05/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce GT 640, GT 750M or equivalent with 2GB memory, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
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
The value story
September 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $4.24. It has been discounted 61 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Prison Architect ($29.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation ($19.99, scores 59).
4 of the 511 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 236 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4.2 hours. Doing everything runs 101, 24 times as long.
The drop-off
66% 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
What players say
This game is honestly so fun and addicting! Building and managing your own mall is really cool and unique, i love watching all the customers come into my stores and buy stuff. There are so many things you can build and manage, and you can make your mall look however you want. Definitely worth playing/buying if you like building management and simulation games. Every time I play i just make my mall bigger Highly...
Great game. My first mall/shopping center map took roughly 50hrs to fully complete (based on achievements and the desired look I wanted for my mall). The only cons I had during my playthrough were some AI pathing/task management annoyances and when the game ran at highest speed the timesheet adjustments were not saving the set shift hours. Overall, fun game. Worth the price.
Plays like early access in terms of features and depth of mechanics. The game offers nothing that other management sims don't offer and is extremely simple to crack. Profit is the only mechanic that matters. The most challenging mode adds in staff needs, but these don't affect your ability to turn a profit. There are no benefits to beautifying the mall or to efficiency. Customers have the same stats as staff...
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Cite this score
Another Brick in The Mall scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/521150/another-brick-in-the-mallReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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