Overview
“Supermarket Simulator” is a supermarket management simulation game played by a single player from a first-person perspective.
It is a PC game for Microsoft Windows 10. It was developed by Turkish indie game development company Nokta Games.
The early access version was launched on Steam in February 2024.
Gameplay
This game is played on keyboard (WASD to move) and mouse. Controller is not supported.
The player runs their own supermarket as a store operator. At first they start with a small store with two shelves and a cash register.
The player orders products using an in-game computer, designs the store layout, sets prices on the products referring to market prices, and displays them on shelves, fridges, and freezers in the store.
The player sells their products during the store hours (from eight to nine) every day.
If the price is too expensive, the product can’t be sold, and if it is too cheap, it is not profitable.
It is necessary to consider the balance between customer satisfaction and profit margins in order to successfully run your store management.
At first the player operates a cash register and restocks shelves by themselves because they can’t hire store staff in the early stage of the game yet.
By accumulating sales experience, the player can accumulate profits and raise the store level.
The player reinvests the profits. They expand their store’s physical space, increase the variety of products, rent a storage room to store products, and hire store staff (cashiers and restockers).
In this way the player grows their store.
After hiring store staff, the player comes to do tasks mainly as a store manager, such as stock management and store design.
The player can also get a bank loan to finance the store expansion.
Commentary
“Supermarket Simulator” is a game in which you can simulate an experience of managing a supermarket store.
It can be played by anyone from children to adults because the operation is intuitive and the difficulty level is not so high.
The texts within the game are available in English and other 12 languages.
The early access version has gained high acclaim on Steam. In Steam reviews, the game has received “Very Positive” reviews from more than 90% customers. According to SteamDB, over 50,000 concurrent players had played the game at the peak in March 2024.
It is a game to enjoy the work itself, such as purchasing and storing products, displaying them in the store, restocking them, and operating a cash register.
It is a work experience game rather than a management simulation game.
You can enjoy the process of growing the store by working and saving money.
The drawback of this game is that it takes time to manage the stock after the store has grown big. This problem can be resolved by installing mods mentioned later.
According to the developer of the game, lots of new elements will be added in the full version: online orders and delivery, purchasing goods from a local market, running the store at nights, self-checkout, shoplifters, security, store customization, and cleaning.
System Requirements
Minimum:
- OS: Windows (64-bit) 10
- CPU: Core i5-3550 / Ryzen 5 2500X
- GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1050 / AMD R9 270X
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
Recommended:
- OS: Windows (64-bit) 10
- CPU: Core i5-7600K / Ryzen 5 2600X
- GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1060 / AMD RX 480
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
Useful Mods
You can download mods for “Supermarket Simulator” in Nexus Mods: https://www.nexusmods.com/supermarketsimulator
- RDC Stock Manager: In-game computer tells you how many products you have left in the store and storage.
- No Max Order Limit: Removes the default limit of 10 items when ordering.
- DeliveryOrganizer: Automatically organizes delivered boxes by size, stacking them in towers.
- StoreDelivery: It places product boxes on racks in the storage automatically right after delivery.
- Refill Storage: You can fill your cart with products to refill storage by just clicking a button on your in-game computer.
- Smart Pocket Boxes: Right click on a shelf label to pull out the box for the products. Also allows you to transfer items between boxes.
- Storage Expansion: Allow to expand storage.
- BetterCashier: Allow to increase cashiers’ product scan speed.
- BetterCheckoutChoice: It makes the customer choose checkouts with the least amount of queue.
- More Cashiers: Allow to add more than 4 cashiers.
- Pause Restockers: Allow to pause your restockers.
- More Cloned Restockers: Allow to add more than 4 restockers.
- Auto Price Updater: It automatically updates the prices based on the selected pricing model.
- Better Lights Ceiling: Adds grids to the ceiling for the alignment of the light spots.
- FastForward: Allow to increase or decrease the speed of time passing in the game.
- Better Save System: Allow to create and load save files from the in-game menu.
- 5 Tier Shelf: Adds 5-tier shelves for small items.
- Upright Freezers: Adds upright freezers.
- Pallets Display: Brings a new display furniture, the pallet. It can hold larger quantities of products than shelves and fridges.