
A cosy first-person pharmacy sim with a wicked streak. 12,792 items. One unbelievable mess. Stock the shelves, buy the upgrades, and climb a corporate ladder that probably shouldn't exist. Then try not to think too hard about what's at the top.
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12,792 items. One unbelievable mess. You.
Clock in. Stock the shelves. Climb the ladder of an industry that maybe shouldn't exist.
Big Bad Pharma is a cosy first-person pharmacy-stocking sim with a wicked streak. On the surface it's everything you want from a tidy little restocking game: neat shelves, a quiet shop to run, and that deeply pleasing click of the last box sliding into place. Underneath, it's a cheeky satire of corporate healthcare, and the further up the ladder you climb, the more you might want to ask yourself whether it was worth it.

Every shift starts the same way: shelves stripped bare, product everywhere, and you.
Every single one of the 12,792 items on that floor has a home. A specific shelf, in a specific bay, in a specific aisle, and the shop isn't finished until every last one of them is in it. Pick things up, carry an armful, and slot them into place. Categories run from digestive relief to migraine remedies to a genuinely suspicious quantity of allergy medication, all of it wearing a label that's almost a brand you'd recognise. Legally speaking.
Forgotten where the antihistamines live? There's a catalogue book in your pocket. Whether you're a methodical shelf-perfectionist working one bay at a time or a chaotic box-flinger lobbing paracetamol across the room, the shop is yours to run.

Every shift starts the same way — empty shelves, a full stockroom, and you. Sort products into the right aisles, from digestive relief to migraine remedies to a suspicious number of allergy medications. Keep things tidy, keep things moving, and try not to lose an item along the way. Whether you're a methodical shelf-perfectionist or a chaotic box-flinger, the shop is yours to run.

Nobody climbs the corporate ladder on foot forever.
Behind the staff door there's a beige desktop PC running an operating system that time forgot. That's the Rx Upgrade Hub, and it's where your wages go. Carry more in one trip. Move faster between aisles. Jump higher, throw further, and unlock the four tools that turn a long shift into a short one:
Locate: light up every stray item of a category, wherever it's hiding
Auto Shelve: send what's in your hands straight to where it belongs
Magnet: pull nearby product to you without bending down once
Sweep: gather up a whole patch of floor in a single pass
Max everything out and you become a truly well-rounded (and slightly terrifying) employee of the month.

There's more to this pharmacy than restocking. Twenty-one achievements trace your journey from bleary-eyed newcomer to something a little more... corporate. There are things written on mirrors. There's a radio out back with four decades of music on it. There's a toilet, and yes, it flushes.
Clock out at the end of a shift and the numbers come up: items shelved, sections completed, time on the floor, and a running record of every shift you've ever worked. Then the shop refills, the day ticks over, and it all starts again, which is either deeply comforting or the entire joke, depending on how you're feeling.

Big Bad Pharma is warm, funny, satisfying to play, and just self-aware enough to make you smirk. It's a game about small satisfactions and big questions, made by one person with a sharp sense of humour and far too much time spent thinking about shelf geometry.
Plays on mouse and keyboard or controller, in five-minute bursts or three-hour ones.
Come for the shelves. Stay for the slow moral decline.
AI Content Disclaimer (NO AI): This game was created with love and passion for learning to create a game after games being the one consistent in my life. All 3D assets are my own (hence why I kept it very basic). All textures and decals in game are made by me (you may see where I've struggled in places). I have recently removed AI generated achievement images and replaced them with my own designs, the same applies to all Steam Graphics, Logos and background images. Officially NO AI.
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Bear in mind I'm reviewing this on release day. For what I believe is a game from a one-woman show (she said she designed all the boxes herself, hence why they are minimally decorated) , I'm sure this will be a wonderful addition to the tidy-up category once some QOL updates have happened. The achievements are also quite fun and [spoiler]the loperamide being on top of the toilet did make me laugh[/spoiler]. The upgrade abilities either don't seem to be working, or its not clear how/when they are unlocked. The entire place re-shuffles when you reload, which ngl cheesed me off after putting things into piles for nearly 2 hours. Could be clearer how many boxes of each exist in total, so we can plan a bit. Walking over the boxes, while not head-bobbing levels of nausea, is just mildly irritating! Also - why does tylenol paracetamol go in cold & flu, but generic paracetamol in pain relief? Clinicians everywhere are crying rn. Aside from that, I'll be super happy to check this out again and hopefully in a short while once the little snags and bugs have been ironed out.
I think this game has massive potential to play as just a little fun side quest when bored (especially with how my brain operates!) I reccommend this game for others but do note there are quite a bit of bugs. When you log out of your saved game and restart it, all of the items respawn! So infinite items I guess? And not enough shelves. But its really peaceful, colours are nice and the textures and models are really goofy and fun!!! Another bug I have noticed is when fropping an item on the floor, if you crouch over it, it disappears. And oddly enough, I only have 12,792 items to be stocked instead of 13,070. Some shelves display the incorrect number.
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Languages: English
Hours played at review time, across 94 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Love sorting games. This ones a big issue. - There is no descriptor for the items on the ground like it was displayed in the preview on the steam page, I have no idea what I am picking up. - A lot of the items look the same so I am relying heavily on the green box to appear to place them, but that also means you can't incorrectly place items. The box can also be weird sometimes and not show up unless you are ON TOP of it. - Some of the shelves display the wrong numbers and you have to take all the items off and put them back on to get them to display the correct ending number so the sign will turn green. - The abilities feel extremely useless. They don't feel like upgrades and they don't do much. (I also played with none of the abilities unlocked and didn't receive the achievement for it so I don't know if it's bugged or it counts the jump and throw as abilities?) - Towards the end when I would put items on the floor they would keep setting themselves back to their original floor location from the very start of the game - Sometimes the shelves display a 1/1 for the item and wont let you place another item on the shelf. I had to go back and alphabetically order the cardiovascular section just to beat the game cause the numbers kept messing up. - the floor layout for the shelves is extremely annoying to me. The cold and flu section is technically in three different sections instead of making it an actual isle to itself. The game was a great concept and I loved sorting all the items but it became way more tedious than it needed to, and I even went the route of not using the abilities the first time for the achievement that I never received.
I don't know if the other reviews are bots but this does have potential but could do with some work (which i do get its a new game) i think when you hover over an item it should show you what you are looking at it just seems all over the place but hopefully quality of life will be added soon and be more enjoyable to play
Wow, fast 50 Stunden hat mich das Spiel an Zeit gekostet. Fast 13.000 kleine Artikel müssen wir einsortieren. Mir hat es sehr viel Spaß gemacht, ich hab nebenbei einfach immer eine Serie laufen lassen. Einzige negative... selbst auf LOW laggt das Spiel und die FPS gehen teils runter auf 20 bzw. es schwankt immer je nach Blickrichtung zwischen 20 und 90 FPS. Sonst alles in Ordnung. Wer mehr solcher Spiele spielen möchte bzw. das einsortieren liebt, ich schreibe zu jedem solcher Spiele eine Rezension und liste hier ein paar Spiele auf. Je mehr ich spiele und Rezensiere, desto mehr Spiele werden hier stehen: - Cellar Keeper - Supermarket Chaos - Toy Keeper - Librarian Tidy Up the Arcane Library - Spielzeugladen: Große Aufräumaktion! (Toy Shop Tidy Up)
super fun game and AWESOME dev!! listens to all the feedback and releases patches asap, also replaced all the AI generated content which is great
Please add an option to disable the highlight/mark that appears around the correct shelf when you hover over the right placement while holding an item. I’d prefer to figure out the correct placement myself without the game giving away the answer. It would be great to have this as a toggle in the settings for players who want a more challenging experience.
Not even close to ready. The game still plays behind the guide book (The guide book which is inaccurate btw) and the shelves for some categories are split BEHIND their row and others are on random walls. It's impossible to sort the shelves in a satisfying way in the alphabetical order.
Love organizing this but I wish you could shut off the head bob
I want to say I can recommend this game, but I honestly can't. The concept is fun and I am in total support of the creator removing AI (I wouldn't have bought the game if there was any AI involved), but there is one very big issue that makes it difficult for me to play this game for extended periods of time. All of the items look far too similar. Some of them are even the exact same color as well. The titles are helpful, of course, but it means that when sorting it's very difficult to tell at a glance what is meant to go where without reading each individual label, which can make the game headache inducing. This is worsened by the fact that there's no power-up to tell you where products need to be shelved, so there isn't anything you can do but go through each shelf to find the right one. I would recommend waiting until the dev makes the products a little more distinct before purchasing this game. It also takes a very long time to gain abilities. I'm six hours in and still haven't gotten many unlocks, and the unlocks you do get don't feel very powerful. But honestly that part could just be a me issue, and isn't my main problem with the game.
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