
The store is your kingdom! Expand your humble boutique into a thriving business: hire the right staff, decorate your displays, and lure in customers. Even your wildest ideas can turn a profit. Why not start a business that sells only white T-shirts and ketchup? PCs and beans? Your rule, your rules!
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Prices
Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
About
Ever wanted to start your own business? In King of Retail, anything is possible!
Plan a shop theme and store design, and launch your very own enterprise. The store is your kingdom, and if you run it well you might be able to expand into a larger corporation! If you get it wrong… well, blame it on the economy.
It’s your store, and you can sell whatever you want! Want to run a shop that only sells chicken? Do it! Every kind of electronic, and also fresh foods? Why not!
Design and customize your store, and achieve your dreams of running a unique emporium of your very own.
The secret is, you need people to choose YOUR location to spend their hard-earned money. What makes your store the best? Do you have the best shelf-stockers in town, or the most convincing salespeople? Maybe you simply have well-targeted online ads. There are many ways to make your store stand out!
Watch your customers closely! Study their behavior and figure out what makes them pull out their wallets. Then, do more of it!
Humanize your brand by hiring humans — the right ones! Conduct interviews with prospective employees to find the best mix of skills and culture fit. Negotiate salaries, manage shifts, and train people up so they thrive and grow with you
Why settle for one shop, when you could run a whole chain? Invest money in advertising to bring in greater throngs of customers; rebrand your store’s interior design; and keep optimising stock and pricing to maximize your profit. If it all pays off, you might be able to incorporate and expand into multiple stores across the city!
It’s your store, and you can run it how you want. Micro-manage every detail and constantly adjust for optimal profit, or just watch the ebb and flow of your perfect masterpiece. You’re your own boss and you can play your own way — it’s good to be the king.
Sums Steam only; GOG, Epic publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $6.49−75% | 3Kreviews | 88% | — | $564.7K |
| $6.49−75% | 32ratings | 66% | — | not modelled | |
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 804 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!! What an actual disappointment and waste of time 30 hours of my life has been. I worked so hard, I did a campaign mode and started off with contracts, opened my headquarters, and two different stores. It took me way too long to realize there are too many game breaking bugs that you cannot play even if you tried your hardest. I have many staff, upgrades in both stores. One store sells PC's and Phones and the other sells woman's tops and dresses. Every time I am at the store I make a profit, however, if i do not go to that store for the day it sets ALL of my prices that I have priced to 0 when I am not there causing me to lose thousands of dollars every day as a result, no matter what I do. I have tried changing my daily managers, I have tried repricing everything. I have fired everyone and starting from scratch again. Over and over, this game breaking bug has taken away 30 hours of my life that I can never get back and I have nothing to show for it. It is impossible to make a profit in this game because it only realizes the value of items when you attend the store for that day, but the problem is you can only visit one store a day, so it is impossible to profit if you plan on owning more than one store. Also, forget about middle centered displays! The AI customers in this game have a walkpath so gamecrashingly awful, that even though there are many options for displays that dont have to go against a wall, YOU CAN ONLY USE DISPLAYS THAT GO AGAINST A WALL. Otherwise, your customers fly to the middle displays like bugs to a light, and just glitch out and get stuck inside of them. No matter where I moved them, they always found them, and always got stuck. THIRD BREAKING BUG: If a customer picks up an item but your cashier queue is too long, or they need help after already picking up a few things and you cannot get to them in time, they just straight up steal your stuff. It is not returned to your shelf, they just walk out with it and not even your hired security will handle it because it isnt registered as stolen. I would have waited patiently for these things to get fixed, however the DEV in charge of this game abandoned it, and still has the nerve to charge almost $26? That is something I would consider to be robbery. Stear clear, and please listen to my review. I saw the other bad reviews and thought well it IS mostly positive so how bad can it be? BAD. Worse than I could have ever expected. And the worst part is in the beginning everything seems fine, because the game breaking bugs do not begin until after you own 2 stores. By then no refunds available, because that takes a lot of time and work. The DEV is now making a second one for some reason? I am not sure why they would think the community would be thrilled to try out another game after they abandoned this one. I hope this helps.
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Every market we collect.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.44/day in the week to Aug 4 → 0.14/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 25 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 10 places towards #1, and the 2,413 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, German, Danish, French, Dutch, Russian, Simplified Chinese*languages with full audio support
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Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 810 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Nice ☐ Will do ☑ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☑ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Much grind ☐ You'll need a second live for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☑ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ I would pay double ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ Embraced the Bugs ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☑ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10
A few years ago, my hometown city of Dunedin, New Zealand lost it's K-Mart with the impact of covid's lock-downs. It was a hole. A true cesspool. They never treated their staff with dignity or respect, and only sold the worst possible quality of trash from third world factories. I have played King of Retail and I understand the appeal now. I have not once let my staff members have a break, damn them. I have an entire room, 100 x 2 metres of pure magenta, dedicated to my staff of 40 men and women to fabricate ads about my literal garbage at over three times the mark-up. Sure, people get angry and quit, but a ready and willing replacement is just a phone-call away. Not to mention these moron customers. These stupid idiots keep coming back to purchase my trash, which stops me going bankrupt. In fact, I am incredibly wealthy. I actively screw the people over, if I can. I have banned and trespassed all who can think. Got a return? Buy something or shove off, turd-choker. I am become corporate, destroyer of souls. Also, come on in and buy something from my fine selection of goods! We sell shoes, clams and fine white t-shirts. We even have a liquor department! Read the labels though. We sporadically sell bleach among our fine spirits for no purpose other than my insatiable amusement.
[h1]Untrustworthy Developers: The game is a Buggy mess, Yet Sequel Planned[/h1] The developers announcing they will release a sequel, namely King of Retail 2, while the first game is still broken since release day, is [b]absolutely disgusting. [u] I have absolutely no trust or support for these developers.[/u][/b]
Great idea, terrible controls. I gave it about an hour, hoping it would get better, but it never did. Ended up refunding it, which is a shame because the concept had a lot of potential.
I’ve been advocating for more shop/retail games for years, so when I came across this one, I was beyond excited. And honestly, it’s a fantastic game. The management mechanics are well thought out, and it’s clear the developer put a lot of time and passion into creating the experience. However, there’s one major issue that’s hard to overlook: the lack of accountability from the dev. The game does have some bugs, and one in particular, where your workers get stuck outside on rocks, can completely derail your shop’s progress for the day. Bugs are understandable in any game, but what’s frustrating is that these issues will never be fixed. As a member of the KOR Discord, I learned that the developer stepped down from actively working on the game due to stress and personal life challenges, which I completely understand. However, what really irks me is that the dev has now shifted focus to developing KOR2. Here’s a game that’s still being sold at full price on Steam, despite its known issues, and yet there’s been no offer of compensation or even a commitment to fix the bugs in the current game. It’s frustrating to see the developer move on to a new project while leaving this one unfinished, especially when they’re still taking people’s money for it. It’s a real shame because the game itself has so much potential, but the lack of support and follow-through is a major turn-off. I find it really disrespectful for all players who supported it.
i wanted to give this a really great review i did honestly .... so the game its self the idea and premise is really good start your little shop and make money make it bigger decide what your stocking manage your staff grow to have multiple stores and have a chain of shops awesome right ? yeah it is ...when it works this game is covered in more bugs than a turd in Africa ! staff don't work efficiently not because the scripting but because poor ai . there is so many bugs in this is it playable for a while yeah but there a still some game breaking bugs in which you will have to start over and lose your progress. whats worse is the developer disappeared for a good while saying there is more to come he will be back once he was worked on his health wanna know what he did ? well he came back the today announcing that he is not gonna give the content he promised and is not going to fix this game and in fact for the past 2 months he has been working on a sequel whilst everyone has been kept in the dark waiting for news! i wouldn't trust the dev to cut me some cheese so i ain't trusting him with another game i wont purchase anything from someone who lies i don't expect anyone to either AVOID!
run out of money? cant fix your games bugs? just take the buggy mess out of early access and start making a sequel instead. ez i understand burnout. but when i get burnt out, i take a break and then actually come back to the thing i promised to finish.
Game is dead. No updates coming and Dev is making King of Retail 2. Dosen´t even fix his first Game.
add sex plz
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