
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% | 3.6Kreviews | 88% | — | $675.3K |
| $6.49−75% | 32ratings | 66% | — | not modelled | |
Updates
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Reviews
Themes across 804 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
[h1] Do I recommend King of Retail?' [/h1] [b] [u] YES, BUT ONLY ON SALE [/u] [/b] [b] The game is very difficult to get into for sure. [/b] All the tutorials are in a separate menu you can only reach from the main menu, called "business school" You will feel very lost at first, and I would say it takes several hours of a first playthrough to even learn the mechanics of the game, how customers and articles work, how to manage employees, and what to focus on. The first in-game week or so of playing you will barely be scraping by, and it's more focused on playing as a "worker" just to make the ends meet As you keep playing the game will be more and more focused on managing your employees, hiring enough people and setting up schedules so that the store can run on full auto without you doing anything, except ordering new supplies at the end of the day. While the game is hard to learn and slow paced at times, it is a very unique and enjoyable experience. The game is however abandoned since long, as the developer has been hard at work on the sequel, and there are quite a few clunky mechanics and minor bugs taking place, as well as un-optimized UI.
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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 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,402 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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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.
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Meh its okay bit annoying at times and repetitive
Leider hat der Entwickler das Spiel nach kurzer Zeit aufgegeben und viele Fehler und Probleme nicht behoben.
I bought this game during early access, and I had a lot of fun playing it! right before the super bug hit us in 2020, I worked and played this game. it was so much fun! I wrote out a schedule on a note pad for my workers lol both my husband and my co workers thought I was crazy (I worked retail at the time ;) ), and once you figure out the ordering system, man, it is a very immersive game, totally worth the price. I played for just about 78 hours and I think i'm about itching to play some more spesh now that it's complete, I am really excited to find out the new stuff! This is a game I will probably come back to from time to time to play, and for the price that's totally a fair expectation. Thanks to all involved in making this game. lots of fun :)
the game is not what is expected, it is fun for a little but gets really repetitive and there is basically no updates now, dont waste your money get another game, that looks a little more fun
Achtung Suchtgefahr! Ich mochte Spiele, in denen man seinen eigenen Laden hat schon immer sehr gerne, aber das hier ist nochmal eine Nummer größer. Man kann nicht nur einen Laden haben, sondern einen ganzen Konzern, wenn man möchte. Es gibt zwar nur drei große Kategorien zwischen denen man wählen kann und es kommen auch keine Update, DLCs usw., aber selbst damit kann man schon sehr kreativ sein. Das Management ist richtig gut gemacht und man kann viele unterschiedliche Stellen besetzen oder selber regeln. Man startet bei 0 und baut sich über Aufträge anderer Ladenbesitzer auf, bis man endlich genug Geld für die Gründung seines eigenen Konzerns hat und den ersten Laden mieten kann. Eignet sich super als Übung, da die ersten Tage echt nicht so einfach sind. Man könnte sicher Verbesserungen finden, aber für 25€ hat das Spiel mehr Inhalt als andere Simulationen in dem Preissegment. Eine echte Perle. Ich hoffe, dass die Gerüchte für den zweiten Teil wahr sind und man dann mehr als Kleidung, Lebensmittel und Elektronik verkaufen kann. Ich liebe auf jeden Fall alles an dem Spiel, weil man an so viel denken muss. Man handelt seine Versandkonditionen aus, genau wie die Löhne der Mitarbeiter. Öffnungszeiten und Schichtpläne muss man ebenfalls managen. Mitarbeiter können krank werden und freie Tage verlangen. Gefühlt ist bisher alles möglich und einstellbar. Bin sehr begeistert. Für den Preis viel mehr, als ich erwartet habe und deutlich besser als manche neuen AAA-Titel.
À fuir !! Le développement, c'est totalement arrêté et le dev à sortie une version 1.0 à l'arracher, buguer sous prétexte d'une dépression, il n'aurait pas réussi à cause du moteur à faire ce qu'il voulait et ce qu'il a promis, il a donc fait une pause très looooooongue. Mais ne vous inquiétez pas, car ce mec soi-disant en pause pour dépression à bien avancer et travailler sur le 2 donc passer par la caisse de nouveau pour avoir ce que l'on vous a promis dans le 1. Personnellement, je désinstalle et le 2 n'étant pas fan de la façon de faire, je ne compte pas l'acheter. To flee! Development came to a complete halt and the dev released a buggy version of 1.0 under the pretext of depression. Because of the engine, he couldn't do what he wanted to do and what he promised to do, so he took a very long break. But don't worry, because this guy who's supposedly on a break for depression has made good progress and is working on 2, so you'll have to go through the checkout again to get what you were promised in 1. Personally, I'm uninstalling and, as I'm not a fan of the way things are done in 2, I don't intend to buy it.
Das Spiel ist sehr gut. Leider ist es mittlerweile Tot.
Du wolltest schon immer mal deinen eigenen Laden aufmachen? In King of Retail ist alles möglich! Das Geheimnis liegt darin, die Kunden zu überzeugen, ihr hart verdientes Geld in DEINEM Laden auszugeben. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4htRq7HMEk
Unfinished and abandoned low quality trash
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