Supermarket Simulator

What starts as a dusty corner store with a lonely shelf and a single register quickly spirals into a bustling retail empire in Supermarket Simulator, a deceptively intense management sim that’s less Zen garden, more profit-fueled panic spiral. You’ll stock fridges, price milk, yell at slow cashiers, and somehow still want to boot it up for “just one more day” at 2am.

The core loop is deliciously chaotic: order goods from a janky in-game PC, rip open delivery boxes like a raccoon in a candy shop, and try to make sense of your rapidly cluttering store layout while customers grumble about overpriced spaghetti. You’ll feel like a retail god when a shelf restock saves the day, but also deeply humbled when your cashier scans one apple in 14 seconds and a line wraps around the freezer aisle.

And this isn’t just “scan and sell.” You’ll weigh produce manually, adjust prices based on a real-time local market, juggle electricity bills, loans, and angry customers who couldn’t find the chips. Forget to place your soda crates properly and watch your Yelp reviews tank. Want to fire your underperforming cashier mid-shift? You’ll have to literally fire them. Ruthless.

It’s not perfect, placing furniture can feel like assembling IKEA pieces blindfolded, and tutorial timing is hilariously off, but none of that dents the joy. Supermarket Simulator nails the balance between chaos and chill, offering enough depth to obsess over and enough downtime to keep you from burning out.

It’s weird, it’s buggy, it’s brilliant. This game made me care deeply about shelf alignment. I don’t know who I am anymore.