Local Game Store Simulator

Immerse yourself in the most customizable shop sim on the market - bring your friends, build new cards, and change the rules.

• Up to 8 players online: team up in one shop (up to 4 per store) or run rival stores

• A built-in creator for custom cards, booster packs, boxes, posters, video games and consoles

• Advanced Settings that change customers, prices, grading, the market and more

• Share your sets and settings on the Steam Workshop

• Pixomon included: foils, numbered /250 cards and god packs

• A whole strip mall: conventions, auctions, a pub with pool and darts, and showrooms for your collection

Open the doors to your own local game store

Stock everything from trading cards, video games and consoles, to deck boxes and sleeves. Set your own prices, and build a shop your regulars keep coming back to. Every customer has a budget, a favorite kind of item and their own idea of a fair price. Price too high and they walk out - your reputation goes with them to your friend's store down the street.

Run the shop

• Buy and price: buy stock wholesale and set every price yourself.

• Work the counter: ring up customers, and make offers when they bring in cards and games to sell. Haggle, and pay in cash or store credit.

• Build a reputation: fair prices and good stock bring people back. Bad reviews keep them away.

• Price anywhere: change a price right where the item sits, or use the pricing app.

• Stock fast: numbered hotkeys fill the shelf slot you're looking at.

• Hire staff: up to 4 renamable employees stock shelves, run the register and buy from sellers while you do something else.

Crack packs and chase the hits

Open booster packs, chase foils and rare pulls, and build your personal collection. Send your best cards off for grading and sell the slabs for a premium.

Hunt the rarest pulls: Pixomon numbered cards come in runs of just 250, and about 1 in 500 boosters opens as a god pack, every card a foil from the top of the set. Or, add numbered cards to your own custom set to chase!

Play together

• Rival stores: go head to head with up to 8 total players and compete for customers and product.

• One shop, shared: team up in the same store with up to 4 players.

• Trade and battle: trade with friends, or challenge them to a winner-takes-all pack battle.

• Solo: the whole game works on your own.

Your cards, your products

Build whole sets in the built-in creator, with your own pictures:

• Trading cards, with foil finishes, rarities and values

• Booster packs and booster boxes, with your own pull rates

• Video games, consoles and accessories

• Posters and card backs

Got a folder of pictures? Turn the whole folder into a set in one go, video games included.

Your sets sit on the shelves next to everything else, customers buy them, and they show up in packs, the market and the grading case.

Share it

Upload your custom sets and your settings to the Steam Workshop, and play with what other people have made.

Make it your game

Almost nothing in Local Game Store Simulator is fixed. Change how the game plays, how the economy behaves, what your shop sells and how it looks.

Before every new game, Advanced Settings let you change customers, customer dialogue, prices, wholesale, grading, conventions, market events and much more. Play a relaxed shop, a cut-throat profit machine or anything in between, and share your settings through the Steam Workshop.

Your store

Name your store, choose its walls and floor, lay out the shelves and fixtures, hang posters and play your own music through your store's speakers. When the money comes in, expand into the empty units next door.

Around the strip mall

• Showrooms: buy your own showroom next door, fill its cases with your personal collection and charge awe-inspired onlookers to see it. A better collection brings more visitors and a better reputation.

• The pub: play pool and darts against friends during your slow days.

• Chaos Go-karts: turn them on in Advanced Settings and race around the lot.

Watch out for Bag o' Money and Chizmo

Not every customer plays fair. Some say their buddy already paid, and a shady guy tries to pull a prank at your door. Call them out, stop them, or pay up.

Short on cash? Bag o' Money will lend you up to 3 loans at once, and when one's due he comes to collect - be ready to pay up or feel the consequences. Feeling lucky? Challenge him to a pack battle.

A market that moves

Prices drift every day. Tournament results, ban lists, reprints, streamers and retro features move them, and rumors let a sharp owner buy in early. Take the hunt further at conventions, the online marketplace, consignment auctions, and the boutique and thrift stores down the strip.

Wishlist now

Local Game Store Simulator releases on December 10th, 2026. Wishlist now to get notified at launch, try the free demo coming this month, and join our Discord to follow along and share your sets.