Wild West Supermarket Simulator

The image shows a shot of the inside of an old Wild West style store. Various people in stereotypical Wild West attire are browsing shelves in the store. The in the upper-right corner of the image reads ‘Wild West Supermarket Simulator’.

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I’m starting to lose count of how many sim games are released. And even when joking about an oddly specific one, it gets made. So with that, here comes a new sim preview from Sundust called Wild West Supermarket Simulator.

Fastest stock in the west, I just can’t keep them long enough.

It’s out now in early access on Steam. So grab your lasso and try to wrangle up some customers while I tend to the store.

a large rustic building with the sign says "general store" various other buildings are seen in the distance. — Doesn’t look too bad.

Gameplay

Wild West Supermarket Simulator starts with you cleaning up and throwing out debris in your new store. After that, the gameplay mechanics are roughly the same as any store simulator goes; you buy stock, try to beat or match the going market price (which changes daily), stock shelves, serve customers and provide them the correct change. Eventually, you can hire employees to help you run the store. The only extra thing you need to do is play mini-games to earn licences to sell new items, such as guns or bread. You can also take out loans at the bank. Besides that, the gameplay loop is all too familiar and standard for this type of simulator, with the store eventually becoming almost self-sufficient. But hopefully more features will be added like duels or other time period exclusive stuff.

A small line of people at a check-out being ready to serve. One man is wearing an eye patch. The till itself has various buttons, with two rows in red and two in black. A book that adds up the price for the player is on the right. — People can’t get enough of these deals!

Graphics & Audio

Wild West Supermarket Simulator isn’t winning any graphical awards, and the textures aren’t perfect, but I will give credit for the fact it doesn’t look carelessly thrown together like many of the latest simulators. Shadows and lighting look like some effort went into them, and the menu and UI are all appropriately wild west poster stylised. While the animation has the typical stiff simulator style to it, at least the environments and character models look like some thought went into keeping the theme.

The western background music, while a little old after a while, at least fit in with the game’s theme too.

A catalogue with illustrations of various different guns. Each one has the name and cost besides them. Above are several tabs for the player to look through. — You feeling wealth punk… well, do ya?

Longevity

The gameplay loop is okay, and each day takes about roughly 20 minutes. For the amount of time you’re able to put in comes down to the individual. Progression, particularly when it comes to earning money, feels slow, so I can see that taking a good chunk of time in Wild West Supermarket Simulator. If players are looking to challenge themselves more, the other mode makes prices in-game more accurate to the times as possible.

Final Thoughts

Gameplay is what you’d expect from anything with “supermarket” in the title. But what stood out to me was the mini-games you’re able to do for new product licences. They offer a fun way of breaking up the normal day to day. Unfortunately, once you beat them, there isn’t a genuine need to do it again, maybe adding a minor cash reward.

I didn’t face any major issues while playing, besides one or two little bugs. Which were just objects clipping through walls or NPCs getting stuck. If you like the Wild West, then Wild West Supermarket Simulator might be up your alley. And the current early access build is very promising, more so compared to some of the other sims I’ve played.

Disclaimer: A code was received in order to write this preview article.

Why not have a look at some of the other Simulators Games I’ve already reviewed here.

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Kyle McGrath

I’ve enjoyed video games for as long as I remember and I don’t think there isn’t a game I wouldn’t play. For reviews, I try my best to make them simple and easy to understand. With so many games released daily, I attempt to play them all.

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Wild West Supermarket Simulator – PC Preview