Today is the 3rd birthday of the Game Slush Pile, which was founded on 9/21/22. I could post a best/worst list like the last 2 years, but I’ve reviewed far fewer games in 2025 than prior years, so I’m waiting until December for that list. Instead, I will be complaining about Village Supermarket Simulator Old Times Edition Market Sim, the nine thousandth reskin of the same game, Supermarket Simulator, shit out on the Nintendo eShop for a quick buck. In fact, I’m not even sure what is the original game being cloned anymore. Is it this game? Who knows. Does it matter? How about Apocalypse Market Simulator? The same game with a post-apocalyptic reskin? There are hundred of these, as I talked about last year.
I don’t even really need to play Village Supermarket Simulator though I did for five minutes, but they disabled captures so I can’t prove it! Regardless, you can tell instantly from the marketing screenshots what the game is, and what the core game actually is. You set up a small market with shelves, put products on the shelves, set the prices and open. The customers will come in, buy the items, and you check them out manually at the register. Rinse and repeat. Just this version has a rustic shantytown feel to it. Otherwise its the same exact game as a hundred other identical games that crap up Steam and The Nintendo eShop.
There’s not really anything more I can say about Village Supermarket Simulator other than stop buying them… but maybe nobody does. Maybe that’s why developers have to get creative in reskinning, to make it seem like you’re not buying the same exact game over and over again. Like Hentai Shop Simulator, where you sell hentai to anime girls. But yes, you can tell it has the same base as all the rest. Village Supermarket Simulator gets a Garbage with a 1 score.
Overview: Village Supermarket Simulator is yet another reskin of Supermarket Simulator, just with a rustic feel! Same crappy game!
Verdict: Garbage
Score: 1
| Release Date | 9/18/23 |
| Cost | $9.99 |
| Publisher | MaximGames |
| ESRB Rating | E |
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