Who of us have dreamed of opening our own gaming store?

Well, these dreams are slightly closer to becoming a reality with Tabletop Game Shop Simulator. Move aside, Goat Simulator. There’s a new boy in town!

Introduction

Firstly, a massive thank you as always to Games Planet for providing us a review copy of the game!

Tabletop Game Shop Simulator is being released (or was of you’re reading this in the future) on the 12th November 2025. You can grab your own copy using the codes below through our affiliate link (we do earn a small commission from this).

Playthrough

I think this is supposed to be somewhere in New York, a perfect spot for our new store: James Workshop!

It’s not much right now, but soon, we’ll be running a vast miniatures empire and have no need to give credit to those who help us along the way.

I’ve got to order my first stock. But there’s not too much to order yet.

You get to order from the stockist, and it all arrives instantly outside.

The cretinous delivery driver just leaves your boxes on the street. Luckily, everybody in this weird alternate version of New York is completely honest, and nothing ever gets knicked! And the delivery driver didn’t damage a single one.

Apart from this fellow. He was a bit shifty. Just stood there while I walked in and out with my boxes.

I priced up the stock at 10% less than RRP just to get those smelly feet through the door.

Shelves stocked, but god knows what I do with the boxes. I tried building a fort in the corner where I could hide from customers if they wanted to show me pictures of their painted models… or talk to me about Tau.

Need more boxes for that though.

You can just open the stock yourself and collect the miniatures. Each box gives you a few pieces for lots of minis. So you’ll need to open a few before you have even one mini ready. Of course, that eats into your profit….

I called this lady Janice. While the lady on the right seems to be buying minis instead of much needed clothes….

Yeah, you got to actually click on the money to give the correct change. There’s a card reader too. You have to type in the amount. Unfortunately, you can’t ‘accidentally’ overcharge…

I reached level 2 after a few transactions, which opened up a storeroom!

It has a bin! No more cardboard fort!

You also get a computer which you can use to expand your shop and eventually hire staff to help run the store.

A mop and bucket too. Just in time as well, as these customers are proper gross.

I don’t want to know what the streak on the floor is from.

When you shake and vac, you bring the freshness back…. (one for the older generation there).

So night comes around, and James Workshop shuts at 8pm. It’s time to order some more stock for the next day.

I really need to have a word with that delivery driver. I’m assuming I must be using Evri by the state of the street…

A new poster and the shelves are restocked.

A loss of $3k on the first day? Not bad, I’ll be out of business in no time.

Day 2 and I seem to have a few regulars coming back daily. I’m assuming this gentle woman must be spending all her money minis rather than surviving in the world. I’ve named her Janine.

This lady is Eunice. She brought some paint sets, and I must tell her next time not to use them as lipstick replacement.

This is Brad. He used to be a big-time surfer dude but had a run-in with a shark. He now spends his time giving me money.

So, after pilfering my own stock, I’ve finally collected enough bits to build my first mini.

I can paint it as well at the newly installed painting station in the store.

Yeah, beautiful…. apparently, that paont job added $3 to its value. Eye of the beholder and everything I suppose.

Brad stuck around today as well. He really does miss his surfing. He’s in the process of painting up an Idoneth army. No sharks though apparently.

Some guys decided to use my new gaming table, too. I can only assume they were together, and he was splitting up with her as she had her head in her hands at one point while he was gesticulating wildly at the ceiling.

Thoughts

It’s an interesting “game”, the early days of your store are spent in monotony of selling at the till, cleaning, and restocking. The fun stuff of painting and playing games doesn’t happen until a few days later. You can also increase the size of your store and run events. All in all, if you want a virtual job, it’s great. But you could always earn real life money while doing this:

https://jobs.games-workshop.com/

It’s  a fun little game for those who like management sims and enjoy wargming. But it’ll  soon lose its charm.

I give it 3 Woehammers