About the Game
Retail Rivals is a competitive multiplayer management game set in a lively shopping mall. Open multiple stores, expand your business empire, and outplay rival shops. Play solo or with up to 8 players cooperatively or competitively.
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🛍️ BUILD YOUR RETAIL EMPIRE
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Open multiple stores across the mall and grow your business step by step. Optimize your products, attract more customers, and expand faster than your competition.
• Own and manage multiple shops
• Attract customers and increase profits
• Expand across the mall
• Make strategic business decisions
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💥 SABOTAGE YOUR RIVALS
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Competition never sleeps. Use different tactics to disrupt other players and gain the upper hand.
• Disrupt rival stores
• Put pressure on competitors
• Create chaos in the mall
• Play strategically or aggressively
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🎯 MULTIPLE GAME GOALS
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Customize each match to fit your playstyle.
• Play until a specific day
• Highest profit wins
• Most shops owned wins
• Custom objective-based matches
• Endless mode with no set goal
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👥 SOLO OR MULTIPLAYER
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• Play solo
• Up to 8 players
• Co-op or free-for-all
• Team-based matches
• High replayability
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Plan smart, expand fast, and decide whether to play fair or sabotage your rivals.
Can you dominate the shopping mall and become the ultimate Retail Rival?
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
❤️ Thank you for all your bug reports and feedback!
This hotfix addresses many of the issues and smaller annoyances you've reported after the recent updates.
We've made further improvements to bots, UI, checkouts, vending machines, cosmetics, building and placement systems, and the new map.
🤖 Bots Significantly Improved
Bots have received a major overhaul with this hotfix.
Their behavior has been improved and adjusted in several areas, allowing them to react more reliably to different situations and perform their tasks more effectively.
💡 More Tips & Better Information
We've heard your feedback that some problems inside your store weren't always explained clearly enough.
That's why we've added many more helpful tips and notifications.
For example:
🛒 If a checkout is constantly overloaded, you'll now receive a suggestion that you may need more checkouts or better employees.
👨💼 If you're operating a checkout yourself, you will no longer incorrectly receive a warning saying that you need a cashier.
ℹ️ Many other situations now provide clearer information about what isn't working optimally and how you can improve it.
🥤 Vending Machines – Dedicated Storage Shelves!
A highly requested feature for Vending Machines is finally here:
📦 Vending Machines now have their own dedicated storage shelves!
You've requested this feature many times, and we've now added it with this hotfix.
We've also made several additional improvements:
💵 Money from Vending Machines can now be collected more easily.
🏷️ Unnecessary labels are removed when you place products into a Vending Machine yourself.
🔧 Several other smaller Vending Machine issues have been fixed and adjusted.
🗺️ New Map Improvements
The new map has received another round of polish:
🚪 Several doors have been enlarged and adjusted.
🏪 Multiple shop building zones have been corrected.
🧱 Floor areas have been improved in several locations.
🎨 Wall and floor colors in one of the stores have been adjusted.
➡️ Placement arrows have been corrected so their direction better matches the corresponding objects.
🔧 Additional smaller issues and details across the map have been improved.
🏗️ Building & Placement Improvements
The placement of various objects has also been further optimized:
🎯 The pivots for the Shooting Range and Changing Rooms have been improved.
🛍️ The pivots of several displays have been adjusted.
📦 Storage shelf interactions have been improved so you don't accidentally target a box instead of the intended interaction icon.
💰 Price adjustment options have been removed from storage shelves.
➡️ The orientation of several placement arrows has been corrected.
💰 Checkout & Payment Improvements
The checkout system has received several fixes and improvements:
🛒 Various checkout issues have been fixed.
🪙 Paying with small change is no longer blocked by the checkout camera.
👨💼 If you're operating a checkout yourself, you will no longer receive an incorrect warning about needing a cashier.
ℹ️ Overloaded checkouts now provide more useful suggestions, such as whether additional checkouts or better employees could help.
🎨 Cosmetics & Skins Improved
We've also continued improving the Cosmetic system:
🖼️ Fixed an incorrect preview image for one Cosmetic Skin.
🎁 Cosmetic Crate opening animations now play more reliably.
👕 Fixed an issue where some players couldn't see the Skin Preview.
👓 Glasses cosmetics have been improved.
🏠 Fixed a hover issue in the Skin section of the Main Menu.
🐶 Dog Improvements
Our dogs received some fixes as well. 🐕
💧 Dogs should no longer stack inside each other while drinking.
🐕 Fixed an issue where dogs could sometimes float in the air.
🎥 Free Cam Fix
We've fixed an issue with the Free Cam.
When using the Free Cam during an active game, your own character will no longer move at the same time.
🖥️ UI & Quality of Life
We've also addressed many smaller UI issues and things that could become annoying over time:
📜 Scrollbars now correctly start at the top instead of sometimes appearing halfway down a list.
🚔 Text in the Prison UI has been enlarged.
🔄 Fixed an issue where text in the Prison UI could appear rotated incorrectly.
💸 Overlapping elements in the bidding UI have been fixed.
🏠 Hover issues in the Main Menu have been resolved.
🎨 Several other smaller UI display issues have been corrected.
🌍 Translation Improvements
Several translations have been reviewed and adjusted again.
Incorrect, unclear, or poorly translated text has been improved to make the different language versions clearer and more consistent.
🔧 More Fixes & Improvements
We've also fixed many smaller issues throughout the game and continued optimizing existing systems.
Many of these changes come directly from your bug reports and feedback. ❤️
We're continuing to read your reports and want to address both bugs and smaller quality-of-life requests as quickly as possible.
Thank you for your support, and have fun with the hotfix! ❤️
🔧 Hotfix – New Team Colors, Better Vending Machines & Performance!
Thank you for your continued feedback! ❤️ We’ve released another hotfix with several improvements and fixes for Retail Rivals.
🎨 New Team Colors
Added new team colors to make it easier to distinguish between teams.
👷 Employee Improvements
Employees now display the correct icon in the task list for their current activity.
🥤 Vending Machine Improvements
Vending Machine sales now award Progress Points again, allowing them to level up properly.
Products are visible again in Protein and Snack Vending Machines.
Product sizes have been adjusted to better fit the machines.
Outdated product displays on shelves, storage shelves, and vending machines are now reliably removed.
💰 Price Tag Improvements
Change Price and Cancel Reservation now work consistently across all price tags.
👟 Bug Fixes
Brown shoes no longer float above the shoe shelves.
⚡ Performance & Graphics
25 frequently used models now use optimized visuals at greater distances.
LOD transition distances have been adjusted so these optimizations already take effect inside the mall.
Shadow distance has been reduced to 35 meters with two cascades for improved performance.
Shop lighting now uses only one spotlight, which smoothly fades in and out.
❤️ Thank you for all your support and bug reports! We’re continuing to make Retail Rivals more stable, better-looking, and more performant with every update.
Thank you for all your feedback! ❤️ We’ve made another round of improvements and have just released a new hotfix for Retail Rivals.
🗑️ Trash Bags Improved
Trash bags can now be set to unlimited capacity.
This allows you to decide how strict you want the trash system to be in your game.
🎨 New Placement Preview
When storing or taking out items, you now get a colored preview.
This makes it much easier to see where an item will be placed or removed.
🔄 Improved Phase Transitions
Phase changes are now displayed with a new, dedicated icon.
This makes it much clearer when a new phase is about to begin.
🎮 All Game Modes Now Available in the Demo!
The demo has received another major improvement.
You can now choose between all three game modes:
♾️ Endless
🚗 Car Buyer
😈 Saboteur
You can now experience Retail Rivals in whichever game mode you prefer, even in the demo!
🏗️ Building Improvements
Building restriction areas around shop doors have been adjusted more precisely.
Shop doors have been migrated to the new door system.
The coloring of placed furniture has been improved.
Products now reliably keep their original colors.
Certain wall materials are intentionally excluded from coloring.
🏁 Improved End Screen
The end screen has been improved.
Unnecessary menus are now automatically closed when the end screen appears.
The mouse cursor is reliably released for the following vote.
💡 Improved Lighting & Shadows
The mall's lighting and shadows have been further reworked.
This gives the mall a more polished look and adds more depth to the environment.
🛠️ More Improvements
Several smaller issues have also been fixed across:
Scenes
Save Games
Multiplayer
UI
Interactions
👀 What's Coming Next?
We're already working on our next major feature:
🏫 Employee School
The Employee School is coming next!
It will introduce new employee categories and progression options.
👀 Stay tuned – more information is coming very soon!
❤️ Thank you for your continued support and feedback!
We're continuing to actively develop Retail Rivals and can't wait to show you what's coming next!
Thank you all for your amazing feedback and support! ❤️ This hotfix fixes several issues while also introducing a major rebalance to one of the game's core systems.
📋 Changelog
⭐ Popularity System Completely Reworked
The entire Popularity and Customer Distribution System has been rebalanced.
Sabotage now has a much greater impact on gameplay.
Building up popularity is no longer as easy as before.
This makes strategic decisions and sabotage far more rewarding.
Customer distribution between stores has been adjusted accordingly.
🎨 Graffiti Improvements
Graffiti is now saved correctly.
Its popularity impact is now applied reliably.
🛠️ Bug Fixes
The following issues have been fixed:
Fixed various object placement issues.
Fixed problems with product displays.
Fixed lobby-related issues.
Fixed Steam host issues.
Fixed team assignment issues.
🚧 The Next Major Content Update Is Coming Soon!
We're already putting the finishing touches on our next major content update, and it will bring plenty of new content!
🏪 New Store
A brand-new store is coming to expand your mall.
😈 New Game Mode
We're also introducing a completely new game mode with a much stronger focus on sabotage, creating even more competition and chaos between players.
Don't worry if you prefer cooperative gameplay there will still be PvE-focused game modes available, so everyone can enjoy Retail Rivals their own way.
❤️ Thank you once again for your incredible support! We can't wait to share the next major update with you and look forward to hearing your feedback!
Thank you for all your reports and feedback! ❤️ This hotfix focuses on multiplayer stability, performance improvements, balancing, and a variety of bug fixes.
📋 Changelog
🌐 Multiplayer Improvements
Improved Steam multiplayer stability.
Added an emergency reconnect system with a timeout and rate limiting.
Better handling of connection losses and temporary Steam service issues.
⚡ Performance & Network Optimizations
Reduced network traffic by synchronizing customer and employee positions more efficiently.
Optimized synchronization of voting timers.
💰 Gameplay Improvements
Improved pricing balance.
Customers now make smarter checkout decisions by preferring staffed registers and considering reachable queue positions.
Graffiti popularity penalties are now calculated and displayed correctly in the statistics.
Added a new "Loose Change" extra setting:
Enable cent amounts for prices.
Or round all prices to whole dollars.
🚗 Vehicle Improvements
Fixed the purchase marker when buying vehicles.
🛒 Customer Improvements
Customers now behave more naturally in various situations.
Improved overall customer AI.
Fixed an issue where the cash payment amount could overlap once it exceeded $1,000.
👷 Employee Improvements
General employee AI improvements.
🏬 Shop & Save Fixes
Fixed the Play button being blocked when existing save files were present.
Shop unlocks are now synchronized only after save files have been fully restored.
🦹 Thief Improvements
Fixed an issue where thieves could get stuck after transforming.
Added additional diagnostics to improve reliability.
🏗️ Building Improvements
Expanded placement validation to prevent objects from clipping into walls, floors, and ceilings.
Adjusted several shop building zones.
Added an additional storage zone.
🎨 UI Improvements
Updated the UI scaling mode of several player and main menu canvases to Expand.
Improved various UI elements.
🌸 Miscellaneous
Reworked four flower shelves.
Replaced Mesh Colliders with optimized Box Colliders.
Cleaned up display and shelf values.
❤️ Thank you for your continued support and all of your bug reports! Every update helps make Retail Rivals even better.
Retail Rivals – Hotfix 1 & 2
Thank you all for your feedback! These hotfixes focus on fixing reported issues and improving the overall gameplay experience.
🚨 Important Fix
We've significantly improved the issue where some players were unable to click the Ready button. If the problem still occurs, we've added a temporary workaround: you can now use the assigned Ready key on your keyboard. This key can be changed in the Keybindings menu, so everyone should now be able to ready up without any issues.
Changes & Fixes
Employee cards now display the maintenance cost of employees you already own.
You can now press Tab again while a Voting Event is active.
Fixed an issue where the Duck Decoration could not be placed correctly.
Fixed an issue where the Unstuck button would sometimes not work properly.
Players now sit correctly on benches again.
Improved the product count display when ordering products for Vending Machines.
Vending Machines no longer allow multiple product types to be placed in the same slot.
Improved product placement in Vending Machines, making it easier to place products side by side.
All players are now notified whenever something new is unlocked.
Added a tooltip to the Lobby Setup explaining the duration of each game phase.
Improved the events that occur outside the store.
The Voting Event is now much more noticeable.
Fixed a UI issue with the FPS Limit setting.
Added a Mute Microphone option to the Settings menu.
Fixed several German localization issues at the checkout.
Players can no longer pick up boxes or products through walls.
Added a visual indicator showing which product is currently being removed.
Fixed an issue where products could sometimes be removed with the left mouse button.
Fixed an issue where cardboard boxes could become invisible. They never actually disappeared—they were only hidden due to a performance optimization.
Improved chair placement.
Chairs can now be placed in the sales area. Employees will no longer sit on those chairs and will only use chairs placed in the storage area.
Fixed an issue where the janitor would float above chairs instead of sitting on them correctly.
Current Release
Build 24539650
Uploaded Aug 04, 2026
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