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Another Brick in The Mall
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Awesome Shopping Mall Organism. Organism? Yes! Once you take your first steps and the staff and customers run around your mall, it feels like a living organism. You can create many different shops, restaurants, cinemas etc etc.…”
— a player, Steam review · 30 hrs played“I'm not a hardcore sim/management lover, but this game scratches all the itches beautifully. It stays well balanced and the endgame goals are massive enough to satisfy the hungriest players while the game itself remains accessible. Good job, devs!”
— a player, Steam review · 46 hrs played“At first, this game seems like a fun management sim, but it gets old fast. It's too easy to turn profit so the puzzle aspect is limited, and it doesn't have that many options for refinement or decoration so you cant even really use it as a sandbox strip mall game. If you're…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 00:20 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Update 1.2 released
After shelving a bunch of prototypes and one quite advanced project over the past few years, we're working on a new game that shows promise but is not yet ready for an announcement, let alone a steam
Help Beta Test Update 1.2
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Update 1.1.2 released & Workshop showcase
Here is a post-release update with extended modding limits, a much needed independent handling of floor tiles build orders, improvements to ultrawide mode and a bunch of bug fixes. Scroll down for a W
Original Soundtrack Release
The original soundtrack for Another Brick in The Mall by David Gonzalez is now available on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1379440/Another_Brick_in_The_Mall_Soundtrack/ A great opportunity
Version 1.0 Release
First things first: a huge THANK YOU to all our early adopters, especially if you submitted feedback, suggestions and bug reports, your support and help have been invaluable and we couldn't have made
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Management · Simulation · Building · Strategy · Economy · Indie · Base-Building · City Builder · Sandbox · 2D · Singleplayer · Capitalism (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Workshop · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Turkish, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Italian, Ukrainian |
| Achievements | 53 |
| Estimated owners | 200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://anotherbrickinthemall.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 SP1/8.1/10 Processor: 4 threads capable CPU (Core i3 or equivalent) @ 2.2GHz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GT 640, GT 750M or equivalent with 2GB memory DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 300 MB available space Additional Notes: 1280x720 display.