2026 · Shop Keeper · Management · Immersive Sim
How long isRoadside Research?
by Cybernetic Walrus
5 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 3 hours and 9 hours
A weekend's worth: half its reviewers had played 5 hours or less.
53% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
90% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
92% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
93% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
93% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
Does Roadside Research hold up?
Holds steady
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 5 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 3 hours and 9 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 4,950 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It holds steady: between 90% and 93% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.
When would you get there?
5days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 5 hours on Thursday, November 19.
Half of its reviewers had played between 3 and 9 hours: Nov 17 to Nov 23 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Where can I play Roadside Research today?
On Xbox Series and PC
Its own release still plays there: no collection or remaster needed.
- todayXbox Series2026
- todayPC2026
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Roadside Research came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like Roadside Research?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Roadside Research, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Roadside Research would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
@cicliy holds this page
- 1st
@cicliy9.3 h - 2nd
@foxworks9.2 h - 3rd
@froggythings3.9 h - 4th
@squirt2.3 h - 5th
@artorian2.1 h - 6th
@definecoffee54 min
Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
What did people here do with Roadside Research?
1 in 726
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.
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Roadside Research, but twice the hours, and even better loved
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Roadside Research, but a job sim, and three times the hours
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Roadside Research, but co-op, and twice the hours
Loved · 91%Games like Grocery Store Simulator
How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Roadside Research: a kind of game it is that Roadside Research is not, a feature its tags carry that Roadside Research's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.