Refund Tycoon

Each round you set a sell price and a restock count for four products, then open the store and watch a wave of customers buy. The catch: shoppers with buyer's remorse return items for a full refund, and you only profit on units that stay sold. Refunds cost restocking fees and bruise your reputation.

• Set price and restock for four products each round
• Only kept units count toward profit, not gross sales
• Refunds drain fees and lower your reputation
• Reputation feeds future demand, so overpricing quietly backfires

• Desktop: click the plus and minus buttons to set price and restock, then click Open store
• Phone & tablet: tap the same on-screen controls

• Daily: one shared seeded run
• Practice: a fresh random run; fifteen rounds per game

• Price for keepers, since gouging just inflates refunds and trashes reputation
• Protect reputation early, because demand compounds round over round
• Match restock to realistic kept demand to avoid dead inventory and fees

The genre is the business simulation: set prices, restock, open the doors, watch demand arrive.

The original subject is the part those games leave out — product returns. Shoppers with buyer's remorse bring items back for a full refund, and you only profit on units that stay sold.

That changes what a good price is. A tycoon game rewards charging as much as demand will bear; once refunds carry restocking fees and reputation damage, the profitable price is lower than the one that maximises the sale — which is the actual economics of retail rather than its arcade version.

Refund Tycoon is an original free browser business simulation built around the economics of returns, rewarding fair pricing over short-term greed. Play instantly, no sign-up.

A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.