Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale
Hey hey, people.
I was not expecting a Sseth review on this. Welcome, Argentinians!
I’ve played it for a long time.
This is intended to be a spoiler free review.
Let me lay down some stuff, you will be able to tell if you’ll like it or not.
Your first playthrough is going to take a while and it will be fun. You’ll figure out the mechanics, make mistakes, reload some saves, make some profit, then eventually come out on top. Everything feels great, the ending is wonderful, it’s a complete experience all its own.
– Real player with 103.8 hrs in game
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Finally a game where I can live out my fantasies of becoming a merchant who crushes hearts and dreams under the weight of his fat profit margin. Y’all can keep your Poorly-Lit Life Forces 2 or whatever the f♥ck it’s called, Recettear blows that all out of the water.
Ok first of all you play as a loli. Don’t be deceived–beneath her cute, naive exterior lies a heart as black as coal and a mind as shrewd and cunning as they come. This little sh♥t will bleed you for all you’re worth with mark-ups that would make Best Buy blush. And she will love every minute of it as she watches you carry your broke ♥ss out the door with a ham sandwich. Thank you and come again mother f♥cker.
– Real player with 26.3 hrs in game
The Van of Justice
The van of justice is an action, casual simulation game with a lot of physical objects. Experience systematic ragdoll systems, thrown and broken objects, which are not obvious to be found in other games.
“You get revenge, I build results.”
Police J comes to Kim, a student who was bullied at Turner High School in San Francisco, USA in 2005. J offers to give pocket money according to the value of the student’s arrest if he punishes and arrests the students who bullied Kim. Kim, who was bullied by all students, accepted the offer, and now Tooner High School has only to be avenged.
The way to realize justice
All students at Tooner High School are bullying Kim. Punish by throwing weapons or physical objects. Revenge if you make eye contact while walking around the hallway. Punish even if the breathing sound is loud. Even if you’re ugly, punish them. Punish both the teachers and the principal. If you take them to J’s police van, J will pay an additional corresponding price. You don’t have to feel guilty. Everyone is bullying Kim, and you are just realizing justice. If you lost interest in repeated punishment, it’s not a bad idea to carry out additional quests provided by J. If enough money has been collected, the ultimate goal is to purchase nuclear weapons parts through Kim’s home PC, expel all personnel in the school, and blast and demolish buildings.
Slave of capital, student leaders
The counselors (LMCD), as known as student leaders, will punish you when you do something wrong. Openworld games always has this kind of group. However, protection on students is not their jurisdiction. they only work for teachers and themselves.
Is this a school or a subway entrance to hell?
There are many unique friends in this school. Kim is also a very unique case right now. Coco Brothers, who throw up bombs when they’re nervous, Jay and Jenny, a nuisance couple who always stick together at schools where dating is prohibited. Right, There are also a psychopath dancer rabbit Bunny and a 500kg giant Terence who destroys everything and everyone on his way.
Read More: Best Capitalism Action Games.
Too Many Santas!
A Christmas wish come true, or a holiday nightmare?
You don’t know what’s worse: your love life or your toy store’s sales reports. Desperate for some yuletide loving (and some new customers!), you make a wish on a Christmas Star.
That’s when your store is visited by not one, not two, but SIX Santa Clauses. It’s simply TOO MANY SANTAS! Can you watch all of them and run the store at the same time? Or will you be caught up in the sweet Santa romance?
Too Many Santas! The short visual novel where YOU get to date Santa Claus! And Santa Claus, and Santa Claus, and Santa Claus…
Sexy Santa. The best-looking Santa of the bunch has a great body, along with some killer dance moves. He tends to get overly flirty with the customers, though. You’ll have to keep a close eye on him!
Saintly Santa. With his Bible and Baby Jesus stockings, Saintly Santa wants the holidays to be HOLY days! He’s having a bit of an identity crisis in his new surroundings. Is he the answer to your prayers?
Sleepy Santa. This Santa is pretty tired, but who cares? His beard is AMAZING! You could watch it all day long. If he needs a nap that badly, he can be YOUR cuddle buddy…
Sassy Santa. Hey, who let this guy in here? Sassy Santa is always ready to dish out insults and put-downs to everyone who comes by. Can you rein in his sharp tongue, before he scares away all your customers?
Sad Santa. Poor Santa is sad, and you’re determined to figure out why. Everyone should be happy at Christmas! Maybe your love will be enough to cure Santa of the holiday blues?
Secret Santa. Part spy, part jolly old elf, Secret Santa is all business. He’s extremely busy on an important mission, but he refuses to tell you what it is. Will you be the one to crack his secrets?
Key Features
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Six Santa Clauses to date, with 12 naughty and nice endings to unlock!
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A customizable main character—choose any name and any pronouns you want!
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Over 250 original photographs, bringing the characters and scenery to life
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Lots and lots of Christmas music! Too much Christmas music!
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A 23,000-word script—so it won’t take a whole holiday season to beat
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From the creators of Cat President , The Pizza Delivery Boy Who Saved the World , and other fine weird visual novels.
With tons of laughter and love, Too Many Santas is a visual novel you can enjoy all year round!
Read More: Best Capitalism Romance Games.
Lazy Sweet Tycoon
I enjoy a lot of clicker games, and I did enjoy this one as well at first, but the game has a few achievements that are way too grindy to keep enjoying the game. After completing all the other achievements I have the following achievements left:
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clicking 100k energized trees left (I only got around 10k while getting the other achievements with active play)
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Start/complete 100 jobs, most of them take 1 to 2h in real life which means you have to log in every 1/2h to start a new job if you want to get through this one as fast as possible.
– Real player with 99.5 hrs in game
Really fun game, it is not as indepth as other clickers but I like the chill environment and themes
Cross play is cool as well, I was a fan of the mobile game so I liked being able to bring my progress over
Runs pretty well on my computer too :)
– Real player with 41.1 hrs in game
Chimpology
Chimpology is a retro pixel button mashing game where you must hit the keys corresponding to “1” and “0” in sequence. Get the numbers right and you can progress. Enough mistakes and you lose. For some reason they decided that despite having “0” and “1” keys on your keyboard, they should be “z” and “m” because apparently these guys never saw a keyboard before.
There’s no other gameplay to speak of here. Graphics are ugly. The developers seem to have put more effort into explaining why their terrible game works the way it does (chimpanzees or something) than actually developing a game people might enjoy. Totally not worth $3.
– Real player with 43.6 hrs in game
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– Real player with 5.0 hrs in game
Capital Island
Simple but good trading game.
If you’re not looking for a ‘cozy’ trading game, though, definitively go with ‘Challenge’ mode. Being able to visit shops multiple times (in ‘normal’ mode) means you eventually end up able to sell basically any excess resources you’ve got, which kinda takes the ‘trading’ out of this game. Just becomes logistics. Don’t get me wrong, I still had fun, but I like ‘cozy’ games sometimes. Probably pretty easy with Challenge on too.
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game
This game takes a bit to get into and requires some patience to continue. There’s a lot of repetitive actions but after about 30 minutes of playing you’ll notice the game advancing.
I’m sure this game is deeper than what I’ve initially seen so I will go back and continue to play.
The music is amazing, so peaceful and calm with an island flair. I can tell the dev worked really hard on this game.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Moonlight In Garland
Moonlight in Garland is a cozy, open-ended, life-sim that sees you making a life in the bustling metropolis of Garland. Find an apartment and make it perfectly yours, befriend your neighbours, grow your garden, solve community problems and experience all the weirdly wonderful stuff that city living offers.
Of course, city life isn’t all farmers markets and fancy coffee. Will you step in to stop the heritage building from being torn down and preserve a piece of history? Build a sense of community so more residents will stick around? Figure out which Jerk is stealing packages from the mail room? Be swept up in a whirlwind romance along the way?
Find your feet, make a positive impact and live your best life in Garland!
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Move in! - Each apartment has unique challenges and community projects. (1/4 buildings currently available)
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Explore the city! - Complete 6 mini welcome quests over 5 suburbs.
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Daily tasks - Run errands, recycle trash and clean up graffiti.
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Find friends or romance - 22 NPCs with 2 full friendship levels of dialogue.
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Friendship events - Deepen your relationships with narrative cutscenes and mini quests. (2 currently available)
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Building Upgrades - Cedar Court Lobby upgrade currently available.
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Gardening - Get your green thumb ready!
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Animal Photos - Take photos of local wildlife for your diary, that seagull is just walking around like he owns the place.
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Manage your time and energy - Keep an eye on your physical and mental energy to make sure you can hit your goals.
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Character customization - Be yourself or someone else!
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Also… - Shop, clean up the city, and lots more.
And coming soon… Part time jobs, mini games, marriage, crafting, calendar events, more apartment and garden upgrades, mysteries, and more!
A solo dev project by Violet.
Business Heroes: Food Truck Simulation
The Birth:
Every day while sipping his favourite Earl Grey tea, Master Lee reflects on his inability to find a true Business Hero to succeed him. The wealthiest entrepreneur alive knows only too well the cost of making a wrong choice. Refusing defeat, Master Lee decided to create the ultimate tool to reach every corner of the world. A Business Simulation challenge based on his very first business. And so, Business Heroes: Food Truck Simulation was born.
Gameplay:
Prepare to make your fortunes in any capital city of your choice. Armed with some cash and a humble burger bike, begin your journey to become the richest burger business entrepreneur in the city.
The city is packed full of several groups of people, all with different tastes, eating habits, and earning power. You’re going to have to figure out the best recipes for each of them.
Start your business with a small burger bike stand and upgrade to more exotic stands as you become more profitable.
The City has 7 locations with a different population mix and cost of doing business. To sell more burgers, you’d have to adapt your strategy to fit the population in each location.
You’d also have to deal with weather conditions like snow and rainfall which affect the population size and their willingness to buy burgers.
To be successful, you must
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Hook diverse customers with their perfect burger recipe
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Offer burgers and drinks at prices customers can’t resist
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Invest in equipment and upgrades to serve customers better
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Snatch customers from the competition with timely marketing
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Keep your employees smiling with bonuses and training that improves their skills
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Respond quickly to weather changes and unexpected events
In this business simulation, you take all the business decisions at night and watch the result of your choices unfold during the day.
Features:
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Experience fun but challenging game play inspired by real-world business and marketing strategy
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Enjoy unique business experiences growing your enterprise in the capital cities of Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Indonesia, Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Korea, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, and the USA.
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Trade in the actual currency of the City you are playing in and enjoy realistic price simulation
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Upgrade and Expand your business to 7 Localities (Street Corner, Noisy Playground, Park Central, Big Station, Glamor and Hip Street, National Landmark, and The Finance Hub) within the City
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Target customers you think would be more profitable with a market segmentation strategy
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Experience weather simulation consistent with the actual weather conditions of the City you choose to play in.
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Face and overcome simulated economic conditions that will test your business acumen.
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Play against friends and family in the multiplayer/1v1 matchmaking mode.
Golden Retriever
All That Glitters is Gold!
In this mining platformer, traverse your underground mine shafts to retrieve gold! Team up or compete against your friends or go solo into the mines and extract as much gold as you can. Setup your operation and reinvest your earnings into better gear and equipment. This line of work not only separates the gold from the dirt, but the pups from the dogs. With danger lurking in the ancient grounds, hungry Dinos awaken, searching for prey and loot. The wise miner doesn’t fear the Dino but sees it’s flesh and bones as a potential fuel source for their operations. Gold mining is a treasure hunt, so open your miner’s map, test some dirt, and find that stash of gold!
Mine to Save the Town from Fat Cat
Each unique map has new environmental hazards like forest fires, earthquakes, lava and new machines like helicopters and excavators! Every speck of gold you collect gets you closer to prevent Fat Cat from building his Cat-sino next door and paving over the town!
Beware of Dinos
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Dinos cause cave-ins when they get grumpy and stomp their feet
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Dinos eat all of the gold out of your bags of dirt.
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Dinos steal gold coins when they bite you!
Winkeltje: The Little Shop
This is a great little shop management game!
I look forward to seeing how it develops over its time in Early Access.
Things done great:
- The villager AI is spot on! I haven’t had anyone get stuck in my store. I also like how the expectations of the customers seems to align with the items your store offers over time. I was worried when I moved away from produce toward a tailor that customers would’t get the picture, but after a couple of days they stopped hounding me for apples!
– Real player with 111.5 hrs in game
This game is a gem, plain and simple. It’s made for a very narrow spectrum of gamers though, you’ll probably know if it’s for you by just looking at the screenshots and reading the description, but I encourage everyone who is even a little intrigued or who enjoys relaxing sandbox style games to give this game a shot. Everything you see and read about it is what you’ll get when you buy this game. Nothing more, nothing less. If you bought this game and don’t like it, it’s because you didn’t pay attention or had unfounded and unrealistic expectations.
– Real player with 85.0 hrs in game