Discounty

This game is really cute and I'm looking forward to getting further into it. I am having a little issue with a resolution-related bug, but I'm sure they're fixing things as quickly as they can. I would be lying if I said I didn't decide to review the game partly to mock the whiny loser further down in the reviews who complained about "woke" stuff in the game. Inclusivity is a good thing! I hope everyone who buys it loves it, I hope the devs have great success, and I hope that dude eventually wakes up to discover he's no longer afraid of people different from himself.

I usually never leave reviews but I was so disappointed and frustrated by the end, I will leave one anyway. The game feels unfinished. I played it from beginning to end. While it starts very strongly, the end will hit you from nowhere at all. SPOILERS AHEAD - None of the rundown buildings ever get renovated. You get kinda hyped in the beginning that you open a shop in a run down town where nobody wants to live in anymore. But you literally do nothing to improve that. Even with the increased tax revenue that your shop is generating, the place remains a shit hole. Hopes of reopening the cursed shop? Never happens. Hopes someone new will move into the abandoned house? Also never happens. Hopes a second factory will reopen in the forest? Also nothing. Hopes of renovating and finally accessing the house next to your shop? Nothing. Making the mines accessible? Well, also never happens. The game basically hints towards so many upgrades but in the end, none of that follows. - Own house not u...

I wanna recommend this game so badly! I love the artstyle and the idea of running your own little shop. The trade deals and such are kinda fun. It has so much potential but falls short. At 13 hours I have finished the main story, gotten every item you can unlock to sell. I can keep playing but for what purpose? You never get your own home, you do not get further character customization and the social aspect is limited. Also you are mostly everyone elses puppet instead of your own boss. For the prize even at the 20% off initial release price it does not feel worth it. Especially as it's supposed to be a full-game release.

I initially thought this would be an open-ended management game but in actuality the game begins and ends with its story. Total playtime is 12-15 hours after which there's no point in continuing to play. The game starts off interesting enough with its unique story and take on managing a store in a run down town. There are less NPCs than I expected and you'll see the same ones enter your store over and over again. These NPCs each have their own shallow backstory that connects them to the town's lore. However, the amount of unique dialogue was lacking and meant that there was really no point in talking to them except when a quest forced me to. There's no point in buying any of the limited decoration options because your "house" is extremely tiny as is your store. The final upgraded store being so small meant that I was just barely able to fit each product and left little room for creative layouts. There are no character customization items to buy. There are only 3 chapters in the g...

As the game currently stands, I can't recommend it for a few pretty major reasons. 1) The game was released as a full game, which I think has been a mistake. It would have much better suited to being labelled as Early Access as it doesn't feel complete in any which way. There's a bunch of buildings around the town and in the outskirts that feel like they should have either been used for upgrading the store or had a story quest tied to them but this never comes to fruition. 2) Quests feel decently shallow and highlight that you as the player don't really have any stakes in any of it. You're a pawn, and that is a good idea in of itself but it makes it feel meaningless in a way? You help Fisher get his licence back, and he talks about the Auction house and purchasing it, but all you get is seaweed? It would have been a great moment to see the town develop. 3) A big part of the game is about the town not wanting a supermarket in their town, but it doesn't seem like there was a grocery sto...

I was really looking forward to this game and honestly, went back and forth on whether or not I would recommend this game to others because it's right on the line. The deciding factor for me is honestly that I played another shop management game (Tiny Bookshop) earlier this week and I felt so much more happy and absorbed playing that and honestly I've seen other games like Kynseed and GoGo Town whose main objective is not to run a shop handle shop management in an arguably more fun way where you have more to do. I think this game is probably still worth buying on a good sale or if you really love management games, but it's not a game I envision myself coming back to and restarting save files or that would keep my interest long term. Positives: + The world is very beautiful and unique. A lot of pixel games set in a small town feel like they're just trying to be Stardew another time. This game feels like it's characters and world are designed in their own zany way with fun dialogue a...

Looks promising but runs very poorly on Steam Deck — in town fps drops down to 12. And the only setting is resolution.

I played Discounty from start to finish and I really want to love this game, however it feels like everything falls short, it feels more like an Early Access title then a full release. The game just feels under developed and unfinished honestly. Maybe I missed something, but for example there are many run down buildings that feel like they should have some quests attached to them but we seem to never actually do anything with them. For quests their is the Discounty Rewards System and a few vendor quests, and a handful of main quests that link them together into a fairly linear storyline. In addition the customization is extremely limited and not just for character creation, but the "house," shop, and random decorations and displays. The pixel is quite lovely, and the gameplay loop is very addicting early on until the cracks start to show. Overall the game feels overpriced for what it ultimately delivers. As other have mention other cozy games deliver more bang for your buck, for exampl...

This game has SO much potential, but unfortunately it fell flat. For the first 5 hours it's pretty fun, but after that you realize that the game is completely unfinished and boring. It's so obvious that there is a ton of content that was left out- whether they release it as free content updates or paid DLCs, it doesn't matter because this game should have been released as Early Access. I never would have paid full price for this game had I known it was this unfinished, in hindsight I would pay less than $10. Some smaller things that didn't matter that much to me, but might to you: there are a lot of typos in the dialogue and the story dialogues are completely desynced from the story.

Game is extremely short, at 10ish hours, and not only that, had barely anything to work towards or upgrade besides the store. There's no point in playing after the end of the game, which was abrupt and left a lot of plot points unsolved, character story unplumbed, and basically nothing is resolved except the game arbitrarily declaring it to be the end. None of the story points will ever be resolved in the game, and none of the characters' woes are even marginally advanced upon. Some characters in fact, just seem to... Outright give up due to the story, and become some kind of Shane-like husk talking about the loss of their hopes and dreams? I know satire do be satire, but it's like the game declare itself to have ended on a victory while every character you encounter, and the trajectory of your store itself... Simply stops.