AL･FINE

It's like Recettear, but with (even more) waifus. Edit: WAIT A MINUTE THIS GAME IS A CRAPPY PORT THOUGH: - No configuration screen: No muting the repetitive music. - No Full screen mode: Enjoy squinting at your 800x600 box - Occasional texture fart: sometimes the background, walls, floor etc will be pitch black until you restart the game. I know some of you hate these kind of half-baked ports, so you are hereby warned.

Only recommended if you've already played Recettear and desperately want another shopkeeping game. If you haven't played Recettear, it's a superior experience for just $5 more. Al Fine involves too much clicking and not enough thinking. The market you buy your items from has infinite stock and their prices rarely change. Exploring dungeons consists of selecting an adventurer and waiting 3 days for the game to tell you whether he succeeded or failed. And selling your items basically consists of setting the same items out at default price 98% of the time and occasionally clicking their shelves to restock them. The biggest change of strategy is during one of the 4 Commerce Battles in the game, where the easiest way to make a bigger income (not profit; spend as much money as you like) than your competitor is to sell all the expensive loot you've stored from the dungeons at a 10-20% discount. It feels like they cut a lot of corners with this game: it only gives you information on the buyi...

Al Fine is a shop management game similar to Racettear, but is unfortunately inferior to in every way. Many mechanics are similar: - Each day is broken up into 3 time segments: morning, day and night. You can spend this time either opening shop, or choosing to visit one of the town's locations. - Locations are exactly same as Racettear - town center, market, pub, adventure and merchant guilds. Access to each location are restricted by the time segment of the day (ie pub on accessible at night). - You obtain goods to sell by either buying from market, or obtaining through dungeons. Unlike Racettear, there is no combat or RPG element. You just hire the adventurer and send them off. They'll return 3 days later and bring back loot. - You can upgrade and redesign your shop to change the mood and type of customers that visit shop. - Every 10 days you have to pay a fee to keep the store open. The differences - Weather and seasons. These affect the number of customers but in reality t...

I can't recommend the game at this time (Unless you're a die hard waifu lover.) I understand that this game has only been out for less than a day, but there's just too many things the devs left behind. User is unable to configure options, you're stuck in window mode (In my case, I either have to play a feet away from the screen, or squint my eyes until I resemble Brock), and the cursor in-game takes awhile to get used to. The worst part of the game for me is that player is unable to skip the tutorial in the beginning. For a game very similar to Recettear, if not a remake, I'd have thought the devs would let the players be able to skip something they already know in the least. Pretty much spent the first half hour just reading what I already knew. To close out, the game is just missing the very basic features that would otherwise make me keep the game. Until then, I would keep that $15 for now, if I were you.

If you enjoy Recettear, you'll probably enjoy this. It's cute, funny, and has some mechanics (food spoiling, for e.g) that give it an interesting take that make it different enough from Recettear. I'm only 2 hours in, and I can see myself playing this a lot.

Mediocre. No real dungeon exploration mechanics. Like Recettear except uniformly worse in every respect, whether by gameplay, graphics, or repetitive, unpleasant music. No fullscreen option. If you love this sort of game, you will like it. If you only like this sort of game when it's done well, you won't.

It's like Recettear without dungeon crawler We need fullscreen setting or atleast can change the window size

tl;dr - I can't recommend this game at it's current price for the content it provides. It's like a more technical and casual form of Recettear. I would recommend trying Recettear first before trying this one out. The story is very similar to Recettear as well, both Main Characters start up their family shops to pay off a debt. It's still a fun little tycoon game. I would recommend getting the game when it's on sale and when the vram error issue is fixed, because it can ruin many in-game days of progress in an instant if you haven't saved before it just randomly happens. The vram error issue becomes more frequent the more I had progressed into the game making it almost unplayable. I played the game on Hard for a challenge and it wasn't an impossible task to get to day 99, except as for my first time there was no way in hell I was going to beat Ornate Brand with the RNG like buyers. I could be bad at the game and there is probably a how to guide, or not. Edit: 12/12/2016 The game is ...

Video Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f81rLNZ1rCk In Summary: I really enjoyed the art and characters but sadly the gameplay isn't as deep as Recettear. I had fun with this but I do wonder if that was because I really wanted another shopkeeping game. The lack of graphical and sound options is big issue, particularly the sound as it is INCREDIBLY loud. I'm pretty lukewarm about this one but I'll give it a recommend because I didn't hate it.. However, I'd say only give this a shot if it's cheap or if you badly want a game like this.

Game full of Bug Game crash in tutorial no way to play it No Fullscreen option and realy limited option.... 15$ for that ? are you serious? Don't even consider buying it total rip off......