Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale

CAPITALISM-HO! "This year harvest is a disaster, people are starving" NEURON ACTIVATION! You will buy food from me at 250% stake or you will DIE from starvation, because I bought all food suplies from market! Make your choice! What do you mean "make it a little cheaper"? Get the f8ck out of my store, you bum, CAPITALISM-HO!!!!! 12/10 will play more. Thank you, Sseth.

15+ years later, and I still haven't found a game that pulls this concept off as well as this. Closest I got might have been Moonlighter, but that game really lacked the same feeling of satisfaction.

This game is mandatory playing for anyone who likes the modern era of cozy games. I remember when this was one of the only cozy-esque games on steam in the early 2010's, and I'm happy to have grown up with it.

I hope this game gets a sequel because I'm quite interested in games like this where we can sell items and go on adventures to get the items we sell.

Recettear's gameplay and story is simple and straightforward but both item shop management and dungeon delving become monotonous after a few hours. I'd recommend as a good palate cleanser if you want to play something short and sweet. What I enjoyed: - Item shop management is easy to grasp and customer interaction is really funny, especially the dialogue when they try to sell you something What I disliked: - I know it would have been a lot of work to do but I really disliked how your chosen adventurer is never acknowledged when you have dialogue in dungeons - Despite being a game about being a merchant, money becomes useless in late game (aside from Survival mode), would have been nice to be able to buy rare ingredients for Fusion - I didn't really bother completing the Item Encyclopedia because item drop chance is atrociously low, unless you're into mindless grinding or are a completionist, and it's not like high Fusion level items are at all useful in clearing the game

A simple, enjoyable game with tons of replay value. Great for some simple skill use while playing something relaxing.

Capitalism, ho!

This game does age very well, shop management and progressing system is better than most of this type of the game I have play. The tutorial of this game also done very well. The only thing that is kinda out dated is combat during dungeon crawler which still make me have a lot fun. For those who doesn't really care about major spoiler. (how game work) [spoiler] This is a type of your family got a lot of dept and you have to pay for it but the game designed to make you fail for the first run (still winnable but very hard, if you are blind playthrough). However, you keep all your progress except money which make second or third run a lot easier than the first. So overall game is pretty chill, if you don't care about failing first run. [/spoiler]

You can never escape the loan-sharks and your debts, even in anime fantasy world...

still the best of its kind almost 20 years after release