Recettear
Recettear is a store management game with some optional 2d action dungeon crawling hacking and slashing thrown in to change the pace. You play a young girl who has been left a shop and a crippling debt to pay off. A fairy who wants to collect the debt teaches you the ways of capitalism. You will spend most of your time in your shop buying and selling various weapons, items, books and food. Most of these you will buy from other customers or from the town's guild and market.
Over time you meet adventurers who you can hire to go into dungeons and collect items for you. The first is a fighter but later you'll meet the rest of the usual rpg hero classes you'd expect such as mage, thief and archer. These adventurers buy things from you during your normal work day but you can loan them extra equipment and give them consumable items to help them stay alive. You cannot carry a huge number of items back from these dungeons and the early ones don't hold very valuable items so it's not that productive in comparison to just buying from the stores. Even worse, if you die, you can only choose 1 item to salvage. Some of the things you find can be combined in recipes to make special items but again it seems more trouble than its worth.
Each week you are given an amount of money you have to pay back or lose your store. While selling items you gain xp and levels which leads to various unlocks such as new items to buy, adding decorations or vending machines to your store and being able to take orders in advance. The final payment is on day 36 after which you can carry on on endless mode exploring dungeons and trying to find all the items. You can also restart with your current level and items or play a survival mode where repayments continue to increase until its impossible to continue.
It's a fun game to kill a few hours here and there and well worth the sale price of $4.99.
Rating 6.5/10
Over time you meet adventurers who you can hire to go into dungeons and collect items for you. The first is a fighter but later you'll meet the rest of the usual rpg hero classes you'd expect such as mage, thief and archer. These adventurers buy things from you during your normal work day but you can loan them extra equipment and give them consumable items to help them stay alive. You cannot carry a huge number of items back from these dungeons and the early ones don't hold very valuable items so it's not that productive in comparison to just buying from the stores. Even worse, if you die, you can only choose 1 item to salvage. Some of the things you find can be combined in recipes to make special items but again it seems more trouble than its worth.
Each week you are given an amount of money you have to pay back or lose your store. While selling items you gain xp and levels which leads to various unlocks such as new items to buy, adding decorations or vending machines to your store and being able to take orders in advance. The final payment is on day 36 after which you can carry on on endless mode exploring dungeons and trying to find all the items. You can also restart with your current level and items or play a survival mode where repayments continue to increase until its impossible to continue.
It's a fun game to kill a few hours here and there and well worth the sale price of $4.99.
Rating 6.5/10
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