Item shopkeeper simulator + Mystery Dungeon style RPG. Tons of fun for all ages.

> Tricked an elderly to gave up all of his pension funds for a broken statue
> Making an aswesome selling combo and great XP bonus only to be broken by a child
> Quitting the game forgetting about the game didnt have an auto save feature



remember to only buy this at most
50%/100% of the base price or lower
just like in the game

Sell Items

Buy Items

Go to dungeun and get items then sell it again for higher price

Do this
Until you pay your father's debt .

THE END

Interesting game. The actually gameplay is pretty repetetive but it has some funny dialogue and can be challenging. The funnest part is probably finding and gearing up the people in the town that can explore roguelike dungeons. It creates a nice purpose to leveling up your shop and crafting high end items. Its a bit short but unique and worth a play. I'd recommend only to buy it on sale if you are interested.

extremely good merchant game
Great game for any price.

This game is absolutely amazing. I Loved every bit of it, in fact I crave more. I have only two complaints and one question. My first compliant is the difficulty. The first and second payment is fairly easy to get, but you start to get big jumps in payments and as a new player the jumps were too much for me to handle. Good news about this though is that the game wlil start you over on the second day and you get to keep all your items and level (you start over with 1,000 pix though). And while this makes you more expirenced the next time around your more likely to win after that, I much rather if they had put the increased time to extend the game. Instead of hte game taking place in just one month why not three? Let the first six payments be easy to pay so you have time to dungeon crawl and explore. I wanted to explore the world more and I wanted to get more content out of the game. Which leads me to the second complaint, it was too short. It wasn't so short that I wouldn't reccommend the game, it's just the game is so good it leaves you wanting more. After beating the game you get endless mode, which allows you to keep going through the game for as long as you want, which allows you see additionial content. You also get survival mode, which is a mode where payments keep increasing until your overwhelmed, I liked how it was introduced at the end of the game too. The one extra mode you get is new game plus, which allows you to keep all your levels and items but still get to start over. The only other thing I can think of that might turn someone away from the game is the launcher, it's more like a visual gameboy advance launcher. I don't entirely understand why that is, but it didn't bother me.

Over all this game left me craving more and wishing they would have had put more content into it. But the content that is there is without a doubt good enough and enough there for me to recommend this game. It is an awesome game that I would reccommend to pretty much anyone, except someone who absolutely hates management games.

It's a shame so few people have actually played this gem. Perhaps if they had, it wouldn't somehow still be unique among games available out there. There was something really satisfying about running an item shop and building up your store, though at times the dungeon crawling felt a little unpolished, the game as a whole is a rare gem, and something I will always remember fondly.

I'm a sad man. I'm late-40s and I still like cute things. I also love RPGs, so you can see why I looked at Recettear and liked the look of it.

The game wasn't quite what I thought it was though.... but in a good way. I was pleasantly surprised.

You'd probably be forgiven for thinking as I did - this is a typical JRPG with the theme being centred somehow around a shop. Well, yes it is... and it isn't. The game essentially has two parts to it. The RPG part takes the form of a fairly typical top-down dungeon crawler a la Chocobo's Dungeon, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon and a host of other similar ones. That's about as standard as it gets though.

Recettear does things rather differently - you are a young girl who has inherited her father's item shop which serves the local townsfolk with equipment for their day-to-day use and more importantly, stuff to go a-dungeon-crawling with. You also have a guardian of sorts (who also turns out to be a debt collector too) who's a fairy. Well, this is a Japanese game - 'nuff said. The relevance of this is that Recette (you) have also inherted some burden of debt too, who naturally you owe to your ward. So, the crux of the game is to run the shop, and earn enough each day to enable you to pay off your monthly debt payment.

I know, that might sound a little boring, but it isn't. It's actually where the game really shines. Your day is divided up into a maximum of 4 sections, which you can "spend" by either visiting town for certain things, visit the adventurer's guild (more on that later), or open the shop. Your shop has certain shelf spaces laid out, and arranging the stock so your best stuff is visible from the window is an essential trick. Put the boring, common and cheap items in the window and you'll attract less passers-by. Put the really expensive stuff in the window and you'll also attract less passers-by. It's a balancing act.

Once customers come in, they'll flit around looking, and approach you with items they want to buy from the shelves. As with any real-world store, the trick is to maximize profit, while retaining custom. So, sell higher than you bought it, but low enough so they don't get annoyed and never return - another balancing act. Some customers will ask for certain special orders in advance, which you almost always never have the stock at the time to fulfil, so you make a gamble on whether you can acquire the stock they're asking for - accept and fail, and they'll get annoyed, but refuse and they'll get annoyed too. You can't please everyone...

So where does the stock come from? This is where the adventurer's guild and the dungeon crawling comes in.

Instead of opening the store, you can toddle off to the adventurer's guild where all the adventurers hang out. You can recruit them, for a fee to go and dungeon crawl with you. There's a great element of risk/reward here, as at the end of each level, you can choose to duck out with the loot, or proceed onwards with the chance of more and better loot, but with the added risk of costly failure. As Recette, doesn't fight (well, she's only a girl), you take the role of the adventurer here. Her role is to tag along and store your part of the loot.

So, you fight, you level up your adventurers, you gain better loot to sell for better prices, you get money to pay off your increasing debt, and so on.

There's also some added little nuances such as it being wise to look after the adventurers you are hiring by selling them stuff cheap when they visit your store, as they'll use that stuff when crawling the not-so-murky depths. As the game progresses, you'll need to get a bit inventive in how you manage your stock and customers, but I won't elaborate on that as that would be spoiling things!

It's not an easy game to describe, and it probably sounds a bit dry on the face of it, but if you like the straight up old-school action-RPG dungeon crawler, I wouldn't hesitate to grab this - it does that part of it very well, but the light startegy side of shop management and how it dovetails so very, very nicely is what makes this game utterly unique. I can't recommend it highly enough.

So I have no hesitation in saying this is easily worth £15 on my value-for-money scale.

You think this is a cute little game about running an item shop and having fun, but it's not. It's a game about crippling debt and trying your hardest to claw your way out of it.

The bank comes to your house and tells you that your dumb deadbeat dad is probably dead, and that they're going to repo your house. Instead of making you homeless, the bank fairy just turns you into a slave and turns your house into an item shop (because zoning regulations and child labor laws don't exist here) and you spend the rest of the game trying to make payments to buy your freedom.

Fun game, but god help you if your hustle isn't strong enough. Would not recommend to the capitalistically weak.

My good friend Louie found an interesting taiyaki and sold it to me for 500 pix. At the end of the day he was hungry and bought the same taiyaki for 2000 pix.

I think I understand how life works now.