Discounty

[h1]Worth every minute ♥[/h1] Discounty completely pulled me in. Once I got close to the end, I couldn't stop playing until I had finished the game. I was really happy with the ending I got, it felt like the perfect conclusion to the story for me and made the whole journey even more rewarding. Knowing there are different endings also gives me a reason to come back and see what else could have happened. Definitely a game I'll remember for a long time. ♥ ︵‿︵‿☾ 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 ☽︵‿︵‿ 🤍 One of the best Storys 💙 Lovely 🤍 Good 🤍 Boring 🤍 Just Text or Audio 🤍 There is no Story ︵‿︵‿☾ 𝗥𝗮𝗻𝗸 ☽︵‿︵‿ 💙 10 / 10                      🤍 5 / 10 🤍 9 / 10                          🤍 4 / 10 🤍 8 / 10                          🤍 3 / 10 🤍 7 / 10                          🤍 2 / 10 🤍 6 / 10                          🤍 1 / 10 ⠀⠀ ⠀ /)＿/) ⠀⠀ (๑^᎑^๑)っ ♥ ／|￣∪￣ ￣ |＼ ⠀ |_ _ _ _ _|

I wish there was a "it's ok" rating cause that's what I would give it. The Pros Very few bugs and the ones you do experience are not game breaking The gameplay loop is fun, managing the shop and then running around town to gather supplies and talk to people is a tried and true loop that many find enjoyable. There is a clearly defined story and it appears to have a conclusive end (I have not reached the end) The art style is nice. The Cons The characters are awful: Everyone just sucks. Few people have redeeming traits and in most cases are simply there being either miserable and forcing that energy upon you, or being two-faced and simply having to accept that. In most writing you need flawed characters to create conflict, but in this everyone is awful and you are the conflict. I often find myself rooting for everyone to fail including my character and the only reason I continue in the story is to unlock better things for my shop. Speaking of, many features are unlocked way too late into the game. I recently unlocked an online order mechanic which sounds great, but the biggest issue with it is that I simply have too much going on in my shop to ever work on that. Meaning unless I have a challenge to do that specific thing, it just simply never gets touched. resulting in this mechanic as well as others simply feeling half baked. Quests are simply tedious: The amount of times they are just "give me a lot of money" or "wait x days" is too many to count It's just not fun to do the quests. There is one quest that was really good where you had to solve puzzles to give to certain creatures, and that one was great, but that is the only quest I can say I actively enjoyed. Prices are automatic: You have 0 control over the prices of your items, and they justify it in game by stating you are a franchise which sure that part doesn't matter much, but + points for having a lore reason for a missing mechanic. The point still stands that the entire thing you are doing is just putting items on shelves and cashing the customers out, that is it for the in store portion. There is no real control over the shop and it often feels more like working a job rather than managing a shop in a game. You are the villain: In the story for most of it, you are often portrayed as the bad guy because you are constantly trying to introduce a massive corporate grocery chain into a small town. The game is very much trying to have it's cake and eat it too by having there be a message of community and down with corporatization, but you are actively the one doing it. It really feels like the game is having the MC be like "corporations suck, but not us, we are the good guys I swear." which just leaves an awful taste in my mouth and makes for bad story writing. All this is to say that the game is fun but it is HEAVILY flawed and has a pretty awful story.

Got this on sale a few months back, booted it up today and was not expecting to spend a dozen hours or so on it lol. At it's core Discounty is a Shop Keeping game with a linear storyline but the progression feels really satisfying, especially when you start unlocking blueprints to make the Shop Keeping part easier. The gameplay loop is make or break though. If you don't enjoy procuring goods, restocking and checking out for customers, this game might not be for you. But if you do then it's a lot of fun :)

[h1] Running Your Very Own Dollar General! [/h1] [b] The Positive's [/b] + Great Art Style + Fun Gameplay Mechanics + Multiple Endings [b] The Negative's [/b] - Repetitive Nature [b] The Aspect Of The Game [/b] [i] You move to town to take on your Aunts franchise "Discounty" a retailer store that sells a little bit of everything. Build and expand the store and help shape the town into it's former glory or into something entirely different. [/i] [b] My Two Cent Review [/b] [i] Another simulator game I am drawn to like water is to fish. This one has a Stardew Valley like town that's very small which isn't a bad thing just means it's easy for you to get around. The soundtrack to the game is a great addition as well it really helps convey that small town charm with the amazing art style the game has to offer. Each character you meet is memorable and has there own quarks to them making them unique in there own ways. Besides working at the store you run there isn't much to do but to collect scrap in the later chapters and do fetch quests for other people in town. There are multiple endings to the game depending on your play style if you want to be a good guy or a bad guy and change the town for worse or better. You can customize your character and your store in many different ways which adds a sense of ownership to the store you run. Incase your worried about the store getting to big for you to stock and run the register at the same time you do get a helper in the later chapter which does a slow piss poor job with upgrades but it does alleviate some of the stress of running a store by yourself. [/i] [b] The Value Of The Game [/b] [i] I've put about 24 hours of gameplay for the game and bought it on it's introductory offer which made it a few dollars cheaper. It's worth the price if your into stardew valley like sims but there's not much else besides just being a shop keeper. You can't marry, there isn't any mini-games to do outside the store your life is store, decorations, and trash collector. Though that could change... [/i] [h1] Final Score 76/100 Ranking C+ Tier [/h1]

Running the store is fun and there is a main story about choosing people of the town vs. expanding your store.

挺无聊的，没有赚钱的爽感

Better than Graveyard Keeper and better than Stardew Valley. Discounty has great characters to interact with and the small resource collection part of the game is reasonable unlike Graveyard Keeper which forces you to continually farm resources just to pad out the plot. You actually run the grocery store and organize it unlike something like Bear and Breakfast [spoiler]that advertises that you will run a Bed and Breakfast but you end up just being the interior decorate and the guests check themselves in and out automatically with no interaction with you[/spoiler]. You also spend most of your time in the grocery store with brief relaxing jaunts to explore the town in the morning and evening . The time it gives you is adequate. Siometimes you have to choose between an evening spent only organizing your grocery or an evening running errands but most time you have enough time to do both. Unlike Graveyard Keeper where the days are too short. Discounty also gives you enough time to live small town life unlike Stardew Valley that throws the spring dance at you too early and has mechanisms in place which encourage you to rush your farm. Discounty is kinda if Joja Mart was a franchise and you bought it and were running a Joja Mart to revive the town. Discounty's notion of business is also top notch with vendor negotiations. There is an understanding of small town business here and b2b relationships that is not present in other games. The characters are all human and flawed and the writing is good. I am currently on chapter 2.

Okay so I JUST got to chapter 2 and I had to stop and write a review. This game requires strategy/planning. It's so fun! Fun characters and a fun story. Okay going back to playing in addicted.

Nice sim game, that while it has a simple routine, it doesn't feel repetitive. It could have some quality of life additions for the trade contracts you made, like being able to buy online with an upgrade, but still, the free dlc added a lot of content and playtime.

Peak indie game.