Discounty

Before the final chapter update, everything was great and I already got 100% of the achievements. I'm glad to see new content, but along with it, my game has crashed 3 times. The game can't be saved until the end of the day, which means I have to redo everything. You should know how annoying this is. --- Update: Got 100% achievements anyway, I'd recommend for the overall game play, art, etc. Still crashes on PC, better experience on Steam Deck

𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 ✦ excellent but lacks a pause option 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 ✦ excellent 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐬 ✦ excellent 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 ✦ very good 𝐃𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐲 ✦ easy 𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 ✦ easy, getting all endings takes time ❤ 9/10

A really fun shop management game with a weird story and a frustrating late game. Actual play time is 30 hours, I left the game on overnight a few times by accident. +++ The core gameplay loop is very fun. Run your store, manage stock and advertising, run around town solving crises. ++ Decent music and good art. -- The story is... Weird. I don't hate it. Everyone is a selfish jerk destroying the environment, including the MC. You don't get a choice to be a good guy until very very late in the game. -- The selection and highlighting on gamepad was finicky and frustrating. I kept selecting things I didn't mean to. God help you when the sheep invade and you fill up your inventory while trying to select each sheep. --- Many problems are never solved in this game. You cannot have a store that sells 1 of every item without running out of space or micromanaging. You can't have trade partner items delivered to you, so you either have to stock a huge amount in the basement, or constantly run around town buying replenishments. When the scanner breaks your entire shop will just fail to function late game, it's impossible to sell 100 items by looking up prices manually. There's no way you have time to fulfill online orders while managing stock and wiping up messes and checking out customers. The awkward layout required to make optional use of space and storage while maintaining high attractiveness from boosters is fun at first but frustrating at the end. It feels like you're just left with a host of unsolvable problems, like the upgrades just "stop" at some point and you can never make a perfect store, which is really frustrating. Devs, if you're reading this, the solution is really simple. Upgrade to increase warehouse box capacity to 50x then 100x per box. Upgrade so the storefront shelves double in capacity each (even the fancy shelves). Upgrade to never have each bad random event (scanner break, sheep, a/c, rush, muddy feet, etc). Upgrade so that your employee restocks all the shelves overnight. Upgrade so that you can order vendor items via truck. Upgrade so that the enhancers range is boosted 2x or even 3–5x. Upgrade to hire another employee janitor or checkout clerk. Transition into a managerial role once the store becomes extremely successful. Why am I still sprinting around mopping the floor when earning 10k per day? I still recommend this game because it was really fun, but it really annoyed me at the end and it feels so easily fixable.

Discounty – Klare Empfehlung ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Durchgespielt und absolut begeistert! Discounty trifft genau den Nerv, den Fans von Stardew Valley und anderen Cozy Games suchen: Der Gameplay-Loop rund ums Laden-Management macht einfach süchtig, man verliert schnell das Zeitgefühl beim Einsortieren, Verkaufen und Ausbauen. Dazu kommt eine richtig stimmige Grafik und Atmosphäre, die das Ganze noch mal aufwertet. Besonders positiv hervorzuheben sind die Charaktere und die Story – hier merkt man, dass sich die Entwickler Mühe gegeben haben, den Figuren Tiefe zu verleihen. Auch das Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis stimmt, hier bekommt man für sein Geld wirklich viel Spielzeit und Qualität geboten. Ein kleiner Wermutstropfen: Kapitel 4 fühlt sich im Vergleich zu den ersten drei Kapiteln etwas grindy an und hat spürbar weniger Story-Inhalt. Das trübt den Gesamteindruck aber kaum – die ersten drei Kapitel reißen das locker wieder raus. Fazit: Wer cozy Management-Games und charmante Geschichten mag, kommt an Discounty nicht vorbei. Klare Kaufempfehlung!

Amazing game!!! Dont think twice. That is definitely worth it

Really good management Game. All the Characters are really interesting and totally worth playing. Shame the People or Profit "Expansion" wasn't there at launch. It Kind of drags on for too long and I think it's because the wanted it to feel worth coming back to, but if you play it in one go it just feels like padding. Overall still time well spent and a lot of fun.

Nice little game with plenty of things to do.

Jojamaxxing 😎

Discounty es un juego divertido, encantador y con mucha personalidad. A diferencia de algunas reseñas que casi hicieron que no lo comprara, considero que su mundo está lleno de vida. Los personajes se sienten reales, diferentes entre sí, y resulta entretenido hablar con ellos y conocer sus opiniones. La historia se desarrolla de manera natural. Los habitantes del pueblo no aplauden automáticamente todo lo que haces en la tienda como si no tuvieran personalidad propia. Opinan sobre tus decisiones, recuerdan tus acciones y reaccionan de maneras diferentes ante ellas. Existen conflictos entre los propios personajes y, aun así, debes aprender a convivir con todos para que tu tienda funcione. Personajes que no te caen bien, pesados, raros, otros muy tiernos y gente con la que te emociona interactuar. El pueblo se siente como una comunidad real. Aunque todavía no he completado el juego, tengo la sensación de que cada vez aparecen más cosas para hacer. Puedo comprender las críticas relacionadas con la cantidad de contenido, ya que no existe una infinidad de acciones posibles. Sin embargo, no considero que el juego se sienta corto ni que le falten actividades. La cantidad de tareas secundarias y mecánicas me parece muy bien equilibrada, hay suficiente contenido para mantenerte ocupado, pero sin llegar a resultar abrumador. En cuanto a la jugabilidad, la parte de gestión es muy entretenida. Comprar productos, decorar la tienda, organizarla y atender a los clientes resulta realmente divertido. En cierto punto comenzás a sentirte como un empleado a tiempo completo explotado pendiente de si el horario te permite ir a recolectar televisores viejos antes de que termine el día. Antes de comprarlo había leído varias críticas relacionadas con la jugabilidad. Personalmente, creo que se juega de forma cómoda y que las nuevas mecánicas y mejoras aparecen justo cuando las tareas anteriores podrían comenzar a volverse tediosas. Juego muy recomendado.

I am unsure if you should get this game or not. Gameplay is fun, story is interesting enough, however it has a lot of issues. Most people mention how NPCs are kind of a*holes... and they are... Not a single one of them I felt like "yeah this guy is my hommie", they are all selfish and they throw you under the bus every single time. Except for ONE person, that, ironically, the game portrays as the "villain", and they are still pretty selfish, they just don't betray your trust. And then there's a couple of extra NPCs that are not plot relevant and are just sort of... there... they don't actually contribute at all, those people are OK too, but again, they are irrelevant. The gameplay is "fun", it keeps you busy. However, some mechanics are incredibly clunky and the gameplay is really repetitive. And at some point the game devolves into a money grind. Products are not really well balanced, your supply chain is a mess, the delivery system is just sort of there but isn't meaningful. Your supermarket feels claustrophobic, you can't stock everything comfortably. The game in general has a lot of really cool things about it, just BARELY not there yet for it to be a complete experience. In the end, I ended up editing my savefile with max money just so I could stop grinding, just because every day stopped feeling enjoyable. I kind of recommend to get it, but the tags are misleading, it's not really Life Sim, there's a story, and you follow it, you have little to no freedom. Your schedule is fixed 6/7 days a week. If you can look past all it's flaw, it can be fun. Try it for 2 hours and see if you like it, because that's the entire game, just with MORE things to manage, but not really a bigger game, you'll be doing the same every single day. All in, get it if you like shop management games, but that's all this is, just with a bit of story.