
The store is your kingdom! Expand your humble boutique into a thriving business: hire the right staff, decorate your displays, and lure in customers. Even your wildest ideas can turn a profit. Why not start a business that sells only white T-shirts and ketchup? PCs and beans? Your rule, your rules!
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Ever wanted to start your own business? In King of Retail, anything is possible!
Plan a shop theme and store design, and launch your very own enterprise. The store is your kingdom, and if you run it well you might be able to expand into a larger corporation! If you get it wrong… well, blame it on the economy.
It’s your store, and you can sell whatever you want! Want to run a shop that only sells chicken? Do it! Every kind of electronic, and also fresh foods? Why not!
Design and customize your store, and achieve your dreams of running a unique emporium of your very own.
The secret is, you need people to choose YOUR location to spend their hard-earned money. What makes your store the best? Do you have the best shelf-stockers in town, or the most convincing salespeople? Maybe you simply have well-targeted online ads. There are many ways to make your store stand out!
Watch your customers closely! Study their behavior and figure out what makes them pull out their wallets. Then, do more of it!
Humanize your brand by hiring humans — the right ones! Conduct interviews with prospective employees to find the best mix of skills and culture fit. Negotiate salaries, manage shifts, and train people up so they thrive and grow with you
Why settle for one shop, when you could run a whole chain? Invest money in advertising to bring in greater throngs of customers; rebrand your store’s interior design; and keep optimising stock and pricing to maximize your profit. If it all pays off, you might be able to incorporate and expand into multiple stores across the city!
It’s your store, and you can run it how you want. Micro-manage every detail and constantly adjust for optimal profit, or just watch the ebb and flow of your perfect masterpiece. You’re your own boss and you can play your own way — it’s good to be the king.
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Languages: English*, German, Danish, French, Dutch, Russian, Simplified Chinese*languages with full audio support
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 41 reviews with recorded playtime.
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I want to like this game, but it's so buggy and clunky. It feels so unfinished I thought it was an early access game, just to realize there is a sequel? Is the sequel more of this? Cause I wouldn't buy this game again. Love the idea, but it needed more work before a whole sequel came out. That's crazy
Great idea, terrible controls. I gave it about an hour, hoping it would get better, but it never did. Ended up refunding it, which is a shame because the concept had a lot of potential.
Not a bad premise for a game, the controls are terrible but you get used to them. Not a lot in the way of stock management or details on sales as much as I would like, plus it would be nice to have more time before or after closing to figure things our but the game forces you back to your office. It's not a terribly hard game once you figure it all out but once you do, that is it, it is a lot of the same a slight expansion from there. Rinse and repeat. People say this game is unfinished and abandoned so they could make the sequel, I can see where they are getting this from, it is lacking a lot of things that would make it a classic if they took the time.
Can be fun for a while but it's way too unfinished to be abandoned so quickly for a sequel.
Das Spiel ist okay, es hat einige Features die Interessant sind, wie z.B. den Karrieremodus. Aber: Für ein Spiel das normal 25€ kostet wirkt es noch unfertig, schlimmer wird es noch, wenn man bedenkt, dass es mittlerweile einen Nachfolger gibt, anstatt neue Features durch günstige evtl, sogar kostenlose DLCs ins bestehende Spiel zu implementieren. Vielleicht wurde auch die ganze Softwarearchitektur im Nachfolger überarbeitet, aber das ist Spekulation meinerseits. Ein 3 Jahre altes Spiel nicht weiter zu entwickeln, welches unzählige Featurelücken hat und stattdessen einen 2. Teil in bei Steam als Early Access in den Store zu stellen, lässt es sich wie einen Cashgrab anfühlen. Was vermisse ich: 1. Geld hat keine Währung. 2. Anti-Diebstahl-Systeme wie Alarmanlagen/ Schleusen. 3. Dekorationen (Die Läden sind einfach bleiben leblos und hässlich) 4. Grafiken (Gesichter sehen aus als kämen sie aus 15 Jahre alten Spielen) 5. Detaillierte Analysetools um Kundengruppen und Bedürfnisse im voraus besser erkennen zu können. 6. Standartstock an Waren von Laden zu Laden übertragen/kopieren 7. Detailliertere Übersichten für Cashflow einzelner Läden und Konzern als ganzes 8. Möglichkeit Tage simulieren zu lassen, ohne dass man in einem Laden schimmelt/arbeitet Darüber hinaus sind die Geldbeträge eigenartig, das finanzielle Balancing scheint bei Löhnen und Gehältern nicht gefinished. Dazu wenn man einen Mitarbeiter zu einem Storemanager befördern möchte, warum geht man in Gehaltsverhandlungen um im Anschluss nochmal eine Prozentuale erhöhung des Managergehalts aushandeln zu müssen? Im Großen und Ganzen könnte man sagen das Spiel ist zu 65% fertig, es wirkt nicht gepolished dafür ist der übliche Preis viel zu hoch. Im Angebot kann man durchaus zugreifen.
Nach über 285 Stunden in King of Retail kann ich mit gutem Gewissen sagen: Dieses Spiel hat mich langfristig gepackt. Was auf den ersten Blick wie ein „einfacher Shop-Simulator“ wirkt, entpuppt sich als erstaunlich tiefgehende Wirtschafts-, Management- und Optimierungssimulation mit viel Liebe zum Detail. Du startest klein – wirklich klein. Ein winziger Laden, wenig Kapital, kaum Personal. Und genau daraus entsteht der Reiz: Jede Entscheidung zählt. Welche Produkte nehme ich ins Sortiment? Wie richte ich den Laden ein, damit Kunden möglichst viel kaufen? Wo spare ich Kosten, wo investiere ich? Dieses ständige Abwägen macht einen großen Teil der Motivation aus. Es ist kein Spiel, das man „durchspielt“, sondern eines, das man immer weiter optimieren kann.
Richtig gutes Spiel. Hab leider trotz 187 Spielstände immer noch keinen Arlo :(
insane control scheme choices
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long , compliquer mais bonne gestion
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