King of Retail

Das spiel hat gut angefangen als es erschien und es wurde auch bis anfang 2023 grundsätzlich weiterentwickelt dann war auf einmal Schluss, viele Bugs und sonst Fehler wurden dann gar nicht mehr behoben. vor kurzen meldetet sich der Entwickler und begründete dies mit ein "burn out" er habe keine kraft mehr am King of Retail 1 weiterzumachen ! aber anscheinend hat er genug kraft am King of Retail 2 weiterzumachen. für mich ist das ein no go. er hat beim ersten teil eine baustelle hinterlassen und abkassiert und am 2ten teil wird es nicht Anderst sein, für mich weder eine kaufentpfehlung für 1 oder 2

Interesting, but shallow. So, I've put a fair number of hours into King of Retail because I'm a weirdo who likes weirdo simulator games. On that front, King of Retail does have some pretty cool things going for it. The amount of customization is pretty huge, letting you design your store's look, layout, floorplan, and signs about however you want. There is even a basic photo editor that will like you create your own signs to put up in game. If you play in campaign mode, you can even slowly build out an army of stores, run your HQ, acquire benefits, fight against competition, and some other cool things that give more depth than just running one store. However, there are a few problems that will be a serious issue for most people; the type of store you can build is very limited: grocery, clothing, or electronic. That's it. And while each category has a fair number of items in it that all look pretty good and have their own unique stats, it is limited. Eventually, all of your stores are going to look the same. Employees can also be annoying, constantly calling in sick and demanding raises. It's rare for a day to go by without one or both of these things happening. One of the biggest problem, however, is that the game does a poor job of conveying information, and there are 2 specific places I think it's the worst: 1) Figuring out what TYPE of items your customers want. See, every item has 3 stats; Price, Quality, Fashion. Your customers are also divided by their class: Student, Farmer, Accountant, Celebrity, etc. Each type of customer prefers a specific kind of stats for the item they buy, and even through the game offers you a handy graph about is, I can never seem to get it right, meaning that I'll have items that sit on shelves going unsold. And speaking of shelves, here is 2): the other place where this game fails to give information is in its shelving units. See, there are a number of different types of shelves that hold different kinds of goods, and while some of them tell you exactly how many articles of an item can fit on those shelves, others don't. They just say 'VARIES', which makes it hard to guess how many items you can put on there. Maybe this won't be a big deal for some, but I like having my stores nice and orderly, so having guess how much of each item to buy can be annoying. There are also a number of bugs, glitches, and QOL improvements that need to be made to this game. Honestly, despite all of the negative things, I would have still given this game a positive review as everything that is wrong here are things that could be fixed. However, I don't think they will be fixed, as it seems the Dev has abandoned this game right after release without so much as a Workshop so fans could edit the game themselves. Honestly, it's a shame. King of Retail does do a fair bit right, but it's the compiling minor issues and corner-cutting of this game that just keeps it from getting a better review. If you can look past the faults and go in knowing that the game is going to be semi-jank, then you will have fun here. Just don't pay full price.