
Recettear is the story of an item shop, the girl who lives in it, and the fairy who turned her life upside down. Recette Lemongrass finds herself in charge of an item shop built into her house, in order to pay back a loan her father took and then skipped out on - and Tear, her newfound fairy "companion", won't take no for an answer!
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Recettear is the story of an item shop, the girl who lives in it, and the fairy who turned her life upside down. Recette Lemongrass finds herself in charge of an item shop built into her house, in order to pay back a loan her father took and then skipped out on - and Tear, her newfound fairy "companion", won't take no for an answer! As Recette, you have to decide how you'll get your stock - either through playing the markets in town or going out into the wild with an adventuring friend and thrashing beasts until they give up the goodies - how much to sell things for, what the shop should look like, and how to best go about getting the money Tear needs to pay off the loan. If you can't come up with the money... well, hope you like living in a cardboard box.
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Extremely grindy and repetitive, however there's a certain charm that no other game has ever captured since. Running an item shop is so much fun. A day in the life simply includes exploring dungeons, running to market, and trying to sell enough inventory and barter well enough to not end up living in a cardboard box. Capitalism, ho! Forever chasing the feeling that this little game gives me. As my parting words from Caillou: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=370875560
This is a solid item shop game. It's kinda fun.
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Languages: English, Japanese**languages with full audio support
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I've played this game through about 4 times now. it's so satisfying unlocking characters, and using them in the dungeons, and always trying to sell big and pay off your loan. Some of the funniest times is using the vending machine after an item has crashed completely in value. And in turn Selling them when they're overpriced. Buying them before they crash,..... ohhh... so satisfying
很久之前玩过,夏季促销时偶然看到就补了票。虽然是十几年前发售的作品,但是以今天的标准来评价依然是非常优秀的同人游戏,非常推荐一玩。
Absolute Cinema.
Still fun all this years later. Simple. Funny. Good music.
MONEY$MONEY$MONEY$
한글 지원 안돼는데 영어 안어렵고 재밌음 역시 명작은 시간의 흐름을 타지 않는다
從一個兢兢業業的小商人成為個用販賣機賣販賣機的大亨的過程很愉快, 不過想辦法把各種神兵利器賣給特定冒險者挺不容易啊.
"Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale" can be seen as an indie-classic, that still holds up to this day: An unique and niche blend of fantasy economic sim and action-jrpg about the all so joyful, helpful and carefree Recette getting crushed by her MIA-fathers debt on the verge of ending on the streets. The chibi-anime premise is so out of place and could not be more fitting at the same time: A truly grotesque Adam-Smith-fable about being "just" to your clients and getting their trust (i.e. their liability to buy more and more expensive stuff from you) all while squeezing them with your liberal fist and using every famine and war to get your profit with them. While the presentation and sound is cute but not remarkable, the leveling mechanic is something to get used to (but when you get it you get it) and the dungeoneering is not the most innovative, it is still worth to check out! Even after the initial end there is a lot of replayability with new content endless mode and survival mode. And Recette needs to be high up on an "oddly villainous main protagonist" tier list!
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