I have more of a neutral stance on this game, but I can't recommend as the gameplay loop is tedious and there's no actual progression. There's no optimizing sales, there's no maximizing profits, you can't add registers, you can't upgrade the rental return. You have the gameplay loop and that's about it.
It's fun for a bit, but if you're looking for a game that has incremental upgrades allowing you to process faster and get bigger profits, look elsewhere. I just got to the end of the first month and after the first two days of Halloween, I'm calling it quits.
I was about 2/3 through Fall and I was feeling pretty stuck, I thought I should have expanded the store by now. I still only had the single room, but it was packed with shelving. I always expanded the video selection whenever I could. I came to the review page to see if there was anyone else that felt the same. Sure enough, after reading some of the negative reviews, someone had mentioned that you're basically capped at $300-$500 a day. So, I tried tracking it, sure enough they were right.
It's Halloween, Thursday. I stocked all my snack shelves with chocolate, my ad board was set to boost snack sales, I had 3 shelves FULL of horror movies as well as full shelves through the store. All returns were made and all movies repaired before opening the store. I had the employee set to the register, I grabbed 5 flyers and hit open. Then I sprinted as much as I could, handing out flyers as much as possible. I must have handed out at least 50 flyers. Returned videos whenever there was one. There was always a line at the register. Even with my hard work, I barely surpassed $500. Surely, Friday would be even better. Fridays = more sales right?
Wrong. I busted my rear just like the previous day. Handed out just as many flyers. $350 in sales. Utterly disappointed. What's the point of even trying?
If you want to return videos for hours on end and numb your brain as a pretend Blockbuster employee, then this is for you. It's casual through and through. There are other "store simulator" type games out there that have actual progression and make you feel like you're succeeding rather than doing the same thing over and over and over again.
