Shelves and Sorcery: Tidy Up the Enchanted Shop

The game is what you expect it to be. I appreciate the active updates from the Dev to improve the experience. I'm personally a big fan of the timed category and looking at the leaderboards. Looking forward to the Co-op mode being completed to play with friends!

Suuuuper relaxing

I felt very bibbidi-bobbidi-boo playing this. 10/10 would recommend as a way to de-stress and cozily put things in order when life's out of order (:

It looks pretty nice and they clearly put some attention to detail in the wares, nearly all (except the veggies which are just recolored normal vegggies) look good and often have funny names. That's about where it stops being good. This game feels like an asset test game. Like they just made those assets for another game and quickly wanted to slap together a product to make money to fund the game they made this for. Because the assets look too good for that game and everything besides the assets looks like it was a rush job. And looking at the developers page, I guess I hit the nail on the head, probably an asset test for their early access game. If you think there is any more to the gameplay than what you see in a single screenshot you're mistaken. Yeah it's half on me to expect any more, but in other cleanup games you do get more. Here you get nothing. No meaningful upgrades (I come to that later), no story, not even the satisfaction of cleaning up because the initial mess didn't look at all "real", like you clean up a well used shop, or a shop after an earthquake or something. No, the items are just dumped in a pile on the ground. There is no physics interacting with them, the upper items just hang in the air if you remove stuff from under them, there is no player interaction as you clip through them, there is nothing and it feels artificial from start to end. You never feel like you cleaned up a mess, you feel like you sorted a folder in your file system. Those spells and tools they advertize on the game page? Only exactly 2 upgrades are helpful, the rest does nothing or somewhat takes away from the game. There are two types of upgrades, enchantements and spells. Enchantements are inventory size, reach, speed and multi jump. Inventory size is crucial, but the rest? The speed makes you so unconfortably fast that you probably turn off sprint and are slower than at the start if you invested too much into it, you never have any reason to jump ever and why would you need more reach if you have to inspect the items up close anyway? Then the spells. Those are 3. Highlight the item you're holding, gather every other item of the type you're holding, and automatically file your inventory to shelves. The first one makes sense. The other two just means you have less game to play, because picking up and putting away is ALL you do. Of course they are handy with annoying items like books, or to sort if you carry a large number of different items, but ultimatively they don't help you play, they play for you, because as said, sorting is all you do. So if you let a button play for you, why play at all? Why not instead have upgrades that would actually improve instead of shorten the game? for example, instead of automatically filing away, maybe sort the currently held items as it works as an "first in last out" stack so to effectively sort if you picked up more than one thing, you have to throw it all to the ground somewhere else. Maybe a spell that makes items of the same type slightly magnetic for a short while so the pile you have to sort seperates a tiny bit into potions/vegetables/weapons or something? Of course that would require physics. There are many things they could have done with this. Not overwhelmingly so because it's a simple game type, but still. Be able to actually nibble on some of the plants, drink a swig of some of the potions, use some staffs and get funny effects. Better upgrades (see above). Physics interaction so you could wade through the pile of trash. Maybe some potions randomly broken and you have to figure out what potion it was to order a replacement. A timelapse at the end. Different places to clean up, like a dungeon, a witch hut, a dragons lair (in game are exactly 3 locations and all 3 look the same, just differently sized). A mode that mimics those public freakouts when someone just throws items from the shelfes, eg, shelves half filled and the items on the ground are close to where they belong. Hell even just have a nice mural or something under the pile of stuff that you can uncover.

I currently have an obsession with games where you tidy spaces. I have Teddy's Haven as well, and just like that title, I can tell that a lot of love and care went into this game as well. I would consider this a great game for all skill levels. I myself am starting with the first store and working my way up to the big ones. The labels are easy to see and follow. The enhancements and spells help more and more as you go along, and the art style is similar to their previous game, so it is very pleasing to the eye. I would get this game if I were you. It's a quality title, and the price point is very affordable, so why wouldn't you give it a chance? You won't be sorry!

Honestly surprised with how much I enjoyed this, even replaying for some of the achievements. I wish there was a way to swap entire shelves with one another instead of changing each item individually, but otherwise a great time.

Love Teddy's Haven so I'm very happy with this little offshoot of an organization game.