
Run a grimy fantasy weapon shop while heroes save the world somewhere else. Sell rusty swords, survive arrogant customers, repair the damage, and fight for your retirement before the final battle arrives.
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Typical NPC is a narrative management game about the other side of a fantasy RPG. You are not the chosen one. You are the exhausted shopkeeper who keeps the city armed while impatient heroes stomp mud through the doorway, demand relics on a budget, and leave your counter one hit away from collapse.
Manage your cash, stress, reputation, and shop condition across a branching campaign full of customers, emergencies, rival merchants, shady suppliers, and bad financial decisions that somehow still feel necessary. Decide when to bluff, when to sell honestly, when to help the city, and when to think about your own future for once.
Features:
- Narrative shopkeeping in a dirty fantasy world
- Branching events, customer archetypes, and endings
- Resource management with money, stress, reputation, and repairs
- Dark humor, reactive dialogue, and escalating late-game pressure
- A complete story about surviving the apocalypse as background labor
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, Russian
Reviews
[quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop][b]Warning: AI Slop[/b][/url] This game is partially or completely made with talentless, soulless AI generated content.[/quote] This AI slop from Russia is pure garbage... it's a Ren'Py e-book filled out with AI slop writing, AI slop images and AI slop Russian translation. The e-book is interspersed with basic, lightweight number juggling "tycoon" elements, also vibe coded, but this is all secondary to the developers attempt to charge an eye watering $60 USD for AI Slop. This is surely the video game equivalent of bowel cancer. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. For gameplay purposes, because the user interface for this game is mostly just 2D static text/images... it might as well be a web page. It's functionally no different from a browser game. And we all know, Steam isn't here to compete with Chrome and Firefox. If the game can be done in a web browser, it's just not rich or compelling enough to appeal to serious gamers on PC. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. As mentioned, this features really godawful, "wrong" looking AI slop instead of genuinely and sincerely created game assets. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating real game assets or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks bad because of that decision. AI slop sticks out like a sore thumb... and it comes across as insulting. There's also the old adage that those who lack the budget and talent to make their own game assets usually lack the budget and talent to do the rest of the job of game development properly, too, and that's glaringly obvious here. The controls can't be customised because the game doesn't really have any interface beyond menus and simple UI controls no different from dialog boxes in Windows Explorer. If you think about it, this barely counts as an "interactive" game. The fact that the interface is this dumbed down might be seen as a problem in itself, however... this is a fairly shallow experience if you're the kind of gamer that likes to play fully immersive games with deep, rich control schemes and interaction. You'll get none of that here. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the game all-time peak player count was only ONE player. That's right, only one person ever played this at a time. When I played this for the purposes of reviewing it, I equalled the peak player count for the game. OUCH. The only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 130 million gamers on Steam and well over 140,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. It's hard to describe this as a game, the focus is more like that of an e-book/visual novel, there's only minor, shallow and uninteresting gameplay elements. The crux of this is to push some very low quality, badly done fan-fiction tier writing, where we see once more a developer fail to understand the importance of "Show, don't tell", and for whatever reason, weren't able to convey their narrative through gameplay, giving us endless lines of badly written e-book text instead. My gaming rig is not a kindle. Let's talk about pricing and the actual value this has for gamers. Is this game one of the best of the 140,000+ games on Steam? Typical NPC has the comically over-optimistic price of $60 USD, for which you could easily get any number of older AAA games. Ethics aside, the quality problems and defects with this game makes the asking price totally unrealistic. It's impossible to recommend this to gamers here on Steam, especially considering the unethical stuff going on. Typical NPC has the completely insane price of $60 USD, which is incredibly suspicious, higher than AAA pricing for an asset flip shovelware scam game. Why would the "developer" put such a high price tag on an asset flip with no true value as a game? There's no direct proof for this, but it's entirely possible this game is priced this way for money laundering or other criminal purposes. Higher prices allow more money to move with fewer transactions. Valve have previously banned developers for running money laundering scams. While there's no direct evidence in this case, it's highly suspicious and gamers should be wary. Ethics aside, the quality problems and defects with this game makes the asking price totally unrealistic. It's impossible to recommend this to gamers here on Steam, especially considering the unethical stuff going on. The use of AI slop is a direct insult to gamers and real, ethical content creators and artists everywhere. [quote][b][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/b] Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.[/quote]
AI好,AI得学! 游戏里的背景应该都是AI生成的,而且翻来覆去用的都是这几张。 游戏内容就是靠选项点点点点来进行,目的大概是避免灭世。 话说都用AI了,为啥不用AI把游戏文本翻译成中文呢? 但是玩了一会看见游戏价格…… [spoiler]累了,毁灭吧![/spoiler]不对,划掉! AI好,AI得学! AI好,AI得学!! AI好,AI得学!!!
原价339 首发促销折扣203 真的一言难尽 AI大集结~AI出动!
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