#easygamestation

EasyGameStation has announced Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale HD Edition, a remastered version of the December 31, 2007-released item shop simulation game / action RPG. It will launch in 2025 in Japan.

Here are the first few screenshots:

Here is an overview of the original game, via its Steam page:

About

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.

Key Features

Manage all aspects of an item shop—from stock to interior design!

Explore randomized dungeons—never quite the same twice!

Multiple adventurers to choose from when dungeon-diving—no two play the same!

Plenty to do after beating the game—challenge yourself with Survival Mode or play to your heart’s delight in Endless Mode!

Imagem: EasyGameStation O jogo Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale é sobre uma garota que mora em uma loja de itens e como sua vida foi virada de cabeça para baixo por uma fada. EasyGameStation é responsável pela criação do jogo, enquanto Carpe Fulgur LLC é responsável pela publicação. O jogo foi lançado no dia 10 de setembro de 2010. Depois que sua família se endivida, a protagonista, Recette…

Type:  RPG

Price: $19.99

Time Played: 17.5 hours

Surprise, surprise I like capitalism games. 

Games like the old Harvest Moon games and Stardew Valley float my boat. 

So, it isn’t shocking that an item shop game would also meet the craving. 

This game not only has the challenge of paying off your debts via buying things low and selling them high, but also social interactions, interior decoration of your store and dungeon crawler elements. 

The dungeon crawler doesn’t really require much strategy beyond bringing food to keep your HP up and having quality weapons. There is  variety in the monsters you face and what they drop varies. You can sell items outright or create fusions in order to add value to the items sold. 

The social elements in the game are entertaining as well. You get to know which customers will pay higher prices and which ones are horrible and whiney about how much you charge. Some of the in-game dialogue is pretty funny: 

(Somebody go rescue this guys grandchild- he is clearly being starved to death)

Personally, I found this game pretty entertaining. There is a wide variety of items to buy and as your merchant level goes up the items you can buy increases as well. If you fail to raise the required amount of money you loop back to the beginning of the game (you keep your items, but not your gold though). Which makes the game even more entertaining as you don’t feel like you’ve lost just because you failed to save up 500,000 pix in your first or second loop.