You can buy items at the market or guild hall at a wholesaler’s price, so that you’ll usually profit when you then sell the items, but timing is important as some kinds of items, such as weapons or candy, can go temporarily up or down in price due to special events.

In this game, you will spend most of your time doing four things: shopping for items to buy, opening your shop to sell items, adventuring in the dungeon to earn free items, and encountering the occasional story bit. You will need to choose between items that are profitable, which can be combined into better items, and items that will improve the adventurer’s combat skill and/or survival. Girl and fairy recruit and accompany these adventurers, whom you control, as they fight their way through randomized levels and decide which loot is worth carrying out of the dungeon.

Meanwhile, adventurers are drawn to the town to search for loot in the nearby dungeons. Your task is to earn enough profit to make the substantial payments to pay the debt off in only five weeks. In order to pay off the debt, Tear tasks Recette with using her father’s house as an item store to serve the various townfolk. The title of the game, Recettear, is a combination of its two main characters: Recette, a short girl who has been living by herself since her Papa left on a quest, and Tear, a fairy who works for a credit company that has alarmed Recette with her father’s substantial debt. Recettear is an animated action game where you delve through dungeons, and then sell your loot in your very own item store! A Cutesy Anime Roguelike with an Item Shop Sim It has overwhelmingly positive reviews, and is normally priced at $19.99 on Steam–a price that I think is fair, but worth waiting for a sale. For this post, I review the animated action game, “Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale”.

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