Somehow, a studio responsible for a beach volleyball game based on a popular anime series(opens in new tab) turned their hand to original JRPGs and made a genuine classic.
In 2010, a Japanese indie game appearing on Steam was unheard of. Valve's store didn't sell anything that looked like Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale back then. It almost didn't stock Recettear. Localisation team Carpe Fulgur emailed Valve—that's how it worked back then—and were ignored. It was only after they released a generous demo, which was widely and gushingly blogged about, that someone at Valve played it and realised this cute anime oddity deserved a place there.
Customers will want to sell you their own junk too. Combined with randomised stock customer dialogue, this results in wonderful moments like the adventurer who wants to know how much you'll pay for his family heirloom, which turns out to be a hamburger. Or the man with a sob story about a grandmother telling him to sell off something valuable when she died, who then hands over a tin of peaches.
Though some of the monsters are adorable, dungeons get tough. Specialist adventurers like the thief and magician are hard to learn, with hardly any hit points and skills that take some getting used to, and boss fights are brutal. To beef up heroes you can loan them quality equipment, but then they'll store the old gear in inventory slots that could be used to bring loot back.
EasyGameStation's history as fanfic writers shows through here. Not only is Recettear littered with references , it has the tone of a Coffee Shop AU fic, the kind of story that reimagines characters as the staff and customers of a friendly cafe who spend all their time just hanging out and bonding over a hot cup of java.
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