Developer Voracious Games and publishers XSEED Games and Marvelous USA have released narrative-driven, deck-building potion shop simulator Potionomics on PC via Steam. If you want to get free of your mountainous debt, you better start brewing right away!
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Indie developer Games Incubator and publisher PlayWay revealed their latest simulator title on the way, as players can sell animals their own way in Pet Shop Simulator. As you may have guessed from the title alone, the game will have you running your own pet shop however you see fit, bringing the shop up from being a hole in the wall with a couple of options to being the one-stop-shop in the area for people to find the perfect animal and all the accessories they need to take care of it. The game doesn't have a release window yet, but you can enjoy a preview of it with the first trailer below.
"Your main task in Pet Shop Simulator will be to run a pet shop. Your duties will include not only finding wonderful new homes for the animals, but also ensuring that they have a wonderful and prosperous life. Therefore, supplement your store with the right assortment so that when you give your pet back, provide it with the right accessories. All sorts of customers will come to your pet shop. From the elderly to parents with children, or students. Each of them will have specific preferences regarding the pet they want to surround with their care and love. Your role will be to make their dreams come true and find them a perfect home. Choosing the right pets for your clients is not all you need to spend time on. It is equally important to provide each pet with the appropriate food, equipment, and accessories that they will take with them. You have to make sure that you choose the right cage size for your pets, offer the best food, brushes for combing fur, and remember about toys and treats. Every detail will translate into the well-being of the pet and the knowledge of the new owner!"
Management simulators often make the scale huge, having players taking control of whole countries, cities or institutions like in Prison Architect. Some of the best hidden gems of the management sim genre have been hidden, though, in the Shop Sim category. Players take control of stock, purchases, prices, staff, design and sales in these interesting games that seem simple at surface level, but have depth and exciting developments when fans delve deeper.
This list chooses some of the absolute best this niche genre has to offer to introduce any new players to some incredible games, and to let fans of Shop Sims explore some new titles they may not have played yet.
One of the most well-known shop sims with a reputation for being charming and cutesy, Recettear puts players in the role of Recette, a girl who takes on the management of a shop to pay off her father's debts. Recette will be buying goods and selling them for a profit while perfecting the look of her shop and going on action-packed dungeon crawls. Regular customers can be befriended, and then they can join players in dungeons; through these randomly generated levels, loot that is collected can be sold back at the store.
Visually, the game is quirky and cute. The old-school 3D design is dated but holds up in a nostalgic way that makes filling orders and buying stock colorful and cartoony. The random generation of action segments keeps things fresh, and provides an expansive post-game with more items to sell, more customers to appeal to, and more strategic pricing plans to create the best business possible. A classic of the genre, this game has clearly inspired a lot of the others on this list!
Potion Craft has a fairly simple premise made exceptional by all the extras. Players are potion sellers who must brew potions, discover their effects, and then sell these potions to customers - haggling wherever possible for the best possible sale price. A journal keeps track of which potions have been created, and this can quickly become a completionist's heaven as players slowly fill out more and more entries to eventually discover every combination of ingredients.
The huge list of ingredients and possible effects is impressive, and certainly enables fans to specialize their shops into narrower niches for their customers. There is a lot of humor and fun in the stylized graphics of Potion Craft, and the whole package is one of the most heart-warming and addicting shop simulators of all time.
While shop management simulators are often sandboxes that let players explore and adapt over time, Final Profit is different in that it has a very complex story alongside the business management side of the game. The narrative sees an undercover ex-Fae queen infiltrating the dystopian capitalist society of the Lords of Business to take it down from the inside after it threatens her Fae society. Featuring a cast of loveable characters, Final Profit goes a long way with its humor and by not taking itself too seriously.
The interior of the player's shop can be freely customized, and choices scattered throughout the game let Biz choose between doing the right thing and making an easy profit. The story takes Biz from small time at a small start up, to paying off debts, to eventually trading stocks and rare commodities while buying property, to collecting rent and destroying capitalism. Final Profit is a shop simulator that feels self-aware and is stuffed full of strange asides, fun mini-games, and hilarious jokes.
For a shop sim that is more focused on realism and the intricacies of owning and managing a real-world shop, King Of Retail gives players control over every aspect of their store. The interior decor, the products that stock the shelves, the staff (including their wages, hours and training); players are responsible for each part of the whole.
Giving fans of the genre access to advertising budgets, online store presence, and, eventually, the option to become a franchise with multiple locations, King Of Retail truly expands the focus of the shop simulator to the widest range of playable features possible. With the ability to recruit brand ambassadors and to target customers with signs and designs, this shop sim gets as close to realism as it can while remaining a light and fun management game.
While King Of Retail is more focused on realism in its gameplay and setting, Winkeltje: The Little Shop lets fans run a store in a fantasy world for some grounded magical escapism. Buying low and selling high is the heart of Winkeltje, while tracking stock and being able to deliver for an extra fee, and buying from traders when they come through, allow players to try and match the demand they expect to see for their products. Food, weapons, tools, and potions are all for sale, and the player can even start a farm-garden where they can grow produce to sell.
While managing the interior design, the player can also stretch their architectural abilities by expanding the building and making huge structural changes. Employees can be hired as part of an effort to expand, and managing supply and demand while staying on top of fair salaries based on training and experience can become tricky very quickly. Winkeltje is a charming little game that makes the world of shop simulator games cozy and warm.
Tackling a different aspect of the shop management sim by giving players control of a pawnshop, Dealer's Life 2 is a game about negotiation and haggling. Different sellers will enter the shop looking to sell pieces of junk that could be valuable, or they could not be. Fans will know to be cautious, as some sellers are scammers looking to sell forged items that are worthless. Players can hire experts who can value any potential products, or play mind games with customers to ensure the owner keeps their hands on their hard-earned cash.
With the game's dialogue and negotiations stuffed with jokes and references, Dealer's Life 2 is more cutthroat than most other shop simulators, but still keeps things lighthearted and fast. The addition of auctions for high value items makes for a basic game that gives players plenty of options for how to decorate, as well as how to treat their regulars.
Taking a page from King Of Retail's realism book, Supermarket Simulator lets players interact with a real-time market where the value of goods changes rapidly and often. The player must make an effort to buy products that they know will sell, while also ensuring that they are paying a reasonable price for them, so they can make a sensible markup in the store. Growing the shop and keeping it pleasant and approachable will take center stage, while expanding into bigger properties and stocking more shelves to have more money making opportunities fills out the rest of the management aspects.
Stock must be ordered online, and cash and card payments must be managed effectively, while also ensuring the player can pay to keep staff employed. These details will soon be expanded on; the game is still in Early Access, but the next features to be added will include shoplifters and customers ordering deliveries. Supermarket Simulator is shaping up to be the most authentic representation of shop management life on the market.
Ownable Trailers have been introduced since the update 1.32. They can be bought at the trailer dealer and customized at service shops. The player has to own a trailer to do Cargo Market jobs. There are 12 different types: Sliding Tarps, Dry Vans, and Flatbeds, as well as Insulated, Refrigerated, Container Carrier, Chip Van, Log, Food Tank, Lowboy, Livestock, and Dumper trailers. All of them except for Chip Van, Log, and Dumper trailers are available as Single, STAA Double, B-Double, Rocky Mountain Double, Turnpike Double, and Triple chains. Each state will have restrictions on the number of axles used. The Long Combination Vehicles page provides a table of the chain types and where it is allowed or prohibited so you know before you buy or configure your trailer.
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