Final Profit: A Shop RPG
FINAL PROFIT is a story driven shop-sim RPG. Gather products and find customers. Spend your hard-earned profits on upgrades and investments. Make far-reaching choices as you expand your business. And explore a world full of secrets on your quest to defeat capitalism by becoming the best at it!
Final Profit: A Shop RPG is a rpg, capitalism and life sim game
developed and published by Brent Arnold.
Released on March 06th 2023 is available in English only on Windows.
It has received 507 reviews of which 483 were positive and 24 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS *: Microsoft® Windows® 7/8/8.1/10 (32bit/64bit)
- Processor: Intel Core2 Duo or better
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 9/OpenGL 4.1 capable GPU
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 2 GB available space
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I don't review many games, but this one is a criminally underrated gem. Quite possibly the most advanced RPG Maker game I've ever seen. Obviously, the graphics aren't exactly pristine and new, the music varies from okay to very meh (case in point the menu music), but this game gets three things right: 1. Its gameplay loop. Surprisingly satisfying and gratifying, graduating from running a small shop in a village to manipulating the stock market through completely unrealistic means like making ads where you recommend or not to buy shares in which companies. 2. Its story. I’m quite familiar with Shop RPGs, having played some of the hallmarks of the genre like Recettear or Moonlighter. But this one is the first time I really enjoyed it after the first few hours. Not that it is anything revolutionary (heh), as you are playing a queen trying to take down a capitalistic country from the inside, but in its balance between ‘seriousness’ (it has a morality system!) and ‘fun’ (have you traded your coffee bread from the horse baker to the horse king? Or have you run across one of those dreaded fruit merchants in their place?) 3. Its secrets. This game has such a large quantity of secrets it’s insane. It’s not just your choices, and your alignment that matter for them either, but some minor actions you may not think much about. For example, some ‘quests’ may require you to give them something, but be slightly vague about it, the most straightforward thing you have to give them may not be the best solution. Now, usually, I’d count that as a drawback, as like many games which take this approach, you (as a player) have very little information on how to find them. However, the ones I didn’t find organically by just looking around are completely unessential and doesn’t impact (much) what endings you can get (because, yes, there are multiple of those). Easily top 2 game in the "RPG I needed a guide for" of the year of 2024 alongside Trails through Daybreak. A word to the wise for those giving it a try: apples are to be worshiped, oranges feared, and horses pet.
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I really enjoyed this game; it's fun and creative. I usually wait for sales and don't buy games at full price, but after playing the free demo and loving it, I decided to buy it at full price, and I have no regrets whatsoever. Give the game a chance—try the demo, and if you like it, go ahead and purchase it. I’ll be keeping an eye out for other games from the same creator because I’d definitely want to play them!
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I don't really know the best way to sell this game to you, but in an age where my short attention span has me bumping from one thing to the next without sticking much to any one thing this game had me losing whole days. I really enjoy any game which attempts to remove combat from the gameplay loop and this game does exactly that, flawlessly. You don't really manage a shop in this game, which kind of disappointed me at first but I adjusted, you don't have a lot of agency in how the shop is run, you just need to run it. What I mean is that if you think you are finding items and setting them up, and trying to sell them to people, that isn't really the experience. Instead, the items you sell work more analogue to "attacks". You discover an attack, and it works for a certain monster, the monster being a customer. The 'monsters' need to be discovered much like exploring a more contemporary RPG, via exploration, talking to NPCs, occasionally solving a puzzle. So really the only way the "combat" differs in this game from a regular RPG is that it is automated. But I'm just trying to gauge your expectation here. What really sets Final Profit apart from the riff raff is the writing and world-building. The main character is well defined with a solid goal: take down the bureau, a corporation which has introduced and perfected capitalism into a fairly generic fantasy landscape. elves, pixies, ghosts, horses, they all need to figure out how to hustle and what an "income" is. Currently the elvish world is struggling to compete with big money, and also disagrees about what to do about it. Therefore, your main protag has decided to play ball, and tangle with capitalism. it's a surprisingly compelling hook and there are some really funny off-the-cuff jokes that had me openly laughing. a very good time so far!
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Final Profit is not an in-depth economic simulation, it’s an RPG Maker game about making numbers go up. (That’s not a bad thing!) You play as Queen Mab, also known as Madama Biz, trying to earn enough money to save her people from the looming threat that is the Bureau of Business. A few major activities generate money. Running a shop is the most fully developed, there are real estate purchases that generate passive income, and trading stocks and commodities is about finding opportunities to buy low and sell high. They all work well enough, but none feel connected to a larger, functional economy. Instead, they’re stepping stones that unlock new mechanics to play with bigger numbers. Most of the narrative’s meaningful choices ask whether you want to make money fast or slow, affecting your “ruthless” or “generous” stats. NPC’s claim that you can’t win without being ruthless, and you can follow their advice, but Mab begins the game determined to prove them wrong. The story supports a few different endings, and you can be a character who outplays the Bureau of Business at their own vicious game or one who consistently refuses to stoop to the enemy’s level. I liked being able to accumulate gold and gain experience without having to endure turn-based combat. There are also opportunities to exchange money for experience, and vice versa, which encourage players to look for exploits that allow them to accumulate wealth faster. The tradeoff is that it’s difficult to tell which parts of the game are deliberately unbalanced to help players along and which parts just need to be calibrated better. Maps are cluttered with extras and hidden secrets, which can make it challenging to tell whether you’re about to unlock something that will be useful in the current moment, something that could have been ignored until later, or something that would have been helpful a while ago. There are also a lot of jokes throughout the game, and while some of them were great, the others didn’t land for me. A lot of meta-humor appears whenever the game’s controls are discussed — the NPCs recognize they’re in a video game while the main character doesn’t — which wore a bit thin. Overall, this game is messy, ambitious, and entertainingly goofy. I had a lot of fun with it. (It’s also worth noting that developer has actively been working to improve this game: I haven’t played the 1.2.1 update, which may address some of these issues.)
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For better or for worse, Final Profit isn't the second coming of Recettear. It does its own thing, and while managing a shop is a fairly big part of it, it's not the be-all and end-all. There's a solid narrative in here, one that manages to freely alternate between being whimsical and quite serious. The characters and the setting, while not necessarily meticulously fleshed out, all hit the right notes without much effort. Nothing to complain about when it comes to the game's looks, as far as I'm concerned. The music is noteworthy, can see myself revisiting the soundtrack here and there. The gameplay is varied enough, and interacting with the world is a joy whether you are busy getting the lay of the land, tracking down prospective customers, or replenishing your supplies. I'm pleased with the experience, albeit also a bit fatigued by it. Feels like the game came dangerously close to overstaying its welcome, and the prospect of jumping into NG+, while neat, is definitely not something I can see myself considering. But the bottom line is, I think I'll be fondly remembering Final Profit for a decent while.
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Online players
10
Developer
Brent Arnold
Publisher
Brent Arnold
Release
06 Mar 2023
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