Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale

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!

Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is a capitalism, anime and rpg game developed by EasyGameStation and published by Carpe Fulgur LLC.
Released on September 10th 2010 is available only on Windows in 2 languages: English and Japanese.

It has received 7,146 reviews of which 6,864 were positive and 282 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.3 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale into these genres:

Capitalism Anime RPG Dungeon Crawler JRPG Indie Singleplayer Cute Simulation Female Protagonist Management Comedy Action RPG Fantasy Strategy Action Shop Keeper 2D Hack and Slash Adventure

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Minimum:

OS: Windows XP/Vista/7
Processor: Pentium 4 1.7ghz or Athlon XP 1700+ (or equivalent processor)
Memory: 256MB of system RAM (512 reccomended for Windows Vista and 7)
Graphics: DirectX 8.1-compatible video card of any type with at least 64 megabytes of video RAM; Nvidia and ATI tested (Intel Intregrated Graphics below X4000 series not recommended)
DirectX®: DirectX 8.1
Hard Drive: 700MB free HD space
Sound: DirectX 8.1-compatible sound card/motherboard chip

Reviews

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Oct. 2024

the best game of all time, unable to be recreated, egyptian pyramid levels of alien technology were granted to the devs and then revoked upon this masterpiece's completion. only excuse for nothing resembling this game being released in the last 10 years

May 2024

17 years and no other game since managed to get that same feel, and no sequel to make it a better version.

April 2024

EXCELLENT GAME BUT THE TUTORIAL IS LYING TO YOU Great game. Fun, easy to pick up and put down, cute characters, hilarious writing, simple mechanics. Absolutely would recommend. HOWEVER Don't listen to the word the tutorial says about haggling. Don't haggle. Ever. You want to build up a combo by offering everyone a price they are happy with the first time. That will get your level up much faster. The game also won't tell you that everyone has a different wallet size, and a different price they think is fair. Keep all that in mind. That said, awesome game, play it.

March 2024

This game is great until you make the sale of your lifetime before realizing that you actually bought that fishing rod for 300 percent market value and now you're going to be homeless

Feb. 2024

You can't beat the classics. Every few years i play another game similar to this, which just makes me play this again. Such a gem of a game.

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14.99€

9.3

6,864

282

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Developer

EasyGameStation

Publisher

Carpe Fulgur LLC

Release 10 Sep 2010

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