Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is an indie, released 9 September 2010.
What Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale was released in 2010.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale is a role-playing game developed by Japanese dōjin maker EasyGameStation for the Windows operating system. The game follows a young girl named Recette, who is charged by the fairy Tear to run an item shop out of her house to pay off the considerable debt her father had accumulated before his mysterious disappearance; the eponymous shop is a portmanteau of the lead characters' names. In the game, the player controls Recette in several areas of gameplay, including bargaining and haggling with clients for goods, and accompanying an adventurer into randomly generated dungeons to acquire goods to sell, with the goal of paying back the debt within a fixed deadline.
How it was received
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 5,101 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 12 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale launched on 9 September 2010, within three weeks of Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach, Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Pokémon Black Version. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Pokémon Black Version.
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