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…
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is an indie developed by EasyGameStation, released 21 December 2007 on PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 15 hrs to finish.
What Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is an indie game developed by EasyGameStation and released in 2007. It was published by Carpe Fulgur LLC. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
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 plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, business, comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 55% of the 5,101 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 12 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 73, across 53 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 15 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Pentium 4 1.7ghz or Athlon XP 1700+ (or equivalent processor), 256MB of system RAM (512 reccomended for Windows Vista and 7) and 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). At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it launched against
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale launched on 21 December 2007, within three weeks of Unreal Tournament 3 Black, No More Heroes, Patapon and Final Fantasy IV. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Unreal Tournament 3 Black, No More Heroes, Patapon, Final Fantasy IV.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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