Indie · July 13, 2015

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! (2015)

trophy50 achievementsextension1 DLClocal_offer-90% current discountgroup100k–1M ownersrecommend1.2k recommendations
Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! is a wacky simulation game where you manage your very own weapon shop and expand its business across an incredible potato world. Use your potato smiths to forge weapons and sell them to questing heroes. You will meet more than 70 potato heroes, forge more than 200 weapons, expand your business into 20 wacky areas, manage 30 zany potato smiths, discover 10 legendary pop culture heroes . . . and even adopt a potato dog! Inspired by games such as Game Dev Story, Weapon Shop De Omasse and Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale , Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! is designed to provide an exciting new gameplay experience to fans of this emerging game genre. The game score is composed by the legendary Kimura Masahiko​, who worked on the original score for the Genso Suikoden Series and the Castlevania Series . Features: Research and forge hundreds of weapons Manage and train 30 potato smiths Sell weapons to questing heroes and build customer loyalty to learn more about these adorable potato people Encounter random events and weather conditions Explore the potato world for materials, relics and enchantments Customize and enhance workshop equipment Forge unique weapons for legendary pop culture heroes

Indie releases from 2015

32 Indie titles launched in 2015 — top 6 by review volume.

Peer Indie titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Position in Indie

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume2.0k Steam reviewsTop 94% in Indie
Positive rating72% positiveGenre average: 87% — this title sits in top 93%
Metacritic69/100Genre average 77 — top 91% of Indie titles
Engagement hours9 h averageTop 64% for session depth among Indie

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Management · 68
  • Simulation · 61
  • Indie · 59
  • Casual · 39
  • Crafting · 36
  • Funny · 29
  • Singleplayer · 27
  • RPG · 20
  • Economy · 5

Reception Metrics

Steam community

72%Mostly Positive · 2.0k reviews

1.5k positive · 571 negative

Metacritic

69/100 critic aggregate

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Curator recommendations

1.2k

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (7)

  • English volume_up
  • Japanese
  • French
  • German
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Spanish - Spain volume_up

Full audio (2)

  • English
  • Spanish - Spain

Press Quotes

“This is one of those games you could easily get addicted to.” Markiplier “If you are looking for a fun little experience, then I think that you can absolutely find it here.” Total Biscuit “It ticks all the boxes for me. I love this type of gameplay.” Sips

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

9h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

6h

Typical completion time

Achievements

50

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateJul 13, 2015
DeveloperDaylight Studios
PublisherDaedalic Entertainment, Daylight Studios
Base price$0.99 -90%
DLC / Add-ons1 released
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · Support · [email protected]

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Cloud

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Editions & Packages

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