RPG · September 10, 2010

Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale (2010)

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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! As Recette, you have to decide how you'll get your stock - either through playing the markets in town or going out into the wild with an adventuring friend and thrashing beasts until they give up the goodies - how much to sell things for, what the shop should look like, and how to best go about getting the money Tear needs to pay off the loan. If you can't come up with the money... well, hope you like living in a cardboard box. Key features: Manage all aspects of an item shop – from stock to interior design! Explore randomized dungeons – never quite the same twice! Multiple adventurers to choose from when dungeon-diving – no two play the same! Plenty to do after beating the game – challenge yourself with Survival Mode or play to your heart's delight in Endless Mode! Engaging story, localized by Carpe Fulgur – get to know the people of Pensee!

Community Tag Signals

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

  • Capitalism · 928
  • Anime · 824
  • RPG · 642
  • Dungeon Crawler · 586
  • JRPG · 516
  • Indie · 444
  • Singleplayer · 411
  • Cute · 403
  • Simulation · 351
  • Female Protagonist · 342
  • Management · 296
  • Comedy · 286
  • Action RPG · 256
  • Fantasy · 146
  • Strategy · 128

Position in RPG

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume7.2k Steam reviewsTop 42% in RPG
Positive rating96% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 5%
Metacritic82/100Genre average 78 — top 37% of RPG titles
Engagement hours13 h averageTop 74% for session depth among RPG

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Reception Metrics

Steam community

96%Overwhelmingly Positive · 7.2k reviews

6.9k positive · 290 negative

Metacritic

82/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

8.6/10

Curator recommendations

6.6k

Release & Availability

Release dateSep 10, 2010
DeveloperEasyGameStation
PublisherCarpe Fulgur LLC
Base price$3.99 -80%
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

13h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

7h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

4h

Current engagement

Features & Capabilities

Input & Comfort

  • Partial Controller Support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (2)

  • English
  • Japanese volume_up

Full audio (1)

  • Japanese

Editions & Packages

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