Merchant in Dungeon

I finally finished the game and decided to update my review.
The game is about repaying a debt your father aquired to pay for your adventures when you left town. You come back to the town and are told you dont have to repay the debt in one lump sum but in 10 installments. Each installment is higher than the last but the days you have time till to repay also increase.
To be able to repay the debt you have to collect money by selling stuff at your shops or fullfilling orders you get at your house, adventuring in the dungeon or betting in the arena.
There are 5 female "romancable characters" which intimancy you can increase with completing orders or giving them gifts.
1. Nina the Blacksmith of the town. She procudes Weapons, Accesories and Armour you can equip your character and employees with.
2.Leila. The food maker. She produces mostly drinks/foods and potions.
3. Ruri the Tavern hostess. She is the middlewoman for repaying your debt.
4. Kelly. The demon lords daughter to whom you have to repay the debt too.
5. Boldney. The guard of the dungeons.
There are 3 types of shops Catering, Miscellaneous and Armed Type which you can purchase multiple amount of and hire workers. (Catering had the highest amount)
In each shop you have a Store Manager and 2 Clerks and each store can have from 1-5 stars. The amount of stars shows how much you can invest in your own shop. Normaly you can offer 4 products in each shop if you increase "production" it increases to 8.
There is only a limieted amount of workers to hire so dont buy to many shops!
In Catering you sell food,drinks and potions. Armed Type is a weaponshop where you sell the weapons, armor and accessories. And miscellaneous is the rest.,mostly material, enchantment stones and also gifts you found in dungeons.
Each worker is also an adventure. Fighter, Ranger or Wizard with a Level you can increase by defeating monsters an ATK, DEF, HP and Speed stat which one of them you can increase with a lvl up and of cours equipment. You have to pay each worker a salary and the higher the stars the higher it will be. You can enchant the quipment with the stones you find in the dungeon at Leilas place.
Home. This is your "mainbase". You start with one shop and you can buy more and hire more workers to sell the staff you dont need to earn money. There you can Manage your employees where you can equip them with items to be able to beat monsters in dungeons, buy shops, fill the shops with items and collect the money from items sold and your bedroom where you need to heal up your and the workers HP. Check Orders is the most important thing. You have a time frame for each order and if you dont complete it till the last day the intimancy of the afflicted character will be reduced. You can increase the price of the Orderded item by a % when you complete it. You either get intimancy or fame and of course gold for each completed order. Loosing intimancy is a big deal especially for Leila and Nina. (I didnt find out till the end for what fame is used for)
At the Wortkshop & Institute you have the Production Line where you can order the things you need to complete your orders. It will also show the amount you need and which person ordered it. You can either produce 5 10 or 20 of the item but the amount will also increase the time it needs to finish. (It doesnt count the amount you already have!) You can of course gift them something and INVEST in their business. You need a specific intimancy reached to be INVEST. Each investment unlocks a prodution line from 1 up to 6 which allows you to order multiple items and also unlocks new items.
Town Gate where 6 diffrent dungeons are. To unlock the next and more difficult one you need to Progress atleast to 50%. This means exploring the diffrent room combinations. There are 5 paths each time but you only have 3 to hoose from. Random event can be a trap to dmg you, heal you or be an item. Combat is fighting against monsters which you cant see before and earn XP, Gold and items from winning. Collection lets you choose from 1 of 3 items. Empty is just a safe space where nothing happens. Recover heals a little of all your party. Lastly Portal brings you back to town. The only other way to leave a dungeon is flee which will reduce your TOTAL gold by 10%.
Tavern is Ruris shop and the place you need to go multiple times. I didnt manage to catch a single monster in the dungeon so I had to hire employees. You need to pay for an interview and depening on how much money you infest the chance for higher stars increases and the amount to interview increases. Advertisment is for 10 ingame days and can be choosen for one of your shoptypes to make it more popular. The arena is a place where you can bet money and earn 3 times more the amount. To enter it you need to pay 1000 gold each time and you can bet from 1000 up to 10000 on one of the 3 monsters. 90% of the time the monster from one of the later Dungeon areas wins so try to remember which one is where and has the higest amount of stars.
Town square. You walk around and should meet someone or find an item. I only met another character 2 times.
Dept repayment. The very first payment was the only stressful one. I was close to failing in paying it with the 1 week but after the second one I had no problems I always had enough money. It is still wise to wait till the last day until your busninesses are running smothly because the next one will be higher and some items cost a lot of money to produce if you arnt sure you will be able to pay it just take your time.
Bugs/Problems: I had one problem with recuriting workers where it was stuck in the interview process because there was only 1 available but it wanted to search for atleast 3. This got fixed the same day.
The rest isnt really a bug but an inconvenience I would say. I was able to play the game with close to 1500FPS but this drops if you got to many items for your shops if you want to restock the goods. The game froze multiple times for about 5 seconds that if I clicked somewhere it would crash. This only happens if you have to many items of a certain type so mid to lategame.
The game was hard for me at start but than it was easymode. I failed 3 orders at the beginning which cost me a lot of intimancy and had me be stuck with leila's investment because I couldnt increase the intimancy and only got FAME from her orders. I started with 1 shop from each type and increased the amount each time I had to many items and enough money. I went to the dungeon each time there was nothing to do and equiped my character and 3 other workers with the items. Later I equiped all workers and sent them for quests into the dungeons to earn XP so that I can use diffrent ones if the others are out of service. Night is harder than day so I mostly did night with my main character. Maybe my tactic broke the game system because I would have been able to repay the debt way faster than it should be possible (30 ingame days to the over 100 planned ones) but waited to finish all other achievments first.
The intimancy also triggered some "Cutsceneces" sometimes and at the finish you will be able to choose one of the 5 but every one I choose gave me a kind of bad ending. So it is not a romance game just a Management game with some adventure elements.
I had no problems starting and playing the game which seems to be a minority and the game isnt perfect with some inconveniences which I didnt mention but you will feel them when you play.
I enjoy this type of gameplay and recommend the game with the hope it will improve even more over time and it was fun for a few hours and a lot of time went intro writing for each workers description and the shops. (Also the fast fixes improvments of the developers is a big plus for me)

Steam User 14

Reviewed last year

I finally finished the game and decided to update my review.
The game is about repaying a debt your father aquired to pay for your adventures when you left town. You come back to the town and are told you dont have to repay the debt in one lump sum but in 10 installments. Each installment is higher than the last but the days you have time till to repay also increase.
To be able to repay the debt you have to collect money by selling stuff at your shops or fullfilling orders you get at your house, adventuring in the dungeon or betting in the arena.
There are 5 female "romancable characters" which intimancy you can increase with completing orders or giving them gifts.
1. Nina the Blacksmith of the town. She procudes Weapons, Accesories and Armour you can equip your character and employees with.
2.Leila. The food maker. She produces mostly drinks/foods and potions.
3. Ruri the Tavern hostess. She is the middlewoman for repaying your debt.
4. Kelly. The demon lords daughter to whom you have to repay the debt too.
5. Boldney. The guard of the dungeons.
There are 3 types of shops Catering, Miscellaneous and Armed Type which you can purchase multiple amount of and hire workers. (Catering had the highest amount)
In each shop you have a Store Manager and 2 Clerks and each store can have from 1-5 stars. The amount of stars shows how much you can invest in your own shop. Normaly you can offer 4 products in each shop if you increase "production" it increases to 8.
There is only a limieted amount of workers to hire so dont buy to many shops!
In Catering you sell food,drinks and potions. Armed Type is a weaponshop where you sell the weapons, armor and accessories. And miscellaneous is the rest.,mostly material, enchantment stones and also gifts you found in dungeons.
Each worker is also an adventure. Fighter, Ranger or Wizard with a Level you can increase by defeating monsters an ATK, DEF, HP and Speed stat which one of them you can increase with a lvl up and of cours equipment. You have to pay each worker a salary and the higher the stars the higher it will be. You can enchant the quipment with the stones you find in the dungeon at Leilas place.
Home. This is your "mainbase". You start with one shop and you can buy more and hire more workers to sell the staff you dont need to earn money. There you can Manage your employees where you can equip them with items to be able to beat monsters in dungeons, buy shops, fill the shops with items and collect the money from items sold and your bedroom where you need to heal up your and the workers HP. Check Orders is the most important thing. You have a time frame for each order and if you dont complete it till the last day the intimancy of the afflicted character will be reduced. You can increase the price of the Orderded item by a % when you complete it. You either get intimancy or fame and of course gold for each completed order. Loosing intimancy is a big deal especially for Leila and Nina. (I didnt find out till the end for what fame is used for)
At the Wortkshop & Institute you have the Production Line where you can order the things you need to complete your orders. It will also show the amount you need and which person ordered it. You can either produce 5 10 or 20 of the item but the amount will also increase the time it needs to finish. (It doesnt count the amount you already have!) You can of course gift them something and INVEST in their business. You need a specific intimancy reached to be INVEST. Each investment unlocks a prodution line from 1 up to 6 which allows you to order multiple items and also unlocks new items.
Town Gate where 6 diffrent dungeons are. To unlock the next and more difficult one you need to Progress atleast to 50%. This means exploring the diffrent room combinations. There are 5 paths each time but you only have 3 to hoose from. Random event can be a trap to dmg you, heal you or be an item. Combat is fighting against monsters which you cant see before and earn XP, Gold and items from winning. Collection lets you choose from 1 of 3 items. Empty is just a safe space where nothing happens. Recover heals a little of all your party. Lastly Portal brings you back to town. The only other way to leave a dungeon is flee which will reduce your TOTAL gold by 10%.
Tavern is Ruris shop and the place you need to go multiple times. I didnt manage to catch a single monster in the dungeon so I had to hire employees. You need to pay for an interview and depening on how much money you infest the chance for higher stars increases and the amount to interview increases. Advertisment is for 10 ingame days and can be choosen for one of your shoptypes to make it more popular. The arena is a place where you can bet money and earn 3 times more the amount. To enter it you need to pay 1000 gold each time and you can bet from 1000 up to 10000 on one of the 3 monsters. 90% of the time the monster from one of the later Dungeon areas wins so try to remember which one is where and has the higest amount of stars.
Town square. You walk around and should meet someone or find an item. I only met another character 2 times.
Dept repayment. The very first payment was the only stressful one. I was close to failing in paying it with the 1 week but after the second one I had no problems I always had enough money. It is still wise to wait till the last day until your busninesses are running smothly because the next one will be higher and some items cost a lot of money to produce if you arnt sure you will be able to pay it just take your time.
Bugs/Problems: I had one problem with recuriting workers where it was stuck in the interview process because there was only 1 available but it wanted to search for atleast 3. This got fixed the same day.
The rest isnt really a bug but an inconvenience I would say. I was able to play the game with close to 1500FPS but this drops if you got to many items for your shops if you want to restock the goods. The game froze multiple times for about 5 seconds that if I clicked somewhere it would crash. This only happens if you have to many items of a certain type so mid to lategame.
The game was hard for me at start but than it was easymode. I failed 3 orders at the beginning which cost me a lot of intimancy and had me be stuck with leila's investment because I couldnt increase the intimancy and only got FAME from her orders. I started with 1 shop from each type and increased the amount each time I had to many items and enough money. I went to the dungeon each time there was nothing to do and equiped my character and 3 other workers with the items. Later I equiped all workers and sent them for quests into the dungeons to earn XP so that I can use diffrent ones if the others are out of service. Night is harder than day so I mostly did night with my main character. Maybe my tactic broke the game system because I would have been able to repay the debt way faster than it should be possible (30 ingame days to the over 100 planned ones) but waited to finish all other achievments first.
The intimancy also triggered some "Cutsceneces" sometimes and at the finish you will be able to choose one of the 5 but every one I choose gave me a kind of bad ending. So it is not a romance game just a Management game with some adventure elements.
I had no problems starting and playing the game which seems to be a minority and the game isnt perfect with some inconveniences which I didnt mention but you will feel them when you play.
I enjoy this type of gameplay and recommend the game with the hope it will improve even more over time and it was fun for a few hours and a lot of time went intro writing for each workers description and the shops. (Also the fast fixes improvments of the developers is a big plus for me)
Steam User 2

Reviewed last year

I've finished the game. Have to say it's decent but there are many aspects that needs improvements. Gaining and making money is very easy in this game if you keep fulfilling customer request and find 'correct' items for selling at your store. However the ending is kinda disappointing, it's a bit bland and raising intimacy with each character here is very easy if you know the tricks...It's not very challenging tbh but if you enjoy 'casual' and easy game play with not much of rich story. I recommend this.
Steam User 3

Reviewed last year

Dev fixed the problems, used a lot of time and energy both listening and doing their best, even as a small team and having a hard time finding the problem on their own end due to pc's of different languages ... I personally recommend the game, because I know that whatever problems might arise, these devs try their best :D

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