Shoppe Keep - Xbox EUROPE Digital Key
If you haven’t played Shoppe Keep yet, why not join nearly 100,000 gamers who
are already enjoying this unique business management game, and create your own
fantasy retail consortium?
Shoppe Keep challenges you to shrewdly set the price of each item and watch the
money roll in – but if your stock is too expensive, you will find your supplies
shrinking as stealing increases! Stop Thieves quickly, with a swing of your
sword or a zap of a lightning spell! (Or maybe both, if you’re really
bloodthirsty.) Price your wares competitively and great adventurers will travel
from miles away to your one-stop shop to spend their gold – the gold that they
probably found conveniently placed on a cave floor! Shoppe Keep delivers deep
gameplay mechanics in a memorable, tongue-in-cheek world.
Gone are the days of testing the theoretical water – we’re now a fully-fledged,
fully-opened store! We even have an inn!
This building has been blocked off for some time, and many have speculated that
it will be an Inn – well, the sneaky players were right! The Inn is best used at
lower levels and a lower gold count. For a small amount of kPoints, you are able
to unlock the Inn with a single table for four guests.
An inn with a single table? What complete rubbish! Additional tables can be
purchased by speaking with the innkeeper, as well as additional upgrades that
will help your Inn deliver serious coin. Adventurers traveling through town
might want to visit the Inn and enjoy some food and ale – if they haven’t found
some randomly laying around on their travels already. We all know that fantasy
worlds cater for their heroes – but with Shoppe Keep, you’ll be able to make
sure that catering doesn’t equal ‘potato in a toilet’!
Various members of four completely original and never before seen character
classes will visit your store, including hardened warriors, magical mages,
sneaky rogues and wise druids. (As you can tell, we’re taking this description
text VERY seriously!) Each of these character types will seek to purchase items
relating to their unique skill set - a warrior will be hard-pressed to take a
flimsy magical robe into close quarters’ battle, for instance! Mages, however,
will be perfectly happy with a wooden stick. It’s ‘magical’, or something
ridiculous those absurd mages believe. Will you be able to accommodate for all
four classes of customers?
You have a completely unreasonable clientele to add pressure to your role as a
Shoppe Keeper. After a day of heroism, beating up goblins and even battling the
great ol’ Dragonclaw, your customers can be just a little short-fused. This
means your displays can be spoilt and your tables may be damaged by angry
customers! The renegade ‘heroes’ are not too worried about bringing in dirt from
the street either!
However, help is at hand! As the owner of the store you’ll be armed with various
exciting tools for combating these issues. The mighty wooden broomstick will
sweep away dirt brought in from your customers, and the great hammer will repair
furniture damaged by these ‘extraordinary’ visitors. A few sweeps and a couple
of swings means that your shop will be in tip-top shape. Grow your business, and
you can employ an army of ‘Helper Bots’ to take care of this for you – the
cutting edge in imaginary technology that totally exists.
Set your prices too high and your customers may think twice about investing
their hard won (or stolen) gold in your shop. They’ll take the plunge and
attempt to steal stock right under your nose! With no CCTV available in ye olde
world of Shoppe Keep, you have to rely on your combat skill! A sharp swing of
the sword or the zap of a magic spell can make quick work of these pesky
Thieves. But be cautious not to hit any innocent bystanders or you’ll suffer a
monetary penalty, as well as a life riddled with guilt! Not to mention the
hideous moral conundrum of whether or not to tell your family or- look, just
don’t kill innocent people.
And let’s not forget the ferocious Barbarians! They live on the outskirts of the
city, looming like an ancient race of organic-synthetic hybrids that invade the
gal- wait, wrong game.
Regularly invading the town, Barbarians will cause as much damage and
destruction as possible! They will even fight you directly if you try to stop
them. Eliminate a few dozen Barbarians and they’ll invite a much… larger friend
to come and visit you. But what will you do with all the bodies? Unless you wish
to display the corpses as examples to your customers, you monster, you’ll need
to use either the broomstick or the grinder.
It’s tough running a shop (especially one that may or may not be the venue of a
murder-fest); there are not enough hours in the day to go out and procure new
items for yourself. Thankfully, you can employ a Champion, unlocked via the
skill tree. Select a class, equip the Champion with your finest armour and
weapons, and send them out to bring home rare new wares. Despite that awful
half-rhyme, some of these items can
