Moonlighter and Recettear - Item Shop Games ~ Design Doc @DesignDoc
Moonlighter and Recettear - Item Shop Games ~ Design Doc @DesignDoc
Uploaded September 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Moonlighter and Recettear are both good Item Shop games, a genre with very few examples. But they're not perfect, and their flaws are practically opposite to each other. Let's review what makes these two games work, and what a future item shop game could learn from both of them.

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