Moonlighter and Recettear - Item Shop Games ~ Design Doc

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Game:
Moonlighter (2018)
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Review
Duration: 13:11
164,915 views
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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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