Keep Me Gifted

This game has an engaging initial loop, cute art and dialogue, and satisfying mechanics like handling change and decorating packages. It also has a lot of issues. -There is no reason to do anything but stock the most expensive gift as soon as you can afford to do so. There is no consequence to not having diverse stock other than the occasional request from a customer who wants something you don't have, but they never follow up anyway. -I have tried my hardest to pet the cat. Nothing has happened. I think that achievement is vestigial. -Stickers appear behind patterns, it is hideous -Certain stickers are confusing because customers seem unhappy no matter what. They ask for lightning but they think the lightning badge is just superhero stuff or they complain that it was a sticker with clouds. The same thing happens with the two very different eye stickers. -Labels are placed on the box without the player's control -Requests are very repetitive (wow a kid who wants blue paper and a space theme,,,,wow) -Customers request colors that are not present in the game (I'll give you teal but there is no peach, nor navy) -The color and pattern selections are very limited, and they don't match what appears in the steam banner photo nor the images of the upgraded crafting table -The upgrades do almost nothing. A bow still costs a full dollar with a fully upgraded table, you don't get new colors, patterns, or stickers, you don't get to hire staff. Upgrading the Betsy part of your business fully also does nothing. I supposedly have the capacity for 15 Betsy orders per day, and they're supposed to be handled automatically. None of that is true - same 5 manual orders every day -The box cutter only reverses some changes to the package and the trash can is seemingly just decorative. It would be great to be able to properly start over. -The process of selecting a label can be very strange, sometimes several choices are equally reasonable summaries of a customer's requested message -I have been stuck at 4 stars exactly for many days. Buying and stocking every single item available didn't bring my rating up, nor do the many perfect orders I complete. -There is a whole third aisle in the store that has nothing in it. It's possible that these items get stocked at 5 stars but I guess I'll never know. -The damage meter straight up doesn't work. Some items will never show as safe despite using all available material. There is no stronger or bigger box or additional padding available. Conversely, items will appear to be fully secured, only to be marked as damaged in transit due to inadequate protection, because you technically could have used more packing peanuts. It is especially wack when said item is a tote bag. -There is no tutorial for the Betsy orders. I found out very late in the game that you have to click on the word "completed" to get paid for them and clear them off of the screen. -It is trivially easy to pay off what is supposed to be a sketchy, predatory loan in just a couple of days. -The tutorial is needlessly restrictive - rather than buying what you can afford, several items magically sparkle until you buy them and then you are given the opportunity to set the price of one (1) of them I enjoyed this game to begin with, but have found myself too bogged down in all of these issues to continue. I'm not even sure I listed everything that I noticed. At a certain point, I found myself wondering if there is some deeper level to this game that I'm missing - like, it's supposed to be a game about the sketchy loan shark and I just got too focused on the gift shop part - because that seemed more plausible to me than this game being as half-baked as it is. There is a lot about it that I like, but in my opinion it is quite rough around the edges, in a way you would expect an pre-release title to be.