Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale

Can someone explain why there aren't more games like this? Dungeon exploration + shopkeeper in a medieval fantasy setting is clearly popular, why aren't there more games like this?

Why does Recette, the largest shopkeeper, not simply eat the others?

很庆幸即便长大了我也是和小时候一样热爱着游戏，这就够了

I scammed the ♥♥♥♥ out of a kid with a piece of candy

Listen, I don't recommend it, but that doesn't mean it's bad. Far from it. But despite all I appreciate in this game, I've played 7.2 hours of it and those have been hours of me trying, but not quite managing to enjoy it. I don't recommend it, and these are subjective opinions. The game deserves the Overwhelmingly Positive reviews it's got. Recettear is a game where you have a deadline to pay a debt on the house you live in. It was left to you, Recette, a child who now has to use the item shop to sell enough garbage and ancient relics and weapons to the town you live in so that you aren't homeless. The game is old, and it shows its age, but it's charming. A more modern take would be Moonlighter, but the actual selling mechanics of that game are much less developed than here, focusing more on combat (where here, it is the opposite). The game has been 'solved', sorta, but there's a lot to learn here and you won't grasp everything if you just play blind, which is how I preferred to experience it. Now, I praise it, but I just couldn't stick to it. There's a lot to appreciate, and it is something of a cult classic, but I felt like there were other things I wanted to spend my time on, that there were games that were doing the things I wanted from this game better. The actual shopkeeper element of it, I think is still best in this game, even with alternatives starting to come into the market. I just couldn't get hooked.

好玩，最早在游戏风云上看他们两个玩，童年回忆，现在玩也不过时 唯一的缺点是没有续作，有类似的作品也好啊

The greatest capitalism game of all time. I desperately need a sequel.