Anime Shop Simulator Launches On Steam With Co-Op And Card Decks
The Steam page frames this as a management sim that bleeds into a card game, letting players open booster packs and battle with built decks, so the storefront sim and trading card genre now feed each other in one product, in a crowded field where a Japanese-language launch had uneven font and notation issues.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
One More Time and Polnoch released Anime Shop Simulator for Windows on Steam, with Japanese support and four-player co-op. Players stock manga, figures, and trading cards, run the register, and open booster packs to build decks for card matches. At writing time it held a Mostly Positive rating with 75% of 167 reviews recommending it. It is 1,800 yen, discounted to 1,530 yen until September 26.
The game sells manga, figures, and trading cards, but players can keep incoming booster packs and open them instead of putting them on the shelf. Decks pulled from those collections can then be used in PvP card games. Steam listings also describe stock with manga genres and customer preferences, ID checks at the register for 18-and-over products, character customization for co-op, and disruptive customers such as litterers, thieves, and graffiti vandals.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.