Goblin's Shop

Fun, Cute, Addicting.

Been playing on and off for years

The game centers around a goblin main character that isn't combat-oriented so they decide to open a shop to sell adventuring gear to monsters.
I'll start out with a couple positives.
It's a cute artstyle
I like the concept of having to rely on others instead of directly doing the attacking yourself.
The shop system is fine.
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There are quite a few things that I have a problem with though.
WASD fails to work half the time when adventuring (usually when there's a notification of a human or when there's multiple humans chasing after you... hmm...), even though clicking the mouse still works.
The gem system is very reminiscent of premium system in gacha/mobile games. Not a good look for a game you have to pay for.
Long period between updates, almost seems like it's dead w/ how little activity there is.
The top menu is bloated and the icons get confusing.
Can't tell if this game is going by real time or if it's going by some sort of in game time system. Half the time I quit and start it up again the next day the tavern (which resets daily) is filled, but the in-game time goes by quicker than real life time.
Adventuring abilities are a lot weaker than you'd imagine. The money bait move fails to work half the time, even when directly next to humans.
The game gives you a tutorial on many things, but fails at giving a full employee one. I didn't realize I had to actually click on a character sheet for him and select which jobs I wanted him to do since nothing told me about it.
Login system that locks character customization if you're playing as a "guest".

Honestly, if you try to retrofit an app as a steam game, please make sure you fix more than the bare minimum of removing microtransactions.

Recommended for those that like this genre of game, but only on a 90% off or higher sale, otherwise I wouldn't recommend this game in the present state that it's in.

very bad not for the pc !
it looks like its made for GEMs but only if you have 200 of them you can finish the tutorial ..the bad thing is only 40 are given!? wtf nicely done steam for not looking ...buying is ok but playing who cares
dont touch this glutencornpop called GAME

i only have 11 hours on pc but have well over 300 hours on ios its such a fun game but i would recommend that you just get it on phone its free on phone

I really want to leave a good review for this game. I played it on mobile years ago and loved it. After getting a new phone I noticed that the game was no longer offered in the googleplay store. I was excited to see it was now on steam. Sure, the playstore game was free but I was happy to shell out $10 for the game on PC.

The game is a fun little casual game where you play a little goblin who's dream is to have his own adventuring shop. Unfortunately you're too puny to do much fighting so must hire mercenaries to fight for you. Most of the game is spent either in your shop upgrading, expanding it in some way, catching shoplifters, promoting merchandise, getting new mercenaries, crafting or out in the world map doing overland dungeons harvesting as your minions do the fighting for you.

It's a cute little game, the music is catchy, art assets are cute, sound effects adorable. Goblin flavor text is quite funny when he's in his store.

I truly want to give this game a thumbs up, but I can't play it for long. For whatever reason this game just burns through my computer. (Running on an i7-8700 and a 1080 graphics card, 16G ram)

Graphic intensive games I can play with no issue. This one however is a monster. Within about 20 seconds of launching the game I can watch the temps on my CPU and graphics card go bananas and raise about 30 degrees. CPU and disk useage also goes haywire. I should not have to crank my fan speed up for a simple game like this when I don't have to on say Skyrim, The Division or any graphically superior game.

Worrying yet is the sound coming from my computer when I go to the overland map. It only happens on the overland map and only in this game. I don't even know how to describe it, it's loud, whirling, whining and worrying. I can only imagine it's my harddrive as it's not my fans. I love this game, I'd love to play more of it, but this is nuts. I've not seen many updates from the Dev in about a year, so I'm assuming the game isn't supported anymore?

I'll hold on to the hope that one day this issue gets fixed or the game optimized because I truly think it's a great game. Alternatively I wait for it's return on googleplay.

A hidden Gem

cant play because of loading bug.

15 hours in, just trust me when i say make a pass on this. Lots of irritating things in this game, once you get to the point i am its just a HUGE grind. Hell its nothing but a grind, typically games like this you want to be able to walk away for a few mins and see some progress but there is none.

Honestly this is just an idle game w/o the idle mechanics and after 3hrs you will find yourself regretting you bought this.
I bought on sale for $5 and still not worth it!

Awful tutorial. Slow gameplay.

Has the tutorial of a mobile game: "Do this. Now do this. Now do this. Now do this. Now do this. Etc." Softlocks during the tutorial if you attempt to exit the forest and click that you changed your mind.

This game is a joke.

I payed 15 hours offline and there is no progress.

The territory: The territory is always the same. Territory 1 or territory 12. It makes no difference. So it is always the same, endless boring slow grind.

The shop: I am on level 30. I leveled up my epic weapon chance 10 times. Every time a get a 0.5% higher chance creating a epic weapon.
Progress after 15 hours: In 15 hours I created 30 epic weapons. This means 1,5 more epic weapon every 15 hours.

I leveld up my chests discorery 10 times. Every time a get a 1% higher chance discovering chests.
I discoverd 75 normal chests and 34 magic, 28 rare and 13 epic chests in 15 hours.

Progress after 15 hours: If I play another 15 hours I will geht 3 magic, 3 rare and 1 epic chests more.
I leveled up my repair 10 times. Every time I get a 1% improvement.
Progress after 15 hours: I loose 10% less durability reapiring an item.

So, my progress after 15 hours:
1,5 more epic weapon every 15 hours.
7 more chests every 15 hours.
10% less durability loss when repairing an item.

There is slow grind and there is stupid. I was stupid to play this game so long.

I tried to get into this game, but ultimately put it away.

The premise is that you are a shopkeeper for the monsters who fight humans. You progress in experience points not by fighting but by shop keeping. You can designate VIPs to do the fighting for you when you collect resources to craft items for your shop. I like this premise, but there are several things about the game I don't like.

Progressing through human territory means discovering new materials and new crafting recipes. But the rate of discovery outpaces the slow rate of craft mastery. By the time I've mastered crafting level 2 weapons/armor/potions, I'm already on level 4 materials in the human world. Obtaining mastery of crafting is a big grind.

You can hire help that can ring up purchases, solicit customers, and repair gear. However, no matter the skill level, these hires will fall asleep on the job, causing irate customers.

The nearby town has various activities, but none of them have any explanation. I never figured out how to use the stock market or the lottery game. The jobs on offer provide too little reward for the tedious tasks listed.

Providing a weapon upgrade station requires you to stock the upgrade materials, not the monsters. And it will vastly deplete the materials you need to craft items. Providing an enchantment station requires you to stock the enchantment materials, which accrue at a very slow rate.

It is difficult to single out specific customers in the shop, given that they tend to stand at the same spot in front of an armor/weapon/potion display. It would be better if they staggered their positions left/right.

The game will frequently tie up the CPU to the point where it cannot process mouse movement or clicks. This happens at the worst times: attempting to get rid of shoplifters/angry customers, selecting the barrels with rubies on the daily bonus screen, getting away from humans, etc.

So, I cannot recommend this game.

its alright

i got a refund after finding out the game is free on android?

I dont mind paying the 66 HKD but at least let me link up the accounts if i do.

The game has a good foundation and concept but one of the problem I see is obtaining scrolls for equipment, weapons, and potions. Also the other flaw is the stamina required to explore on the map. That doesnt make any sense. It honestly shouldnt have a limitation considering you wont be playing with other players. The caravan cart timer is a little asurd in a offline game. It has alot of potential and I see this game going far but overall game play and content needs to be improved.