Faire Trade

I have to actually ask, honest to kupo question. Why should i play this over Winkeltje? the new features are just outright... padding? Cool i have a house, with no point in existing. theres a town, with no reason to exist except to make me walk to town to get blueprints. I just.... dont understand why i should pick this over Winkeltje. Honest pass. I tried to like it but i just can't.

lack in everypart of the game vs previous game

I really wanted to like this game. The art style is charming, the concept is solid, and I love shop management games. Unfortunately, after a few hours it became obvious that **Faire Trade values busywork far more than the player's time.** The onboarding is rough. The tutorial feels poorly paced, and at one point I didn't even have enough money to complete the objective it was asking me to do and what that objective was - wasn't even clear! Instead of teaching the game's systems naturally, it left me wondering whether I had made a mistake or whether the economy simply wasn't balanced around the tutorial. The biggest problem, however, is the gameplay loop. Customers frequently buy a single item, instantly emptying a display, which sends you running back to storage to refill it. Over and over. It quickly turns into: * Customer buys one item. * Shelf is empty. * Restock. * Repeat. That isn't engaging management—it's repetitive maintenance. The game advertises employees, but don't expect meaningful automation. Even with staff available, much of your time is still spent manually restocking, crafting, transporting goods, and handling logistics yourself. It never reaches that satisfy…

Can't really recommend, its been almost a year of early access and they still don't even have feature parity with their last shopkeeper game. There's basically no point to buying this game over their last one, and if you already have the last one, its just better. This game clearly went into early access far too early, and still doesn't have any thing really worthwhile to show for it.

!! Only get Winkeltje !! Within 10 minutes Fare Trade: 1. Makes you work the register, but the slight camera pivots made me nauseous. 2. You have to walk home every night just to end the day, got annoying fast. 3. The village is cool, but you can only interact with the lights and one blueprint lady. 4. Started the pottery station and it used WOOD instead of CLAY to make my first bowls. Refunded I'm sorry devs :,(

Love this game! Not a big surprise because I enjoyed their last game. A pure shop game that is deep and complex while still being chill to play.