Welcome to Blomkest, a small town where you are to manage a market owned by your aunt. There aren’t any other markets around, so it’s up to you to make sure the town is provided with things that it needs. You will be tasked with making trade deals, ordering, stocking, and ringing people up at the cash register. However, your aunt has money on her mind and wants you to bring in enough of it to expand and make a supermarket. It’s up to you to make this all work out. You are on a schedule, you have some time before and after work, but you must always show up for work and help the customers. You start off with a few items and can buy more as you complete challenges. Talk to the residents of the town for a little backstory on its history and find out more about the people who live there.

Here’s what I liked:

Customized Stocking — You are in charge of where your items are placed. You choose what goes where and how much of it you stock. This gives you a bit of customization to make the market yours. You’re also able to customize the walls and the floor, giving the look you desire. There are plenty of items to sell, and they all cost different amounts of money. I enjoyed choosing where these items were placed and being able to stock them on the fly. You can move things however you want, using before or after hours to do your customizing. Eventually, you even get to hire an employee to help you restock. I found ringing up people to be very satisfying. You get to use the calculator, and it becomes kind of a mini game, as you frantically ring up customers. There is an upgrade later that allows you to have a scanner, which is supposed to make it easier, but I did find it a little more awkward.

Take Your Time But Be On Time — As the days go on, you don’t have a time limit in the sense of how many days it takes you to complete the game. However, you do have somewhat of a time frame you need to worry about, which is when the store opens. Be there on time to make sure you get your money. Once the market closes, you’re then able to go about and finish things up. At first, this may seem like it gets in the way, but you do need money to complete the story. There’s plenty of times in order to expand you will need a large sum of cash. This means even if you’re going at a slow pace with the game itself, you’ll still be able to afford it when these times come up. And if you can’t? Just work a few more days, it’s really no problem!

Around Town — Besides working, you have many tasks to do outside of the store. You can talk to people around town and, specifically, complete trade deals with a few local vendors. They will want you to sell a specific item. As you complete these tasks, you will be able to buy the items at a discount. Doing this all is important for the store. There is also recycling. When you get a delivery, you have to dispose of the boxes. If you put them in the right bin, you can receive some extra cash. Need more shelves? Drop by the hardware store and buy some. You can even pick upgraded versions of the shelves. Maybe you want an attractive display, or one with deep shelves to stock even more. This all ties to the customization I referred to earlier. There’s always something to do, even after the end of the game you can continue your work.

Here’s what I didn’t like:

Just Buy It Already — I had a few issues with the special signs that are supposed to attract people. I would stack the items around it and even put attractive shelves. But for some reason, it didn’t seem to have much of an effect. I was after the achievement for selling 360 apples. So I put them on special shelves, and threw them around all the special things that are supposed to attract customers. They still bought other things that I didn’t do this with, just as much. I was no longer in control when it came to selling the specific items I was targeting. There’s also a cool feature, but also an annoying one. At the end of your day, you get to see everything you sold and all your bonus stats. The screen is not one you can skip, and after so many days, you’ll have quite a lot of waiting around to do while the screen tallies up the money earned. A welcome feature, but takes way too much time.

Too Many Generous People — When ringing people out, one problem I had was how generous the townspeople were. They would get in line, but often wait for whoever was before them. This was almost always the old woman who walked very slow. I just wanted to ring out whoever was waiting, but they were being nice. The problem is, once you have lots of items and customers, time is everything. The shop closes, and people will leave (along with their items in a bin) if it takes too long. Besides that, one thing that slows you down is a sticky floor. Which is an annoying mechanic. You have to run to a bucket and get two washes before having to run back to it. Sometimes these sticky floors are out of sight because of parts of the building blocking them. The only way you’ll know it’s there is if you see people walking super slow in it or you run into it.

Wrap-up

Sometimes it’s fun to be the one making all of the decisions for a business. There are a lot of items you can order and place where you’d like. Besides running the store, there are a few side things to do, and they’re all going to fill your day. I had a lot of fun ringing people up and making sure I ordered the right items. However, there were some issues I had with ordering, specifically that it did not display how many items I had total, but what I had in the back (not on the floor). There was also the issue of attracting customers to the specific items I wanted, but I guess in the end that wasn’t too big of a deal. No pun intended. Besides a few flaws, there’s a lot to enjoy about the simple mechanics and the small town of people that make sure you know when they’re not happy customers. But that’s common when it comes to consumerism.

Score: Highly Recommended

Discounty was published by PQube Limited and developed by Crinkle Cut Games on Xbox One. It was released on August 20 2025, for $19.99. A copy was provided for review.