About the Game
Ever wanted to start your own business? In King of Retail, anything is possible!
Plan a shop theme and store design, and launch your very own enterprise. The store is your kingdom, and if you run it well you might be able to expand into a larger corporation! If you get it wrong… well, blame it on the economy.
Get Rich, Your Own Way
It’s your store, and you can sell whatever you want! Want to run a shop that only sells chicken? Do it! Every kind of electronic, and also fresh foods? Why not!
Design and customize your store, and achieve your dreams of running a unique emporium of your very own.
Make a Customer, Not a Sale
The secret is, you need people to choose YOUR location to spend their hard-earned money. What makes your store the best? Do you have the best shelf-stockers in town, or the most convincing salespeople? Maybe you simply have well-targeted online ads. There are many ways to make your store stand out!
Watch your customers closely! Study their behavior and figure out what makes them pull out their wallets. Then, do more of it!
Turn Employees Into Brand Ambassadors
Humanize your brand by hiring humans — the right ones! Conduct interviews with prospective employees to find the best mix of skills and culture fit. Negotiate salaries, manage shifts, and train people up so they thrive and grow with you
Don’t Get Comfortable
Why settle for one shop, when you could run a whole chain? Invest money in advertising to bring in greater throngs of customers; rebrand your store’s interior design; and keep optimising stock and pricing to maximize your profit. If it all pays off, you might be able to incorporate and expand into multiple stores across the city!
Your Company is an Extension of You
It’s your store, and you can run it how you want. Micro-manage every detail and constantly adjust for optimal profit, or just watch the ebb and flow of your perfect masterpiece. You’re your own boss and you can play your own way — it’s good to be the king.
Screenshots
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
- A few displays have had their visuals updated
- Thieves should not notify you of stolen articles when you captured them
The last update didn't go as smoothly as i had hoped for, which unfortunately meant that many of your savegames was affected by it. This resulted in multiple stores and corporations going bankrupt.
For this i am terribly sorry, as it also means that a lot of playtime that has gone down the drain.
But... i have spent these following days thinking about how i can make it up to you again, and i think i found a solution.
I have uploaded a patch where you can send a mail to your old friend and ask for money.
YES - this means that you can now use cheats to get money.
For those of you with affected single store savegames, you can hopefully recover your stores financially, or if this is too late, build a new store that gets you up to speed.
For those of you with corporation savegames, you can here get this money from the store, and transfer it back to your corporation.
Also for quite a while, many of you has requested the possibility of a sandbox type of gameplay. Many of you enjoy a more relaxed game where you can focus on designing interesting stores, instead of having to sell stuff to customers and make sure you have enough money.
So this should also allow you to enjoy the game more as you can focus more on what you enjoy doing.
So hopefully this new possibility will make some kind af amends for this slip up.
As this has been implemented and added to allow you to get back to the game in a very short time, this is currently the only cheat that is available, but more will of course follow in time.
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How to access it
To access it, you need to do following:
- Go to your computer at the end of the day.
- Go to your mails, and then the new option "Write mail".
- Here you should write your dear friend "Morten Mousepad" and ask "Gimme money".
- Send the mail, and receive your money.
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Again, terribly sorry for these problems the past few days, and I sincerely hope that this allows you to get on with your stores, and allow you to enjoy the game again.
So until next time, happy Sales
//Daniel
A few bugs unfortunately slipped through the last update.
- When loading a game HQ managers start with 0 optimism.
They will now load as usual. Unfortunately already affected managers continue with their last saved value.
- Customers whislte and leave, when a register is closed which they are not in queue for.
They will now behave as usual, and go to another register if the one they were heading to is closed.
- Staff will not require large wages when returning to a store after a lot of days.
Already affected staff will keep their wages, however will most likely not ask for a raise for a long time.
- Pressing ESC when editing a schedule caused the HUD to lock schedule.
It should now work as requested.
- An issue switcing your managers name for a customers should no longer be possible.
I am sorry for the inconveniences these bugs might have caused to your game experience. Thank you for the reports, and if other issues arrive, let me know and i will try and fix it as quiskly as possible.
A minor update is released :)
Mac realeased
We finally got the Mac version up and running, meaning you also have access to the latest major update.
We still haven't fully solved the issue with exporting to Mac, meaning that updates may be a few days delayed. We will still work on this issue, and hopefully be able to bring updates simultaneously.
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Minor UI update
We have also received feedback that the new UI is a bit too overwhelming, and that some of the functionalities aren't too obvious, and that you miss some of the old functionalities.
So we have made some changes that should improve this in the most essential areas.
- You can select colors on the inventory before buying.
- On displays you have the option to edit all locations at the same time (like before), or to micromanage them individually.
- You are again shown how many items remains to be unpacked from the storage.
Feel free to tell us what and how you think the UI can be improved further, as the next period will be dedicated to adjust various things according to the feedback you give us regarding the latest update.
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Customer entry update
Customers did also not enter the store at random, making the start of a store even harder. This has also been corrected.
Due to what is mentioned above, this update will be published within the next days for Mac also.
Current Release
Not available
System Requirements
How to Install
KingOfRetail.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
2.2 GB
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