Recettear is the story of an item shop, the girl who lives in it, and the fairy who turned her life upside down. Recette Lemongrass finds herself in charge of an item shop built into her house, in order to pay back a loan her father took and then skipped out on - and Tear, her newfound fairy "companion", won't take no for an answer! As Recette, you have to decide how you'll get your stock - either through playing the markets in town or going out into the wild with an adventuring friend and thrashing beasts until they give up the goodies - how much to sell things for, what the shop should look like, and how to best go about getting the money Tear needs to pay off the loan. If you can't come up with the money... well, hope you like living in a cardboard box.

Game features:
Manage all aspects of an item shop – from stock to interior design!
Explore randomized dungeons – never quite the same twice!
Multiple adventurers to choose from when dungeon-diving – no two play the same!
Plenty to do after beating the game – challenge yourself with Survival Mode or play to your heart's delight in Endless Mode!
Engaging story, localized by Carpe Fulgur – get to know the people of Pensee!

Changes v1.108:
The few remaining typographical errors in the game script have been fixed - the game should be pretty much free of typos now. The melons are entrenching into their sandy redoubts, however, and refuse to negotiate.
Relatedly, an error regarding the naming of the "brick floor" and "ruins floor" options for the shop has been fixed - the two items are now properly named and have proper descriptions.
The reputation level of the shop with 'normal' customers (such as old men) now increases properly in both Survival modes.
Adventurers should now properly equip any upgrades sold to them.
Adventurers will no longer attempt to wear two hats at once.
The crashes some people have been getting when the game attempts to play sound are fixed - if you are not getting sound, please ensure your sound drivers are properly installed and ensure your user permissions allow all programs to access sound hardware properly.
Fusion requirements have been extensively reworked - lower-level fusions in general should be easier now, and some of the highest requirements (such as 50 Fur Balls for the Panda Suit) have been drastically lowered. Note that level 4 and 5 fusions are still somewhat difficult, however, as these are premium - and powerful - items."

System requirements:
Windows XP/Vista
1.2 GHz
512 MB RAM