Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
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RPG indie game Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale comes from developer EasyGameStation and publisher Carpe Fulgur LLC. Released in 2010 at $19.99, it has 7,465 Steam reviews with 96% positive, rated overwhelmingly positive.
Overview
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is a 2010 RPG game developed by EasyGameStation and published by Carpe Fulgur LLC. On Steam it has gathered 6,659 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the RPG category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer EasyGameStation with publisher Carpe Fulgur LLC is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how RPG projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 400,000 to 932,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale can be compared against similar RPG titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
6,659
Positive
96%
Steam appid
70400
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0400K to 932K
units (median: 666K)
≈ $4.6M to $10.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2010 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_96% | +10 |
| genre_RPG | +10 |
| final NB | 100 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale at roughly 400,000 to 932,000 copies, with a median around 666,000, derived from its 6,659 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $7.6M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
34 observed days · window low $3.99Across 34 observed UTC days from 2026-06-19 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $3.99 on 2026-06-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Genres
RPGIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale sold?
- indielist estimates Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale has sold between 399,540 and 932,260 units (median 665,900), derived from its 6,659 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale?
- Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale was developed by EasyGameStation and published by Carpe Fulgur LLC.
- Who published Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale?
- Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale was published by Carpe Fulgur LLC, developed by EasyGameStation. See Carpe Fulgur LLC's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale released?
- Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale was released in 2010.
- How many reviews does Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale have on Steam?
- Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale has 6,659 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
- Is Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale worth playing?
- Steam players rate Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale 96% positive across 6,659 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale can compare it on indielist against semantically similar RPG titles such as Disco Elysium - The Final Cut, Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate, Nine-Ball Roulette, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, EasyGameStation's other releases and Carpe Fulgur LLC's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next RPG game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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