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Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale header image
Released Oct 15, 2010 $19.99 Overwhelmingly Positive Counts toward your Steam games

Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale

By EasyGameStation · published by Carpe Fulgur LLC

CapitalismAnimeRPGDungeon CrawlerJRPGIndieSingleplayerCuteSimulationFemale ProtagonistManagementComedy
Track this game Steam page
Followers —
Reviews 6,695 Overwhelmingly Positive
Players yesterday 12 at the busiest moment
Owners 500K–1M estimated

About Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale

Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is a game tagged Capitalism, Anime and RPG by EasyGameStation, released Oct 15, 2010. It has 6,695 Steam reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive). It has an estimated 500K–1M owners on Steam. The Steam games most like it include Chantelise - A Tale of Two Sisters, Merchant in Dungeon and Sayaka's Addiction.

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!
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Steam data

Everything Steam lists for Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale · record updated 1 day ago

Steam store

Overview

App ID70400
Release dateOct 15, 2010
Last change number39323160
Last record update1 day ago

App info

App type
Game
Developer
EasyGameStation
Publisher
Carpe Fulgur LLC
Steam profile
Counts toward game count and achievement totals · checked Nov 1, 2025
Metacritic
82
Website
carpefulgur.com/recettear

Platforms

Steam Deck
Unsupported
Controller
Partial support

Features

3
Single-playerPartial controller supportFamily Sharing

Patches

Builds

1
BuildBranchUpdated
11606publicOct 25, 2026

Depots

Depots

3
IDNameSystemsSizeDownloadManifest
70401 — All 368.2 MB — 3872329393739575655
70402 — Japanese All 203.6 MB — 3106998140117590148
70403 — English All 247.4 MB — 7493116872848015809

Branches

1
BranchBuildUpdatedAccess
public 11606 — Open

Configuration

Install foldersteamapps/common/Recettear

Launch options

2
ExecutableArgumentsSystemsDescription
recettear.exe All
custom.exe All Launch Configuration Tool

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