Shoppe Keep 2 Dev Log: Cooking, Employees & Achievements

Hello Keepers!

We're back in full swing! Shoppe Keep 2 has been played and tested internally by the dev team for hundreds of hours, and soon we will be letting a small batch of Closed Alpha players join in and help us bash out a few bugs that we missed. We'll also add in some quality of life additions prior to the Early Access launch of Shoppe Keep 2 on 26th April. Now, let's get into the features of this week's dev log.


Sometimes you may run out of containers (chests which can store a number of objects) and carrying too many items can weigh you down (You can become over encumbered if you hold too many items at once!). Well have no fear! Allow us to introduce the more lean little brother of the original Shoppe Keep grinder! The machine will grind up items that you offer it and reimburse you 25% of their worth (which can be upgraded via unlocks!)

We'll no longer see high value items in trash cans. Instead, if you happen to lose all of your wealth, be it by a complete disaster or a penalty for a daily quest, you are able to shift through the trash cans and try to secure some additional Muns!

Upgrading your cook to level 2 will change his house into a makeshift inn, where customers will be able to relax, grab a drink and order food. For this to be a profitable business venture, you'll need to hire a few helpers (but not helper bots!). You can hire a sous chef and a preparer from the candidate list available to you - keep in mind that you will be paying them every day! However the higher the quality of the food that they offer means affect the revenue of the inn. Some of the employees will not offer a great quality but will be much more affordable!

Here is a concept image of the visual changes that should happen to the inn from level 1 to 2:

The message board in Shoppe Keep 2 (not the forums on Steam, but an in game message board!) will give you the latest news within Customerania. Some events can be quite beneficial, while others will be a hurdle for Shoppe Keepers. As an example, one of the events would tell you that a table has crushed a famous person in their home due to its shoddy workmanship, this will cause all customers to be afraid of tables and will mean that they will refuse to buy anything from a table. So if your Shoppe has plenty of tables, you'll need to remove them and reorganize the shoppe to accomodate. Events are created to keep people on their toes and provide better judgement on stock rotation, but will also introduce some small parts of lore.



Steam will be our core platform for Shoppe Keep 2 - it makes distributing builds far easier than if we were to use any other method. Steam keys will be available from other digital stores too however! But as all of our players will be playing via Steam we have already created our first pack of Trading Cards, backgrounds, achievements, emoticons, badges and so on. However due to Steam being suffocated by some games that are using the trading card system for profit, we may not be able to launch with these until shortly after release. Either way, they've been created and we'll keep you posted on when they will be available.

We will be looking to add a contextual help button to most of the UI prompts. Pressing it will open up tips/tricks information that may include a video and a brief explanation on the current UI panel and how to use it.

Here are just a few of the armour sets that you'll be able to buy/craft/loot/find and sell for profit! Keep in mind that the world is full of adventurers who either can't decide on a favourite set of armour, or enjoy changing their class. So you may see an iron clad warrior come in and decide to start a career as a mage.

That's the end of this week's dev log! if you want to stay up to date, make sure to add the game to your Steam wishlist!