I don’t have quite a bit going for me proper now, however there’s one accomplishment I can proudly share: I’m the final supervisor at Good Groceries, the latest grocery store the place you could find every thing you want for dinner, with specialties like unbanded rice, milk bricks, fruit yogurt, and an entire number of sodas. What led me to such wealthy bounties? I found Grocery store Collectively, a free sport on Steam that’s catching on.
“Grocery retailer simulator” doesn’t appear to be an amazing gross sales pitch at first, however as soon as I received a retailer going with my pals, we had been all quietly enthralled. We divided ourselves into roles in an orderly vogue: I proudly stocked the cabinets, my buddy Matt ordered merchandise, and we had a rotating employees of pals on the money register.
The sport’s design jogs my memory a number of Deadly Firm’s, besides as an alternative of worrying about sharp drops, murderous cryptids, or cursed masks, the worst factor we cope with is the dreadful shoplifter. Fortunately, the sport supplies us with instruments for a extremely efficient loss prevention division: brooms. If anybody tries any humorous enterprise, they get swarmed and thwomped repeatedly.
These days, I’ve been craving a chill gaming expertise to share with pals — one thing straightforward to select up, versatile for co-op, and never requiring an excessive amount of mind. Whereas there are many nice video games to take pleasure in with pals, like Stellaris, Helldivers 2, or Sea of Thieves, a few of them are slightly too concerned, particularly when folks trickle residence from work in a staggered sequence, or somebody has to step away to cope with household or any of 1,000,000 different interruptions.
That stated, it does appear to be you may crank up the chaos in Grocery store Collectively; the sport helps as much as 16 gamers, and it scales up the issue with the variety of folks within the foyer. There’s additionally a separate problem meter, in case you need to play at a degree that calls for squads of broom-wielding shopkeepers roaming the grocery store grounds in search of thieves to pummel.
