Discounty sees you managing a cheap grocery store in a small town, keeping shelves stocked and customers happy.
It is very rare that I finish a game for fun nowadays. My brain just doesn’t work the way it use to. I don’t get glued to games and refuse to put them down any more…At least until I got my hands on this game. I was hooked from the moment I started working at my store.
The story in Discounty is all about you coming to this small sea-side town to help your aunt run a store. Does she seem a little shady? Yes. But the community is welcoming and it’s interesting being in a new place. Until, they aren’t welcoming. But that doesn’t matter at first as there is something just so fantastically well-done about this type of slice of life game. It feels so familiar, but yet so unique and different. The days themselves are the perfect length with your set hours working at your shop. There isn’t too much to do, but just enough to fill your days. It’s fantastic.
Most of my days sort of ran the same: wake up, run around collecting cans, checking shops, and, depending on the day, purchasing local produce or replacing signs about my shop. Then, I went to my store and made sure me and my co-worker had everything set up ahead of the 9am opening time. Once the store is open, it’s a whirlwind of restocking, possibly ordering items or checking my daily and weekly quests on my computer, and then running the checkout. I loved the upgrades to the scanner, which starts off as being math-based and changes to being direction-based, which is so much easier.
After my shift at the shop is over, I often do a little more ordering and restocking before fulfilling whatever quests I have to work on. This progresses the story, triggering cutscenes that give you bits of information on townspeople and helps you develop a greater understanding of the decisions being made around you all. It’s an interesting game. I spent a little bit of time thinking that I was possibly the bad guy. When the game ended, I did feel like I was sort of the bad guy in the end.
It’s one of those games that will take you a few days, but nothing ever feels overly-repetitive. As a die hard fan of the slice-of-life genre of indie games and a huge Stardew Valley lover, I had a fantastic time playing and only really hate the fact that there is not more chapters. I don’t want to spoil the whole game for anyone, but there are so many other things that could be done within the town by the end of the game, but maybe that’s the point. Maybe, just maybe, the town didn’t need me to begin with. Either way, I am happy that I got to work and stay there for the time I had.
Discounty will be made available today on the Nintendo eShop, PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store, the Epic Games Store, GOG, and Steam.
