Packsmith
Pack items. Restock your shelves. Keep the shop running!
You are the local merchant, and business is booming. Every day, adventurers stop by your shop needing their bags packed. Your mission: find the right items, fit them into weirdly shaped inventories, and create powerful synergies to rack up massive scores.
Sell your stock, draft fresh item packs from the market, and build the ultimate shop setup!
Pack, Arrange, Synergize
Every item has a purpose, and where you put it matters. Rotate and arrange weapons, mystical trinkets, potions, and food to trigger chain reactions:
- Group Matching Types: Cluster items of the same category together. Connecting matching gear inside the bag maximizes your base score and creates clean, efficient layouts.
- Synergize with Unique Perks: Unlock game-changing perks that trigger powerful synergies with your item groups. Discover builds that multiply your points based on how you arrange specific types of goods.
- Zero Stress, Custom Requests: Customers arrive with specific needs and tricky inventory shapes, but there is no ticking clock. Take all the time you need to fulfill their exact requirements and find the most satisfying arrangement.
End of the Day: Spend Your Renown
When the workday ends and your shop closes its doors, head to the market. Use the Renown you earned from satisfied customers to restock and grow your business:
- Restock with Item Packs: Choose from different item bundles to replenish your shelves. Curating what goods you bring into the shop determines your options for tomorrow's customers.
- Buy Game-Changing Perks: Invest your Renown in unique perks that unlock powerful synergies, modify grid rules, and boost your scoring potential.
How you spend your Renown each night shapes the success of your next business day!
Unique Customers, Different Backpacks
Every customer brings a different backpack shape and their own set of requirements. Adapt to unique inventory grids, fulfill their specific requests, and maximize your score with every order.
Create Your Build, Score Big!
Unlock new items and perks as you play. Create your own build, find powerful combinations, and rack up massive scores!
Meet the Quota, Keep the Doors Open
Each day comes with a target point goal. Score enough points from your packing combinations to keep your shop open and advance to the next day.
Choose your packs wisely, place every item with care, and see how long you can keep the shop alive
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Finished the first run. Managed to 100% all clients. I know I played on the easiest difficulty, but it almost feels TOO easy to be honest.
First impressions are good. The gameplay loop works but for now it feels like it would struggle to hold my attention more than 2 hours. I feel like the conditions that the clients ask for make them a bit repetitive. I would try to vary those conditions more.
Alternatively, the items could have special attributes beyond their type and shape. Would make everything a bit too complicated maybe, but worth looking into I think.
TBH I haven't played any of the famous "Packing" games so I don't know how much you lifted from those types of games and how much is trully your design, but for someone coming from the outside, the game feels nice.
The animation to show the perks activating on the different objects looks really bad though. You seem to apply a bit of transparancy, but because there is overlap between the different segments there are these squares inside the lines that have a lower transparancy which just look awful.
Some more variety in the OST would be nice.
Thank you for playing!
I appreciate the honest feedback!