Happiness Market: a corner shop with thieves, monsters and a critter that sniffs out cash

It has exactly one review anywhere in the world — from someone who went broke twice, never figured out half the icons, and recommends it anyway.

You sell to whoever walks by and hunt whatever attacks

You set up a shop on the sidewalk and sell to whoever walks by. It's a two-dimensional management sim: you can put up as many as 18 kinds of building, buy stock to draw in customers, and watch the register tick over. Then comes the friction. A thief shows up, then a mugger, and you have to post guards at the door to keep the mess in check.

But the game doesn't stop there. You breed creatures — 22 of them, each with its own ability, and one sniffs out money. And there's the part no other shop sim promises: at a certain point you make peace with the neighboring shopping center so it will send hunters to wipe out the monsters attacking your store. Behind all of it is a single person, the studio luolei, who also publishes the game, live since June 2023.

One review in the world, and the person who wrote it went broke twice

Across the entire world, this game has one review. One. The person who wrote it played for three hours and went bankrupt twice, driven out of her own shop by the difficulty. It was June 23, 2023. And, broke as she was, she recommends it — not as a great game, but with the bar already lowered: she warns that it isn't top-tier and that you get what such a thing is worth, a small project by one person.

The most telling thing about the review isn't the verdict: it's that half of it turned into a manual. She stopped giving her opinion and started teaching where to click, what each icon does, how to open the item list. In the middle of her own guide, she admits she doesn't know what the crown at the top of the screen is for, or what the red bar means. The one who defended the game is the same one who had to puzzle it out alone — and didn't puzzle out all of it. She also wished the clock ran faster and says surviving isn't easy. The review count comes from the game's Steam page: that's the audience over there, not the one you're arriving from.

Those who can take the second bankruptcy stay; everyone else walks

This is a game for people who like a messy sim and don't mind learning the hard way. If building a shop from nothing, watching a thief and a monster tear down a good run, and starting over wiser sounds like fun, the management puzzle is all here, money-sniffing critter and hunters-for-hire included. But if you need the game to explain its own rules — what the crown is for, what the red bar is — you'll hit the second bankruptcy and shut up shop. The only person who reviewed this game in the world was also the only one to write its manual. She stayed. Plenty of the people who come in the same way won't.