Clothing Store Simulator just released into Early Access and we got a chance to play it! Since it’s still in Early Access, we won’t be putting a score to it since we only score finished games.
If you haven’t seen anything about Clothing Store Simulator, the title is pretty on the nose. You are the new proprietor of a clothing shop. It’s your job to furnish and stock the store to turn a profit.
Obviously, at first, it’s not always going to be easy to make a profit when you have upfront costs, but I can safely say that money should never be a problem unless you’re being entirely too ambitious.
And, before I get into the mechanics of how Clothing Store Simulator works, it should be said that this isn’t going to be for everyone. There’s no larger story, no dialogue, no challenges, etc. This is for gamers who want to just chill out and build up a storefront.
If you come into this with expectations of excitement and having a million things to juggle, you’re going to be disappointed. The most action you see in this game is just trying to keep the shelves adequately stocked.
With that out of the way, let’s talk features. As you might imagine, you’re kind of pigeonholed into what you can use at the start. Clothing Store Simulator works off of a level system with things unlocking as you go.
LEVEL UP!
Until level 15, you’re really just unlocking furniture, the ability to open a warehouse, floor space for both your warehouse and storefront, and unlock brand deals.
Brand deals are where you get your stock from. At first, you only have a few items that you can sell, but as you level up, you can sign up with brands to expand your wares. Each new brand deal costs more to unlock, but the items tend to sell for more, so it’s definitely worth it.
Your day-to-day will be restocking the store and restocking the shelves. But, all of that changes at level 15. Once you hit 15, you can unlock a cashier so that you don’t have to man the desk. It’s, also, at this level where you can choose a work uniform – which is fair since we are an incorporeal being. So, a work uniform would be wasted on us until we can see it on others.
At level 20, you can unlock restockers and while I haven’t unlocked it yet myself, I’m excited as hell to not have to worry about keeping up with the stock.
So, if you have a cashier and a restocker… what do you do with your time? Well, I’m assuming you can just futz around. You’re not locked out of being able to order things or move things around the store just because the store is open.
I spent a lot of time before I ever opened for the day just getting the store ready. So, I’m guessing the days will actually go quicker instead of feeling like they’re dragging.
Moonlight as a fashion designer…
While you can’t customize yourself, you do have the option to name your store and pick those colors. Also, you can unlock the ability to create your own clothing. The clothing maker allows for preset styles that you can customize in different colors and pre-loaded stickers. But, you can also import images. So, the sky is really the limit.
Personally, I enjoyed being able to grow my store day by day and I’m at the stage where I seem to be constantly switching out fixtures because I’m unlocking ones that hold more clothes.
If you’re like me, you won’t care that it doesn’t look the nicest; you’ll leave the overstock next to the rack to make it easy to restock. With larger shelves, you don’t have to be quite that chaotic.
In the truest sense of the word, Clothing Store Simulator is just that; a clothing store simulator. If that sounds like fun to you, then definitely give it a try. It’s in early access right now, so you may run into some bugs, but they’ll be patching and making updates to fix any issues.
I had a lot of fun with it and to be honest, I didn’t run into any bugs. I just bopped around to my own music and built up my store.
If you want to try out Clothing Store Simulator for yourself, you can get it for $12.99 over on Steam. And if this is too literal for you and you need something more fantasy-based, I’ll never stop suggesting our review for Smushi Come Home.
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