The Alpha Release of The Shop Next Door is here! 🚀🎮

The time has come! After months of hard work, dedication, and passion, the team at Kioreco, a small indie studio formed by students, is thrilled to announce the Alpha release of our upcoming strategy and simulation game, The Shop Next Door. 🎉✨

What Can You Expect in the Alpha Version?

• Core mechanics in action: From managing inventory and attending customers to ordering supplies. All while deciding how to invest your personal time to maintain a healthy balance.
• Early multiplayer competition: Challenge your friends to see who can achieve the best shop and personal life—your mother will decide who wins the inheritance! 👵💰
• Limited functionality and features: For now, this prototype only lets you experience a single day of gameplay and test out a handful of core features. It’s a small slice of what we’re building, but we hope it gives you a taste of what’s to come.
• Early-stage design and environments: Although we’re still developing the artistic details, you’ll get to explore the initial versions of the shops and characters. We’re eager to hear your feedback to keep improving.

Join Us on This Journey!

The goal of this Alpha version is for you, our community, to try out the game and share your thoughts, comments, and suggestions. 📝 Your feedback is essential to help us polish every detail and ensure the best experience for the full release.

We’ve been working on The Shop Next Door for less than two months, so this is just the beginning! We'll be hosting testing sessions and surveys on our social media channels to interact directly with you and hear your ideas firsthand. We want you to feel like this game is yours too!

How Can You Test It?

The Alpha version will be available to a everyone beggining now! To get access, be sure to follow us on social media to stay updated and go to our profile in itch.io to play it.

What’s Next?

Over the coming weeks, we’ll be releasing periodic updates to the Alpha, fixing bugs and improving based on your suggestions. Our next big aim is to prepare the Beta with a bunch more of new features and to polish the ones already out! Stay tuned, as we’ll also share information on some exclusive surprises! 🎁

Thank you for joining us on this journey and trusting our work! We’re excited to share this early version with you and count on your help to keep improving. Don’t forget to follow us on social media to stay up to date with all the latest news.

See you in the game! 👾🛒💥

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