Cart by Cart: Supermarket Simulator

There's really not much to this game. You set up your shelves, organize a small selection of products, and checkout customers at the register. There are many features that could be implemented to help elevate the gameplay. Overall, if you're looking for a very simple, bare minimum grocery store game, you could possibly enjoy this for an hour or two. The only reason I kept playing it after the initial first hour was just to get the achievements. If you're looking for something more in depth, you wont find what you're looking for here.

Cart by Cart: Supermarket Simulator is a relaxing shop simulator game intended for low effort with its simple mechanics and lack of time restraints. Unlike a lot of simulator-based games, in Card by Cart you don’t have to unlock anything. There’s no grinding for levels, you don’t need to do this or that to unlock specific groceries, shelves, or employees. It’s just you in your cozy little shop fulfilling all roles. All items are also available from the start, requiring nothing more than money you earn as you play to acquire. The gameplay loop itself is very simple. You buy different kinds of shelf storage, such as a fridge, a bakery shelf, etc, and place the relevant groceries on them. Food and plants have their own expiry so you have to keep an eye on it all to make sure nothing goes bad while watering the plants regularly. It’s best to keep stocked in-between customers, keeping a variety of products available. You do get a basic tutorial at the beginning of the game to explain everything to you, and while it’s incredibly wordy it does give you a great idea of what to do and how to keep after your products. While Cart by Cart does play its role well as a simple, relaxing simulator game, it has notable flaws. First off- when you interact with customers, you simply call every customer “sir” with the same line regardless of who they are. In such cases, I feel like the dev should be just using a more neutral term. Or just saying, “Yes, I’ll get to it right away” without the need for it. The placing on shelves can also feel a little janky. There seems to be more of an invisible grid snap than letting you just place it wherever within the shelf, which I think might be a bit annoying for some who really like to be organized and pretty. Or maybe I’m just not patient enough for lining it up to be pretty. While I’m not a fan of money=time comparison for games, I do feel like the price of Cart by Cart is a little steep for what you get. If it felt more polished, I’d definitely be more keen on recommending it for the price. One of the most unfortunate things being if you tab out, the game cannot continue playing and will wait for you to tab back in. I much prefer relaxing games like this to allow you to progress and tab out while you’re waiting for customers, if it did I might have put a bit more time in for the 100%. But it just ends up making it feel a bit slow, when needing to stock your shelves and tend to customers has such a gap between it, with the main filler being cleaning - but even that isn’t overly frequent. Unfortunately, I cannot willingly recommend Cart by Cart. I don’t think it is a bad game at all, and I am confident there are people who would love and enjoy it in its current state. There is a charm to it, but this just isn’t a game I can personally recommend. With some time and polishing on some things like the above mentioned issues I do believe my opinion on it could be swayed. But for now, this is just not a game I personally can recommend to people. Once again, not that Cart by Cart is bad. But maybe I am just not the specific audience it wants. Key was provided by Genco Interactive to Otome Lovers for review purposes. Please follow our curator page, Otome Lovers, if you'd like to see more reviews like this one!

Cozy and mindless. There are a few bugs - sometimes produce you purchase does not show up to shelf, same with florals. "settings" is spelled wrong incorrectly on pause menu, Overall fun, but does get repetitive and all achievements and items were unlocked in less than 2 hours.