Shop Heroes vs Sir Match-a-Lot
Shop Heroes
Shop Heroes is an incredibly fun and addictive, medieval/fantasy shop simulation that has some RPG elements. In this game, you play as a shopkeeper with a newly established shop that provides various types of RPG adventurers with their weapons, armor, and accessories. As opposed to only selling them, you will also need to hire crafters to craft the said items, and each crafter has their own sets of skills while each item will require certain sets of skills to craft. Thankfully, you can hire more than one crafter (eventually) and hence, you will be able to produce more than a few selected categories of items later down the road.These items can then be sold to the RPG adventurers who approach you at your shop. Selling to them, however, usually means that you'll be selling at market price, though you are given the option to lower your prices to earn Hearts or use Hearts to inflate your prices. Since most adventurers would want a very specific item to buy, which you may not have available, you can also use Hearts to change their minds. Naturally, trying to suggest a closer alternative to buy would cost you fewer Hearts.
The game also has RPG elements where you can recruit and send adventurers into various dungeons to earn special crafting materials that these dungeons only provide. There's PvP as well, where you can assemble a team of 5 to battle a randomly selected player's team of your bracket. Not to mention, you can even group up with other shopkeepers via guilds and work together on weekly challenges to win freebies, in addition to cooperatively building up the guild facilities so as to obtain a better guild-wide buff.
Shop Heroes is a game that is one of its kind because it not only managed to flawlessly merge both shop simulation and RPG into a fun and exciting package, but also to provide its game completely free. You can advance, albeit at a slower pace, in this game without spending a single cent if you like, but of course, if you enjoyed playing the game, you might want to spend some cash just to show your support.
Sir Match-a-Lot
Sir Match-a-Lot is a fun, medieval/fantasy-themed match-3 RPG published by Big Fish Games. Aside from the standard match-3 gameplay, this game has chockfull of features ranging from cute (and useful) outfits that you can buy for your hero to fun collectibles like stickers and treasure chests. There are even plenty of challenging arenas to battle in, unique worlds to travel to and explore, and epic bosses to defeat. Every match in the game is incredibly satisfying to make, and you get to spice up your gameplay with tons of exciting power-ups too!Sir Match-a-Lot is perhaps one of the more underrated match-3 RPG around! The game is insanely addictive to play and best yet, it is possible to become one of the top players here without feeling like you have to spend some real cash. The game is available on Android, iOS and PC.