Merek's Market vs Shop Titans
Merek's Market
Merek's Market is a whimsical shop simulation game with time management elements, putting you into the running shoes of a shopkeeper in a medieval fantasy period where adventurers are aplenty. Craft and sell a huge variety of useful items, be it armor, weapons, potions, or even… pottery, serve your customers as quickly as possible, and try to upsell your items whenever they decide to haggle!As you play, the levels get increasingly more difficult, making that shiny gold rating a real achievement to get. The game also comes with a host of twists to its gameplay, spicing up the typical time management levels with mini-games and funny dialogues.
If you’re a fan of time management games, Merek’s Market offers the kind of gameplay you seek with a couple of nice twists, slathered with enough tongue-in-cheek humor to make you bark out a laugh once or twice on every level. Although I’ve not tried the game’s co-op, its single-player mode is already very entertaining to play, and challenging too, if you’re aiming for that shiny gold rating. Highly recommended!
Shop Titans
Shop Titans is a shop simulation game with some RPG elements that you can play on your android device. Similar to Shop Heroes in many ways, the game will have you craft a variety of weapons, armor, and accessories for the adventurers of the fictional world, including the heroes you’ll hire, to use as they head out into various locations to battle enemies for rarer crafting materials. The game is surprisingly social as well, as it features a guild system where players can work together to develop their own city.Despite looking like a clone of the popular Facebook game, Shop Heroes, Shop Titans is actually quite different - partly in good ways and partly in bad. The great parts include the addition of research scrolls, which gets players to keep leveling up lower-level blueprints just so they can unlock higher-level ones; the lack of a PvP feature, and the importance of your shop’s item displays.
On the other hand, the bad parts include the subscription system, the obvious restriction on Ascension Shards, and the game’s very grindy gameplay right after you hit level 20 since most crafting will require a lot of materials you can only get from adventuring (no one is selling the stuff in the market) by then.