Recettear: an Item Shop's Tale

Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is a Japanese indie (Doujin) game that combines RPG-style shopkeeping with dungeon crawling. The game was first distributed at Comiket and then later translated into English by Carpe Fulgur. It gained popularity when it was put up for pre-order on the digital distribution services Steam, Impulse, and GamersGate. In Recettear, you play as a young girl named Recette Lemongrass whose father has vanished and left her with a substantial debt. Luckily Tear, the fairy representative of the Terme Finance Company who comes to collect her debt, is lenient -- and, with her help, Recette opens an item shop named Recettear and begins the difficult task of earning enough money to chip away at her debt. You can get your own items by buying low and selling high in the shops, or head through dungeons to collect the most expensive items from monsters! Either way, get the money! The demo can be found at The Carpe Fulgur website