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Finished the Final Profit, a fairly satisfying game. I’m not sure how much the finale changes in regards with your choices during the playthrough, or if those are just for NPC dialogue/reaction flavor, but I’m glad with the different options that I got.

I enjoy the hints at a larger universe and a continuous story, though I am not really looking for a sequel or anything of the kind, I’m just glad we can see a bigger picture being formed.

Probably my only wish was that we had more time with the Lords, especially One. Unless I missed some side story we never get to see her deal, and she interested me greatly.

I’ll probably pop in a few more times to find the extra customers and see what other content I missed, but this was a fine ride.

I dislike 2 out of 3 Tonys

I'll be stuck home for a few days, so a little gaming corner: I've been losing my life to Final Profit since buying it on the last day of the Steam sale. What a game.

Its a shopkeeping game with an engrossing, addicting loop, but the real deal to me is that its less of a mindless grinder and more of a deliberate showcase of the corruption of capitalism.

The protagonist is an ousted queen that vouches to defend her kingdom from the approaching Bureau of Business by playing their own game, establishing her shop and vying to be a Lord of Business, unwittingly - and sometimes wittingly - ruining lives on her way.

One aspect that catches my attention is that the game doesn't try to pretend there is a "good" way to be a capitalist. Even your "Generous" choices are still taking advantage of people, of the situation you find yourself in, pushing addiction, exploiting weaknesses, blackmailing and cheating your way out of debt and into growing your fortune - and growing the Bureau's fortune, of course. No matter who is playing the game of capital, they're the ones in charge, and they're the ones making the rules and the profit.

Although there's a few "wink wink get it" type of jokes that I'm not particularly fond of - the 4th wall breaks, or the Loot Box/Battlepass items - overall its still an amazing surprise, and that's from someone who already knew what type of mood the game had.