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Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?!

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?!

|Singapore, United Kingdom|Role-playing (RPG), Simulator

7.7 /10

Pretty good

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2.1k ratings
Rating sources
Steam · Player score7.1/102.1k ratingsIGDB · Critic score8.0/101 ratingsIGDB · Player score7.0/107 ratings
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Why play it

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! is a wacky simulation game where you manage your very own weapon shop and expand its business across an incredible potato world. Use your potato smiths to forge weapons and sell them to questing heroes. You will meet more than 70 potato heroes, forge more than 200 weapons, expand your business into 20 wacky areas, manage 30 zany potato smiths, discover 10 legendary pop culture heroes . . . and even adopt a potato dog! Inspired by games such as Game Dev Story, Weapon Shop De Omasse and Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale, Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! is designed to provide an exciting new gameplay experience to fans of this emerging game genre. The game score is composed by the legendary Kimura Masahiko​, who worked on the original score for the Genso Suikoden Series and the Castlevania Series.

Game highlights
Rating momentum

Pretty good: 7.7/10 across 2.1k ratings. Overall vibes are good; safe to add to your backlog.

Play style

Leans into Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy — a quick read on whether that fantasy matches what you usually enjoy.

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Nintendo LifeLiam Doolan · 13 Jul, 2018
7/10

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! isn't anything we haven't already seen before. Forging and selling weapons is fun once you get into the rhythm of it, and there's plenty within the potato world to work towards. This is a game that can be played for a few minutes or hours per day, depending on how much you enjoy the genre. What's frustrating is how this title has been adapted to the Switch. It's got a clunky user interface that doesn't really feel compatible with the Joy-Cons and even if you opt with the screen by itself as a touchpad it still feels difficult to complete the most basic of tasks. All up, this makes it the hardest version of the game to play. Overlooking these problems, it's still worth checking out if you're looking for a game of this type and one with plenty of humour - it's just far from spud-tacular.

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PS3Blog.net7 Jan, 2019
8.5/10

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! is a very fun and addictive sim game that will keep you busy for dozens of ours as you craft hundreds of weapons to helo heroes level up a ton.

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GameOctaneBrandon Ellenburg · 19 Oct, 2018
8.3/10

Overall, Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! is an entertaining game even though it suffers from some significant gameplay issues.

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PS4Blog.netCeidz · 6 Sep, 2018
8/10

When I received this game for review, I had this marvelous exchange with my wife about it! Ceidz: “Hey I received a new game for review!” Wife: “Really? What kind of game is it?” Ceidz: “How can I put this….? (thinking) Well, you're a potato…. and you're running this weapon shop…” Wife: “LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL”

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NoobFeedAdam Siddiqui · 9 Aug, 2018
6.5/10

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! has plenty of humor and addicting gameplay, just don't in expecting anything different.

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PlayStation LifeStyleAnnette Polis · 6 Aug, 2018
8/10

Maybe that means I should get back to the grindstone, clear up those PS4 trophies, and then tackle the Journey to Olympus DLC that is included in the PS4 and Switch releases.

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33bitsJosé Vicente Mendiola Marcos · 2 Aug, 2018
7.5/10

Management with many options with a smooth learning curve, wrapped in a mood that pulls constantly nostalgia and a considerable content that comes to demand a lot from the player with its expansion included. Holly Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! hides much more than you might expect at first glance.

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Video ChumsA.J. Maciejewski · 31 Jul, 2018
8/10

If you're looking for a cute and funny shop simulator that you can enjoy as the hours tick away then you need to play Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?!

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NintendoWorldReportMitchell Parton · 23 Jul, 2018
6.5/10

I feel like this genre is better suited for PCs or even tablets rather than portable gaming systems because it feels too cluttered for the Switch's screen and not comfortable on any television. The core gameplay definitely works how you'd expect and you'll find plenty of tasks to accomplish. Maybe this would be a good one to jump in and out of while making some potato salad. Yum.

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GamePittRob Pitt · 12 Jul, 2018
9.5/10

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! is pure heaven! It’s a management sim you can really get absorbed into and stay there for many hours at a time or just drop in every now and again for short bursts – particularly if you’re on the Switch. From the micro-management of your employees to satisfying all of your customers, everything can be adjusted and tweaked in order to become the greatest arms supplier in the land! One thing to be aware of though, the pun is strong in this one with almost every character being a pun of someone/something famous. If you like hilarious storytelling along with frantic and rather stressful gameplay, then this is the game for you! With the addition of the Herclueless DLC you gain even more content and many, many hours of gameplay.

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