Open the box. Hope for the secret.
Secret Shelf is a first-person shop management game. You run a small collectible figure shop that sells blind boxes. Every box hides one figure from its series, and somewhere in every series sleeps a secret. Selling sealed boxes is safe money. Opening one means betting against your own stock.
Open the boxes
- Shake the box and listen: light, jingly or heavy. The hint tells the truth three times out of four.
- Tear the strip. The light spilling out of the box takes the colour of the rarity before you see a thing.
- Common, rare, epic, legendary: the rarer it is, the harder the whole shop holds its breath.
- Pearlescent, iridescent or metallic finishes multiply what a figure is worth.
Hunt the secret
- Every series hides its own secret figure.
- When it comes out, the whole shop turns around and claps. Confetti.
- Keep your best pulls in your binder and your personal display, or get them graded from 1 to 10.
- 290 figures across 32 series: fern spirits, a Skeleton Orchestra, capybaras at the Capy Spa, and giant boxes with the Titans of the Deep, the Legendary Beasts and the Mecha Giants.
Run the shop
- Order your cartons on the PC, unpack them and fill the shelves box by box.
- Set your prices against a market value that shifts a little every day.
- Serve the queue at the till, then hire help: a cashier, a restocker, a self-checkout.
- Happy customers become regulars, with their favourite series and five hearts of loyalty.
- Every evening, the day's report tells you what the shop brought in.
Make it grow
- Push the walls back: from a small, nearly empty shop to the packed shop of the late game.
- Put every piece of furniture wherever you like from the PC's Layout app, and change walls and floors with Paint & floor.
- Open the Collector's Loft above the stockroom.
- Renovate the shopfront: thirteen prestige works, from the gold awning to the bronze statues.
- Limited editions on pre-order with a queue at the door, a capsule machine, trades with Mina, and a cat wandering around the shop.
- Halloween, Christmas, Lunar New Year and Valentine's Day follow your calendar, each with its own series and window display.
Play together
- Invite up to three friends into your shop, online through Steam.
- One works the till, another fills the shelves.
- When someone pulls a secret, everyone hears it, wherever they are.
- Or play solo, at your own pace.
The hall across the street
- Cross the street: the game hall waits with four kinds of slot machines, roulette, blackjack, the big wheel, dice, plinko and scratch tickets.
- Every game shows its odds, and they are the real ones.
- You bet your shop's money, and only that. Stakes are capped every day, and the money for your bills stays aside.
- Everything is played with in-game money: no real money, nothing to buy.
Also: a photo mode, 31 Steam achievements, Steam Cloud saves, and four game modes (Sandbox, Small budget, One series, No staff). Shoplifters can be turned off in the settings.
