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Grombo Card Shop Idle

Open packs, collect absurd Grombos, and build your own card shop. Sell singles, restock shelves, move into bigger stores, place furniture your way, survive customer reviews, and play actively or keep the shop running in a corner.

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About the Game

OPEN PACKS. COLLECT WEIRD CREATURES. BUILD YOUR CARD SHOP.

Grombo Card Shop Idle is a card shop management and collecting game filled with hand-drawn creatures, questionable pulls, and customers with even more questionable spending habits.

Play actively by cracking packs, hunting rare Grombos, setting prices, and designing your store — or keep the shop running in a small corner of your desktop while you do something allegedly more productive.

OPEN PACKS AND COMPLETE YOUR GROMBODEX

Buy boxes, tear open packs, and discover an ever-growing collection of absurd Grombos.

Keep your favourites, display valuable singles, or sell them to fund your next terrible financial decision.

Look out for:

  • Multiple card sets with their own themes and creatures

  • Rare shiny cards

  • Special premium sets

  • Extremely rare Godpacks

  • A Grombodex to complete

Some packs will make you rich. Others will contain yet another copy of the Grombo you already own seventeen times.

BUILD THE SHOP YOUR WAY

Start with a cramped little store and work your way towards larger locations with more room, more customers, and considerably more things to worry about.

Buy furniture and place it wherever you want. Arrange shelves, showcases, tables, decorations, and products to create a shop that feels like yours.

There is no single perfect layout. Build an efficient card-selling machine, a cosy collector's paradise, or a complete retail disaster.

RUN A SUSPICIOUSLY FUNCTIONAL BUSINESS

Running a card shop involves more than opening everything yourself.

  • Order packs, boxes, and accessories

  • Restock shelves before customers complain

  • Set prices for the cards in your showcases

  • Sell unwanted cards in bulk

  • Balance your profits with your own collection

  • Complete requests and deal with themed days

The cards you desperately want to keep are usually the ones worth the most money. Funny how that works.

CUSTOMERS HAVE OPINIONS NOW

Customers visit your store to browse, buy products, open packs, and spend time in the shop.

Their experiences can become reviews on Grooble Maps. Stock, prices, and the state of your business all influence what people think of the store.

Try to earn glowing reviews. Or proudly become the worst-rated card shop in the neighbourhood.

PLAY ACTIVELY — OR KEEP IT IN A CORNER

Grombo Card Shop Idle can be played as an active management and collecting game in fullscreen, but your shop can also continue running inside a compact desktop window.

Open packs and reorganise everything when you feel like playing, then shrink the game into a corner and let the business continue while you work, watch videos, or pretend to be productive.

EARLY ACCESS CONTENT

The Early Access version is planned to include:

  • 100 shop levels

  • Four card sets and 170 collectible cards

  • Three progressively larger store locations

  • Free furniture placement and shop customisation

  • Rare shiny cards, premium sets, and Godpacks

  • Customer reviews through Grooble Maps

  • Daily requests and themed events

  • Fullscreen and compact desktop modes

  • Steam Cloud support

  • English and Spanish

Grombo Card Shop Idle is being developed with community feedback. Early Access will help us improve the economy, progression, balancing, and future content.

It may not always be good business.

But there will be Grombos.