Pocket Market shop game guide

How to play

1. Harvest berries or bread into your basket. Tap a matching customer to serve them; if the shelf needs more stock, the game adds it from your basket first. You can also stock shelves ahead of time.
2. Spend 2 basket berries to cook a jar of jam. It takes 4 seconds at standard speed, moves into your basket when ready and sells for 6 shop coins.
3. Lunch rush runs from 20 to 70 seconds, with faster arrivals and room for four waiting customers. Start checkout while a customer has at least half their patience left to earn a 1-coin tip under standard rules.
4. Later arrivals may order two items or be in a hurry. A hurried customer has half the usual waiting time and pays 2 extra shop coins; check the order before serving.
5. Spend earned shop coins on bigger baskets and shelves, faster production or quicker checkout. Keep a mix of berries, bread and jam ready for the next order.
6. Play the full 120-second shift. At closing, 10 customers earn one star, 24 earn two and 34 earn three. Fewer than 10 means the shift is unfinished. Customers leaving early reduce your score but do not end the shift. After the result, Keep the shop open starts untimed practice.

Controls

Mouse or touch

Tap the harvest buttons, jam pot, shelves and customer orders. A customer tap can stock from your basket and start checkout. Upgrade buttons spend your earned shop coins.

Keyboard

1 and 2 harvest berries and bread. 3 and 4 stock their shelves. 5 cooks or collects jam; 6 stocks jam. Enter serves the most urgent order you can fill. P pauses and resumes.

Score and progress

Standard berries sell for 2 shop coins, bread for 3 and jam for 6. Prompt service can earn a 1-coin tip. Your score rewards completed orders, sale income and tips, with a penalty for customers who leave early. These are in-game coins, not real money.

What the AI challenge changes

A challenge locks one of six reviewed market conditions before opening. When AI responds, it writes the opening story and selects the condition. A local challenge uses the same list when AI is unavailable. Production, stock, purchases and customer orders still follow the local game rules.

Berry day

Berry sales earn 4 shop coins instead of 2. Bread and jam prices stay the same.

Quick harvest

All three production stations run at 1.25× standard speed before shop upgrades.

Happy hour

Customers wait 24 seconds instead of 16.

Bread fair

Bread sales earn 5 shop coins instead of 3. Berry and jam prices stay the same.

Big baskets

Baskets and shelves start with room for 9 items instead of 6, before upgrades.

Tip jar

Starting checkout while a customer has at least half their patience left earns a 3-coin tip instead of 1.

The displayed rule locks when you start. Classic mode needs no AI response, and a late response cannot change a run already in progress. If AI is unavailable, a clearly labeled local challenge keeps the game playable.

At closing, the result shows stars, tips and the selected condition, including actual bonus coins or changed production and patience values. An optional shift reflection uses recorded sales, coins, departed customers, duration and upgrade levels. If the reflection service is unavailable, the result uses a labeled local reflection.