/vr/ - Retro Games

Charumera is a loveable and laid back game where you take on the role of a traveling ramen salesman, wheeling your cart around town and setting up shop wherever it seems that customers might be interested in a tasy bowl. It is presented with delightful pop-up storybook graphics and tries to evoke a nostalgic pseudo-seventies Japan with flute melodies and somewhat anachronistically-dressed customers.

While wheeling around town, you can stop and offer food at any point, and customers will gather. By combining ingredients obtained you can come across dozens of different recipes (mostly through trial and error), and you may find that a new recipe is a hit with customers and makes you tons of money on the first couple weeks, but quickly they'll grow sick of it and start demanding something else.

Every once in a while one of your customers will strike up a conversation, which may be an opportunity for someone to sponsor your brand, which will help in making money. Money is usually spent buying more recipes or expanding your operation, and in this sense it simulates managing a small, one-person business. Ironically the game is perfect for unwinding after a long day of work thanks to its presentation and slow pace.