Ghibli-inspired shopkeeping sim Saleblazers lets you clobber angry customers with a chair

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Correction : The announcement originally indicated that Saleblazers is in early access today. It is not: The early access launch date is September 29.

As announced in the PC Gaming Show, open world shopkeeping survival game Saleblazers offers you the opportunity to start an enterprise on a mysterious island inspired by the cozy homeliness and the colorful adventure of Ghibli movies. 

Working with friends in co-op, you must build a store and stock it with goods to sell to the locals. There are many customers to charm on this sandbox island—skint students, tourists with the money to wave away any baggage limitation, and militant shoppers intent on crossing swords with the manager. While you might opt for honest work gathering, farming, and fishing for resources, stealing from others is possible, or you can take on the monsters guarding the island's most precious gems. 

As for how you'll get around this island, as you can see from the trailer, you have access to the humble golf cart.

Scattered around the island are seven plots of land where you can build your shop. Each of these has a specific vibe and identity depending on where they are in the biomes of the island and offer unique quests to complete. While you can only have one plot as an active shop, you can swap to another property to grow your business and keep the original store as a farm. 

While we’ve seen a lot of games that let you build a shop and stuff it with items to sell to locals, Saleblazers' multiplayer mode makes it into something fresh. It looks to be a mix of the loop of Moonlighter, the grind of Stardew Valley, and the adventuring of Valheim. 

But there's a little more than that, too: there is a mystery at the heart of Saleblazers. Surrounding the