Furries & Scalies: Super Scary Halloween Spooky Times

About

Run a struggling Halloween shop in a dying mall while avoiding workplace violence corporate takeovers and existential dread. Furries & Scalies tasks you with balancing inventory employee morale and bizarre customer demands as November approaches. Interact with a cast of eccentric workers each with personal goals and red flags. Your choices affect store performance and whether you end up as a burnt-out manager or a mall-saving entrepreneur. Mix visual novel dialogue branches with resource management as you fend off a faceless corporation trying to swallow the store whole. The game leans into its absurd humor with satirical jabs at retail culture and capitalist burnout. Players appreciate the chaotic tone and branching narratives that let you fire coworkers or forge alliances. A 78% positive Steam rating highlights the quirky charm though some note the steep learning curve. The fusion of strategy and story-driven gameplay creates a niche experience for those craving a darkly comedic take on small business survival.

Storyline

The East Arden Mall has seen better days. The 24/7 Halloween shop, Super Scary Halloween Spooky Times, has seen its heyday come and go. But the various mallrats and workers of the mall are fighting back against their Corporate Overlords! A dark shadow looms as King MacBeth and his mall-eating corporation, MacEmpire, threatens to swallow every mom-and-pop shop in the country of Arden. You have one season to prove that your store can.... like, make the mall profitable? Make sure it doesn't get bought out THIS particular year? Manage your employees, interact with them on a personal level, and train them to be the best Halloween workers ever! Darn the man. Save the empire. By not selling to the empire.