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Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?!
Developer Daylight Studios
Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! is a wacky simulation game where you manage your very own weapon shop and expand its business across an incredible potato world.Use your potato smiths to forge weapons and sell them to questing heroes. From the Steam store page
182 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Lemmy, Bluesky) · newest Sep 5, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
57
Mixed
101 positive · 77 negative
95% range 49–64%
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| Steam reviews | 101 | 77 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
4 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
1,491 of 2,092 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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unlabelledView post →*You need to buy the DLC to get all achievements. My Playtime: 14.8h (45/50 achievements, finished the game) Grindy Achievement(s): Yes (~12 achievements that can take ~3h to finish). Optional Achievement(s): Yes (50 achievements, 6 are missables). Difficult Achievement(s): No. Intro Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! is a shop management simulator where you have to make weapons and sell them in your shop. It has 4 regions in total with some optional activities in between. Pros: - Play at your…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This potato is not fully baked. Too much clicking and no automation means you'll be doing the same things over and over forever with no actual gameplay evolution.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand—the hand I worked with, played games with, and used to carry my children to bed—the hand…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hum... Mediocre. This is an Idle/management game. The graphics are cartoonish good. The music is OK. The story is a simple one with some juvenile humor. Bugs, yup. There's an issue saving the games. There's a fix for that in the forums. No crashes. Overall, It's fun for a few hours then becomes grindy and boring. There are some design flaws. It's a cheap game that might entertain children for a while. Honestly, this is a missing opportunity and a project that came too short. I'm kind of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I hated Shop Heroes, and it's better than this, and it's FREE. This game is a mix of two terrible things. Busywork and waiting. You have to start a craft, wait for it, Name it(for no f reason), send someone to sell it, Wait for it, Choose to sell it to someone, WAIT for it, view your sales results, put your worker back, send a worker out to buy materials, WAIT FOR IT, put your worker back, start a craft... I should get Paid for doing that, not the other way around.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Grindy game, the game play is quite repetitive, it wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for bad game design that, when you leave an area you can not return, meaning some achievements are locked if you are not careful, also some achievements are lock by dlc
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was on sale for $1.30 (w/ Tax) so you may be wondering why even bother refunding? It doesn't respect your time as it's Tedious and click heavy just as many others have claimed. If you somehow find this enjoyable, I salute you, but I recommend doing something else to save your time and hands.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've tried a few times to enjoy this game and it is just too shallow and tedious. Maybe someone looking for a very casual experience would enjoy it, but it does not feel like a good management, workshop, or shopkeeper game. All of the elements fall short.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! is a pseudo management game with the worst design choices i've seen in a game for a long time. PROS: None CONS: - Bad writing with cringe humor. All those potato puns are annoying at best. - Pseudo gameplay. Same task loop over and over and over with unlocks that has zero engagement, wonder and excitement. - Unbalanced gameplay. One even wonders if devs play-tested this and moreover i'm curious how satisfied with the result they had play-testing it. Did they…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Play as Patatalata Kartoffel P. Aardappel Papa, or P.K.P.A.P! Your grandfather, Batata, has passed away leaving you, as Batata’s only grandson, to inherit his blacksmith shop! Or at least, 0.01% of it. Fortunately, another Spud, Agent 46, who is your grandfathers’ best friend who owns the rest of the shop is here to help! Agent 46 gives you a short introduction and hires you 3 smiths to get started making starch and valuable weapons to heroes across multiple worlds, good luck! This isn’t a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Probably one of the worst games on Steam. How it got inside my library? Trolls I guess.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A cute reference packed game were you are a potato and you run a weapon shop. You hire workers that make weapons and improve on the 4 different stats and then sell them to customers that each have their own preference as to what kinds of weapons they like. There is a bunch of different weapon types that you can research and make. It is very simple and sadly gets repetitive after a while, but overall I have enjoyed my time with it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't be fooled: this is NOT a management game. This is just an idle game in disguise. Too slow and boring, and a waste of time. You should buy Recettear instead.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played for 1.5 hours. Could not save the game. Lost all progress. No thank you.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TLDR; I love potatoes and I love puns. But I hate this game so much my salt could obliterate the 10 inches of snow outside right now. The fact this game sells for $10 is a crime and it's barely saved by the fact it's constantly on sale for 99 cents. God help whatever poor soul pays full price for this grind-y idle game. No, it's not a management sim. You click to make your smiths build a weapon and you wait. You send them out to sell those weapons and you wait. You send them to explore…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is in of itself a potato. While at first glance it may be a pretty golden shell with a bland vapid white interior, let this baby sit in the oven at 400C (don't use fahrenheit or you will find a Colt 1911 inside) and out comes some baked goodness and not the ganja kind either. What presents its self its a crisp crunchy exterior that gives way to a soft buttery interior. While simplistic this game is not simple. The humour livens is akin to salt and thyme on our patata. Don't go in for…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a mobile port of an idle game, where you inexplicably craft weapons for game and pop culture-themed potato-people. There's no real game-play loop, you just click and walk away for a few seconds. You craft weapons, hit buttons to make the weapons numbers go up, then sell the weapons. This all takes up time and doesn't feel in any way rewarding. The fact that they're charging $10 for it on Steam is pretty ludicrous considering it's available on the apple app store for half that(which is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well, it's that "potatoes" franchise again... the marketing guys at Daedalic are clearly getting high off their own supply. The demand for "holy potatoes" themed game is a lot lower than they've convinced themselves. This time they've turned the potatoes to do a Nintendo Switch based "tycoon" game where you grind, grind, grind and wait, wait, wait. The game "works" but it's immediately tedious, and bookended with endless, cringey e-book visual novel text. No voice acting, just mobile app…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is very repetitive, and lacks some basic QoL features. A weird take that I have with the save slots is that you don't choose your save slot in the beginning, instead you start a new game and you need to save, though there is no warning about losing save data. Then when you boot in, I had a previous save I forgot about, booted that one up and the game immediately autosaved over my newest save with this old save. The game itself is a very repetitive clicker. It feels really…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →no drama no controversy no pedo allegations no sex offender allegations no secret children just ASS music, gameplay and graphics
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bad and lacking. Just like this review.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Too grindy for my taste. You end up create a bunch of the same weapon to level up a hero so that you can unlock the next place and do it again. Sure there are variations on weapons to unlock, but apart from a small reduction to grinding (which increases again in the next area) it's little for than a new look. There's also exploring in between to unlock new weapons and resources, but again it doesn't really add much and most of the game is a grind. If there's any room for creativity beyond…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →honestly feels like a mobile port, and not a satisfying one at that, I refunded it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I appreciate the effort put forth, but found the gameplay loop quite repetitive with no actual decisions needed. Felt like an offshoot of cookie clicker, or a mobile game filled with timers. Could have been a website game. I also did not enjoy the writing, the constant bad puns, and oddly worded sentences ended up grating on nerves after a while.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun for a while, until you figure out how unbalanced the game is. I enjoyed the beginning of the game, when it came to figuring out how to manage everything and finding the best combinations and whatnot, but after you figure things out, playing becomes tedious and there's no replay value to be had here. There are serious balance issues as well. They try to throw in a variety of different weapons that you can make, but you'll find yourself making the same 3 weapons over and over. There's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got this because I was missing Swords and Potions 2 and this looked like it would be similar, and it is but not as enjoyable. Your workers are always ****ing sneezing several times in a row which is nasty audio. Mainly there are just way too many speed bumps to the gameplay here: You have to manually re-assign workers to their individual spots when they return which is happening constantly, I wish they would just remember where they were standing and if you need to move them you can do that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🖥️ 𝐌 𝐈 𝐍 𝐈 𝐌 𝐔 𝐌 . 𝐒 𝐏 𝐄 𝐂 𝐒 🖥️ [✔️] 𝐓𝐎𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 [⭕️] 𝐋𝐎𝐖 𝐄𝐍𝐃 [⭕️] 𝐌𝐈𝐃 𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄 [⭕️] 𝐇𝐈𝐆𝐇 𝐄𝐍𝐃 [⭕️] 𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐔𝐓𝐄𝐑 －－－－－－－－－－－－－－－ 🎮 𝐆 𝐀 𝐌 𝐄 𝐏 𝐋 𝐀 𝐘 🎮 [⭕️] 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐀 𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐄?! [⭕️] 𝐌𝐄𝐇 [✔️] 𝐆𝐎𝐎𝐃 [⭕️] 𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐙𝐈𝐍𝐆 [⭕️] 𝐄𝐗𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐒 𝐔𝐏𝐎𝐍 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 －－－－－－－－－－－－－－－ 📚 𝐒 𝐓 𝐎 𝐑 𝐘 📚 [⭕️] 𝐍𝐎𝐍𝐄 [✔️] 𝐙𝐙𝐙... [⭕️] 𝐆𝐎𝐎𝐃 [⭕️] 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐔𝐈𝐍𝐆 [⭕️] 𝐎𝐁𝐒𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐃…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I enjoyed this game a lot. This game gets better and easier as you go on and thats when everything will become more fun. This game can get a little addicting and you would just not want to stop smithing. The art style is also really charming and pleasing. There is just so many tasks to do and objectives to fulfill so its really hard to stop. It does get a little grindy and repetitive towards the end though so if you're into grindy management games, this game would surely be enjoyable for you.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gameplay 6/10 Pros: Can be interesting for anybody who likes manual management (there is no automation). Main mechanic of forging weapons is incredibly simple but catchy at the same time. "Customers" have preferences (weapon types, weapon stats) and there are other small activities. This helps diversify gameplay Cons: Not that many activities and can become borring pretty soon. Repetetive gameplay. Not rewarding. Progression 4/10 You receive more smiths and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a little fun game. Simple in gameplay, yet nice. I must admit. It's repetitive and grindy. And it may take a while for a game to progress but when you need a game that let your thoughts float somewhere else and ignore all around you, this is what you want. A weapon shop is… surprise surprise…. about making weapons. You need to manage your crew, take care about materials to make weapons and of course you need to sell them to heroes. All in all it’s a simple strategy game. Good for kids…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →⠄⠄⣿⣿⣿⣿⠘⡿⢛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⢻⣿⣿⠃⠸⣿⣿⣿⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄ ⠄⠄⣿⣿⣿⣿⢀⠼⣛⣛⣭⢭⣟⣛⣛⣛⠿⠿⢆⡠⢿⣿⣿⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄ ⠄⠄⠸⣿⣿⢣⢶⣟⣿⣖⣿⣷⣻⣮⡿⣽⣿⣻⣖⣶⣤⣭⡉⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄ ⠄⠄⠄⢹⠣⣛⣣⣭⣭⣭⣁⡛⠻⢽⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣽⡧⡄⠄⠄⠄ ⠄⠄⠄⠄⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣌⡛⢿⣽⢘⣿⣷⣿⡻⠏⣛⣀⠄⠄ ⠄⠄⠄⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⠙⡅⣿⠚⣡⣴⣿⣿⣿⡆⠄ ⠄⠄⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠄⣱⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠄ ⠄⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠄ ⠄⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠣⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠄ ⠄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠑⣿⣮⣝⣛⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠄ ⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⠄⠄⠄⠄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠄
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love these kind of management games and have sunk hundreds if not thousands of hours into others. But this one just comes off as tedious. There's lots of clicking to get into multi-layered menus, instead of purposeful clicking. Felt like I was at work, or using ♥♥♥♥♥♥ medical-records software.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's the second time I try to play it, and I stopped at the same point. It was cute the first hour or two, but sadly it gets boring very quickly.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This could have been a great game. But due to lack of aditional love from devs it ended up just an OK game. Kinda repetitive and not very polished.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →after an to two hours it gets boring and the same, too few people to manage and no automation of boring tasks. there is still some more that can be unlocked in my run that can help a few more hours and more to gain, it all just feels like artifical gain than something you improve or anything really new and exciting which I dont see it as. so its generic, can be decent if you like the humor and doing the same over and over, with a feeling you can only "progress" but not do much of anything…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a boring and tedious gameplay. The whole point of this game is just point and click and upgrade your smith shop, that's it. Even there are some unique characters for doing side quest, all of this is just making weapons with the requirement stats. Also there is no replayability and the achievements are garbage and wasting time to do. For anyone want to stare your screen all day and just click and click, this game is perfect for you.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Those potato jokes are really funny after you catch a drift of it :D
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think I almost want to be positive - but the main thing is the age showing in the game and that there are too many games that do it better. This feels like it wanted to be a clicker / auto game before they became big... Because you can't really leave it idle without actually potentially losing.. I think the studio probably can make good new work and I expect to play the future titles... However I don't think anyone needs to start the franchise here..
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A very average gaming experience full of repetitive gameplay and weak humor that tries too hard to be funny. The game also has some serious bugs. For example, after completing the final quest, the ending story trigger simply did not happen. Instead of an ending or cinematic, nothing happened at all, most likely because two game events triggered at the same time. Overall, a disappointing and forgettable experience.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've seen more gameplay in a dog's ass
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is cute don't get me wrong. The potato puns can be pretty funny and I did enjoy all the references to other games. However the game loop just drags on with plenty of moments of just sitting there waiting for your smiths to finish doing things or clicking on each smith individually to move them to a new workshop position. If it weren't for the ability to speed up the game I probably wouldn't have bothered finishing it at all. Plenty of content is easily missed out on if you move…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →got this in like 2015 when i was 13 but its not really that fun and has weird racial caricatures that are prettttyyy yikes. still gonna achievement grind this game but know im frowning and shaking my head in disapproval the whole time
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →dumb game 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It was an enjoyable game until I realized something that completely destroyed my gameplay, not only does this game not have auto-save, it doesn't even have a working save system. While my original save is still up from years ago, I can no longer save after loading, or create new save files. After looking on the discussions, apparently the reason is that when my anti-virus system came up, I agreed to not give this game access to whatever it wanted to do. Seems a bit suspicious.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My gambling addict friend said if I post a review on Holy Potatoes! and it gets 150 likes and 50 Awards that he will buy me a case of beer and some vodka So im just gonna leave this here.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →15% weapon smithing, 85% screwing with you. The main selling point is seriously undercooked, with little beyond template weapons.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Al-sat ticaret oyunlarını sevsem de bu oyun sıkıcı. - Ana oyun döngüsü sıkıcı ve oyunun ilerisinde bir yenilik eklenmiyor üzerine. - Uzun kafa siken diyalogları var, illa girip deneyeceğim diyorsanız diyalogları geçin. - Sizi oyuna ve silah dövmeye bağlayan bir unsur yok. Ufak görevler var sadece. - Oyunun ekonomisi sik gibi. Ekonomimi toparlayayım diyene kadar oyun sonuna ulaştım. para çok hızlı eriyebiliyor. - Para kolay kazanılanabiliniyor ama yorulmuş işçileri terapiye yolla, malzeme eksik…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was feeling iffy about gameplay, but willing to give it a chance until I discovered that it dumps an *unlabeled* saved games folder (named just "SavedGames") directly into ~/Documents (the Linux equivalent of "My Documents"). This is *not* where saved games go (that would be ~/.local/share). And the hubris in thinking this game would have the only saved games on the computer is beyond words.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The story is mildly amusing, but is barely there. The cameos also provoke a few quick smirks, but no laughs. The gameplay is mired with mild inconveniences. Suggested Gameplay Improvements: Add a way to mark customers or location for easy viewing so I don't have to keep going back to the Sell Weapons menu to find out what to create. Add a way to automatically re-position your smiths by stat, since doing that manually took up about a quarter of the game (for me). This was the most…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Too much repetitive, and everything is a joke, a not funny one...
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unlabelledView post →Some mindless fun game where you do a loop of resource gathering, smithing and selling.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I’d like: * Half Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax * Hollow Knight * Jackbox Party Pack 4 * Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! * Human Fall Flat Thank you!
unlabelledView post →Такая нишевая Game Dev Tycoon про то, как картофелины делают свое оружие.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Alwyn can you see this??
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As much as I thoroughly enjoy the game, it's hard to recommend something that you can't even save in.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For this price? It was a no brainer! I got this game with the change i got from selling trading cards and I do not regret it. It is so addictive to sell weapons and boost stats. I haven't played any of the other potato games, but I really like management type games. I think this would be good for anyone that likes the popular game dev sim. It has humor too, my first special potato was a potato based on cloud from FF7. This was totally worth the money.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Holy Potatoes! This game sucks!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Feels like a hastily ported mobile game and certainly plays like one too.
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