Last updated on December 1st, 2025 at 10:50 am
Goblin's Shop – Entertainment Game Review
Goblin's Shop is a Entertainment/Simulation/Roleplaying game from JUNG CHUN HUNG, first launched in 16th September 2017.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 192+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Goblin's Shop Stand Out
＊＊＊＊＊ 2017 / 10, Featured by App Store globally ＊＊＊＊＊
＊＊＊＊＊ 2018 / 3, Selected as Today's Game in China & Honk Kong ＊＊＊＊＊
● Introduction
This is a pixel-art simulation game in which the player runs a shop, together with RPG adventures.
In Goblin’s Shop, the player is a goblin who has been bullied by humans and he always wants to get it even. Unfortunately, however, Mr. Goblin realizes that he is too weak to beat any human soldier. Then the idea of opening a shop occurred to him, so he decided to sell weapons, armors and potions to other monsters. To take revenge against humans, he puts together an adventure team with other monsters.
In the game, the player has to undertake adventures with his customers constantly, to acquire better crafting materials. During any adventure, the player might face fiery counterattack from human soldiers, so it is imperative to craft better equipment for customers, and then the customers can kill humans more efficiently. The ultimate goal is to attack humans’ castle and gain victory in the end.
● Features:
- More than 100 items for crafting
- Shop facilities with unique functions are accessible to set up
- Various monsters are available for the player to adventure with
- Skill tree for the player and random talent systems of the monsters
- Random events and quests
- 44 territories for adventure
- The presentation of monsters are customizable
- Player is able to adjust the color of shop objects and arrange various decorations
- Challenge human hero together with the other players
● Login & Edit Account Info:
http://fstoke.me/goblinxshop/player/
● Help Translating Text:
http://fstoke.me/goblinxshop/game_text/
● FB Page:
http://www.facebook.com/goblinxshop
● Twitter:
https://twitter.com/goblinxshop
● Wiki:
https://goblinxshop.fandom.com/zh-tw/wiki/Goblin's_Shop_Wiki
● TouchArcade Forum:
http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=311644
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Goblin's Shop is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 18th January 2024
Recent improvements include:
- update advertisement sdk
- add the mechanism to skip beginner's tutorial
Download & Availability
Goblin's Shop is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Goblin's Shop on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Highest quality and most content of any free game Ive played. This game needs to be way more popular.
We love this game and have played it many times over the years, but now in this version, we can not get the totems to unlock. Our character reaches level 20 and we still do not have access to any totems. We deleted and reinstalled the game. We got our character to 20 again, and still no access to totems. We got our character to level 90 to see if we needed to also do something else to trigger the totem option, and nothing we did ever got totems to initialize. We see the totem upgrade vendor in town and the +totem option when we start a quest, but we can never add or upgrade any totems, they are all always greyed out. The game thinks that we have never learned anyeven when level 90.
Good game, but im using an iphone. The aspect ratio for the game is bad, we cant see how much money we have.
The game is more than entertaining and offers more than youd expect in terms of strategy and distractions. However, it wont let us create an account. No matter what User ID we type in it still tells us the ID has been taken by another player. Ive gone from the names we usually use in games to random assortments of numbers and letters and every single time it tells us the ID is taken. Please fix this issue. Once its been fixed itll be a 5 star game for us.
Wen you go to taverns to hire some one in turtorial they cost 200 gems and the turtorial only give 40 gems.
We hope the character we are control can wear equipment and weapon, and also can attack.
Its unfortunate that on newer iPhones are unplayable because the bezel on top blocks the coins. If the coin display was moved an inch lower it would make it perfect.
We love this game we wish it originated on pc this is so good.
Ill make this short as our first review on this apparently was as broken as the game. The developers do not care whatsoever about decent gameplay and balancing, and you will find your self raging in no time at mechanics you cant even begin to comprehend. DO YOURSELF A FAVOR, DO NOT DOWNLOAD.
We used to play this years ago and loved it! As an iPhone user, our current issue is, the Gold display is right under the camera on our phone, so Im unable to see how much we have. Ive tried to rotate our phone, doesnt work, cant zoom in or out and Ive not found a way to do anything about it within game settings. Ill still play, but its kind of a guessing game on how much gold we have. If you could fix this, Id be very grateful. If there is already a solution, someone tell us. Thank you.
This game is honestly very enjoyable and fun to play. It doesnt require internet so if youre on a trip or somewhere you dont have WiFi, you can still play it. Gems are easy to get, loot if fun to go after, and the creativity behind the monsters is great. We also love how they manage the circle of economy within the game. 5 stars from us :).
Ive been playing this game and we hired a vip a couple of them we hired three and they do not but the weapons that are there dream weapons can you fix the game and make our vips get the dream weapons they always dreamed pls or we might take away four stars because the game is so bad and a bit boring how our vips didnt get there dream weapons.
We love goblin shop more than any other shopping tycoon game out there this game is so addictive we love going out for materials at the beginning and finding other monsters to help out and getting the full loot potential the most annoying thing on our iPhone XR is that the gold is hidden and we cant see how much we have. Other than that the game is the best and one of our favorite games on the phone.
We love Goblins and we like crafting and making things look nice and beating up humans. This game allows us to do just that. 10/10.
We think this is a really fun game. It reminds us of old computer games we played as a kid. Thanks for an awesome game.
This game is amazing we have played on and off for about 6 months. We got a new phone and now we cant read the gold counter. We love this game just fix that and we will make this a 5 star.
First off, the developer appears to still be actively tweaking/developing the game, which is great. The shop management aspects of the game are well done and the crafting and gathering core gameplay loops are well designed. Monster (minion) management is fairly fun and discovering new ones while hunting on the combat maps is fun. The only downsides Ive experienced thus far is that special enemies (humans) are way overpowered. We can have monsters 10 levels higher than the humans on the map and one special human with regeneration and bombs can easily wipe the out. It is not uncommon to find regenerating mobs who regenerate faster then our monsters can deal damage. This becomes incredibly frustrating as Im now stuck on territory 9 with our three teams of monsters all out leveling the content and still not able to beat it (territory 8 took some serious cheesing to beat also). This speaks to bad level scaling/difficulty curve as previous levels were more reasonable. Our hope is that future updates/tweaks will fix the level scaling of special mobs/humans, as getting stuck on a level due to running into on non-boss mob can otherwise ruin a fun run. After a week stuck on level 9 and all of the regenerating special monsters, we called it quits. Good game that needs some tweaks. Fun for a week or so until you hit the overpowered enemies and quit.
10/22/2018: Once again, a new update broke the game. This time, it is in regards to the shoppers who go into the store. After the new update, the shoppers only shop from the rack closest to the entrance of the store, and if the rack is empty or they dont see something they like, they leave. The shoppers will not go to any other item racks in the store if the rack closest to the shop entrance has anything in it. In addition, since the new update, no shoppers go to the repair station which we have in the back of the store near the item creation stations. Please fix! (Previous review: In the new update, in the shop mode, whenever a shoplifter or angry customer is clocked or hit, the money they drop no longer adds money, but rather makes its money sound effect but doesnt add or display any money added. Please fix.).
Every time we do pretty much anything in the field the game freezes.
Overall amazing game, full of content, and great update on having employees and shop expansions. It really allows you(the player) free will to do what you want. A couple problems are crashes from buying a furniture, or crashing trying to repair someones gear.
We used to be a big fan of this game. Played the heck out of it. But then, each update would delete any progress we had, permanently resetting us to lvl 19. Otherwise, the enemies are not balanced, and there are critical things about the game that need to be addressed before putting in even more features that the game isnt even ready for.
Even dumped ten or twenty bucks in about a year ago. Got stuck with a crew of casters at lvl 22. Came back. Data corrupted. Ok… Ill just start all lover. The super Soldiers are stupidly strong. Had four wiped the first time we ran into one. No biggie. Improve equipment and return. When we get to the first boss stage, there are super Soldiers (white circle under) in three different groups before the boss. Really ruined it for us. We cant say you are unable to grind or rng past this, just that at the 5th stage we dont think we want to.
This is a great game it's filled with items you can create and overall it is a great pastime.
We loved loved this game before the update. We loved the simplicity, especially in the adventure part of the game. It was nice to know what we were going up against with the level of our monsters versus the level of the humans. Now its unexpected. Our level 20-30 monsters may not even last the adventure go against 13-19 human levels. With the use of fire and bombs everywhere, we just feel like the gameplay has just gotten way more complicated than it should be. The only thing we like about the update is that we can now throw rocks as a way for our own mode of attack.
Theme is on point. Challenges us in ways other games don't. Depth in unexpected places. Doesn't take itself seriously.
Theres good content and plenty of play time. The resource aspect is very cool and crafting items gains some experience. We play quite a bit.
Let us start by saying this game is awesome. But there are some features missing. You quickly run out of room to place workstations. We wish you could expand your shop so you could fit more storage and such. Another thing, what shop doesnt have employees? Like maybe just a guard to stop shoplifting, or maybe a cashier. We hope the devs take our suggestions seriously.
Thanks for the game and your respectful amount of ad plays. We really like what you added for the village missions. Also the in shop alert of inaccessible locations. It's a really fun, rewarding game for any play style. We're enjoying it very much, it feels like you understand and love what you're making. One problem is the summon hellhound level seems wrong still. We get a level 4 hellhound from a level 30 summoner. It's supposed to be 90% of level? We think it's increasing but not correctly.
This is one of the best games that has appeared in the rpg genre on ios in a long time. It is a very pure adventure game which doesn't sacrifice its content for potential cash grabs.
This is a great game! We love being able to run a shop but it gets kinda overwhelming with the checkout and fixing things, so if you could add a feature where you can hire workers to help you that would be awesome!!! Thanks.
Some people may be put off by the pixelated graphics, but it adds to the games charm! Give it a try before you decide to pass it because behind the gameplay is addicting and fun. We are so happy that this game makes it easy for you to play without paying if you dont want to, and we want to thank the developer for that. We have only downloaded this yesterday, but so far we have spent countless hours on the game. There are so many items to craft and discover, and we love the idea of being able to run our own store. We hope that the developer will continue to update the game with more events and adventures because we can see this game turning into something even greater.
This game is great. It's not very often we find a game we can add to our collection of favorites. It's simple, strategic and definitely addicting. 1 thing we'd really appreciate being added is a way to see what weapon/armor our companions already have so we know which ones to sell them. Also, maybe add a way to sell extra resources for coins? We're only level 14 at the moment so it could already be included. Maybe a bigger shop too or a way to upgrade it. Just ideas, thanks very much for the great FREE game.
We really like this game but we don't like the fact that the goblin has to move to the stolen item on the ground to pick it up. Just let us click on it to pick it up.
Idk why but we can't stop playing it.
Great game! Unique and fulfilling. We have about 10 hours in the game and haven't felt the need to spend any money. The developer deserves a few bucks so we're sure we'll buy some gems at some point though. :).
Initially, we didn't think we'd like this game. But the charm of the graphics and the humor and the play style quickly hooked us in. Give it a try! Gems are super easy to get in this game and it's not pay to win at all.
From the artwork to the music to the gameplay, we really enjoy this game. We think it deserves a good rating.
This game is great, once we started playing we could hardly put our phone down. We do have some suggestions that would add to the overall gameplay: 1. When mining and chopping wood- make it so that you have to craft your own axe/pick axe that loses durability and eventually break. The better the quality the longer it lasts and perhaps it could also decrease how long it takes to gather. 2. Suggesting items to customers- when you fail to make a suggestion multiple times the customer should be rightfully aggravated and leave a negative review. As it stands you can just spam click them until you succeed making the "speecher" skill pointless to invest in. Thank you for such a fun game and we hope you take our suggestions in to consideration.
Very fun game somewhat challenging. Though there is a bug when there are so many customers that they get stuck on each other and won't move.
Ok the mechanics of this game are amazing. Goblins and monsters aren't our thing but it's still worth playing. Review updated: after the October 6 update fighting is much more balanced yay! Now we just need to unlock more things below level 30. It takes wayyy too long to get to 30.
It's honestly a great game but there need to be some sort of way to get companions, upgrade them, and the market should have a way to sell and buy materials; all these should be accessible with gold not gems. We understand you need to make an income but make it so you can grind to get companions with gold while keeping the prices with gems the same. We will also agree that you should be able to fight when going out and that the companions or vips at least shouldn't shoplift. We'll keep playing in hopes you guys do these things and not let it die (we have good faith).
We think if you could automate some stuff like making certain items or checking out customers this game with be 5 stars we just think it gets tedious after awhile.
It's an OK game, the problem is that the level up system is so slow it becomes boring. Almost nothing happens until level 30.
It has s a good game but range enemy just ruin it. They can spot you before you can see them and shoot you first. Even during combat, they set you as first priority to attack. This just make you impossible to gather resources inside portals.
Archer Boss is RIDICULOUS… And who wants to grind 20 levels or more to win? (Already 10 lvls above him, and still can't win even with Rez pots. Had no trouble being a couple levels under with previous boss's)… Also archers re targeting making it impossible to get a chest in a bonus portal, what's the point ? Besides to aggravate players.
Reading the reviews we were like wow this is going to be good. Started playing and now we are thinking these reviews got to be fake. We can get over bad English a bad controls but there are so many bugs its crazy cant even play it.
Like others have said its a super fun and addicting game. Love the game play. The only problem is Im also stuck on the archer boss. Im now 11 levels ahead and cant do anything. He kills all monsters. We hope they release an update to fix soon so we can keep progressing. Edit: the boss is not bugged, just super hard! :).
We rarely comment in here. But we had to give you 5 stars for this awesome game. It can be more easy we guess but still its a very fun game.
This game is amazingly simple yet addictive and fun to play. It works offline or online and you really dont feel the need to pay to play. Though there are a few ads, they arent overly disruptive of the gameplay itself. One thing to note is that leveling up is incredibly slow and you, as the Goblin shop owner, can take up to 4 companions to gather more materials to forge and sell weapons, armor, and potions… But thats it! When you reach increments of 10 in levels, you unlock new facilities for your shop but they honestly dont make much of a difference and are not worth the price gap between the lower and upper level. Additionally, the game gets a bit monotone in that you get stuck doing the same thing over and over with no real storyline or advancement. Maybe the Goblin shop owner can forge his own items to bring to combat/for protection. Perhaps we could make VIP customers more customizable. We would like to see more story development and more innovative rewards and facilities for leveling up, maybe in smaller increments as well. Otherwise, a great game to begin with.
So Ive been playing this game for a while and its a wonderful game, but we are stuck in terms of level progression because of the wizard boss (the one with the pink robe). Our team is 10 levels above the recommended level for the area (territory 30) and they can almost one-hit kill almost all of the enemies, but then they all get wiped once we get to the boss. Ive tried different team setups and potions but none of them worked. We still like playing the game but its quite a bummer not being able to move on to the next territories. We were just wondering if the game can have it where it gives you advice on how to beat the boss if youve failed multiple times.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.7.10
- Size: 428.41 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: JUNG CHUN HUNG
Last updated: 18th January 2024 | Genre: Entertainment, Simulation | Developer: JUNG CHUN HUNG