Shop Legends

Do not even bother with this scam. The devs are releasing this game over and over under a different name every time in order to trick new players in.
Instead of updating the current game, they simply close the servers and/or completely stop support once the game doesn't make enough money anymore. Don't expect any compensation or something to move onto the next release because "it's a new game". So if you decide to play this game and spend some cash, just know that there is an expiration date.
-Swords & Potions in 2013 on Kongregate and Armor Games.
-Shop Heroes in 2015 then on Steam in 2016 (now removed
but you can still find on Steam via Google, app/506140)
-Shop Heroes Legends: Idle RPG
-Shop Titan
-And now Shop Legends under a new dev name "Cloudcade" so people can't see their past games.

Also the customer service is a joke, they will literally use sarcasm in their replies to make fun of you. When you're the customer/victim of a bug and lost in-game content, and there is money involved, this is simply unacceptable.

Garbage studio that do not respect their players, you've been warned.
There are better shop/management games out there on Steam that are worth it.

just lost 8 days worth of work, lost one shop level and 8 levels of my character and a whole lot more due to a rollback. i get it they had to do it but compensate us fairly not 3 days of buffs. I even made a small purchase and was not compensated for that yet as now with roll back its not showing up. This is the quickest way to kill the game.

This game is heavily MTXd e.g. no way to get it without purchasing.

For MTX, you have an 50$ Atlas special craftsman pack that gives you multi-craft; you have a 50$ Jack special craftsman pack that keeps workers from getting depressed and losing the ability to make exceptional equipment; with both of them it prevents your craftsmen and women from being anything less than happy (base +25% exceptional craft); special events have their own adventure zones that require event gear to obtain the necessary rewards and the recipes are MTXd between 15-30$ for each event. While you can actually waste time purchasing the gear by spending millions of gold or hundreds in gems outfitting your adventure party, it is pointless. There are a few helpful guilds out there, but there are also tons of bots already abusing the marketplace by buying up special gear posted as gold immediately as it is posted and reselling it for gems only. A lot of the leader-board-events are top 10 or 20 for rewards, so if you are not a super whale, you won't get anything.

You can play it as F2P, but you are severely limited in what you can do for months and are ham-stringed during special events. The game starts to even out once you are over level 50 (you finally have access to most craft/merge/adventure reward slots and all the craftsmen and women and their tables) and have cleared tier 6 in your recipe line. Once you have accumulated two+ adventure parties, you can farm adventure drops over and over and sell them for max gold, then purchase what you need to outfit you adventurers.

A couple of good changes from the old 2012 game and this one is the adventure mode is a bit more interactive and the sprite models are entertaining; the shop designs have goofy stuff such as the air balloon dancers/inflatable tube dancers and a bit more flexibility in coloring and designing your shop.

A huge detractor is that they used Shop Titans city investment strategy and you lose out/is very painful when trying to run a solo city.

Overall it is a alright time waster, I guess, but not really the sequel that it should be.

Things that need to change: the first event recipe should be grindable i.e., run 15 battles to get enough event tokens to buy the recipe and then you can make some event gear yourself. The event store needs changed i.e., 14000 event tokens for a tier 4 recipe is absolutely ridiculous; no free event cosmetics; craftperson benches need to drop crafting timers down more, 19 hours to make 1 item is ridiculous.