It starts with a single candied-hawthorn cart. Customers wander in, buy snacks, and the coins roll in by themselves — no restocking, no collecting, no babysitting. While you code, sit in meetings or binge a show, the market quietly does business above your taskbar.
Just leave it running
- Everything runs itself from the very first minute. Peek whenever you like; it keeps earning while you're away.
- 12 night-market stalls open one by one along your taskbar — skewers, bubble tea, ring toss, egg waffles, takoyaki, stinky tofu, goldfish scooping, a fortune teller… every upgrade adds lanterns, crates and customers.
When you feel like playing
- Help out: when the candied-hawthorn, skewer or bubble-tea stall gets busy, lend a hand — click the moment the heat ring turns green. Eight per round, and every perfect round makes the fire burn hotter.
- Ring toss: one click to drop the ring; every toy you win goes on your prize shelf. 36 prizes over three seasons, and steady hands unlock tougher tables with rarer prizes.
The people of the market
- Regulars' orders: twelve neighbours keep coming back — a student cramming for exams, an office worker on overtime, a grandma on her evening walk. Fill their orders for Fame, unlock their little stories, and hang their photo on their favourite stall. Orders never expire.
- Rare visitors: a wandering swordsman, the God of Wealth, the Moon Rabbit, a livestreamer… 20 in all. Follow the clues, set up your street, and they'll find their way to you — once they're regulars, they'll tell you their stories. Anyone wearing a name tag can be clicked to say hi.
- House specials: swap among 36 specials across 12 stalls — some earn more, some bring Fame, some draw certain customers.
It only gets livelier
- Lanterns and temple fairs: spend Fame to light lanterns; light them all to throw a temple fair, and each fair hangs a new kind of ornament along the lantern rope. The lion dance comes through, and fireworks go up for your 10,000th and 100,000th customer.
- Collection and ledger: every visitor, prize, special and regular goes into your collection; the ledger keeps count of the days, the customers served and your busiest stalls.
- 8 music tracks: switch any time in Settings; a few unlock as you play (fill Fei the Guitarist's orders to hear his song).
Never in your way
- Transparent background with click-through on empty space.
- Goes into hiding when you watch a video or play a game in fullscreen.
- Adjustable street and interface size, any monitor, a boss key — and the coin pouch folds down to just your coins and progress.