Bad Luck Mart: Idle Cat Shop

Tap a sleepy cat shopkeeper and he bonks the Monday Slime, the Card Bill Beast and the Overtime Goblin right off his customers' heads. A cozy pixel-art idle clicker set in a run-down 1990s Korean corner store. Bad Luck Mart sits at the far end of a back alley, its sign half falling off. Behind the counter naps an orange cat in glasses, once "the Legendary Moktak" (a moktak is a wooden temple block you knock). Your one job as the part-timer: poke him until he works. "Part-timer. Poke me, and I shall strike." ■ How to Play Tap, and the cat whacks his moktak or rolls his prayer beads. Knock the bad luck off a tired customer and they leave a little luck behind. Spend it on stronger tools and on fixing up the shop. Part clicker, part shop tycoon, all paws. ■ 12 Kinds of Everyday Bad Luck • Gloom Cloud, Nag Doll, Monday Slime, Overtime Goblin • Card Bill Beast, Group Chat Gremlin, Oversleep Alarm, Diet Scale • Hangover Bottle, Deadline Hourglass, Noisy-Neighbor Speaker, Hot-Night Mosquito Each one is weak to a different tool. Every one you chase off goes into your Bad Luck Book. ■ Fresh Tricks Up the Alley Every few alleys the bad luck learns a trick, from a shining Weak Star and Charm Shields to mirrors, twins and cracked shells. Five alleys tell one trick's story, and on the third it twists: Twin Stars, a Gold Charm that drops every charm at once, Knock Three that cracks a shell in three quick hits. Every alley ends with the Big Bad Luck in a crown. ■ The Shop Runs While You're Away Close the app and the shop keeps serving for up to 24 hours, then hands you what it earned. ■ Reasons to Drop By Every Day • Today's VIP: one special customer a day, and this one you tap yourself • Today's fortune: shake the lot tube, and it prints like a store receipt • Streak: draw a fortune each day, and days 7, 14 and 30 bring gifts (one more fortune, Gold Invitations, an attendance frame) • Magpie pouches: a magpie drops one off now and then • Boss's Requests: finish them for rewards ■ Regulars and Their Stories Regulars collect hearts that unlock gifts. Eight of them come back four times each to finish a story, like Grandpa's Video Call or 3 a.m. at the Convenience Store, with tougher bad luck each visit. Every ending is kept in the ledger. What you put in the shop decides who walks in. An Old CRT TV, a lucky cat, a gold money toad... every customer has favorites. ■ Events All Year From November 2026 to October 2027, a different event runs each month, from the Big Exam Good-Luck Drive and three winter acts to the Cherry Blossom Outing, Boknal, Chuseok Homecoming and Autumn Sports Day. Each brings its own guest and three things you earn with attendance stamps. ■ Move the Shop From alley 30 you can move the shop for fame and a secret, and it gets fancier each time: painted walls, then marble, then gold. ■ When You're Stuck Boss's Ahem (alley 5) knocks off 30% of the bad luck, Cat Takes Over (alley 15) taps for you for 10 s, and Incense (alley 30) doubles your strikes for 1 minute. ■ A Comic-Strip Story Short comics reveal who King Gloom is and why this cat was called a legend. Skip or replay any time. ■ Ads, Purchases and Your Progress • No stage to lose, no timer, no rhythm tapping and no paid loot boxes • No full-screen ads that interrupt play: rewarded ads play only when you choose one. Banners may show at the bottom of the Store, Decor and Settings screens (ad removal or Hide Banners turns them off) • Optional purchases: Singing Bowl Set, Wind Chime Set, Golden Moktak, the BGM Pack (six sounds, from rain to frogs), the Regulars' Ledger Pass and ad removal, each with fixed, listed contents • Fortunes can also be drawn with in-game luck, so they count as a random item. "See odds" on the fortune screen and in the Store shows each rank's odds before you draw • Export or import a backup and restore purchases in Settings Fine print from the cat: No guarantees. None. Any effect is mostly in your head.