# Shop Heroes: Trade Tycoon — Fantasy Shop Tycoon RPG > Fantasy tycoon RPG where you craft, trade, and battle to build a shop empire. (iPhone/iPad app by cloudcade.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shop-heroes-trade-tycoon/id938185444 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [cloudcade](https://appshunter.io/developer/936886851) - Category: Games, Role Playing, Simulation - Price: Free - Rating: 4.41/5 from 1,041 App Store ratings · 21 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 9.1 · 199 MB - Languages: English - Released: 2015-09-14 - Data updated: 2026-06-10 - Monetization: free with in-app purchases - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shop-heroes-trade-tycoon/id938185444/reviews.md ## What is Shop Heroes? Craft legendary items, gear up your heroes for epic quests, and fight for the top of the Trade Wars and PvP Leaderboards in the original smash hit fantasy tycoon: Shop Heroes! Become a medieval fantasy tycoon! Build, trade, and craft your way to riches and fame. Recruit a team of RPG heroes to fight a dragon, quest for you, and wear your finest weapons and armor in battle. Risk your honor in PvP battles with your strongest heroes. Team up with other player merchants & builders to create the greatest City in all civilization. All of this adventure and more awaits you - join the millions of players that have made Shop Heroes their phone’s design home. NEW: It is said that war is the forge of empires - now, work together with your City to conquer Shop Heroes’ Trade Wars! Invest in your City’s success, craft and Contribute important items, or Dominate your rivals in a special PvP mode to earn Domination Points for your City. Climb the City Leaderboard to earn valuable rewards for everyone involved! ~~~~~~~~~ BUILD A FANTASY EMPIRE ~~~~~~~~~ ◆ INTERIOR DESIGN your dream item shop with beautiful decorations ◆ CUSTOMIZE your shopkeeper avatar with stylish outfits ◆ CRAFT powerful items to sell to adventurers and players alike ◆ ADVANCE through unique tech trees to discover incredible weapons and armor ◆ TRADE with other players to build your wealth and fame ◆ FUSE items together to unlock the rarest and most powerful equipment ~~~~~~~~~ CONQUER THE KINGDOM ~~~~~~~~~ ◆ RECRUIT and gear up a diverse cast of RPG heroes ◆ LOOT exciting treasures in Aragonia’s many quests and adventures ◆ BATTLE other players in PvP combat for wealth and glory ◆ TEAM up with friends to build a powerful and profitable City ◆ RAID massive dungeons with your City to earn exclusive loot ◆ TRADE WARS give Cities a new axis and allies to consider - will you be victorious? Regular events, updates, and new content are always happening. Meet and love Nikki and all the Shop Heroes characters! Come see what Shop Heroes has in store for you. ~~~~~~~~ SUPPORT ~~~~~~~~ Experiencing any problems? Got some suggestions? We would love to hear from you! You can reach us at https://cloudcade.helpshift.com for immediate assistance. A persistent network connection is required to play. PLEASE NOTE! Shop Heroes is completely free to play, but you can purchase some game items with real money. If you don’t want to use this feature, you can disable in-app purchases in your device’s settings. Use of this application is governed by the Terms of Service available at http://cloudcade.com/terms-of-service/ Collection and use of data are subject to the Privacy Policy available at http://cloudcade.com/privacy-policy/ Like Us: http://facebook.com/shopheroes Follow Us: http://twitter.com/shopheroesgame http://shopheroes.com ## Key features - Interior design your shop - Customize shopkeeper avatar - Craft powerful items - Recruit and gear up RPG heroes - Trade with other players - Team up with friends - Participate in Trade Wars ## What do users think of Shop Heroes? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Customer service is great - 🚀 Potentially fun game - 👍 Friendly community - 👍 Engaging gameplay - 👍 Lots of depth and content - 👍 Enjoyable crafting and shop management **Cons** - 🐛 Server maintenance and updates cause frequent downtime - 💰 Questionable in-app purchase model - 🐛 Bugs and glitches after updates - 🐛 Unreliable servers and connectivity issues - 🐛 Poor community management and communication **Commonly reported bugs** - Frequent server maintenance and downtime - Crafting screen glitches - Fortune teller feature broken - Notifications not working **Most requested features** - More ways to earn account XP - Option to use coins instead of gems for certain actions - Full screen support for iPhone X - Reliable notifications ## Recent user reviews (10 of 21) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shop-heroes-trade-tycoon/id938185444/reviews.md ### 4/5 — Customer Service Rocks! *2021-07-09, version 1.5.91* Potentially fun game if one overlooks bad server maintenance scheduling. After one gets started, one joins or creates a city. Having a good city means there are active players that enter the game multiple times a day. This is helpful when the main event, city raid, occurs. City raid offers prizes based on your level and overall city performance. Server maintenance and updates and most game problems happen during city raid. When one can’t get into the game, because of server maintenance or a bad update or other problems, it turns a potentially fun game into just another bad game. Please note that on occasion the company will offer compensation for their mistakes. Anything that has been offered previously in the game can be gotten. Their customer service is very, very helpful. **Developer response:** Hi! We've since made a few updates to the game which may have resolved the issue you were previously experiencing. If it is resolved, kindly review your rating! If the issue still exists, please Contact our support team at https://cloudcade.helpshift.com/a/shop-heroes/ /voldemort ### 5/5 — Love but suggestions. *2019-10-25, version 1.3.60* I am loving this game and the structure that it has in every aspect. Just a few key things that I may suggest and can be implemented with a sub or something of the sort, with repairing items if we could have an option with coins instead of gems but that's minor in my eyes because of the ability to craft replacements and typing this out made me realize why it's like that so disregard. But the biggest thing I could see is that it would be great if there were other ways to obtain account XP instead of just selling items to the NPCs that come into the shop. Maybe from crafting in general or doing dungeons? I'm not saying give us the levels but make it more diverse and allowing us different ways to obtain XP to level in a more suitable way. ### 1/5 — Get it Together *2019-10-07, version 1.3.50* For now the second time, I am having to delete this game from my phone. Been playing for close to 3 years but I’ve had it with all issues that come up every time there’s an update. I have been unable to log in for close to 2 weeks now, all because of an update. A few months ago I was unable to log in for 3 weeks and again, it happened right after an update. I stopped playing over a year ago for this very reason. After not playing for one year, I thought (incorrectly) that the connectivity issues had been resolved. I know the issue is not with my phone, it is definitely Shop Heroes. This game is super fun and one of my fave mobile games but I’ve lost patience with the updates. It’s frustrating when you spend real money on a game and then are unable to play because of an ongoing issue. Please fix this. ### 1/5 — More empty promises *2019-06-26, version 1.2.95* Every update for the last year has claimed to fix all the broken features and bugs (and there are numerous) but fails to deliver. This latest update is no exception. I downloaded thinking perhaps I could now get notifications, or my screen would no longer flicker between sizes, or perhaps the fortune teller would, indeed, be back. Cloudcade continues to let down their customers while treating them like the enemy. If you spend any time on the forum, you’ll find there’s little room for feedback or constructive criticism as everything is swallowed up the the shadow of the developers’ hyper-inflated egos. *Update* I was asked to update my review because supposedly lots of issues have been fixed. Still no full screen support for IPhone X, the screen glitches during crafting, fortune teller is still broken and notifications still don’t work. Shop Titans is a better game. Go play that instead. **Developer response:** Hi! We've since made a few updates to the game which may have resolved the issue you were previously experiencing. If it is resolved, kindly review your rating! If the issue still exists, please Contact our support team at https://cloudcade.helpshift.com/a/shop-heroes/ voldemort ### 5/5 — Great game, doesn’t get boring *2019-01-27* Overall a great game! Sometimes the push to spend lots of money/the questionable calculated odds of things (opening chests, fusing, roulette) can be a bit much...but honestly overall it is a lot of fun. The game has a lot of depth to it and does not get boring over time (I’ve been playing 2.5+ years and still feel like I have tons left to explore). Join an active city, build your world over time, and enjoy! **Developer response:** Appreciate the kind words! I'll share the feedback with the Team as we can always improve the game. Happy Crafting! /Sirius ### 5/5 — 5 Stars - Game and Support! *2018-11-07, version 1.2.22* A good crafting game gives you this feeling of owning a shop. The game has a friendly community! My wife and I have been enjoying this game since we installed it. I have tried their support, and they respond fast and accurately. They were friendly and professional in the way they assist you, and takes little time to solve your game-related problems. I don’t usually write reviews, but this game deserves it. Try it now and enjoy the game! ### 4/5 — Really good Potential *2018-10-28, version 1.2.21* The game is truly fun. It keeps you consistently busy and thinking of the next task you want to start or complete while you’re already in the middle of quest or craft which is really fun the characters are fun and unique and because of that the game makes me keep playing to see what hero I can unlock next to hire for quests. The potential for the game is really there when you play it the only real problem I have is with the gems and the asking price when it comes to them. I understand to have a game like this for free you need to get your coins somehow but 75 gems just to change my main character appearance when you guys had me as a girl to start when I’m a male irl lol kinda ticked me off and the accessories and cosmetics are a lot gem price wise too! BUT the base game does serve you gems as you accomplish goals that soon start to become rare so you don’t necessarily have to pay for end when you can grind. Only reason I got the 1.99 pack of 250 gems (pretty good deal anyway) is to change the appearance of my character but other than that you guys really have something good here keep it up mates **Developer response:** Hi! We are glad that you like the game. We've since made a few updates to the game you might enjoy. Kindly review your rating if you like them. Contact our support team at https://cloudcade.helpshift.com/a/shop-heroes/ for any kind of assistance. /voldemort ### 2/5 — Fun game but unreliable servers *2018-06-29, version 1.1.35* I really enjoy the combination of gameplay elements in this game. It's fun exploring the crafting trees and sending heroes off to combat. The only problem is it's only useable 5 days out of the week. Every weekly maintenance since I started playing shuts me out for a day or more, I have to reinstall at the risk of losing progress. Any combo you build up towards blueprints is lost, the 24 hour limit quests expires... it diminishes any reward for playing the rest of the week, because I know the maintenance will break my ability to play in one capacity or another, and I'll start whatever raid broke the game behind everyone else because of the downtime. It's cute and fun but I don't know why it's so unstable. **Developer response:** Hi! We've since made a few updates to the game which may have resolved the issue you were previously experiencing. If it is resolved, kindly review your rating! If the issue still exists, please Contact our support team at https://cloudcade.helpshift.com/a/shop-heroes/ voldemort ### 1/5 — Sun’s Getting Real Low *2018-05-24, version 1.1.34* Prepare yourself for the worst community management you have ever experienced. Have a complaint you wish to bring up on the forums? Banned. Question the developers over in game chat? Banned. Vent to friends in the unofficial Shop Heroes Discord channel? Yeah you guessed it... But why do people complain you ask? Well Timmy, once upon a time this game had small updates on a near monthly basis and now, it’s been about a year since any form on “content” update. They always promise that new stuff is coming, but that day never arrives and the community managers respond as if we are crazy for bringing it up. That the team is hard at work and news is coming soon. Pure gaslighting. If you can ignore all of the above and like idle shop management games then this is the game for you. Just sit quietly, don’t speak up, or you risk losing your account forever. Many of the very top players, the ones who helped shape the community and made the guides and contributed to the spreadsheet are presently banned. They are amazing people who loved this game and it is a shame they are gone. **Developer response:** Hi! We've since made a few updates to the game which may have resolved the issue you were previously experiencing. If it is resolved, kindly review your rating! If the issue still exists, please Contact our support team at https://cloudcade.helpshift.com/a/shop-heroes/ voldemort ### 4/5 — Fun but grrr. *2018-05-09, version 1.1.34* The game is really fun. It’s an interesting perspective on rpgs. I play with my wife and are enjoying do so together. However, I find that 100% I have an item break when a party comes back and it’s kind of frustrating. I get it. It’s only 3% chance on avg, to break. But why every time when my party comes back something has to break. Really discourages even outfitting them. Don’t want anything to break. Who knows maybe they are fighting rocks instead of living things. ## Frequently asked questions about Shop Heroes ### What is Shop Heroes: Trade Tycoon? Shop Heroes: Trade Tycoon is a fantasy tycoon RPG where you build and manage a shop. You'll craft legendary items, recruit heroes to go on quests, and battle other players. The game also features city building and competitive trade wars. ### What are the main features of Shop Heroes? Key features include designing your shop's interior, customizing your avatar, crafting powerful items, recruiting and gearing up RPG heroes, trading with other players, and teaming up with friends to build a city. You can also participate in PvP battles and city-wide Trade Wars. ### Is Shop Heroes: Trade Tycoon free to play? Yes, Shop Heroes: Trade Tycoon is completely free to play. However, it does offer optional in-app purchases for certain game items that can be bought with real money. You can disable this feature in your device's settings if you prefer not to use it. ### What kind of gameplay can I expect in Shop Heroes? You can expect a blend of simulation, RPG, and strategy gameplay. You'll focus on crafting and selling items to build your shop's wealth, while also managing a team of heroes for combat and quests. The multiplayer aspect involves trading, city building, and competing in leaderboards and trade wars. ### Do I need a persistent internet connection to play? Yes, a persistent network connection is required to play Shop Heroes: Trade Tycoon. This is because the game involves real-time trading, multiplayer interactions, and participation in city events and trade wars. ## Version history (last 1 release) ### 1.5.91 — 2021-01-21 ◆The Ancient’s Pack - New craftable items - New shop decorations ◆Player Appreciation - New craftable items - New shop decorations ◆Thank You Pack - New craftable items - New shop decorations ## Apps similar to Shop Heroes | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Crafting Idle Clicker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/crafting-idle-clicker/id1292539617) | 4.7 (3,445) | Free | Games | | [Goblin's Shop](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/goblins-shop/id1231913615) | 4.3 (192) | Free | Games | | [Idle Monster Frontier](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idle-monster-frontier/id1523328443) | 4.7 (837) | Free | Games | | [Dungeon & Hunter : Idle RPG](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dungeon-and-hunter-idle-rpg/id1529846507) | 4.4 (281) | Free | Games | | [Medieval Clicker Blacksmith](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/medieval-clicker-blacksmith/id1235590464) | 4.6 (534) | Free | Games | | [Zombie Shop](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/zombie-shop/id1513556438) | 4.6 (2,452) | Free | Games | ## More apps by cloudcade - [Card Brawl: Dungeon Slayer](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/card-brawl-dungeon-slayer/id1424676938) - [Shop Legends: Tycoon RPG](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shop-legends-tycoon-rpg/id6446085602) All apps by cloudcade: https://appshunter.io/developer/936886851 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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