{"id":452785,"date":"2026-04-25T06:03:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/452785\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T06:03:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:03:26","slug":"inkonbini-slice-of-life-cozy-gaming-from-japans-convenience-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/452785\/","title":{"rendered":"Inkonbini: Slice-of-life, cozy gaming from Japan\u2019s convenience stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s konbini (convenience stores) are a ubiquitous part of daily life for residents, but the stores have so many overseas admirers that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2025\/11\/02\/japan\/society\/japan-konbini-tourism\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tour operators offer guided jaunts<\/a> through their brightly lit aisles.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new game offers the chance to soak in konbini ambience in all its cozy comfort.<\/p>\n<p>Available from April 30, <a href=\"https:\/\/inkonbini.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Inkonbini<\/a> is the debut game by Tokyo-based indie studio Nagai Industries. It puts you in the shoes of Makoto, a college student on summer vacation who is helping out on the night shift at a branch of Honki Ponki, the konbini her aunt runs in an unnamed rural Japanese town during the 1990s. As the balmy shifts roll on, you\u2019ll handle inventory, chat with a small cast of customers and solve simple tasks like fetching the perfect product to help regulars overcome hurdles in their personal lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s konbini (convenience stores) are a ubiquitous part of daily life for residents, but the stores have so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[74],"tags":[161579,18,199508,19,17,199507,199509,199510,82,3880],"class_list":["post-452785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-convenience-stores","tag-eire","tag-familymart","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lawson","tag-ministop","tag-seven-eleven","tag-technology","tag-video-games"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116463836088057450","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}