Sudden Market Review (Steam)

by Jim Smale · February 6, 2024

For this Sudden Market Review, where the supermarket has just closed, hurry up to find and collect all the products on your list without getting caught by the security guard! A fast-paced stressful action game made for speedrunning.

Sudden Market Review Pros:

Nice graphics.
729.81MB download size.
Steam achievements.
Controller support.
Graphics settings – window mode, resolution, 3D resolution, v-sync, fps limit, post-processing, effects, and textures.
Can rebind controls for the mouse and keyboard.
Speedy food collecting gameplay.
The goal of the game is to collect all the items on the shopping list as fast as possible.
Highlight any item to get a description.
Get bonus items that drop on the floor.
Simple controls to learn.
To complete your shop you need to visit the cashier.
New obstacles will appear as you progress like security guards, signage blocking paths, and runaway trollies.
Decent music.
Red pulses appear when a guard is nearby.
All of the shopping takes are split up into many chapters if you like with you needing to do X amount of a shopping list percentage to unlock the chapters.
Free DLC for cosmetics.
3D world to play in.
Unlock abilities to use that have a cool-down timer.
Different game types including time trials.
First-person view.
It moves at a fast pace.
It does get quite addictive as you plan routes and get the snatch-and-grab.
The score menu shows all your best times and shopping list completion percentages.

Sudden Market Review Cons:

Cannot rebind controls for the controller.
The controller doesn’t work in every menu.
It’s all about learning the layout of the shop and memory management.
Being caught is quick and immediate and not that great.
The tutorial is nothing but a level, it teaches you nothing.
Some items are not where I would expect.
You cannot get a hint or a general look at the store.
The pathfinding of the guards is very sporadic.
Picking up individual items is a real pain especially with the controller as you have to be pixel-perfect.
Anything you have to open first like freezers makes it tedious as you cannot identify an item until the door is open.
The security guard catching you and saying you didn’t pay is a bit weird as you are shopping, so, of course, you haven’t paid yet!
Not all abilities are tied to the controller.
Pausing the game means you need a mouse and keyboard to use or u pause as the controller doesn’t function.
Just the one layout.
Some items I have never heard of or are called something else here.
No online leaderboards.

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