Get Buy a Croquette! for PC

Buy a Croquette! follows high school student Chio Aozora, whose stomach is rumbling despite having eaten two boxes of bento for lunch. She wants a croquette but has no money, and the textbook where she thinks she left some is back at school. To buy the croquette she has been craving, Chio needs to collect 380 yen around the shopping streets of Nagano.

Search Nagano for coins

You explore Nagano’s streets and alleys, looking for coins in places such as trash bins, bathroom sinks, park slides and vending machines. Chio can also help residents with requests, including finding lost items, counting convenience-store inventory, solving mysteries and following suspicious people. Other ways to earn or obtain a croquette involve solving puzzles, playing word games, collecting urban legends and rummaging through trash cans.

Puzzles and choices

Nagano holds secrets including a password-protected notebook, misplaced crates, Penrose stairs and abandoned houses. Solving puzzles can lead to unexpected rewards. Some choices can put Chio in danger, including encounters with frightening urban legends; there are no chase scenes.

You may be able to get a croquette without collecting all the coins: someone might lend Chio money or give her a croquette, or the vendor might provide a free meal. These choices lead to different outcomes. The game has 12 endings, including four hidden endings, and takes about 4–10 hours to complete.