Which Sausage, Mate?

Which Sausage, Mate? puts you behind the register at Żopka, an iconic neighbourhood convenience store chain. You play as Kazio, an ex-coal miner, husband and father trying to keep his family fed on a cashier’s wage. Over a 30-day story campaign, you serve customers, follow increasingly demanding rules and decide how to divide your earnings between your family’s needs and the store.

Work the register

You scan products, check documents, grill hot dogs and count change down to the last grosz. As corporate adds regulations, you must enforce age limits on energy drinks, validate coupons and loyalty cards, charge for plastic bags and catch expired student IDs—all while the queue grows and the clock runs down. Three mini-games are woven into shifts: counting change, using the grill and sorting parcels at the Paczkobox.

The catalogue contains over 800 products across 24 categories, including more than 100 regional specialities. You also check six types of documents, where swapped photos, fake PESEL numbers and the legendary Bolsat Passport can complicate the task. Over 100 unique characters visit, including smooth-talking businessmen and dealers offering bribes, impatient Karens, tracksuit philosophers paying in loose change, shoplifters, a mohair-bereted grandma, a suspiciously large proboscis monkey and winos camped outside.

Run the store

After each shift, you split your earnings five ways: rent, food, medicine, school and heating. Your mother needs surgery, your son needs money for a school trip, winter is coming and the heating bill doubles. You can instead put profits back into the store, starting with the Shanty: a flickering fluorescent tube, wire shelving, cracked linoleum and 60 stock slots. Shelves can empty mid-shift, and deliveries may arrive while customers are waiting.

There are 40 store upgrades, but only 24 fit in a single playthrough. At each level, you choose between two variants that change the way you play. The progression leads to the neon-lit Cyber-Żopka, with 140 shelf slots. A budget system makes every złoty count.

Holidays and decisions

The game covers 85 days across six holidays. Each brings 24 seasonal products, interior decorations and a dressed-up main menu. Fat Thursday brings doughnuts to the counter; at Easter, a butter lamb takes their place. On the first of November, grave candles burn in the window and long-unseen customers return. On New Year’s Eve, the sky above the estate lights up.

Your choices include whether to accept a bribe or report it, join the union or stay loyal, and save for your mother’s surgery or a new counter. Over 30 days, these decisions lead to one of nine endings, ranging from hopeful to devastating, including one that crowns you emperor of Żopka. Each ending unlocks a New Game Plus bonus; earning all nine unlocks a tenth. You can also find 125 items, explore 130 clickable nooks and crannies, and encounter 18 random events.

Other ways to play

After the story, Żopka Forever begins on day 31, with no story or finish line and with Steam leaderboards. I’m Hardcore applies every regulation from day one and never lets you pay to escape a citation. Two additional modes offer different stores, stock, customers and rules:

• 1670: Sell oscypek cheese, starka and Capuchin friars’ tobacco. Merkuriusz Polski is the freshest press on the counter, and hot dogs are unavailable because there is nothing to make them from.
• 2077: Work in a neon-lit Żopka where bread comes out of a printer and kabanos is synthetic. Customers no longer pay cash, so there is no change to give.