Mood ring manager

How to play Mood ring manager

You run a mood ring shop with one small problem: the rings actually work, and they have no filter. Each customer tries on a ring and it blurts out a brutally honest reading about their life. Your job is to decide what reaches the customer. Deliver it straight and your honesty meter climbs, but fragile customers storm out. Soften it and most people leave happy, at a small cost to the truth. Spin it into a flattering lie and your reputation soars, unless the customer sees through you. Read the vibe line for hints about how each person handles bad news. Survive three days of six customers each. If reputation or honesty hits zero, the shop closes early. Your final meters decide which of six endings you get.

Tips

• The vibe line tells you the temper: fragile, chill or tough
• Tough customers respect the raw truth and always catch a spin
• You cannot please everyone, decide early what kind of shop you run
• Chase all six endings, two of them require failing with style

About Mood ring manager

Mood ring manager is a short choice-driven shop sim about the price of honesty. The premise is simple: mood rings that genuinely read people, in a world where most people would rather they did not. Every reading forces the same little dilemma you know from real life, do you tell your friend the truth, cushion it or just lie nicely? The game keeps score with two meters, reputation and honesty, that pull in opposite directions. A run takes about five minutes, which makes it easy to replay for the other endings. There are six in total, from the beloved honest oracle to the shop that gets closed for vibes. Every customer is fictional, though several of them will feel suspiciously familiar.

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