{"id":396245,"date":"2026-04-25T00:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T00:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396245\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T00:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T00:28:12","slug":"inkonbini-slice-of-life-cozy-gaming-from-japans-convenience-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396245\/","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":396246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[159899,204715,47525,204716,111,139,69,204717,145,2673],"class_list":["post-396245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-convenience-stores","tag-familymart","tag-lawson","tag-ministop","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-seven-eleven","tag-technology","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}