How to play Thrift Store Story on Mac

Game summary

Become the manager of a pre-loved goods store (yup, that's just a fancy name for second-hand!) and turn it into a prospering business! There are many towns for you to operate in, each with a unique customer base and different products for you to discover. You can guess what you'll find in Trendy Town or Totaltoys District, for example! The product line-up at your store is up to you, of course. Will you be selling model toys, video games, classy suits, cars, plasma TVs, or diamonds? That's the fun in the second-hand retail industry - you sell all sorts of goods, cherry-picked from a variety of available pre-owned products. Your store also offers a gift-wrapping service which does wonders for boosting customer satisfaction. Besides store shelves, you can also have stalls selling donuts or ice-cream, a gaming corner or toy vending machine. They'll draw in more customers, and once your store becomes really popular, even whole groups of kids or curious tourists. Your field staff are in charge of collecting goods for sale. They'll sometimes come across what looks like real treasure, but you'll have to appraise it first to see what it's actually worth. You may discover some amazing items this way, which will bring fame to your store! Fully exploring every town and finding all available products is a real challenge... Are you up for it?
First released: Oct 2016

Play Thrift Store Story on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Thrift Store Story on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

Thrift Store Story installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Thrift Store Story like you would on any PC.
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