Best if runs are slow
Buy throughput upgrades first when rooms, beds, and diagnosis are already falling behind.
Shop Guide
The best first buy depends on what is actually breaking your runs. If treatment pace is slow, buy upgrades that keep rooms moving. If panic and sanity loss are the real problem, buy support that stops the next collapse before it starts.
The biggest mistake is spending like every run dies the same way. Good shop timing comes from fixing the current bottleneck, not from buying the flashiest item on the shelf.
Buy throughput upgrades first when rooms, beds, and diagnosis are already falling behind.
Buy Coffee support, Chocolate, or other recovery tools first when panic is ending runs before room pace does.
Buy around the next emergency lane instead of treating the shop like a generic economy stop.
Open this if you want the map-side explanation of when the shop stop should happen at all.
Open this if the real question is which item is strongest overall once you already know you are buying one.
Use this if your first buy debate is really about preventing sanity collapse before it starts.
Open this if the best buy question really comes from treatment pace and recovery backlog.