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  • svgDec 6, 2024Indie Highlight

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    From Red Deer.Games, publisher of Sprout Valley, comes Cook For Love! This cartoony cooking game developed and published by Red Deer.Games puts you in the shoes of the young Frenchman Clement. You mentor under the famous Jean-Luc Chatillone and gain access to his cookbook. In that cookbook are tons of different delicious recipes you get to cook. This is your chance to go from cooking novice to a legendary chef like your mentor! 

    Use various kitchen appliances and an array of ingredients to cook up over 40 different tasty recipes in Cook For Love. As you learn to cook the different recipes, you’ll earn reputation points. These points level up your chef experience and allow you to unlock new, more complex recipes. Your goal is to become an incredible chef and earn the Golden Spoon. So, roll up your sleeves and get to work in this cozy cooking game featuring colorful, hand-drawn art and no stress! 

    Release Date

    Cook For Love is now on Steam! Don’t forget to add it to your games library and/or wishlist it keep up with its updates!

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  • svgOct 16, 2024Indie Highlight

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    Rune Legacy Idle, from the same developer as Little Sim World (Blue Gravity Games), is an engaging role-playing game with idle mechanics. Set in a classic fantasy world, you’ll battle mythical monsters, train up skills for easier battling, and challenge your friends to duels. You can even team up with your friends to take on adventures for even more fun! 

    Start your new battle-fueled experience by creating your very own character. Choose from a number of different features and colors to create exactly what you want. Tailor the character’s abilities to match your own gameplay style, too. Be a powerful warrior, cunning rogue, or a skilled mage. Train your character in different abilities and enhance their strengths to have the ultimate hero. Your character will grow and evolve to reflect your strategic choices and playstyle as you advance, creating a fun gameplay experience! 

    Of course, teaming up with your friends in Rune Legacy Idle to go toe to toe with foes is an excellent way to progress. You’ll share experience, work together on quests, and overcome challenges together. The spoils of your collective victory will be rewarded to all of you, too. Or, challenge each other to a duel and see who’s the better combatant. And when you’re not fighting, collect resources to craft various useful items. Weapons and armor are necessary for success, so don’t forget to create them and equip yourself with the best! 

    Release Date

    Rune Legacy Idle has no release date listed, but you can find it listed on Steam where you can add it to your Wishlist to keep an eye on it! 

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  • svgOct 16, 2024Indie Highlight

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    Remember the charm and beauty of the 2D Pokemon games? They were some of my favorites growing up, and the ones I return to when I want to replay a Pokemon game. And in recent years, there have been some great Pokemon-like creature collectors to come from indie developers like Coromon and Cassette Beasts. Now, there’s Fay Keeper (from developer Blue Gravity Games, creator of Little Sim World), an enchanting addition to the genre! 

    Step into the beautiful world of The Faylands, a kingdom full of ancient magic and fantastic creatures called Fays. You play as the Keeper and you have the unique ability to capture, train, and evolve Fays! So, set out on a nostalgic, but extraordinary adventure to master the art of Fay Keeping. Even conquer all the Colosseums and become the champion of The Faylands! 

    As you traverse gorgeous lands of Fay Keeper, discover and collect over a hundred different Fays. Each creature possesses unique abilities for you to utilize, and will become stronger with training. They’ll help you face other wild Fays so you can collect them, and you can even engage in a dynamic battle system against other Keepers with them. In each battle, you’ll need to manage your Fay’s energy, life, and status effects in order to come out victorious. Utilize your own status effects, weather, and elemental types for best results, too. Ultramorph your Fays into stronger versions of themselves during battle, and unleash Overcharge moves to really pack a punch and become the champion!

    Release Date

    So, if you’ve been looking to return to that nostalgic 2D creature collector style, but with a fresh new face, this game is worth a Wishlist! Fay Keeper is planning to release on Steam, though there is no release date set just yet. 

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  • svgOct 10, 2024Indie Highlight

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    I NEED SPACE is a super cozy singleplayer platformer with a beautiful atmosphere. You are traveling across the universe with your companion, the nebulous Cosmicat. Together, you’re on an adventure that involves some exploring, planet revitalization, and the uncovering of truth behind the apocalypse! 

    Adventure through 7 different sectors where you’ll find all kinds of fun things to do. Experience a physics-based environment to swim, float, jump, and walk through those unique sectors. Then, encounter a unique cast of characters along your journey. Accept quests from them and rewrite the stars into constellations of your own creation. Get especially creative with it and make masterpieces! Just don’t forget to revitalize your home planet through planting oxygen-creating plants and more. 

    Release Date

    You can find I NEED SPACE on Steam now, and it’s free to play! So, hop into this adorable little space adventure today!

    Space Boat is another fun space-based game with a mystery you must solve!

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  • svgOct 1, 2024Indie Highlight

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    The developers over at Sunny Lab have recently launched their Kickstarter campaign for their upcoming game The Witch’s Bakery. In this charming 2D adventure RPG, you play as an adorably joyful witch named Lunne. She has just opened her very own bakery in Paris. Lunne also possesses a very special, very specific talent, too. She can see into people’s hearts and heal emotions using her magic. So, get ready for a magical adventure full of baked goods, magic, and a heartfelt story! 

    Your days in The Witch’s Bakery are split into three phases. You’ll start each day managing your bakery and serving customers. In the evening, explore the beautiful city of Paris. Discover what secrets The City of Light (and Love!) has to offer, but also get to know other characters. Delve into their troubled hearts to help them out. To do this, Lunne enters their Heart Palace to guide the locked away emotions back to the heart. Inside each Heart Palace, you’ll uncover each person’s deepest personal struggles. You’ll even collect the necessary ingredients to make tasty breads to heal them! 

    At night, once your bakery is closed and you’ve explored the alluring city, take time to practice your magic. There’s always room for improvement. You also can spend time decorating your bakery to make it the coziest, most welcoming shop around. Or just take time to hang out in your atelier. Each day brings you the chance to earn money, solve deep, emotional problems, and get to know a varied cast of characters. So, what will you accomplish in The Witch’s Bakery?

    Release Date

    You can find The Witch’s Bakery listed on Steam now, but you can also head over to their Kickstarter campaign to help support this gorgeous cozy game. There are a ton of fun stretch goals for backing the project like expanded romance storylines, new recipes, expanded maps, and more bakery decor. Plus, you can unlock fun rewards depending on the backer tier you support. There are things like beta access, digital artbooks, stickers, the chance to have your loved one’s name placed on a monument in game, and more! 

    It’s expected to release on Steam and Nintendo Switch next year!

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  • svgSep 25, 2024Indie Highlight

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    Take a trip down memory lane and experience the nostalgia where retro gaming meets beloved 90s kid’s cartoon in Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland by The MIX Games and Wallride! When Tommy, Chucky, Phil, and Lil see a commercial for the new Reptar game, they decide to have some fun of their own and pretend to be in a video game. Armed with only their imagination, watch as the babies transform Tommy’s house into their very own action-packed game world. 

    Select your favorite Rugrat and set out on an exciting 2D action adventure. Toggle between HD art and 8-bit art for the ultimate retro feel. A baby’s gotta do what a baby’s gotta do, and that means getting things down how you can! Dodge enemies as you traverse beautiful ice levels. Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland will have you collecting bottles, cookies, and Reptar coins in wooded levels. And use your trusty screwdriver to enter boss fights with some familiar faces. You can even play solar or 2 player co-op, so grab a friend and return to that 90s nostalgia!

    Release Date

    Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland is on Steam now. It’s also on Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, and even the NES will have physical releases! Plus, there’s a demo available on Steam.

    Melon Journey also uses a fun retro style!

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  • svgJul 4, 2024Snack Size News

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    Princess Maker 2 is a classic simulation game where you play as a father who raises a beautiful daughter the stars gifted you. Raise your little girl over the span of eight years. She grows from a sweet ten year old child into a lovely eighteen year old woman. Her dream in life is to become a princess, but you’ll need to choose correctly and raise her right! 

    The Remaster

    The charming Princess Maker franchise kickstarted the social simulation genre all the way back in 1991. Only a few years after that was Princess Maker 2 released for the first time. Now, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the sequel, a remastered version of the game is releasing. Princess Maker 2: Regeneration is a lovingly updated release. This redone version features some great new updates to bring the classic into the modern gaming sphere. 

    Princess Maker 2: Regeneration has beautifully redrawn animations with high resolution. Takami Akai, the original designer of the franchise, redrew several scenes. Additionally, these redraws are in a similar style to the PC-98 version to keep the original charm. This includes a remastered ending and also vacation art. Plus, there’s a brand new opening animation by Yonago Gainax to get you into the excellent raising sim’s story. There’s been a great improvement to the English localization. 

    So, the remastered version is the perfect opportunity for new and old players! 

    Release Date

    Princess Maker 2: Regeneration releases on Steam, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation July 10th! You can add the game to your Steam Wishlist to be notified of its release, too.

    Mushroom Musume is another cute daughter raising sim.

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  • svgJul 1, 2024Reviews

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    Rusty’s Retirement is a cute farming idle game that sits at the bottom, or vertically on the side, of your computer screen. It’s a farming sim, so you plant crops, raise animals, and decorate. But instead of requiring your full attention at all times, it chugs away at whatever tasks it needs to while you do other things. You start out with just Rusty running the show, but as you progress, you can automate by building robots who will plant, water, and harvest crops for you. It’s perfect for the busy person looking to take short breaks playing a little something cozy! 

    It’s The Perfect Idle Game

    I really don’t generally enjoy idle games, honestly. They don’t hold my attention and the progression never feels good. Nevermind that most idle games I come across are combat-based and require repetition of levels to get good enough to advance. I’ve found myself trying different ones before, but always forgetting they exist after a while. I just can’t get into them. 

    Rusty’s Retirement, though? It’s perfect in my eyes. Perhaps it’s because I already enjoy farming sims, but I think it really is more than just that. The game uses some lovely pixel art that I’ve grown to love over the years as it represents a sense of nostalgia for me. Plus, the color palette used for everything works well. The grass, farm plots, and buildings aren’t overwhelmingly bright. They’re actually a fairly subdued color, which helps things like the different decorative flowers pop when they’re placed. It makes for a really pleasant look overall. 

    Which brings me to the different options. You initially start with just Rusty’s house, a biofuel converter, and water well. The rest is an empty plot of grass, much of which you need to unlock to expand. Place down farm plots where you want them to begin growing crops. There are 42 different crops to grow in Rusty’s Retirement, and 7 different houses to build. Each house serves a different purpose in unlocking new options for you. Decorative flowers and other natural decor, berry bushes and bees, bot upgrades, farm animals, and farm statistics all come in handy at some point. The bees provide honey and the animals produce fertilizer that help crops grow. Everything has its place and works together with everything else to create a balanced game. Of course, the decorations are just for fun and to make your farm a creative outlet. 

    Easy to Play and Perfectly Cozy

    I really appreciate that Rusty’s Retirement is easy and casual. There’s no huge learning curve. There isn’t some big, hidden challenge. What you see is what you get, which is exactly what I want from it. It’s easy to come back to. And your little helpers are fairly intelligent when moving buildings and plots. The ones performing the move will grab a box, move it to the new area, then head back. They focus on finishing that one task before moving on to something else. No one is performing tasks like I do when I’ve had too much coffee: a little bit of everything here and there so nothing really gets done well or in a timely manner. Plus, the unlock progression feels appropriate. It doesn’t feel like an overwhelming grind. It also doesn’t feel too quickly achieved. There is a balance that’s been struck that feels just right. 

    Final Thoughts

    If you haven’t tried Rusty’s Retirement, please do. It’s so relaxing and chill. You can play while completing important homework tasks or answering work emails. Or you could even let it run while you play other games. Your options really are nearly endless. It’s a great bite-sized game that deserves every bit of love and attention it gets from the gaming community. 

    I give it:

    You can find Rusty’s Retirement on Steam now!

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