All posts tagged in Co-op
Oct 22, 2024
Farm Folks promises to be so much more than just a regular farming sim, and I can’t wait for it! While there is farming (and a great farming system at that), there’s building and crafting, resource management, automation, open-world adventure, and PVP/PVE. You can also play solo or with friends, too. But you’re in charge of your adventure and can participate in whatever you want when you want!
Build your dream homestead anywhere in the Farm Folks world. Create a massive farm that you’ve turned into an automated haven, or live the simple life with a cozy cottage and sustainable garden. Using the modular construction system and diverse construction materials to build exactly what you want. Craft furniture, walls, windows, spiral staircases, and so much more to bring your vision to life, too. Your imagination is the limit!
You can also farm and raise animals anywhere. There’s no preset home spot. You can go out and explore the world to find the perfect place and set up anywhere. Terraform the space, set up automation machines and conveyor belts to take your farming endeavors to new heights, and harness the power of electricity and water.
Get to know the local NPCs and befriend them, romance and marry one, and complete quests for them. Even play solo or with friends, too, and take on some fun PVP/PVE challenges if you wish. Go toe to toe with other players or take on spectral Phantoms for an exciting addition to your adventures. There’s so much to do in Farm Folks, it’ll be hard to tear yourself away from this beautiful game!
Release Date
Farm Folks does not have a release date, but you can find it on Steam before it will be heading to Kickstarter early next year! Add it to your Wishlist to keep up with this great game as it continues developing and adding some great content!
- Oct 21, 2024
If you’ve ever played dungeon crawlers or any other game that utilizes a dungeon system, then perhaps you’ve wondered how they’re reset. Surely it’s by magic, right? Or does someone actually have to go in and physically clean up the place? In Goblin Cleanup, that’s exactly what happens, and it’s your job! You play as a professional cleaner who is hired by a dungeon master to clean up and reset dungeons. Even better is you can play this game alone, or with up to three of your friends, too.
Play as a goblin maid alongside other goblins as you make your way through the dark, treacherous dungeons. Use the various fantastical tools that Goblin Cleanup offers, too.
Like the Slimop to soak up messy spills on the floor, and the mimic or slime dispenser tool to clean up the blood from other surfaces. Restore broken objects and return them to their places. Then, reset traps, restore loot boxes, and respawn creatures that have been dispatched. Everything needs to be in its exact place so the next adventure party can have a great time!
Release Date, Kickstarter and Demo!
So, if you enjoy the cleaning simulators that are out there, perhaps give this one a try! Goblin Cleanup will release on Steam sometime next year. You can also head on over to their Kickstarter campaign to support the development of the game and unlock some fun rewards.
These include a custom boombox that will play your favorite music while you clean, hardcore mode, and a few more tiers that haven’t had details revealed.
Already unlocked are third person view, custom employee rooms, photo mode, a pirate-themed dungeon, and Egyptian-themed dungeon, rune system, emotes, and cinematic intro!
- Aug 14, 2024
Set out on a grand adventure solo or with up to three other players in Luma Island by developer Feel Free Games. In this beautiful farm sim, start from humble beginnings living in a caravan and work towards building your very own homestead. Create your dream farm with a beautiful home and flourishing crop plots to grow all kinds of plants. Grow crops like pumpkins and wheat, among other varieties. There are even fluffy bunnies to raise! Of course crafting is a staple of the game, too. Then, utilize the sawmill, the kiln, and the ore smelter to turn resources into usable items. Even work to master one of seven different professions in Luma Island. Each one has a progression path and tools that you can upgrade to further progress your chosen job path!
Release Date
Luma Island is currently listed on Steam, where you can Wishlist it. The game is expected to release some time this year, though!
Lightyear Frontier is another gorgeous co-op farming sim you should try!
- Jul 3, 2024
Grab three of your friends and dive into an exciting co-op cooking and restaurant management experience in Biotech Gameworks’ Kebab Chefs – Restaurant Simulator! In this fun simulation game, you are in charge of a whole restaurant and everything that involves running a successful one. Design, cook, and serve customers to rise to the number one kebab shop spot!
Grab the eye of potential customers with inviting designs and interesting decor. Customize the outside sign board to suit your restaurant’s style while also attracting new patrons. Use decorations, wallpapers, dining tables, and kitchen appliances to set the mood inside your eatery. Go for a traditionally cozy feel or a modern sleek design, or whatever else you like!
Learn to cook numerous tasty dishes in Kebab Chefs, too. Variety is the spice of life, after all, and your diners will enjoy the options. So, learn how to make soups, appetizers, main courses, and deserts from all over the world. Then decide on the menu you think will best suit your customer base. Cook each dish to absolute perfection in order to earn the highest possible income. Work together with your friends to better achieve this goal, too! And when your day is over, head to the pub to chill with your friends to chat, listen to music, and play games to unwind after all your hard work running a restaurant.
Release Date
You can find Kebab Chefs on Steam now!
Fruitbus and Yum Yum Cookstar are both really cute casual cooking games!
- Jan 4, 2024
Inspired by classic tabletop roleplaying games, Baladins is a choose your own adventure perfect for all skill levels and ages. Set out on a quest as one of the Baladins: the cook, the luxomancer, the dancer, or the pyro. Their quest? To entertain the masses, of course! Wander from town to town to fulfill this mission as you make choices that will shape your story.
Each character brings their own unique set of skills to the table, and you can further improve them by making choices and picking up items. None of your decisions are inherently good or bad, but every single one shapes your outcome. And if you prefer to play with others, you and up to three friends can play together online or locally! Plus, whether you play solo or cooperatively, Baladins offers gameplay that you can complete at your own pace. And of course, there’s a dragon!
Release Date
Baladins is coming to Steam this year!
Ages of Cataria is another choose your own adventure!
- Dec 28, 2023
River Tails: Stronger Together is a 3D co-op adventure platformer. Immerse yourself in a colorful cartoon art style as you and a partner embark on an epic journey. Play as Furple, a curious kitten, or as Finn, a fish with an attitude problem.
Work together to complete various puzzles across different environments. Your ultimate goal for River Tails: Stronger Together is to save Furple’s family, who are in danger. Team up with some unexpected allies to make your way upstream and into the snowy mountains. Explore the rainforest, delve into river caves, and cross a treacherous swamp to reach that distant mountain. You’ll also need to defeat some angry enemies and bosses, but if you work together, anything is possible!
While River Tails is designed as a two player game, there’s also a LoneWolf Mode so you can play on your own!
Release Date
You can find this fun co-op game on Steam now! There’s even a demo for you to try out.
Check out Camped Out for a frenzied co-op experience! - Nov 30, 2023
Fae Farm is a beautiful farming sim where you cultivate crops, craft items to decorate your home with or sell, and care for adorable farm animals. Befriend a varying cast of townspeople, and even romance some of them. Plus, you even get to venture into the faerie realm, where you’ll see faeries and fantastical creatures not seen in the human realm. Even delve deep into the mines to collect resources, fight enemies, and uncover mysteries!
What’s Great About the Game
The art in Fae Farm is absolutely gorgeous. It’s easy to fall in love with the game based on that alone. The scenery is varied. The NPCs all look different. Even your clothing options are lovely. Then, the furniture and decorating choices are great. You’re sure to find something that suits your style, whatever it may be. Adventuring into the fae realm is probably my favorite part. It’s so whimsical and magical. Even the dungeon is dreamy, though chock full of enemies. The art is absolutely what drew me to the game to begin with!
What I also really like about Fae Farm is that tools switch automatically for you. Walk up to a tree to chop, and you’ll immediately have your axe in hand. Then, go to a rock and poof! There’s your pickaxe! It’s a super handy mechanic that I would love to see in all farming sims. It saves time and lets me switch between activities much faster. Besides that, fast travel unlocks early game. There are several points across the map called Wayshrines that act as fast travel spots. You need to craft a seal from cave resources in order to activate the Wayshrine, but you can accomplish that easily early on. Having fast travel early in the game makes it genuinely useful and not just an afterthought. Plus, the mines have waypoints where you can place seals you’ve crafted in order to get to different levels without going through the whole mine. Think Stardew Valley’s mine elevator, but with more magic and teleporting!
What I Dislike
Unfortunately, Fae Farm has more aspects that I dislike than I like. In order to play multiplayer, or even just name your character, you need to create a Phoenix Labs account. Otherwise, your character’s name defaults to the account name that’s on the system you’re playing on. So, my character’s name is a string of random letters I used for my Steam name. It kind of ruins any romance when my husband calls me by name.
I once wasted a precious Fae Farm day sitting in the crafting menu or almanac menu thinking the game was paused. It certainly was not. The nice thing is that you aren’t negatively affected for passing out after bedtime, so all I truly lost was a day of play time. It didn’t decay friendship points with my critters, and it didn’t ruin any quests. Then there’s the sales tables. The limited sales table spots really get in the way of me mass selling a hoard of items I’ve held onto for too long. It doesn’t inhibit money-making, just clearing out that stack of 600 fibers I probably don’t need so many of.
The exuberant laughing at everything is obnoxious, though. When I accomplish something, I laugh. When talking to an NPC, they laugh instead of speak. None of it is funny! I’d prefer if they muttered some nonsense like Sims do. Unfortunately, the laughing just lends itself to the overall soul-less feel the game has. The NPCs have no deep backgrounds, and their dialogue is repetitive and shallow. There’s not even a point to befriending anyone unless you’re trying to marry them. And there’s only a handful of marriage candidates. Even the festivals feel lifeless. They’re not exciting and engaging. Everything feels very surface level.
Final Thoughts
Don’t get me wrong, Fae Farm is somewhat fun. I’ve put some hours into it, but I’d hoped for a lot more polish for that AAA price tag. A better story with more meaningful characters would have made this game an absolute gem. I’d also like for everyone to have a nose, please! Everything feels so shallow and surface level. I don’t need some deep, dark secrets to go into it, just a little more substance that makes me want to talk to people or do things. And when you add up several minor gripes, things feel lackluster, and that’s what we have here.
Overall, I’d give it:
You can find Fae Farm on Steam and Switch now!
Check out another of my reviews on a magical game: Witchy Life Story!
- Nov 8, 2023
Spells & Secrets is a captivating rogue-lite adventure where you use a number of spells to fight your way through dungeon levels. You’re a first-year student at the esteemed wizard Academy of Greifenstein, eager to learn together with your fellow magic users. However, something odd has happened to the school on your very first day there. It’s now over-run by magical creatures, and of course it’s up to you to defeat those creatures, save your classmates, and save the school.
Start your magical adventure by creating your very own character with Spells & Secret’s comprehensive character creator. Select a body type and height that suits your vision, then craft the perfect eyes with shape, color, and makeup. Choose skin color, mix and match hair colors with different hairstyles, and pick clothing that suits your style. There’s even accessories to complete the look! Once you’ve created your perfect character, set out on a fun, spell-slinging adventure as you explore the castle’s ever-changing layout.
Use your arsenal of spells creatively to defeat enemies and overcome puzzles. Fling tables or use bolts of magic. Stun creatures or sneak past as a cute little mouse. Even find powerful artifacts throughout Spells & Secrets to enhance your abilities. Buy new spells and upgrade old ones by speaking to your professors. Uncover clues and secrets about the magical world as you explore the castle and rescue your classmates. And if you’re tired of playing alone, invite a friend to play with you via local co-op or Steam remote play!
Coming Soon
Coming real soon! This will be available on Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch tomorrow!
If you’re more interested in raising magical beings than defeating them, check out Fantastic Haven!
