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Nov 18, 2024
Play as a cat and embark on a grant adventure set on a beautiful tropical island.
Welcome to Petit Island where you’ll spend your days exploring a tropical and gorgeous island paradise. Your grandpaw was once a brave and adventurous cat who spent years exploring the island and going on many adventures. He has so many stories to tell about his time on the island, but he left that exciting life behind years ago when he moved to the city. And now, his memory is fading. All that remains of those stories of courage and expedition are what you, Lily, remember from growing up with those tales.
Now it’s your turn to take on those exhilarating adventures your grandpaw used to reminisce about. Start your Petit Island journey by customizing your adorable little cat character. Then, use those stories and his old journal to discover what grandpaw saw, and maybe even find your own adventures! Leave no stone unturned and no treasures behind.
Explore the towns and cities on this beautiful island to learn everything you can. Use your camera to take photos of nostalgic spots to help grandpaw remember his youth. Take pictures with the locals, document the wildlife you encounter, and capture anything else you think worthwhile. Get to know those locals while you’re at it, as they’ll help you in your quest if you help them first!
Petit Island is out Now!
Petit Island is finally here! You can add it to your library on Steam now, but it’s also available on Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch.
- Oct 1, 2024
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!
- Sep 28, 2024
Explore the town and get to know the people who inhabit it. Make friends with other kids. Go to the gym to get physically stronger. Work at the grocery store so you can earn some pocket money. Even take some time to relax and garden or fish. You’re in charge of how your journey unfolds. And while the town relies on you to save them, you can’t go in unprepared!
Embark on a mysterious journey in this narrative JRPG that expertly mixes turn-based combat, monster taming, and social RPG elements. Befriend other kids in Bloomtown and team up with them to take on the monstrous demons. Each character possesses unique abilities and strengths, Take advantage of those to come out on top during combat. Summon the demons you’ve captured on your adventure to also help you fight. Utilize level-ups, skills, and a fuse system to come out victorious in your fights and investigations. The town is counting on you, after all!
Release Date
Bloomtown: A Different Story is now available on Steam, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation! There’s also a demo on Steam you can try out before you buy!
- Sep 25, 2024
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!
- Sep 19, 2024
Take on the role of principal in Let’s School by Pathea Games, the same developers who created the beloved My Time at Portia and My Time at Sandrock games! You’ve been given the task of revamping and running the school you once attended. Not only will you design and construct different structures for the school, but you’ll manage the day-to-day happenings, too. The school is a blank canvas for you to build and run, but it’s important to keep in mind that you need to improve the school’s reputation and meet the needs of your students while you’re at it!
The ultimate goal is to create a balanced school environment to foster learning and thriving in. To start, plan and build the facilities to achieve a great educational institution. You have access to hundreds of pieces of educational equipment, and aren’t limited to building out horizontally. You can also build vertically, so you can include the facilities you want while also maintaining a beautiful outdoor area!
Recruit teachers with the methodologies you want for your school. Enhance their skills to open even more opportunities for them. You can even customize the appearance of each of your students and include different elective courses to foster enjoyment and shape their futures. Of course, meeting the basic needs of students is just as important as the curriculum. Keep an eye on their morale and distress. Provide restrooms and healthy food at the cafeteria. Failure to meet the needs of your pupils can lead to mischief and mayhem. But you also need a punishment system to take care of those who break the rules by bringing contraband to school, bullying others, or committing truancy!
Release Date
You can find Let’s School on Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch now!
Or how about building a magical institution in Mind Over Magic?
- Sep 12, 2024
In Garden Witch Life by developer FreetimeStudio, you play as an adorable little witch who hails from the big city. Except you’ve recently lost your job so life isn’t exactly panning out the way you thought it would. Now’s your chance for a much needed change of pace, though! In fact, you move to a tiny island that’s full of possibilities and opportunities. In your new home you’ll get up to all kinds of fun things like gardening, decorating, and more.
Turn your new piece of land in Garden Witch Life from a depressing example of dead monoculture into a thriving, beautiful magical garden. Grow a variety of wonderful crops, and use those fresh ingredients in recipes. Use your magical cauldron to whip up tasty recipes you get your hands on from around the world. Then, share them with the villagers to build friendships. Creating a strong community bond with everyone is important, after all. Or go exploring and uncover all the secrets and mysteries the island has to offer. Plus, your tools have upgrades you can access and your home is your to decorate as you please!
And yes, you can pet ALL the animals. What’s better than that?
Release Date
Garden Witch Life drops on all your favorite platforms today. Pick it up on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, or PlayStation!
- Sep 11, 2024
Alongside your childhood friend, leave your busy city life and mundane 9-5 workday behind as you seek out the adventurous life on Snacko Island in Snacko by developer Bluecurse Studios! Things didn’t quite go as planned, and you find yourself washed up on shore after a storm. Luckily, you and Mikan are safe and have been found by the last local living on the island, Nobu. Everyone else has abandoned the island looking for better opportunities. Except Nobu, who is happy to have a pair of young cats to join him in daily life.
In fact, Nobu shows the two of you the ropes for farming and general living on the island. And together, you’ll restore Snacko Island to the bustling little piece of paradise it once was. Run your farm where you’ll grow 12 different crops and raise cows and chickens. Demolish old buildings and rebuild with various shops and homes to attract newcomers. Hire shopkeepers, create 200+ pieces of decor to liven up the place, and create a peaceful town. Get to know 26 unique characters from shop-keepers to just plain neighbors looking for a slice of relaxing island life. Even explore 4 different biomes where you can collect resources and encounter mysterious shrines for a dose of adventure!
Sweet and Sassy Fun
Snacko has been the cutest, most wholesome cozy game I’ve encountered so far. The story is simple, but sets you on a fun adventure to restore a town. The color palette for the environments are gorgeous. The biomes are so pretty and unique. Plus, the character designs are just lovely. I’m glad to see other cat characters appear, but also really enjoy the variety of animals you see. Dogs, a horse, birds, and even a penguin are all possible characters you’ll encounter. Each one possesses their own personality, too, which livens up the island. And they all come with their own personal style so homes across your island will be different, too! It all makes for such a good variety in every aspect of the game.
There is a lot of sass thrown into the game, though. A LOT. Some dialogue between you and the characters is full of sass. Some item descriptions are sassy as all get out and I LOVE it. The jokes and sass are funny without being overbearing or making a character seem rude. It also mixes things up a bit, so nothing is overly saccharine. I’ve really enjoyed discovering the different fish to see their descriptions because of the developers throwing in some incredible lines. I can’t get enough of the writing in the game.
Classic Coziness, but Different
I love farm sims. I’ve played so many already and have so many more on my wishlists that I’m drowning in farm sims. So what makes Snacko different from your standard farm sim? Aside from the great bits of humor, building your town and having full control of that is a start. Not only do you remove existing rundown structures, but you collect resources from them that help in the rebuild. Then, you can place homes and stores and decor where you want within the town region to create your dream space. So, you’re not limited to simply decorating your own home or farm space. You’re free to create your dream town and it’s so much fun!
What I also enjoy that sets the game apart is the use of shrines. They’re fun little challenges you can take on at your leisure and give you a change of pace. Complete a shrine the first time simply to complete it. Then, you can take on the shrine as many times as you want to achieve the fastest completion time. That’s right. The shrines turn into speed run challenges for when you’re looking for a little more challenge and a little less laid back. Even better, though, is that the shrines are totally optional. So, if you’re not interested, or like me and just not great at speed running, then you don’t need to do them! You get rewards for completing and finding chests in the shrines, of course, but there’s no fear of FOMO here as they contain items you can get some other way. It’s a perfect system!
Final Thoughts
Snacko’s character creator is fun, too. I mean, creating your own little cat character? Nothing more fun than that. Plus, the developers implemented a great tutorial phase where you read about the thing and then do it. Nevermind you can always access the tutorial pop-ups from your bookcase so if you forget something, you can relearn it. And the fishing mini game is one of my favorite in any cozy game. It’s simple and easy, but still has a slight challenge. Exploring the different biomes is fun. Taking on shrines for a challenge is great. Raising fuzzy cows and fluffy chickens is my definition of cozy. So, overall, the game is so wonderfully fun that I would recommend it to any and all cozy gamers.
I give it:
You can find Snacko on Steam now. Nintendo Switch and PlayStation releases are planned!
- Jul 25, 2024
If you’re unfamiliar with the excellent Roots of Pacha, developed by Soda Den, it’s a beautifully designed farming sim set in the stone age. Play as your own customized character as you help your community and farm precious crops and raise adorable animals. Take some time to fish, gather resources, and learn new ideas to make life easier. Get to know your fellow tribesmen and work together with them to improve the tribe. The survival of your people hinges on teamwork, but making friends and falling in love can be just as important! Even explore the mysteries the world has to offer. You may even find some new powers that will help you in your journeys.
The 1.2 Update
Here in just a few short weeks you’ll be able to experience the excitement of the 1.2 update, too. This update adds more perks to bonding with pets. They will fetch items from different areas of the map, like red meat or herbs. You can even choose a pet to become a trusty mount so you can glide across the landscapes and reach destinations faster! Then there’s the new watering system. Early on, you can discover the idea for the “olla”. The olla is a pot that sits in a hole in the ground and can be filled with water. It will then water the surrounding 8 plants for up to two days before needing a refill. This early idea makes running your farm much more efficient sooner than before.
The Roots of Pacha update also adds in some new features for your children, making them far more interesting. A school is a new idea that lets you send your toddler off to learn skills. Enrolling a child in school also allows them to grow into school-age kids and become active members of the tribe. They’ll hang around the village and have unique dialogue interactions now. Plus, you can dress them in new clothing sets, change their hairstyles and hair color, and see them at festivals. Building the school also unlocks learning stations that will have your children do various chores around the farm. So, this update turns your children from just an event to experience into useful new NPCs!
The 1.2 update doesn’t stop there, though. Enjoy two new locations union ceremonies, plus you can kiss your partner. Once they move in, they’ll get up in the morning when you do so you can chat with them before heading out for a long day of exploring or farming, and they’ll have new dialogue. Or if you prefer not to date anyone and don’t want to sit through romantic cutscenes where the NPCs confess their feelings, you can turn that off! The setting will be located in Settings>Gameplay and can be turned off at any point in the game. You will also have the opportunity to save the game at any time instead of being forced to finish a day and sleep through the night to save. And then there will be several QoL changes to help make the game even more enjoyable and fun for you!
Release Date
The Roots of Pacha 1.2 Update is releasing July 31st on Steam, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch. However, that isn’t the only big news, as it’s also releasing on Xbox consoles the very same day! So, if you haven’t played the game yet, or are a returning player, there’s no time like now to start a new save!
