Dec 22, 2024Snack Size News
Infinity Nikki is the fifth installment in the popular Nikki series by Infold Games. Embark on a journey and travel across the nations of Miraland where you’ll encounter various cultures and environments. Miraland is a place for you to relax and just enjoy as you take in the beautiful vistas and frolic across the landscapes. Witness pretty sunrises and sunsets, get swept up in weather changes, and discover the different creatures that roam the world.
Collect and wear beautiful outfits to accomplish different tasks. Each Infinity Nikki outfit possesses a different ability, so collecting several will be key. Want to fish at the river, catch bugs, or float short distances? There’s an outfit to help with each one! Gather useful resources in order to craft these elegant outfits. You can also buy outfits from merchants you come across. Different outfits will even help you solve puzzles and reach new heights in your adventures!
So, don the Gliding Outfit to get across chasms, the Shrinking Outfit to get through small spaces, or The Floating Outfit to gracefully glide across small gaps in order to solve puzzles and explore every corner of the world. 3D platforming is interwoven with the exploration in Infinity Nikki, so you need to use all of your skills to explore everything. But it’s so worth it when you do as you’ll get to along peaceful mountain streams, stroll through meadows bursting with blooms, and see so much more!
Inifinity Nikki recently released on PlayStation and Epic Games. You can also find it on Apple Store and Google Play.
Dec 6, 2024Indie Highlight
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!
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!
Nov 18, 2024Indie Highlight
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 finally here! You can add it to your library on Steam now, but it’s also available on Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch.
Oct 9, 2024Indie Highlight
Spirit City: Lofi Sessions is a cozy productivity tool turned into a game. It features a warm, inviting bedroom that you can customize equipped with a fireplace, large bed, comfy chair, desk, and the best window for wistfully gazing out of. You have a character that you can also customize who will sit and complete tasks that you set. Like, gaming by the fireplace, or reading on the bed, or watching fat raindrops plop onto the ground below.
Even find and lure in adorable little spirit creatures to keep you company. Everything you do is accompanied by a wonderful soundtrack, too. Which is perfect, because that helps set the mood for a more productive work time for you! Spirit City has a built-in Pomodoro timer so you can structure your study or work day carefully or peak efficiency. There’s also a journal function so you can keep track of your thoughts and a habit tracker to keep you focused on being your best self. And the game is set to add even more fun!
Spirit City has just released the Halloween Update that adds all kinds of fun new decor items. In fact, there are 200+ new Fall and Halloween themed items to customize your character and your room with. These include clothing for your avatar like a pumpkin shirt, slippers, and orange and black socks. There are rugs, hanging lights, wallpapers, shelf decorations, and pumpkins for your room.
You can choose one of 5 new window backgrounds to sit and watch. Some of the Spirit companions have new Halloween variations, you have two new hairstyles to choose from, new skirt options, and some of the Spirits take part in more activities now. There’s also a new Halloween soundtrack to get you into the holiday mood. Plus, grab the new spooky spirit companion while you’re at it.
The Spirit City Halloween update is available now on Steam!
Oct 3, 2024Indie Highlight
In Map Map – A Game About Maps, you’re tasked with making maps! Indeed, you’re a cartographer whose job requires you to explore the world and create accurate maps. You’ll need to use your sense of direction to explore the different islands. Use your skills and an array of tools to expertly create maps that mark the interesting landmarks on each island. But there’s more to this grand adventure than just marking landmarks on paper!
There’s treasure to be found on the islands in Map Map. Explore ancient ruins and beautiful environments as you search for exciting pieces of treasure. Of course, you’re not alone, either. In fact, you have a whole crew with you! Each one is unique and you’ll have the chance to get to know them as you explore the beautifully handcrafted world before you. Each one has their own story for you to get to know, after all.
Map Map is set to come to Steam some time. There is no release date available, but you can add it to your Wishlist to keep an eye on it!
Oct 3, 2024Indie Highlight
If you love the plethora of room design games that have hit the gaming market lately, but are truly craving one that lets you design fantasy themed rooms instead of modern ones, look no further! Fairytale Furnishing by developer Challenging Games is exactly what you’re looking for. You’re furnishing and customizing homes for fairytale heroes like princesses, the hero of the story, and even the wicked witch the hero fights. You’ll even uncover the story that connects each character together as you progress through different homes!
You’ll start each home, like the princess’s tower or witch’s den, completely empty. That means you have the freedom to decorate everything as you see fit. Carefully place furniture and decor items and reveal the personalities and stories of the owner. There’s no rush in Fairytale Furnishing, though, so take your time! There aren’t any challenges to overcome, either. As you decorate each home, you’ll unlock new items and furniture to use in each home. You can even hop back to previous levels and redesign them once you have new stuff. It’s a relaxing sandbox game without constraints, after all.
So, kick back and relax with some fairytale decorating!
You can find Fairytale Furnishing on Steam now!
Oct 3, 2024Indie Highlight
Hell’s Gate Cafe is an adorable little restaurant management game that you can play for free right in your browser. You play as Baabette, the cute little Baphomet-like character as she’s stuck in Hell. It’s not a fun place to be, at all, and your options are limited. To leave, your only choice is to open up a cafe, earn soul shards, and open the portal out of Hell!
So, you do just that! Run your surprisingly cozy little cafe every day in order to earn soul shards. Purchase items like coffee beans and dragons to roast those beans. An octopus who makes cookie and donut dough will help you serve even more fun treats. Then, interact with the cast of fun characters in Hell’s Gate Cafe as they show up in your cafe. Serve them freshly brewed coffee and fresh baked cookies. Even talk to some of them to learn their stories. Satisfy them, and they’ll pay you in money that you can use to buy more upgrades, but they’ll also leave you precious soul shards! Can you make it out of Hell?
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You can find Hell’s Gate Cafe on itch.io right now and play for free!
Aug 29, 2024Snack Size News
If you’re unfamiliar with Spirit City: Lofi Sessions, it’s more of a productivity tool than a game. However, it’s the perfect cozy experience for getting work done with some gaming aspects. With the perfect lofi soundtrack playing in the background, you get to customize your character with a variety of fun clothes and hairstyles. Then, make your space the coziest possible place you could be by changing the furniture, decorations, and wall colors!
Set your character to do different things in their room while you get real-life work done. Sit by the fire, chill on the bed, sit at the desk to get some virtual work done, or sit at the large window and contemplate the view. Choose the time of day, the weather, and other background noises to create the perfect setting for you to get some tasks done. Create to-do lists, set a pomodoro timer to get work done while also taking breaks, track habits, write in the journal, and earn experience. As you play, you can discover different adorable spirit companions that will accompany you in your virtual cozy room. And you can pet them!
This new major update adds so much more to the already great Spirit City: Lofi Sessions, and I’m excited! First up is item previews. When choosing a new item, you can preview it on your character or companion before buying it. Which is perfect for new clothing and companion options (though the devs have left those a surprise).
There’s also a new activity for your character to engage in, and that’s gaming! What’s more perfect than cozying up on the bed with your console and playing an equally cozy game? Well, sitting by the fire to game, perhaps. Use your MON-ki Portable to do just that, or sit at the desk and play on the computer instead. This update will allow you to adjust the productivity tools, too. Scale them and reposition them how you see fit to make the layout suit your tastes and needs. But perhaps the most exciting of all is the addition of a new spirit companion! APE-bit is the mascot of the MON-ki Entertainment company, and is the perfect companion to accompany you in your gaming sessions.
The Spirit City: Lofi Sessions update doesn’t quite end there, though. You’ll get a whole bunch of new room customizations to experiment with, too. There are new desks and chairs to create your favorite study area. Add decor to the right side of the desk now, and make it even more personal. Choose your favorite side table, and decorate with a new Spiritdex skin or decor items. Plus, there are more bed covers and headboards to choose from, hanging lights to light up the room with, decor that can hang from the beams around the room, and new chairs for relaxing in front of the fireplace.
If you didn’t already love Spirit City: Lofi Sessions, then now’s the chance to start with this incredible update. The update is OUT NOW, so get started now with improving your productivity and enjoying soothing lofi beats by finding the game on Steam – at the time of publishing this article, the game is on sale as well!
You can also check out my review of it here if you’re interested!