This game is so fun in a goofy way, it had me laughing out loud. The game is modern, while still creating a sense of nostalgia, despite not being a teenager in the 90s.

It has the interactive fiction design of a game like Life is Strange, without the stress of having to make character affecting decisions. The game mainly consists of a short story arc of the present, with the goofy antics which are played out as a variety of mini games. The mini games are supposed to be memories, so they're not necessarily an accurate depiction of what actually happened, so there's a little flexibility in the way you play.

Puzzle box game that's a little different, but also tells an emotional story as you progress. The puzzles get more complex with more options as you progress, but the general idea is you have to get a swan from one side of the box to the other by using the music notes to determine when to move or rotate the blocks.

Beautiful puzzle game with lots of different types of puzzles to solve, so even if you get tired of one type of puzzle, there are many others to progress. The puzzles are in different difficulty levels, so you know in advance if the next puzzle you are about to try is likely to be easy or harder. Some puzzles are slightly frustrating at first, but only take a little bit of time and patience to find the solution, and so far I haven't found any that I've gotten completely stuck on. Plus you can always come back for another try if you need a break from the more difficult ones.

Adore this game. It's so chill and peaceful while I sell all the second hand clothes and items that people don't want. It's not just a shop sim, there are also events and stories to make it feel more personal, such as why the characters are selling their belongings and not just to make as much money as possible. There are plenty of upgrade options to expand your store as you progress. The only thing I would suggest it they add an auto sale for non story characters, otherwise the characters stack to form a big queue, especially when you get further in the game.

A fun little puzzle game about a fantasy astronomy. I love real astronomy, but always struggled with my telescope, so the idea of searching for cute constellations and planets with a straight forward puzzle game is great if you want to do a few at a time.

I genuinely enjoyed playing this game and there are many unique features that make it different but familiar to other Farm Sim type games.

The animal system is good how you can breed rare breeds, but can be frustrating when you get too many male cows or chickens, that don’t make any produce, although at least you have to option to remove animals from the barns and store them for later or sell them for money if you need to make space for other animals.

This game is great and I love the water colour art aesthetics. It has the gameplay of a story through environment type game, with information and clues hidden around the room, and back story via phone, but without the difficult choices and heart breaking endings you usually getting from story focused games.

The other thing I loved about this game is that you alternate progression between the present day Mimi as an adult investigating her past through the use of memories. She can enter her memories attached strongly to items like letters and photographs. At the end of each chapter you get the chance to add any photos you've taken to the book, along with stickers you've found and you can write a 3 line poem.

I would say though that the ending is somewhat inconclusive and leaves more questions than answers. I won't spoil the story here, I'll just say that the ending felt incomplete, but I would still recommend this game as the journey along the way is still very good.

This game was quite fun and found it from the developers of Cozy Caravan, who are also Australian. (Catto is in this game as a cameo).

I would say to anyone wanting to play this game, that they should play it in the knowledge that the entire game exists of a single day and night cycle and that the game ends at the end of the first day. So don't rush through delivering all the parcels and explore the town and interact with all of the other cats and things to do before you complete the day.

This game is cute and has a variety of puzzles all around the idea of arranging ingredients into a bento box. After each chapter you get an adorable animation with the cats. Each chapter has a different way to arrange the pieces and increases in difficulty quite quickly. After a few chapters they start to combine multiple type of puzzles to make it even harder. I haven't completed the whole game yet, but it's nice to have a go and solve a couple puzzle at a time.

This is a pretty fun game which is also fairly simple and easy to play. The quests aren't very long, but at least you can go back and complete the extra items once you are done. Shame the game isn't a little longer, or there is more to do once you complete the main story, but still had a decent amount of fun playing this game.

I love these puzzles. Most puzzle games have some kind of combination to solve, but this is the first one I've played where geometry is a major part of the design. Some of the designs make your head spin trying to figure out which face to walk on and very much in the style of M.C. Esher. I love these and slows you down a little, even though there are only a few puzzles in total.

This cafe shop sim is good, but there are major flaws with the ecomony side of the game. The actual gameplay mechanics are fine and the making of the different types of drink and food are quite fun; I also like the croissant making mini game.

The problems start at the end of each day when you have finished serving your drinks, you have to go into the stores to buy new ingredients, otherwise you won’t have enough to sell the next day. The ingredients, particularly the fillings for the croissants, are really expensive compared to how much you make during the day part of the game, so you end up spending all of the money you’ve made on replenishing the ingredients. If you are lucky and have enough stock, you spend it anyway on the upgrades that don’t see to do much compared to how much they cost.

This game has some really fun puzzles, although some are super easy because everything is glowing gold and others take a bit more thinking to solve, so there seems to be a decent mix of difficulty on each level.
Also with this game there are a decent mix of types of puzzles.

I love the fiddly spinny puzzles that are common in The Room game series and this game has a good number of these type, but also has a quite a few combination puzzles, which some games seem to only be able to do.

Been exploring this game and so far everything I've found including the characters, places and even the music have been amazing and chill. If I had any minor thing, it would be there is a lot of dialog to read through, but this isn't in any way a problem.

Game is certainly cute and I love the vibes and characters that live in this world, the only problem is that the world is very limited, even by most farm sim standards. There are only a handful of NPCs to talk to and buy things from and the story is also very short. The only way to level up your gear is to get them from the characters after raising their friendship level. Most life sim games have a friendship and gifting system, but most are something you can do at your own leisure, while in this game it is mandatory, basically blocking progress if you don’t want to gift NPCs repeatably.

The farming aspect is fine and until I played Tales of the Shire, the only farm sim I’ve played with different complimentary crop types that affect growth if you overlap the right or wrong type of plants. The crops age like you would expect, but they give you different produce depending on the which day you harvest, this means if you miss a day they go to seed and you have to start again, or if you pick the crops too early, you may miss out on something else.

As far as the economy of the game goes, it doesn’t. You can sell your crops, but they barely sell for anything, so you cannot grow and sell your way to upgrades like you can in almost every other farm sim I’ve played. Instead you have to put them in the community box and hope you sell in a random amount of days. The only quick way to make money in this game is to sell the weeds that grow everywhere on your farm as the start.

This game is so beautiful, with the chapters of each increasing colours, but also the atmospheric music that just completes the game.

For such a simple idle game, this is actually amazing. I played on cosy mode and it took a few hours to unlock most things except max rep with all witches, which will take a little longer. I love the choice of items and ways to get the various ingredients of different types and tiers. I love the music and the aesthetic of the sanctuary and the crafting room, even the coven.

I never actually figured out how to make mystery potions, so i was limited to selling the same starter potions. I know you can unlock it by trying different combinations of ingredients, but this always results in a dangerous experiment. Would probably be better if there is another way to unlock potion recipes.

The only feedback I would give is that on the steam deck, everything works well in touch screen mode, except the curses and poisons, which require drawing a line on the screen. This is almost impossible to do with a touch screen, maybe it is easier with a mouse. Making this easier would make the game more accessible. Luckily there's a way to bypass it once you reach max friendship with a few specific witches, but this take a little time.