Lovingly Evil
I’ve finished most routes in the game and I’ll just list some pros and cons since other reviewers articulate it better
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Pros:
-Bouquet and Card minigames were enjoyable (I was neutral to the quiz one)
-Felix & Nova being cuties
-Funny dialogue options
-Quick gameplay, you don’t have to devote a ton of time to each route
-Art and character illustrations are very pretty & pleasant to look at!
-You can toggle individual minigames on and off in the settings (goodbye grill lmaooo)
– Real player with 16.6 hrs in game
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So, I saw the title of this game, read the concept and decided this is my dream game. Easy to say; I was wrong. For about fifteen hours I did my best to love this game, did ever rout and explored every possible outcome (yes I have it 100%) and I am sad to say….. I liked it in places, which makes it worse. The Felix, clone and evil queen routs were, though lacking, enjoyable enough but not only was Novas rout 60% virtue signalling, but most of the game is also afraid to be truly, well, evil. Before someone notes in their mind though, I have about 65% the same views and opinions as the game so it is not what message it speaks of just how and in what type of property it speaks it in. Nova, I am here to date you not to hear your views of the American health care system: I am not even American, I don’t care.
– Real player with 15.0 hrs in game
Floral Town
Floral Town, the adorable Life Sim with a focus on interesting characters and relationships!
Having just inherited your grandparents cute restaurant, you move to the peaceful place called Floral Town, to manage your grandparents proudest creation.
Develop your restaurant from a failing abandoned building, to the towns number one hotspot brimming with life!
Make the restaurant your own while meeting the 30+ colorful characters that make Floral Town the amazing place it is!
There are over 30 characters with interesting personalities to discover and develop relationships with.
Talk to anyone, befriend anyone, date anyone!
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30+ interesting characters with unique personalities to discover.
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Many unique types of fish to discover and use as fresh ingredients for your restaurant.
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Many unique vegetables and fruits to grow and use as fresh ingredients for your restaurant.
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Interesting restaurant gameplay.
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Squash mini-game.
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Adorable pets!
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Our Life: Beginnings & Always
A masterpiece
I am - and I cannot stress this enough - utterly and irrevocably in love with this game. Now, I might be biased, seeing as I grew up on a coastal tourist-filled town, but this game just evokes such a nostalgic feeling deep within me. It has made me reminisce quite a few things about my childhood and overall early - and not so early - life, and has given me plenty of food for thought. Now, to get a bit more into detail, I’m gonna list all of the pros and cons I can think of:
– Real player with 495.1 hrs in game
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Don’t write reviews too often, but this game is an absolute masterpiece. From the cute interactions between the characters to the extreme amounts of customization, this game might aswell be perfect. (And it’s still in development!)
GENERAL GAMEPLAY:
In the game, you grow up alongside the love interest, Cove, as you gradually become older. Overtime, you form a stronger bond with Cove and can, eventually, start dating him. But this is entirely optional! You can decide to stay as friends, or even not be interested in him whatsoever. (Although, that would break my heart.)
– Real player with 259.4 hrs in game
Too Many Santas!
A Christmas wish come true, or a holiday nightmare?
You don’t know what’s worse: your love life or your toy store’s sales reports. Desperate for some yuletide loving (and some new customers!), you make a wish on a Christmas Star.
That’s when your store is visited by not one, not two, but SIX Santa Clauses. It’s simply TOO MANY SANTAS! Can you watch all of them and run the store at the same time? Or will you be caught up in the sweet Santa romance?
Too Many Santas! The short visual novel where YOU get to date Santa Claus! And Santa Claus, and Santa Claus, and Santa Claus…
Sexy Santa. The best-looking Santa of the bunch has a great body, along with some killer dance moves. He tends to get overly flirty with the customers, though. You’ll have to keep a close eye on him!
Saintly Santa. With his Bible and Baby Jesus stockings, Saintly Santa wants the holidays to be HOLY days! He’s having a bit of an identity crisis in his new surroundings. Is he the answer to your prayers?
Sleepy Santa. This Santa is pretty tired, but who cares? His beard is AMAZING! You could watch it all day long. If he needs a nap that badly, he can be YOUR cuddle buddy…
Sassy Santa. Hey, who let this guy in here? Sassy Santa is always ready to dish out insults and put-downs to everyone who comes by. Can you rein in his sharp tongue, before he scares away all your customers?
Sad Santa. Poor Santa is sad, and you’re determined to figure out why. Everyone should be happy at Christmas! Maybe your love will be enough to cure Santa of the holiday blues?
Secret Santa. Part spy, part jolly old elf, Secret Santa is all business. He’s extremely busy on an important mission, but he refuses to tell you what it is. Will you be the one to crack his secrets?
Key Features
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Six Santa Clauses to date, with 12 naughty and nice endings to unlock!
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A customizable main character—choose any name and any pronouns you want!
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Over 250 original photographs, bringing the characters and scenery to life
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Lots and lots of Christmas music! Too much Christmas music!
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A 23,000-word script—so it won’t take a whole holiday season to beat
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From the creators of Cat President , The Pizza Delivery Boy Who Saved the World , and other fine weird visual novels.
With tons of laughter and love, Too Many Santas is a visual novel you can enjoy all year round!
Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator
First of all, I DID like the game. But it was, at the same time, deceiving. I’d give it a 6/10, but if it were the right price, I’d give it a 8.5/10 for sure.
Let’s start with the good things about it: it is a very enjoyable, nice and light game. Most dads are also charming, the art is great, too.
But on the other hand… routes are extremely, extremely short. Takes around 45 minutes to complete each route. Not only that, but the endings are very limited, only having 2 endings, so there’s no room for replaying it to find the rest of the endings. I remember the Official Twitter promised multiple endings per dad. You don’t get to know the characters, and most of the time, it doesn’t really feel like you’re flirting with them. I only got that impression with Damien. It’s like you guys are obviously just friends until the end of the third date where you suddenly kiss and love each other. I was really excited to do Brian’s route, but was very deceived to find that his route is just… being rivals and at the very end kissing. Nothing more. It felt empty and superficial, despite the cute shirtless moment or the final kiss and hug at Amanda’s party. Didn’t feel like a real developing relationship. I think that it wasn’t only because of how short the route is, but because of how it was written as well. You could also have a short route where it does seem like they’re flirting, like Damien’s.
– Real player with 27.3 hrs in game
Played Character Route Order: Damien ◈ Robert ◈ Joseph ◈ Mat ◈ Craig ◈ Hugo ◈ Brian
Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator doesn’t really live up to what the store page tells you, nor to most of the positive reviews it received. You’re better off reading positive as well as negative reviews to get an idea of the actual content. I’m not going to say that Dream Daddy is a bad Visual Novel, it’s just not what one might expect at first.
I have mixed feelings about this game, and I can’t deny that I’m slightly disappointed. You see, it was one of those games I was really looking forward to since it claims to be a BxB dating sim. I know it probably sounds stupid, but I usually wait before I purchase a game that I really want, just to build up some more excitement, or to pass time until the game is running properly. The longer I wait, the more I’m actually anticipating the moment when I finally decide to play it. After seeing that this title is so hyped on Steam and YouTube, my expectations naturally grew to an extent where it is almost unavoidable not to feel slightly disappointed now and then. Nevertheless, after figuring out that one year after release was enough time of waiting, I finally started to play it. Alas, it didn’t turn out like I hoped it would.
– Real player with 20.4 hrs in game
Flirt
My life changed approximately six hours ago.
I married my high school sweetheart three and a half years ago. I thought she was the one. I thought. Until she started throwing little quips at me just to get on my nerves. Stuff like, “You never do the laundry!” and “why do you smell so bad?” I hated it. I hated my life. How did I manage to get stuck with this woman? What did I do wrong?
Then it happened.
Flirt was released. My world was rocked.
I met the love of my life here, thirty-seven minutes and eighteen seconds ago. She never complains about me smelling bad. She never says my clothes are dirty.
– Real player with 11.0 hrs in game
Flirt is a good of communication and making new friends to hang out with online or offline. Flirt was created to simulate a dating world that’s not Tinder or any other dating sites or services. I loved Comedy Night since the day I bought it in 2017 and this is now another one of my favourite games by Lighthouse Studios now too! Sure this game was not advertised nor released properly but it’s not the worse outcome. I played for a few hours of release and can say it was good outcome so far. The player base needs improvement and better stuff added such as emotes and perks for the hearts. Overall it has potential just needs some work. Good Job Lighthouse Studios!!
– Real player with 10.3 hrs in game
New Town Needs Tamer
Become a champion tamer for a newly formed town, full of people eager to meet you.
Settle down into the tamer life, going out on adventures to tame all kinds of creatures and becoming acquainted with the people of the town.
Features:
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A number of creatures to tame.
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3 Alternative looks for each creature, plus 2 color schemes for each.
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12 Dateable characters.
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6 Zones to explore.
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A number of minigame moves for your creatures.
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Over 300 customization items for your character.
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3 Different UI styles for you to choose.
Expect to see more as development continues…
As We Know It
I saw this tagged as “sci-fi” but I don’t know if it should be categorized as that. It’s a post-apocalyptic story, but the science/technology in it isn’t fictional at all. Anyway, it’s got Mad Max: Fury Road vibes, but takes place within a setting similar to that District 13 underground city from The Hunger Games. The implication is that climate change eventually impacted the livelihood of humankind, and for some, the answer was to move into underground city shelters.
Good Stuff
- Racial diversity. More than half of all the characters are not white.
– Real player with 20.6 hrs in game
I played Pinewood Island first and had high expectations for this one! I bought it during a sale since I couldn’t bring myself to buy it at full price!
Long story, short? I really enjoyed this game! Customization of your character was simple but I felt it added to the immersion of the game! The plot is phenomenal and I wanted to know more and more about the world we’re in! As of writing this i’ve gotten 2 out of 30 endings; 30 endings?! That’s insane but it shows how much thought went into this!
– Real player with 10.1 hrs in game
Doodle Date
Full review at: https://thegamehoard.com/2019/02/12/a-look-at-the-latest-doodle-date-pc/
Doodle Date is a joke you and the game work together to tell. Using the simple design of a dating simulator, the game asks the player to fill in images meant to make that player laugh, the text reactions and situations the images are used for doing a good job of facilitating some funny moments. The plot is quite clearly constructed around the idea of amusing the player rather than giving too much meaning to the events or dating, but it does do some unexpected exploration of the concepts behind one creator drawing a character to life for the purposes of romance. Not really demanding any artistic skill, Doodle Date is an effective skeletal structure for setting up some silly moments, making it a game about having a laugh rather than having some deeply involved dating story or a well developed art platform.
– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game
Don’t take these doodles lightly! This VN is killer!
You’re the Creator! You create doodles that pull you into a world of blank pages and dreams that you imagine. Claire is your first drawing and she’s the one who pulls you into this mysterious and new world.
The game starts off as your standard visual novel. You have choices and various endings (3 to be exact). The only difference here is that you get to draw the key points of the game.
I used a tablet to draw and they STILL looked a hot mess. The dialogue is very tongue in cheek and took me by surprise. I have to say, the overall plot towards the end was a huge surprise to me.
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
The Sims™ 4
I’ve been playing Sims since 2000, at first only the console games but eventually also Sims 3 on PC. I have over 1000 hrs on Sims 3, and was a bit tentative to switch over to Sims 4 since I heard so many people complain during launch. I then had a period of time where I didn’t have a PC that could handle SIms, and so I only bought TS4 this summer.
I absolutely don’t regret the purchase. I guess most people who have played TS3 already have TS4 (or they don’t plan on getting it), so my review might not be that useful, but I would say that if you’re thinking about making the leap over then it’s definitely worth it if you buy TS4 on sale (which happens a LOT). I’m not sure that I would pay full price for many of the expansions though, and definitely not for the base game. As someone who has spent so many hours on TS3, I have a lot of fun with TS4 but also lack a lot of features and smaller details that aren’t available here. The only thing stopping me from going back to TS3 instead is purely the fact that TS4 runs a lot smoother.
– Real player with 308.2 hrs in game
It’s quite hard to write an accurate review for this game. Even among the most influential simmers, you will find different opinions on the game, specially the DLCs. To me, DLCs are a must to enhance experience. To be honest, no one can tell you, with a 100% accuracy, whether you will like this game or not; it depends on your play style. If you have a vast imagination on your own and don´t mind starting from scratch, I believe TS4 can be for you. I am giving the game the thumbs up because I personally have a lot of fun with it.
– Real player with 119.7 hrs in game