Secrets Of Soil
This almost gets a thumbs-up. However, I have to give it a thumbs-down due to the absurdly sanctimonious narrative.
This is amazing for 80% of the game. It’s like an interactive simulation that a prominent Natural History Museum might have on display. Go into this as sober or as high as you like, and take flight through psychedelic soil, while learning the science behind how it produces almost all of the food we eat. Amazing. It almost pains me to not be able to recommend it.
Why can’t I? The end of the game has such a ridiculously pessimistic view of things like global warming, and plowing the f♥♥♥ing soil, that you’d think the world was guaranteed to end before 2022. Then they throw in ridiculous “don’t get me wrong” moments, such as: “don’t get me wrong, chemicals used to grow crops in infertile areas did save tens of millions of human lives, and entire races of people would have otherwise collectively died slow and painful deaths by mass starvation, BUT!!! Chemicals are still pure evil, because…”
– Real player with 17.1 hrs in game
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If you want a good alternative to LSD, this is for you :D
But in all seriousness, this game is a really fun way to look at and educate about soil, and the effects agriculture has on it. Very well explained and definitely recommended for everyone who wants to learn more about ways to save our planet.
Nice work.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Bakery Shop Simulator
The game starts slowly, but in a good way. Nice slow pace to learn the game and the best way to balance your spending vs. selling. Once you get the hang of it, gameplay speeds up.
Con’s: Rather short play time. Once you have everything you can buy, there really is no goal and it just keeps going, doing the same thing over and over with no new milestones or anything new to be eager for. I would love to see more options open up in the future. Perhaps ad items to spruce up your bakery to make it more, you. Plants, wall decorations, color options, renaming option. These things can be unlocked as you play, giving reason to keep playing.
– Real player with 8.2 hrs in game
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It’s a simple game, at first your just trying to meet the basic needs with very limited money, which is quite fun, but later after you upgrade a few things your kind of done with nothing else left to strive for. No customisation available to your shop or the wall hangings, your just locked in your little booth with stock and sales register.
The customer requests increase from 1 to 3 items per visit, but that’s about it.
I completed all upgrades/recipes in under 4 hours with a good amount of stock and a full star rating, so it’s very short for a simulator.
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
夜詛-YASO-
A new horror game from the creator of GOHOME, Itimatu Suzuka!
A first-person mystery-solving adventure game set in a Western-style house in the Meiji era.
It is a walking simulator game in which you explore a mysterious Western-style house,
and a serious game in which the main character confronts his sins, past and present.
Synopsis
The protagonist, Kirima Shoka, finds herself in an unfamiliar Western-style building.
She doesn’t know what she was doing, why she is here, or even where she is.
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Hodl Simulator
RIDE WIFE, LIFE GOOD
WIFFE FIGHT BAK, KILL WIFE,
WIFE GONE, THINK ABOUT WIFE
REGRET
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
the achievements are broken for stock mode and it says my highest score is “infinity”
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
Little Mouse’s Encyclopedia
I was conflicted on this one, whether to give a positive review or not.
First the positive notes: this is a nice educational program that helps to fill the gaps in the basics of flora and fauna.
I learned a lot of things I didn’t know, so I’m satisfied with that part of the “game”.
The graphics is fine and also the sounds, which really put you in the atmosphere of the forest, field, pond and garden.
So what is the problem? The problem is that this is not a game, lol.
This is an educational application, mostly for kids. It doesn’t offer anything else but reading.
– Real player with 9.8 hrs in game
I’ve got the game for my kid and he enjoyed it a lot. We first bought it on App Store but then I bought it here on Steam specifically to leave a review, so that games like this get better traction. If you’re a happy owner like me, I do encourage you to also support the developer in this way.
What I love about this game? It’s like a small encyclopaedia, making discovery of new facts easy and fun. I’m so, so tired of commercial mainstream “games for kids” that mostly exploit the love of children to the brands and characters already established in film/TV. Here, the game is like an open book inviting your kids to play with it in a variety of ways, always learning in the process.
– Real player with 5.4 hrs in game
Nihongo Quest
Learn Japanese through gaming! Nihongo Quest N5 is a colorful JRPG that will teach you over 1000 Japanese words and characters! Explore the world of Gakushū as you battle, race, and draw your way to victory!
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Learn over 1000 words and characters! This game teaches you up to the N5 level of the JLPT!
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Battle wild characters, students, and evil forces using the Japanese learned in the game!
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Write out the characters that you learn to practice handwriting!
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Race against the clock in a fun mini-game to reinforce your learning!
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Review at Review Tower! The game will automatically create a personalized review schedule to help you retain what you learned using a spaced repetition system!
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Customize your character with character skins!
Abacus Finch
Abacus Finch is a fun platformer aimed towards kids, but that did not stop me from playing this game. I love a fun platformer that adds some thinking to traverse a game. The game makes you use your brain with math skills and platform skills to move forward in this good looking and well designed game. Definitely aimed towards young ones, but fun for all!
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
Breaking Good
Breaking good is not a bad game, but it’s just not good, either.
It’s a relatively straightforward match 3 game with some interesting mechanics in that you view the play area as a three dimension cylinder from 4 different angles. For core mechanics, you drag left-right to move an entire row of pieces, or swap one up or one down. You match different combinations of 3+ pairs of singular elements to create more complex compounds. There are quite a few achievements, but getting many of them is purely a grind.
– Real player with 20.0 hrs in game
A pleasant game. It’s a match 3 with an unusual style twist. My only complaint would be the periodic table itself. It should say only the coloured elements are in play so people don’t think they have to unlock the rest, which is what the current table implies. It is probably unnecessary as well. You can find the element your looking for simply by checking the match tiles.
It’s an achievement hunters dream as well. Worth the price.
– Real player with 15.7 hrs in game
Children’s Jigsaw Puzzles
All the illustrations in the game are all very nice. I hope one day it can add trading cards :).
– Real player with 8.4 hrs in game
Hidden Animals: English - Spanish
A nice game as such, but containing unforgivable mistakes in the vocabulary that it’s supposed to teach you, and badly optimised in my opinion.
I bought this game for my 9 year old daughter, who likes hidden object games and is quite good in them - but there aren’t that many suitable for children, so I was happy to find this one. Since we are neither English nor Spanish native speakers, I was prepared to translate for her and the game wasn’t meant as an educational tool, but she learns English in school, so I hoped she would also pick up a few animal names while playing. But very early she got frustrated by the fact, that it seemed simply impossible to get three golden stars and thus uncover more pieces of the bonus puzzle, no matter how quick she was or how hard she tried (I tried to help with that and didn’t succeed either) - so she stopped playing because it was driving her to tears, and I bought her Hidden Animals Photo Hunt instead to make up for this disappointment.
– Real player with 7.3 hrs in game
Hey, want to have a good game? Check this indie out! :)
In Hidden Animals you will learn animal names too, while finding them - I don’t even know why they don’t teach languages like this; awesome idea. Speaking of awesomeness I liked the music so much, that I just had to stop at the main menu, just to listen. Nice pictures, user-friendly design. I also liked that it was a good fun my daughter as well: she likes animals and stages can be completed in minutes.
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game