Restaurant Empire II
I’ve played Restaurant Empire II off and on over many years (counting that the first game is included in II). When buying REII you get the full original RE game included.
The graphics are basic, the AI of customers and staff very limited, and the interface clunky in that you have to do a lot manually and one by one - for example you have to add recipes individually to the restaurant menu. But. I find it strangely compelling to try to get my chef up to 100% skill levels in as many recipes as possible, moving him between cuisines to round off his skills.
– Real player with 238.5 hrs in game
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As a fan of the first Restaurant Empire game, at first I was disappointed with this one. A lot of the animations are the same, and this game adds coffee and dessert shops, so you have customers eating sandwiches and cookeis with forks and knives. Also, all the customers are talking on cell phones and using laptops now, which is annoying when you’re waiting for a chance to click on them. I actually quit the game for a long time because of these irritations.
However, I recently came back to it and I’m glad I did. It’s a lot of fun as a strategy game, and still fun just to tinker around with the restaurants and watch the chefs cook. The first game lacked female chefs, aside from Delia, but this time there are plenty of them, and that’s a welcome change too. The game isn’t very difficult, but it has some challenge to it, and it’s hard to find challenging strategy games these days.
– Real player with 107.9 hrs in game
World End Diner
I wanted to rush my review because I do think this game is really good, and it deserved a thumbs up to help! However, I wanted to return to this review to give it a proper analysis for people who are on the edge of purchasing this game;
1. The gameplay loop is very fun and simple. The core of the game consists of gathering/farming/buying materials in order to cook for the animals in the forest. You will unlock more ingredients as you go, and while this is a slow proccess (Ive been playing for 3 Days and -just- unlocked alchemy) it feels appropriate.
– Real player with 328.0 hrs in game
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Well uhh, i dont know if i can review this assertively, but i’ll try.
I play this usually every day for a few hours, and i’m in LOVE with this masterpiece.
for the pros:
many adorable animals , some jump when u serve them their fav food
epic lore and hidden things that make u play for hours to learn new stuff
huge options for decorating, you can place everything literally how u want
u get plushies from animals (very important)
hard to get stuff, which makes u really hyped and wanting to do more
– Real player with 162.0 hrs in game
Dreamland: Village Life
Dreamland: Village Life is a reimagined open world game inspired by classics.
Players arrive in a small village to farm, fish, go on RPG adventures, manufacture weapons, mine, dive, build bridges, explore the world, and make friends with cute villagers!
**The in-game’s time is fully synchronized with the real world.
You can experience changes between daytime, dusk, and nighttime, as well as seasonal changes.**
(Note: Currently, some of the scene and building assets in the game are licensed assets purchased at the Unreal Official Marketplace.)
The game was developed with Unreal Engine.
Persona Creation
In Dreamland: Village Life, you can customize your player persona’s appearance, including their sex, eye shape, eye color, hairstyle, and hair color. This helps you create your own persona.
Making Friends With Villagers
You can make friends with cute villagers, and can also chat with them as well as send them gifts and strengthen friendships with them. In addition, this game includes an mail system that you can use to receive mails sent by the production group. The villagers will also send you mails each day, and you can write mails to them.
RPG Battle System
Form partnerships with villagers and start a hair-raising adventure! This game’s occupations include a warrior, magician, reaper, archer, and priest. You can choose your own occupation!
Farming
You can put soil anywhere and make your own farm! Choose from a variety of vegetables and fruits. There are over 50 plantables in the game, ranging from age-old classics to the exotic and obscure native to Asia.
Fishing
You can fish in the river and sea, and this game includes more than 40 types of fish.
Raising Livestock
Raising livestock includes Gathering wool, collecting milk and eggs as cooking ingredients!
Mining Ore
Descend into caves to excavate precious ore. You can use the ore you get to make weapons.
Cooking
This game includes more than 80 types of ingredients you can use for cooking. You can farm, fish, raise livestock, and fight to get these ingredients.
Cutting Trees
You can cut down trees to get wood to make handicrafts and manufacture weapons!
Insect Catching
You can catch insects in a net. This game includes more than 50 types of insects that you can catch.
Weapons Manufacturing
Create your own weapons to use in battle.
Handicraft Making
During the game, you can get all kinds of materials for making a variety of handicrafts.
Research and Develop Potions
Research and develop HP, MP, and antidote potions for use in battle.
Excavate Relics
You can use handmade shovels to excavate relics located at spots marked on the ground.
Costume Change System
This game includes more than 100 types of clothing. You can buy any type you want at the clothing store.
Diving
Dive to the bottom of the ocean! You can choose a diving spot on the island, and unlock deeper levels of exploration. Uncover everything that the sea provides. You can collect seaweed and coral to cook and eat.
Rowboat
Row a boat with villagers, strengthen your friendships with them, and enjoy yourself.
Hang Gliding
Go hang gliding to get a bird’s-eye view of the world and visit more distant places.
Decorate Your House
Decorate your dream house. You can put whatever furniture you want in its rooms. Create your own space. Furniture can be bought from the store or you can make it by hand.
Build Bridges
Build bridges on both sides of the river to make it more convenient to get to the world on the other side!
Mini Game
During this game, you can also play an entertaining mini game.
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Arboreal
Welcome into the life of a tree. It’s time for you to grow a little seed into the most magnificent plant of the forest.
Growth
In Arboreal you need patience and tact to raise your fruit tree. Select between 36 fruit species to cultivate and graft. With your roots reach the soil sources needed to improve the growth. But balance your branches and the flow of resources with caution to avoid breakage.
Nature Spirits
Spirits are the native of Arboreal. Nourish them with delicious meals to get their help. And be careful, the more you grow, the more demanding they become… if you fail them, be prepared to endure the consequences!
Insects
Host inhabitants in your tree and let them take care of the harvesting, the food cooking, to speed up machine construction or tend to the plant’s needs. In no time you’ll transform your tree into a place full of life.
Machines
Build tracks, engines and conveyors to automatize production. Combine various cooking machines to transform and stock your meals. And let’s not forget the mushrooms with special perks!
Three game mode available in Arboreal
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Time Limit: Nourish as many Spirits as possible before time runs out in various scenarios
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The Grand Tree Hostel: Spirits arrive endlessly faster and faster. Keep up the pace!
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Zen Garden: Flourish simply in peace
Far North
Far North is a sandbox co-op procedural open world survival game with changing seasons.
Set in the deep North your survival depends solely on your ability to thrive.
Build and expand settlements in order to brave through the changing seasons ranging from beautiful summer days to fierce winter nights.
Venture through alluring and treacherous terrain where you explore and harvest resources used for crafting new clothes, tools, structures and more.
Survive the changing seasons
Experience the wilderness with four beautifully crafted seasons and the unique challenges that come with them. Out here you’ll be tracking your Hunger, Thirst, Stamina, and Temperature as you struggle to balance resources with the energy needed to obtain them. Find food, upgrade your settlement, stock up on supplies and craft new clothing. Preparation is key here in order to survive the game-altering seasons. Every decision you make will have a direct impact on your life, so be careful because that decision might just be your last.
Explore the North
Nature is calling, the diverse terrain and its inhabitants are beatiful but dangerous. Utilize all that nature has to offer by harvesting resources wherever you can find them but beware of the wild life and weather. A long journey into the wild can spell the end of you if you don’t come prepared.
Build and expand your settlements
Expand your simple settlement into a beautiful farm! Domesticate animals, grow crops, start an orchard and more! Challenge your architerctural skills by building to survive the elements in style.
Crafting
You will need to scavenge, hunt, forage and craft your way through the wilderness. Find new resources and use them to improve your tools, structures and clothing.
Improve your character
Your character is unique. Go from a beginner to a master of cooking, wood cutting, farming, exploring and much more as you shape your own journey!
Key Features:
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Massive Procedural world
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Game-changing Seasons
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Dynamic Weather
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Co-op
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Exploration
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Cooking
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Farming
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Building
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Crafting
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Skill System
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Harvestable Trees
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Animals
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Domesticate Animals
Garden Of Mooj
Garden of Mooj is a monster farmer simulator where you raise cute little slime monsters called Mooj. You find different types of food and feed them to your Mooj and it will train their stats in different ways. Every night even scarier monsters come to try and destroy your Mooj statue and you must defend yourself using the Mooj you have raised. Once you train your Mooj, their abilities can unlock gates to allow you passage into new areas, as you make your way across the world trying to save it from a mysterious enemy. Mooj is fairly similar to games like Slime Rancher and the Chao Garden from Sonic Adventure, and was a lot of fun. The game also has a really decent jazz/easy listening soundtrack.
– Real player with 19.6 hrs in game
I find this game strangely addicting and loads of fun despite how simple it is.
Its a good game for just not worrying and getting a good chuckle and you can make your mooj fairly different.
Pros:
Relaxing
Silly and cute
Addicting
Cons:
it can be a bit buggy
its not entirely clear on what to do
could still use more to do(personal bias)
– Real player with 15.6 hrs in game
STORY OF SEASONS: Pioneers of Olive Town
I will say this~ As a die-hard HM weeb
With only 40hrs put into this game and only on “Autumn” Xseed has done a fine job with keeping the Harvest Moon franchise alive and ongoing. I love that they keep some of the same elements from the earlier games.
Pros: The graphics are beautiful and the characters are way better than Xseeds “SOS” where everyone looks the same. You have more personality with these new characters and they’re all so bubbly and cheerful and have their own unique dialogues. I do hope in the future that MORE Harvest Moon games will be coming out on the pc as I lack a newer Switch. Thanks for catering to the PC master race Xseed. Natsume has lost me in its very weak and un-immersive graphics. The animals are adorable everything about this game is amazingly fun and there’s so much to do the repetitiveness does not get “boring” or “old” It feels fresh every time you do something even if it is the same thing over and over again. All the villagers literally like everything so finding an item to give them daily is not hard. You even have CUSTOMIZATION to your main character. This is by far the best I have seen and ever played from Harvest moon when it comes to that. The outfits are so pretty too and don’t even get me started with the animations when farming. They’re on the peak.
– Real player with 130.3 hrs in game
As much as it pains me, this is probably the first Story of Seasons title that I have to honestly say I cannot recommend.
There are some cute things about it, and some of the heart of the series is there, buried way way down in there, but honestly this feels like Story of Seasons is trying too hard to take My Time at Portia elements and falling so flat on it’s face that it tumbles right over a cliff.
First and foremost the balancing in the game is atrocious. Day 2 of Winter Year 1 and I had already beat the town development “main” story. Winter 23 of Year 1 and I was married to the bachelor of my choice. The only major story milestone left for me is to have the kid (which I have read ahead is an adoption thing regardless of hetero marriage status or not and that moderately irks me). After that it’s just little completionism, which at the rate I smashed through them in year 1 I don’t expect will take longer than the last Year 3 achievement.
– Real player with 117.1 hrs in game
SunnySide
You’ve purchased your first plot of land in an aging post town in the heart of the Japanese countryside. Now, it’s up to you to create a homestead to be proud of. Cultivate the land, nurture your budding crops, and care for your animals. Use technology to keep in touch with new friends, access online shopping, and store your favorite farm fresh recipes.
Spend time getting to know the residents of SunnySide - old and new - all while balancing your newfound farm life. Don’t forget to take pause and enjoy the wonders of the Japanese landscape whilst discovering more about yourself and the world around you.
Modernize your farming experience with new technology that brings the classic, farming sim genre to the 21st century. Build solar panels, electric water pumps, contemporary machines for food production, and continuously upgrade your tech to improve your farming experience.
In SunnySide, we want you to enjoy all aspects of farming, especially in growing your own food. With modern technology, you can worry less about tedious daily tasks and more on living a life of balance.
With a focus on individuality, you will be provided with unique opportunities that allow for creative freedom and self-expression. Your avatar, homestead, and even your in-game cell phone can all be tailored to your preferences and desires. Customize buildings, layouts, decorations, clothing, hair, and more on your journey of self- discovery.
A proper homestead is self-sufficient, and your home in SunnySide is no different. Learn to collect your own water, generate power, grow and craft various food items, and cultivate your land to help support the local economy.
When SunnySide fully releases, you’ll be able to ferment your own soy sauce, slice tofu, grow and grind flour at the local mill, and craft artisan cheeses. The real magic of food, however, is what happens in the kitchen. Take produce a step further by cooking a wide variety of dishes in a kitchen you’ll be able to design and upgrade yourself. Nothing satisfies hunger like a home cooked meal after a long day’s work.
While a quiet life in the countryside is nice, life in SunnySide isn’t perfect. The locals have distinct personalities, stories, and issues which - through your decisions - can be uncovered. SunnySide has spent the last decade on a steady decline, but perhaps you’ll be the one to breathe new life into this desolate town.
Form bonds, join groups, attend events, and maybe even find someone special to share your days with.
Disclaimer: This game does not contain watering cans, shipping containers, incessant gifting, mayonnaise machines, and endless walking.
Be Hero
Very chill and fun game, you can spend hours in it without realising. If you enjoy farming and relaxing games like Stardew Valley, Graveryard Keeper or Harvest Moon, you’ll love this one. Soundtrack is really good and envolving, the art is absolutey CUTE :3 plus the dialogues and sceneries are full of funny references.
It’s still in early access so keep in mind that there’s a lot more content to come! The developers are always uploading bug fixes and new paches and they are also very communicative with the community, they take into consideration a lot of suggestion of the players.
– Real player with 31.4 hrs in game
this is a chill game, if you are a content creator on twitch or other, it is perfect to play while interacting with chat, if you like farm style, like stardew or haverstmoon,i highly recommend, take the game and just have fun, keep in mind that the game is only in early access, the developers are working hard on the game.
I was able to test before the early access, all suggestions and other things that i reported to them are taken into account.
If u’re going to play, I hope u love It as I did, and remember It’s still an early access so there’s much more to come!
– Real player with 27.0 hrs in game
Lemon Cake
Great little cozy game that can help anxious people unwind.
It’s me; I’m anxious people.
Can be played with a controller!!
10/10 lemon cakes – upgrade your greenhouse first!!!
– Real player with 33.0 hrs in game
Very cute, if you like cosy games like animal crossing I’d recommend. Would be nice if the devs could add more customisation options to outfits/the bedroom - witch hat needs to be fixed so that it doesn’t clip into some hairstyles.
– Real player with 26.2 hrs in game