Arboreal

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

  • Time Limit: Nourish as many Spirits as possible before time runs out in various scenarios

  • The Grand Tree Hostel: Spirits arrive endlessly faster and faster. Keep up the pace!

  • Zen Garden: Flourish simply in peace


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Arboreal on Steam

Wholesome - Out and About

Wholesome - Out and About

You arrive at Wholesome, a Scottish village also called Baile Fallain, just after a terrible storm has destroyed your Granny’s cottage and wreaked havoc on her idyllic coastal town. Can you find a way of restoring her home and helping the townsfolk? Connect with nature as you forage for wild food, tend to your garden, and cook delicious recipes. As you help repair the town, you’ll end up mending relationships and forming friendships with its residents, who are slowly coming together as a community striving for sustainability.

  • Connect with nature while you’re out exploring a vast and beautiful environment. Discover the joys and gifts of the natural world by learning to identify wild food - a skill that you can use in real life!

  • Cook and craft with fun minigames to help the townsfolk, fulfil orders, build friendships and restore your Granny’s fading memories. Use the in-game recipes and instructions to recreate these calming experiences at home!

  • Customize your character and decorate your cottage! Collect outfits and hairstyles to express yourself and use upcycled furniture and handcrafted decorations to make your cottage feel like a real home.

  • Take care of your garden while growing your own fruit and vegetables. Decorate with tips and tricks that can be applied to the real world as you get inspired to start your own little outdoor (or indoor) garden.

  • Help the townsfolk rebuild and bring them together! Fulfil quest and orders, mend relationships and unlock secret stories. Each character has their own story to tell and set of skills to share - they can help you upgrade your home, learn about the natural world, or explore new parts of the map.

  • Discover big and small ways of becoming more sustainable, as you help the residents of Wholesome make their town as green as can be.

  • Share your knowledge by creating your own recipes inside the game and trading them with other players. We want to bring people together to share their skills and wisdom and create a vibrant community that can help us add content to the game for years to come!

Wishlist the game and join us on social media so that you can be part of the development journey!


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Wholesome - Out and About on Steam

Marooned

Marooned

I made a review and play through of the game.

play though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d2fEnd5G2Q&t=1s

Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elI0o4LJ8Iw&t=1s

for Mika: I have suggestions in review video.

Real player with 9.9 hrs in game


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It’s a fun game about being stranded on a desert island.

Some of the mechanics take a minute to get used to but on the whole I like the game, it’s very chill

Real player with 7.4 hrs in game

Marooned on Steam

Witchy Life Story

Witchy Life Story

Witchy Life Story is a humorous witch life simulator, where you play as a young witch who’s gotten into trouble one too many times. As a result, your grandmother has given you one final task to prove yourself: Go to the village of Flora, and ensure their harvest festival is a success. If you fail, no more training for you!

Tend your garden and craft spells to help the local villagers with their festival. Maybe you’ll even figure out your life, and meet someone special too! Or….. not. Growing up is hard, OK?!

  • Design your witch. You have numerous outfits, hairstyles, accessories, etc., to choose for your very own troublesome witch.

  • Shape your personality. Make questionable life choices through dialog options and your actions.

  • Craft spells and perform magical feats. You’ll craft 30 different spells and perform tarot readings, guided meditations, and more… Sort of.

  • Tend your garden. Water, weed, and harvest three garden beds containing ten different varieties of flowers and herbs.

  • Befriend the villagers. Get to know each of the six eccentric villagers of Flora and help them fulfill their festival duties!

  • Get a date. Some singles are looking for a date to the festival too. Maybe one of them will catch your eye??

Witchy Life Story on Steam

Umami Grove

Umami Grove

Your Culinary Journey Starts Now

Umami Grove is a fun, quirky, physics-based VR cooking adventure packed with unique encounters in a variety of environments.

Epic Adventure

Explore a varied and content-rich world. In your travels you will find yourself a wide range of unexpected situations. Forage the land for ingredients, help and befriend one of many unique characters. Umami Grove will keep you wondering what you might find around every corner.

Advanced Physics-Based Interactions

Your exploration is powered by a fully physics-based interaction system. Jump, climb, duck, and swing your way though highly interactable environments.

Comfort options are available for those who are less tolerant to motion sickness

Umami Grove on Steam

Far North

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:

  • Massive Procedural world

  • Game-changing Seasons

  • Dynamic Weather

  • Co-op

  • Exploration

  • Cooking

  • Farming

  • Building

  • Crafting

  • Skill System

  • Harvestable Trees

  • Animals

  • Domesticate Animals

Far North on Steam

World End Diner

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

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

World End Diner on Steam

Beers and Boomerangs VR

Beers and Boomerangs VR

  • Kangaroos are trying to steal your beer! Throw boomerangs in VR to survive the wildlife chaos. Cook for your mates, and save your Aussie BBQ!

  • Have increasingly perilous BBQs where you survive against different animals, in different scenarios and cook different food!

Features:

  • 🤹🏼Cool physics.🤹🏼

  • 🦘Annoying Australian fauna.🐨

  • 🌠Very satisfying boomerang trajectories🌠.

  • 🥕Vegetarian options🥦.

This is clearly self-defence!

This game is still in development, so some aesthetics aspects are going to be changed, if you want to support this project wishlist it!

Beers and Boomerangs VR on Steam

Big Farm Story

Big Farm Story

I’ve never left a review for a game, but i felt i should leave one for this game. Firstly, I actually enjoyed this game. With that being said, i do think it has a lot of room for improvement. The biggest issue being the cost of crops vs what they can actually be sold for. I found that 90% of crops could only be sold for maybe 5-7 coins more than what it cost to grow them. And even certain crops say they make more when sold in the market, the difference is maybe 3-5 coins more than if they were just sold normally. This is also a common problem with other profitable items. There’s hardly any real balance, which makes it hard to make any real money even after grinding this game to a pulp in 60 hours after it’s release. The second issue i found with it, is the lack of actual story line. It’s a very slow progression to get anywhere, and then when I got to Chapter 6 I found myself saying “That’s it?” There’s not much to the characters either besides doing quests for them and earning friendship tokens, which just made it… boring. In terms of uniqueness, it is a very basic, linear story. Not really much to it. The MMO aspect was different though, but also random? I enjoy the idea of it, but in actuality the only real play ability with other players is visiting their house, and planting Friendship hummus to get more friendship tokens. Besides that I found it to be almost pointless and more of an inconvenience when trying to interact with quests in the town center. With all that being said, something about this game kept wanting to play more. It is similar to Stardew Valley and Harvest Moon, so it is an overall very mellow and easy game to play. I found it to be very stress relieving because it is so easy to play and get along with. I also believe this is developers first PC game after focusing on more phone games, so it definitely has the phone game feel. Which all the more stresses the fact it has lots of room to improve. I would absolutely come back to check it out after some larger updates in the future, but as of right now I feel I’ve finished everything that is worth accomplishing in the game. I’m excited to see where this game ends up in the future.

Real player with 59.0 hrs in game

Big Farm Story is a cute farming game still under development so I’ll be a little bit patient with the current game’s flaws. The story starts off like most of the farming games, you receive a letter from your grandfather asking you to take over the farm because he has something else he needs to check on. Once you arrived at the farm, you find it in a bad state after the recent storm, but your neighbor’s son Benny offered to help you. Your mission now is to find out where your grandfather is.

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Real player with 16.2 hrs in game

Big Farm Story on Steam

Moonglow Bay

Moonglow Bay

A really fun and relaxing game.

I’m a bit sad it has such a mixed review score.

There’s not really a big challenge to anything you do ingame, however to me this was perfectly fine.

I wanted to play a really laid back game, which is exactly what Moonglow Bay seemed to be.

And I got even more.

You can just chill, catch a few fish, cook, collect pieces of the story behind your character and the citizens of the bay.

You’ll progress through quite the variety of biomes and there’s lots of interesting fish to find, that all have nice little myths the people of the bay affiliate them with.

Real player with 30.4 hrs in game

I really can’t recommend the game in it’s current state. There’s just too many bugs ranging from small visual things to currently unfixable softlocks. I’m currently stuck, unable to progress through a bossfight because it simply won’t continue. I see too many other issues like this in the game’s discord as well. Keyboard support seems like a very last moment addition; on launch, the controls were wonky and you couldn’t even save your game. They updated the controls, but there’s still no way to rebind anything. The game also doesn’t use the mouse, which is strange for a game with analog input in sections. I really wish this game had had some sort of early access/open beta period to iron out the more obvious and game-breaking issues before launch.

Real player with 24.6 hrs in game

Moonglow Bay on Steam