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?!
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Design your witch. You have numerous outfits, hairstyles, accessories, etc., to choose for your very own troublesome witch.
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Shape your personality. Make questionable life choices through dialog options and your actions.
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Craft spells and perform magical feats. You’ll craft 30 different spells and perform tarot readings, guided meditations, and more… Sort of.
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Tend your garden. Water, weed, and harvest three garden beds containing ten different varieties of flowers and herbs.
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Befriend the villagers. Get to know each of the six eccentric villagers of Flora and help them fulfill their festival duties!
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Get a date. Some singles are looking for a date to the festival too. Maybe one of them will catch your eye??
Read More: Best Crafting Character Customization Games.
Edge of Elsewhere
Concord, Caledonia. The Landmark City, cleft by the Veil that separates Man from Faery, Here from Elsewhere.
Join Saskia Hawthorn as she enrols at the Royal Academy of Automagic, learns to gather and craft over 300 unique magical items, woos and befriends a large cast of colourful characters and accidentally summons a cute genie prince(??) in this alchemical otome dating simulation game.
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Saskia Hawthorn
Our young ingenue, Saskia is excited and more than a little terrified to be starting her magical education at last. |
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Rudraksh
A good-natured genie who was literally born yesterday, Rudraksh is an innocent soul with a lot to learn about the perils of Elsewhere. The literal prince of Saskia’s dreams. |
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Lorcan Faulkner
A talented mage with a smart mouth and a slight disregard for the rules. His lilting voice and lopsided smile may drive other girls to distraction, but Saskia’s above such things… for the most part. |
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Jonny Liang
A genius alchemist and sometime student teacher, Jonny Liang is older than he looks. Salesman, alchemist, librarian - Jonny seems to have fingers in more pies than should be possible for a single student… |
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Roman Neuer
A taciturn trainee knight who lets his skills do the talking. A marble statue come to life. Pleasingly muscular. Employed by a cat. |
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Ravenscourt
The elusive King of Crows, Ravenscourt doesn’t even go here. |
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Over 200k words
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5 dateable boys and a large cast of side-characters
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Crafting system with over 300 items to gather and synthesise
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Keep up with happenings in Concord through text messages, forums and social media pages
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Fulfil over 100 requests, each with their own quirky messages
Read More: Best Crafting Otome Games.
My Time at Sandrock
My Time at Sandrock-Just like My Time at Portia, My Time at Sandrock takes place in a wholesome post-apocalyptic world 300 years after the Day of Calamity destroyed most modern technologies.
After accepting a job offer to become Sandrock’s newest Builder, you’ll arrive in the wild and rugged city-state, where it’s up to you and your trusty tools to restore the community to its former glory. Gather resources to build machines, befriend locals, and defend Sandrock from monsters — all while saving the town from economic ruin!
Key Features
Transform a run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility! Use an intricate set of machines to process materials and produce parts of huge structures before assembling them piece by piece to help Sandrock flourish.
Create hundreds of unique items at the worktable to decorate your homestead, give gifts to Sandrock’s residents, or assist with community requests.”
Explore vast deserts surrounding the city-state of Sandrock. Dive into ruins to dig for Old World relics, seek our materials in hard-to-reach locations, or spend time relaxing in Sandrock with your neighbors.
Experience a detailed story complete with hundreds of sidequests and over 30 all-new characters. Spend time getting to know Sandrock’s residents, uncovering backstories, and making meaningful connections along the way.
Quickly shift between melee combat and third-person shooting mechanics in dynamic action battles.Use the new weapons and defense break mechanic to your tactical advantage, or boost your stats to simply smash through battles!
Spend experience to level up your Builder and unlock skills. Become a master crafter, specialize in combat, or focus on social interactions with skills that suit all playstyles.
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Use your workshop’s profits to turn the empty prairie into farmable land;
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Grow crops for extra cash or transform them into delicious dishes;
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Attend festivals with Sandrock’s residents;
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Find secrets and much more!
Both Portians and brand-new Builders who have never set foot in Portia will find a fun new world with lots to explore at their own pace, along with divergent NPC stories to enhance replayability. Experienced Builders will find everything you enjoyed about My Time at Portia and more, and you will feel right at home in the delightful life-sim RPG that is My Time at Sandrock.
Read More: Best Crafting Building Games.
Amber’s Magic Shop
Amber’s Magic Shop is an interesting story about dark elf girl becoming master alchemist and finding her love. Game has visual novel mode with crafting being fully cut out and plot feels to remain relatively solid in it (game will politely ask if player wants heroine to succeed or fail at creating story related potions).
Timewise the game is divided into two parts:
1. Teenager stage when Amber is learning the craft - this part is more concentrated on visual novel component of the game since there are a lot of characters to meet and get to know;
– Real player with 41.5 hrs in game
I’ve had this game for a while and I keep coming back to it, so I finally decided to leave a review! I want to preface this by saying that I do play this game on ‘Visual Novel mode’ as crafting isn’t really my thing, so my experience of it is really only the story rather than the other gameplay elements. However, I find the story really engaging, I enjoy learning more about the world of Aravorn through the eyes of so many diverse and different characters and I LOVE how your decisions shape the story.
– Real player with 35.5 hrs in game
Girls Overboard
STORY
“From all over the world people travel to the island chain of Kawaii in search of recreation, relaxation, and above all…romance.”
While Kawaii island is a vacation destination for most people, you take on the role of a local fisherman down on his luck. Use stamina to cast your fishing net and collect materials, then combine those materials into gifts you can give to beautiful women.
GAMEPLAY
Girls Overboard is a free-to-play dating sim. Enjoy casual gameplay, unlock different outfits, build relationships, explore each girl’s unique story and animated 2D artwork!
Use your fishing net to collect gems and fill up your Material Box! Upgrade your net to accumulate gems faster and give you more options for the merging phase of gameplay. If you’re lucky, you can even earn bonus points. So, the more gems the better!
Behold a completely new concept you have never heard of… Match-3! Now, while Girls Overboard follows the classical match-3 rules, what makes it different is you have influence over what gems appear. From the number of gems to the most common colors, by using your net and selecting bait types, you are in control. Bend the future to your will!
Use the points you earn to craft gifts for your waifus! Gifts come in a range of colors and qualities. Different color gifts require different color points and higher quality gifts require a higher number of points. You get what you pay for!
Give gifts to your waifu in order to increase your relationship and win her heart. Match the color gift with each girl’s favorite color to build the relationship even faster. The color of love!
Alright boys, the part you’ve been waiting for. Each girl features four high-quality illustrations, hand painted to perfection and animated in Live2d. The higher your relationship goes, the racier of situations you’ll unlock. Get ready to go ALL THE WAY!
FEATURES
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5 gorgeous ladies to romance. (More to come!!)
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Animated illustrations CG to unlock that bring the characters to life!
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Over 100 fun and sexy outfits to unlock! Gift your special gal an outfit tailor-made for her.
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Fully voiced! A talented cast of English voice actresses! (Except for the main character)
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Gallery Mode! Enjoy the art you’ve unlocked at any time!
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Increase your chance of reward with the optional in-game purchase.
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Music that makes you want to dance in your chair!
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Free to play!
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And much more!
Join the cute anime girls of Girls Overboard on Kawaii Island for a Wet n' Wild vacation!
Alchemy Story
I was a backer for this game early on, I had high hopes for it back then and if anything my hopes for it now are even higher. Yes it’s early access, so as such it has some minor bugs/glitches and in the beginning you may find yourself wandering aimlessly. But this game is pure relaxation.. and really, isn’t that why most people purchase and play these sorts of games? The art is charming and beyond cute. The characters so far show promise in terms of personality. There’s a lot of things to do, upgrade, brew and purchase considering how early on in development this game still is.
– Real player with 40.2 hrs in game
So far I find this game constantly trying to kill me with its overabundance of cuteness. If I had to describe this game, it would be the Arcane magic version of My Time at Portia (Magic instead of Engineering), with the small town aesthetic of Stardew Valley, with a super cute Harvest Moon/Animal Crossing art style. As the game is in early access, this review may not always be up to date, but I’ll update when needed for new viewers.
Pros:
The inventory system is pretty easy to get used to and best of all no limits to weight or stack, to my knowledge
– Real player with 28.6 hrs in game
Raspberry Coast
Raspberry Coast is a life-simulation and village game situated on the Atlantic Coast in the titular fictional region. The village has fallen on hard times after climate change and overfishing have shut down the cannery. Meet residents, grow relationships, build your boat, fish, and live a relaxing coastal life in this game from Whitethorn Games.
In Raspberry Coast, players will experience:
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Inviting, relaxing original soundtrack
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Charming village to explore, develop, and build
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Relaxing, deep fishing systems
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Original story centered around climate change, fisheries
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Romance options, family building, and more
Sun Haven
I love this game but it’s still buggy. I hope that new and bigger updates will soon be released. I find the progress of update releases to be very slow. I’m starting to lose hope that it will ever be updated.
– Real player with 55.2 hrs in game
I love this game, it’s beautiful. I love the farming, mining and all the activities you can do within the game. Even though it’s early access I’m in love with it. It is rather buggy, since I have played multiplayer the entire time, my friend gets disconnected really often and he lost all his clothes and things in his inventory so make sure you put stuff in a container before you go to sleep. Avoid opening a container someone else is using because on one occasion it let the other person access the container and the stuff I had just added got deleted. I’m sure the game will only get better in the future.
– Real player with 44.9 hrs in game
Verdant Skies
I don’t know how to put my feelings into words right now. I found this verdant little gem by chance as I browsed YouTube. One immediate bonus I noticed was that it looked like games I love such as Stardew Valley while containing its own unique flair. I’ve adored laid-back little games like this since I was a teenager and got hooked on Harvest Moon: Magical Melody. Beyond the initial premise, one thing reeled me in, making me seriously consider purchasing the game. Rosie. My first reaction was “Wow, a blind mechanical engineer? AWESOME!!!” Finally, a character in a video game of my preferred genre that I can relate to! That’s not because she’s a mechanical engineer, but because she’s blind. Although not completely blind, I do have a moderate visual impairment which can make some games a bit tricky. This ties into the second reason I purchased this game. Everything looked so big and vibrant, easy to do and easy to find. It’s for this reason that I purchased this as my end-of-semester present rather than Kynseed, (though I intend to buy that later). Naturally, I was nervous sinking $20 into a game I’d found on YouTube of all places. However, I am happy to inform whoever is reading this that this game does NOT disappoint!
– Real player with 65.5 hrs in game
Really, really wish Steam would allow “Neutral” or “Informational” reviews.
Verdant Skies is a really interesting game that’s actually not that good but I put 30 hours into it anyway for a few reasons. The gameplay is really pretty shitty but it has some wonderful ideas and mechanisms and perhaps most importantly for my typical reader, it’s really committed to making a farm sim that goes above and beyond in terms of race and gender. If those things are important to you this is definitely worth checking out, but if you need high polish and deep gameplay first and foremost it’s probably not for you.
– Real player with 31.3 hrs in game
One Lonely Outpost
A barren, alien world needs YOU to bring it to life!
Start out with just an ancient space-RV, your handy tech gauntlet, a handful of potato seeds, and work to build up your colony. Grow crops to attract colonists, build a town and economy, and work to achieve independence while establishing your colony as a prime destination.
Whether you opt for an all-natural farm or a more high-tech one, you’ll need to balance producing food with other activities on your planet. Explore alien ruins to learn more about this strange world, grow your relationships with the many different characters that will join your colony, and have a blast playing various mini-game activities along the way.
It’s One Lonely Outpost … but not for long!
Decide: Natural or Synthetic?
Order up some supplies from Delivz-On, fertilize the ground, and plant crops with a unique tending mechanic – blow off dust, clip off dead branches, and watch for bugs! Pursue either a Synthetic route with robo-cows and gene-splicing (watch for glowing cabbages), or take the Natural path where you raise Earth-based farm animals and hand-tend your prize crops for premium produce. With either path, the more and better food you can make, the more colonists you can attract.
Build a Community and Forge Relationships
Every colony starts out with just one person (and a robotic pet), but colonists from around the galaxy will come to conduct research and offer other roles or services to help you grow the colony into a full-fledged town. But our career isn’t everything in life – befriend your fellow colonists to find fully developed people with their own histories, lives, and dreams. Grow your rapport with more than just gifts from your farm; perhaps even one relationship will result in true romance!
Explore Ancient Ruins
Ancient alien ruins have kept their secrets for millennia – until you’ve come along. Discover why a barren world is full of all of the features necessary for life, even though according to top scientists it shouldn’t. Puzzle and/or fight your way past the robotic guardians and be rewarded with rare items and a deeper understanding of your new farm planet.
Customize Your Character
Develop a unique sense of style and personality with clothing options and character statistics.. Choose how to balance your strengths and weaknesses across farming, exploring, crafting, socializing, and dungeon-diving as you progress on your journey.
Play To Your Interests
There’s no set path to perfecting your colony. Any element of the game can be played in any order. Whether you choose to focus on tending your farm to unlock every perk, spend all day exploring ruins fighting robots, or dedicate yourself to building up the town and connecting with residents, fun and rewards await to be discovered along the way.
Share With Friends
Play online with up to 3 other friends in collaborative co-op as well as competitive minigames. Friends can either visit your existing outpost with a greenhorn character, choose to start a fresh world from scratch together, or take a short vacation on your main to see what other colonies are up to, all while developing new relationships and even building branching families with other player characters or NPCs.