Mutazione
This game. I don’t know how to summarise it in a way that does it justice, I just loved it so much. Technically, I guess it’s a walking sim with interactive “soap opera” and garden sim minigames? But I’ve played walking sims, I’ve played interactive fiction, I’ve even played garden sim minigames, and this is really something else - even besides the fact that it’s extremely well done and polished to near perfection.
The unique art style, sort of minimal but very expressive. The story about a community of outsiders. The characters and dialogues that feel so real. The way the characters are animated. The fact that they hired someone for wildlife animations, and it was totally worth it. The encyclopedia of local plants that you can browse through. The musical gardens that you can design and tend to as much or as little as you please, then you pass by the gardens you created or sit in them with people, and you can see how you left your traces in that little world. The balance between light-heartedness and serious topics like grief and failure. The light and colours during the different times of the day. The main character’s journal notes. All the cute details. I think I screenshot like half of the game. There’s so much that’s just so immensely adorable.
– Real player with 28.9 hrs in game
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You don’t play Mutazione, you live in Mutazione
INTRO
Mutazione is an indie gem, a wonderful game or maybe more like an experience. It’s extremely chill game and relaxing experience.
I can’t actually define it by genre, it’s kind of a point&click, narrative, gardening, mystery game?
STORY
You play as Kai – a simple girl who loves swimming. After the meteor hit a small town, mutants started appearing there and they live there on that destroyed island. So Kai travels there to see her ill grandpa. This is when your weird journey begins. You meet your grandpa of course and learn that he has been severely ill and he asks you for help to take care of a garden. You and Kai have no idea why at first of course, but it all makes sense in the end.
– Real player with 19.4 hrs in game
Sea of Leaves
A young girl disappears from her hometown, leaving friends and family.
After many years, she returns to her place.
What was behind her vanishing?
Sea of Leaves is a contemplative game set in the Gargano, a remote region in southern Italy.
Half drama, half mistery, the story of Sea of Leaves revolves aound a disappearance from the perspective of the missing one.
In Sea of Leaves you will explore the story through the stream of consciousness, which will reveal thoughts, memories, feelings and sensation.
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Little Witch in the Woods
A little witch’s daily life as apprentice
In the ‘LUCEREIN ORTU’, witches live together. They built ‘Witch House’ in various areas and have been sending their apprentice witches there. The apprentice witches must go to the one of the ‘Witch’s Houses’ and help the nearby village and villagers. If you complete your apprenticeship successfully, you can become a formal witch. Become Ellie the Apprentice Witch and experience her daily life!
Various Stories
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Become the main character, Ellie, and proceed with the story so that you can complete your apprenticeship successfully..
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Practice the teachings you learned at the Witch School, help people and make the world a better place.
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Make friends with the charming characters in village, and listen to the inner story they bear. If you can be their best friend, you maybe hear their secret.
Activities & Explore
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Gather and Process materials to create potions! The potions are useful in solving problems.
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Explore a mysterious fantasy world. You can find unique areas, and you can meet cute creatures there. Interact with various creatures and fill in the information in the witch’s book!
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Find a hidden place! You can get special items or find shortcuts there.
Leisurely daily life
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Chat with new friends and find out their tastes. If you give them a gift that suits their taste, you will be able to get closer to your friends more quickly.
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The witch and the cat are inseparable partnerships historically. Communicate with cats living in various places. Their each personality will be as different as appearances. If you have a fateful encounter with a cat, the cat may want to spend every day with you.
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Sometimes you can fish and enjoy the peace. A relaxing rest will give you the energy to go on a vigorous adventure the next day.
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Time Loader
A wonderful little game
Not many hours are needed for completion, but the replay value is immense
You control a little robot, sent back in time to save your creator from a debilitating accident
You need to try and remove that which causes the accident to happen
On the way you will need to gather more capabilities
Tighten or remove screws with a screwdriver, or fix electronics with a soldering iron
Also, scattered throughout the game are glyphs, which you will need to collect to unlock the secret ending
– Real player with 9.8 hrs in game
Short but very lovingly designed puzzle platformer with a well-told story. The short duration of the game is not particularly bad, as it is worth playing through the game several times to reach the different endings. The puzzles are clever and playful, but will hardly overwhelm anyone. Some jumps need a bit of timing, but there are hardly any frustrating parts. The controls and the extensions that are gradually being added work flawlessly. Only the grappling hook is a little inaccurate.
– Real player with 9.8 hrs in game
Torii
Torii is an instrospective journey about feelings.
Follow Ipa on an unusual adventure. She will have to overcome her greatest fears and fight against guilt to find her little sister.
Torii is an adventure/puzzle game with an artistical aproach, full of surreal landscapes, strange creatures and emotions developed by one person.
Key Features:
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Explore surreal landscapes with Ipa in search of memories in order to save little Lulu.
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Discover the secrets behind this peculiar story with a different and poetic narrative format.
1Day一天
A nostalgic artistic game about friendship & happiness. Love the ending!
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Really cool story music and animations.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Dreamer: Puzzle
Nice jigsaw. Simple, but cool.
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
a great puzzle game very fun the art is great. I recommend it to anyone who wants to play a good puzzle
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Instrumentalist
Ayyyy, dats pretty good
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
Last Day of June
I don’t know how I keep finding my way into “walking simulators”. I suppose it’s because I have a desire to see extremely compelling stories, and walking simulators have to contain a better than average stories as that’s what keeps drawing people in. In this Last Day of June succeeds at an unprecedented level.
There was some trouble in my life when I played this game and when I looked at my list of games, I saw this was coming up next I had a feeling I was going to have an issue. I didn’t want a depressing game, I didn’t want to feel sad. Yet this was next on my playlist, so I hunkered down and prepared for a short session after which I would put it aside for later. Instead, I spent over an hour and a half watching this brilliant story unfolding, trying to do a let’s play for it and constantly being distracted by the way it delivers its story. You can see it in the youtube video linked below.
– Real player with 8.9 hrs in game
Although visually and audibly an enjoyable game to play, Last Day of June has a few issues that caused me to not be able to recommend it overall. The first has to do with the story itself. The story portrays a tragic car accident very early on in the game (which can be seen in the trailer that was released,) and involves the protagonist survivor Carl going back in time to try to prevent June from dying. During the game, glimpses of their past is shown that reveal how their relationship was in the years prior to the accident. Memories of several of the other characters can also be collected as an optional part of gameplay that give additional background on them as well as for Carl and June. The problem is the lack of most of this background before the accident occurs, apart from a short flashback that briefly introduces the characters and explains why Carl and June decided to go to the dock. The player knows almost nothing about these characters when June dies, and it’s difficult (in my opinion, though some may disagree) to have an emotional response about her death. Later on in the game, after discovering how their relationship had been before she passed, it’s much easier to sympathize with Carl’s loss. However, in my opinion, this occurs too late. Had the player been able to either see sequences of them interacting in the past in the prologue of the game, or better yet to actually play through scenes that highlight the love that they had for each other, the car accident would have been far more impactful, and the urgency of trying to save her would make the story much more enjoyable to experience. As it stands, however, the story felt a bit mediocre.
– Real player with 6.7 hrs in game
My Last Memories About You
I strongly feel that everyone should play this game if you want to experience a short but fascinating story. :)
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
It’s a really good game, with detailed elaboration, not too long but all the more meaningful with good easter egg.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game