Friend ReQuest - A Playable Teaser
Most of the game is pretty boring, so as to show how dull this person’s life really is. However, that doesn’t exactly make it enjoyable to play, and there’s barely any story for the first half of the game. Then, for the second half, there’s more story, but less to do in general.
I also have a habit of pressing esc to check my stats/ pause the game, and that exits this game. There is no save function, so I had to restart. They do tell you that there is no save function at the beginning of the game though.
– Real player with 2.3 hrs in game
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I’m sooooo excited for Amity Chain and this really sold it! Amity feels so real and all her conversations are so fleshed out I’m really looking forward to seeing more from her and other characters. Really neat spritework that I’m also excited to see more of!
Tip: stick around at the “end” of the game when the screen goes white!
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Cute Bite
Cute Bite is a fun raising sim where you take control of a butler (whose name you can decide, but her default is Saule) who is in charge of training the daughter of her former vampire master. The “Little Mistress” (also nameable; default is Buttercup), as Saule calls her, is far older than Saule herself, but after being confined to a coffin for centuries, she has lost many of her skills and reverted to the form of a child. It’s the player’s job to make Buttercup powerful enough within a year to complete the blood ritual which allows Saule to live.
– Real player with 25.2 hrs in game
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A vampire has been locked away so long that her body has reverted to the size she was when she first became a creature of the night – when she was child. After being freed, she must build up her various skills to restore her adult form. Her faithful butler is more than happy to assist, but is she hiding something?
Information
• All romances take place after she regains her adult form. This game does not involve or promote pedophilia.
• Gameplay involves stat raising (which determines endings), and a hunting mini-game (to replenish energy via biting people for blood), along with other fun mechanics.
– Real player with 21.0 hrs in game
Hot Pot For One
It’s mostly about loneliness, very, very short, and easy to misunderstand. By most standards, it would be barely a game at all. But if you don’t have expectations this thingy never tried to meet, it is kinda… nice. You stand in the kitchen, cook, eat, and for every piece you eat, memories start floating up, showing how food connects you to people, mostly your significant other. You eat rather little, clean up a bit and watch the end titles. There are no other people, no movement, no action, and if you were depressed to start with, you are not going to feel less depressed. But you may recognize the feeling.
– Real player with 7.5 hrs in game
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The good:
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Nice atmosphere
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Music is sweet
The bad:
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Boring as hell
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Story isn’t worth it because there is none.
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Art made for the “memories” you get when you eat a piece of food are just crudely drawn stickmen.
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All that stuff in the fridge and cupoards? You can’t touch it. I was expecting to have the ability to get silly and pour coke into my hotpot. Nope.
You turn it on, put stuff in it that doesn’t burn (so it’s no fun), eat only a set number of food from it that makes you think about ugly stickmen, put a tiny amount away in a large fridge and then dump over 150 food items into the bin.
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Reigns: Her Majesty
❤ Audience ❤
☑ Beginner
☑ Casual Gamer
☑ Normal Gamer
☐ Expert
☼ Graphics ☼
☐ Bad
☐ Alright
☑ Good
☑ Beautiful
☐ Fantastic
♬ Music ♬
☐ Bad
☐ Alright
☑ Good
☐ Beautiful
☐ Fantastic
☠ Difficulty ☠
☐ Easy
☐ Average
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Hard
☐ Unfair
§ Bugs §
☐ Bugs destroy the game
☐ Lots of bugs
☐ Few Bugs
☐ Some with mods
☐ You can use them for speedrun
☑ Nothing encountered
☯ Story ☯
☐ There is none
☐ Bad
☑ Alright
☐ Good
☐ Fantastic
⚔ Gameplay ⚔
☐ Frustrating
☐ Sleepy
☐ Boring
– Real player with 147.7 hrs in game
This game is pretty unassuming, but I think the simplicity of the gameplay works in favor for the overall game. With smart humour and surprisingly meta writing, Reigns: Her Majesty exceeded all expectations I had of this game I bought on a whim. I expected something cute and short, but I got a satirical game with a surprisingly deep political system.
The game operates much like a typical Tinder app (swipe left or right for positive or negative reactions). It expands upon this by adding a political edge to it, such that your answers have consequences on the four pillars of your kingdom (Church, People, Military, and Wealth). Surprisingly, this simple system was able to weave politics into its scenarios well, especially since as a ruler and leader, your decisions will have consequences. Eventually, if those consequences rack up, then you go out just like if you were in Game of Thrones - usually, that means death. It’s actually pretty hard to stay alive in this game until much later, and my first few runs as queen ended quite unfortunately under the boots of my citizens due to their love for me, or because I drowned in a lake since my carriage of pure gold broke. Fun times in queendom!
– Real player with 8.6 hrs in game
BURN
BURN is a pop star tragedy told over 16 endings that on replaying with different choices you can unlock the full story and endings. BURN follows Nina BURN, a Finnish pop star over 3 Acts from her DEBUT at 16, ESTABLISHMENT at 24 and CLIMAX at 27 via shuffled moments from her life which give insight into Nina on every replay. BURN’s story is adapted every play where your dialogue choices change Nina’s style, her dialogue, the musical score and results in a GOOD, BAD or UGLY ending from 16 potential outcomes.
BURN is a story game everyone can finish at least once and is Convict Games’ most interactive story to date. WISHLIST BURN NOW.
CONVICT GAMES
Convict Games has been “breaking free since 2017” with its small but passionate remote team of highly-experienced developers willing to risk everything to create games like STONE and now BURN. With team members based everywhere from Australia to Finland, Convict Games boasts a global presence that it applies to its projects. Convict Games, the team boasts over 10 years of combined experience in the gaming and entertainment industries, with contributions to popular games such as Returnal, Noita, Carrion, Control, TormentorxPunisher, Quantum Break, Broforce, Nuclear Throne and films including Gravity, World War Z, Sucker Punch and Prometheus.
Cupid Island
Welcome to Cupid Island, a cute life simulator about bringing couples together and nurturing their relationships. As a Cupid, you’ll discover many different couples and help their love stories. Build, customize and expand the Island using the Love, Joy and Passion produced by the lovely residents.
MAKE YOUR DREAM COUPLES
Explore the Human World to make a wide variety of couples with your Cupid Arrows. You’ll be able to bring them to live in Cupid Island!
MAKE PEOPLE HAPPY
Chat with the lovely residents to know their personalities and give them gifts. Happier people will generate more Love, and improve their relationships.
AN ISLAND MADE OF LOVE
Collect Love, Joy, Passion and other good feelings produced by the people in the island to expand it and make great places for dates and all types of fun activities.
CUSTOMIZE EVERYTHING
You’ll be able to customize the island, your house and the humans' appearances. Who are your dream couples? You can make them here!
MOD SUPPORT
You can add your original visual elements to the game. Support for mods in the character appearances and even in playlist make this experience truly your own! Listen to your favorite songs while you play!
DAY AND NIGHT ACTIVITIES
You can farm, fish and cook in the relaxing mornings. But you can also dance, sing or play soccer in the exciting nights!
YOUR OWN LOVE STORY
Follow the hardworking cupid Aelia’s story as she builds a relaxing and welcoming community for herself to belong. Maybe she’ll even find true love in this place?
The Nine Lives of Nim: Fortune’s Fool
A very charming SIM/Visual Novel hybrid about a cat faerie called Nim who is tasked to search for her prince in a city called Valora.
You have 1 month to increase your stats than can trigger storylines of different Shakespeare characters and get several endings that shapes the fate of Nim. 1 month doesn’t seem like a lot but this game has a lot of storylines, which actually made me interested with Shakespeare’s works. Not to mention a lot of endings and different ending variations that gives this a high replay value. It was enjoyable and addiction to the end.
– Real player with 11.1 hrs in game
A traditional stat-raising life simulation game with interesting new approaches.
The mechanics are very simple, but there is a lot of depth to be found in the different plotlines and how actions affect the game and endings. The protagonist’s three forms as cat, spirit, and human adds a unique layer of complexity.
I definitively recommend this game for fans of the genre.
– Real player with 9.8 hrs in game
Spirited Heart Deluxe
Based on the poor reviews, I was expecting Spirited Heart: Deluxe to be utterly unplayable. I was pleasantly surprised to find that, though not without several problems, it’s not nearly that bad. While not the best raising sim I’ve ever played, it’s certainly not the worst, and it even does some interesting things with the format. I’d say its biggest flaw is that it’s very old, and thus, obviously the work of a young developer. It lacks polish, but it’s got some heart.
THE GOOD
– Real player with 12.4 hrs in game
♥ Sorta neat
I liked the premise - I’m a sucker for simulation games, especially ones filled with choices.
Unlike other games, there’s many characters to pursue a relationship with, and along with being able to choose your character species, you can also choose whether to be straight or lesbian. Nice! -:)
Then there’s stats - essentially character traits like gardening, charisma, etc. that effect the jobs you can have, and the choices/outcomes to things. Unfortunately what I quickly realized was the game isn’t about a story or choice - it’s about the stats.
– Real player with 10.0 hrs in game
Always Remember Me
**Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
~T.S. Eliot**
This is the first visual novel that I’ve played from Winter Wolves, and I must say that I’m not impressed. Always Remember Me is an otome game with a somewhat ordinary concept, annoyingly stereotypical characters, suicidally repetitive choice actions and a scarcity of events about the main story to keep you interested. At this point, I must confess that I’ve completed my first playthrough quite easily and gave in a reaction of “seriously?” at the first ending that I’ve discovered. During my second playthrough… I got bored and wandered off to do something else, forgetting the game running. When I remembered that I was playing the game, I came back and gave in 2 more hours of the gameplay to collect the missing achievements - a.k.a. fast-forwarded through some repetitive actions and only read event dialogues. Thus, my gaming time.
– Real player with 9.4 hrs in game
Always Remember Me
One to be best forgotten
Review
I know I am probably the last person on the planet to give any kind of opinion on visual novels since I have only played two but as a gamer who enjoy most genres, here is my two cents anyway. One (Doki Doki Literature Club) I canned pretty early on into my play session because of how poorly written the dialog was matched with some of the most annoying characters ever conceived. I also didn’t find the overarching story all that interesting either so felt there was no need to press on further and waste my precious time.
– Real player with 9.1 hrs in game
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.