Little Lives
If you’ve played Life Quest 2: Metropoville, you will see some similarities with this game but it adds some additional features that are pretty charming. The driving system is goofy and enjoyable in small doses. The little quests your friends send you on are at times endearing and others aggravating (just like real life, lol!) As others have said, content is slim right now but the product as it is now was worth the price for me, a huge life sim fan.
I do wish the dev made a way to cancel the “drive to” animation (other than hitting escape and pausing the game), as sometimes I click a place and then decide I want to do something else. Also an “arrival time” estimate would be great when clicking-to-drive. Additionally, being able to check job requirements without travelling to the employment centre would make life easier!
– Real player with 31.5 hrs in game
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So this is really an adorable, simple and easy game. I liked that there was a driving aspect to the game, which I don’t normally enjoy in sim/management games. The driving didn’t feel as touchy or sensitive as normal driving games, but the biggest portion I enjoyed was being able to press space and allow the game to drive to locations for me when the cuteness of the driving wore off (again, not normally a fan of driving aspects in games). The game itself is really straight forward and a bit too easy. You have to eat, sleep, rest and socialize. Getting a job is the major aspect of this game and it’s quite easy to move up financially (don’t need to get a bank loan at all). I was able to get 2 full adult degrees plus over $10k in about 6 hours. So “beating” the game doesn’t take very long. It would be nice if they added more things to do or balanced out the stats a bit to make it a slight challenge.
– Real player with 17.0 hrs in game
Croppy Boy
It’s fun little game to mess around with.
The controls are a bit weird and will need awhile to get used to.
Controls :
included W A S D and Z (for tackle people, they’ll drop stuff on impact but.. it costs you stamina, will talk about this more later.)
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A for dropping stuff you have (will drop crops first, then seeds)
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S for tool actions (for watering crops, plow dirt, and seeding)
//it depends on your selected tool (choose with 1,2,3 or 4) also sickle is pretty much useless since you can cut glass without it.//
– Real player with 7.6 hrs in game
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A cute, fun farming game with unique gameplay that makes it a great game to play in short bursts with a group of friends. If you are looking for a serious farming simulator or some ultra-complex strategic multiplayer game, this isn’t the game for you, but if you just want something that you can hop right on, spend less than 5 minutes learning the controls, and have fun – definitely check this out.
It’s also free-to-play without a cash shop for overpowered items or paywalls restricting what you can do. Definitely refreshing to see a game like that these days, given much worse games in the free-to-play category often try to shake you down for cash these days.
– Real player with 6.6 hrs in game
Lo-Fi Life ( Walking Simulator, Chill, Casual Relaxing, Choices Matter, Chose Your Own Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Narrative )
Lo-fi Life is a FPP game about time management in hard conditions of morning time before going to work.
Every decision you make costs you time, every decision is important.
Create your own life path using procedural story and face the consequences, decide to get up or lie “only 5 minutes more”.
There are many player stories and paths to the ending
Taste the life in Lo-fi music style!
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Fantasy Friends
The pet gets stuck sometimes when you throw a ball or stick for it and you have no other choice than to force exit the game. It gets frustrating after a while. Also, the game could have more stuff for you to do. It gets repetitive really quickly.
– Real player with 13.7 hrs in game
This is fun for a few hours, but it does get a bit grindy. Every animal in Fantasy Friends has a baby and adult stage, with the beginning stage just being you feeding them and keeping their houses clean. The adult stage is where you can play with them and complete minigames to earn currency and improve the moods and physical health of your little friends. Currency is used to unlock new animals, or can be spent unlocking the 12+ skins for each animal randomly. There’s also a basic tutorial to get you going, easily followed by kids.
– Real player with 11.8 hrs in game
Bakery Magnate: Beginning
It’s a fun game and I played it for a good 5 hours non-stop. There are a few issues with it that make longer playthroughs a bit of a chore. The main problem is that produce goes bad too fast, making inventory management an eternal race against the clock and a bit of a nightmare. Second issue is once you start producing your own bread and taking orders, there is no way to automate transfer of items from the breadmakers to the trucks for deliveries meaning you have to do everything manually, item by item. For the price (free), I think it’s worth trying out, just not sure about replayability.
– Real player with 9.3 hrs in game
I dont know how to clean the glass of my store, anyone can help me?
– Real player with 5.2 hrs in game
Express Simulator
Lucky me gets to write the first review for Express Simulator. This is a simple sequencing/pathing puzzle game that’s been slapped together lazily with Unity, the game engine that encourages mediocrity everywhere it goes. Gameplay consists of right clicking on boxes to collect and then targets to drop them on. The objective is to choose the shortest routes to maximise profit before the time runs out. So, Yang Sun have somehow managed to create a video game about the Travelling Salesman maths problem and also somehow made it less enjoyable than what everyone had to put up with at school.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Free Agency
Free Agency is the life simulation where the agents gradually become self-aware and try to find meaning in their lives. Meanwhile, you have to keep them too busy to think about it.
Bring about their social and financial failure as you micromanage their careers, hobbies, friendships, and romances; all while you find your way around the simulation’s powerful user interface. It’s like The Sims meets The Truman Show.
The world of Free Agency is a computer program. It is inhabited by autonomous intelligent agents: subjects of study in a life simulation. Each agent has a room. Each room has objects. Each object has actions. Each action has consequences.
Approachable & short comedic simulation with point & click and management gameplay.
FEATURES:
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Fix the 4th wall.
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Upgrade the simulation itself.
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Level up in piano, cooking, writing, photography, sleeping, and more.
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Have them call each other on the phone.
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Have an existential crisis or two.
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Pet the cat and dog.
Inexplicable Geeks: Dawn of Just Us
A hilarious romp though a con filled with wacky heroes with wacky powers. Fantastic writing and amazing art. I had a blast chatting with each and every character. Definitely worth a few more playthoughs to get the full back story of this crazy cast.
– Real player with 3.8 hrs in game
An alright visual novel
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Legend of Homebody
Game is addictive. Simple interface, but the game itself is challenging on some modes (Shen has a mental breakdown every time. I’ve gotten close to beating it, maybe another 20 hours…) If you enjoy having to actually pay attention to what you are doing and work for a win then this is a great game. I wish there were more characters, because I can honestly see myself playing this game on and off for years.
– Real player with 182.5 hrs in game
The game is more challenging than any other life sims I have played. Each character have their own story and 2 years of game play. The hardest to play was the female. Always died cause of pressure.
Could have options when interacting with the others and different scenarios…
– Real player with 18.3 hrs in game
Timeflow – Time & Money Sim
TL;DR
9/10: The greatest board game ever? Will gladly go many laps around the board trying not to lose money and waste time before I make money and perfectly manage time… Even if many of the achievements appear to be bugged and the English grammar and syntax give the game an unprofessional feel. Thank you for the important life lessons in time management.
Overview
Hooray for this being ol' Il Pallino’s 100’th. review! Take the best features of money-making board games and remove the attrition-based nature of Monopoly, and add-in some great concepts that couldn’t be worked out in a physical board game, and you have Timeflow. The objective is to work towards one of many types of ambitions while using a pre-made character with all sorts of strengths and weaknesses. (Or custom-made character if one chooses.) One to four players may play, and the player who achieves their ambition first is the winner. Time is everything! without enough time on their hands, players cannot start new businesses or get some education, and if a player doesn’t have enough time at the end of the month, the player has to pay a financial penalty proportionate to the income that they earn.
– Real player with 434.3 hrs in game
It’s like the adult version of the Game of Life. Played for hours on normal version yesterday. I have to say while it’s in it’s early stages, it’s a pretty well thought out game. I do think there could be more random instances, but it kept my attention for hours. I am still working on buying that dream home.
Now I am less inclined to enjoy the stocks, it seemed for a long time they never got high enough and then when I was finally interested in really buying and selling most of them were way too out of reach and never came back down. Perhaps it’s realistic. It would be real interesting if you could make character changes as lifes ups and downs come at them. I am surprised there isn’t a Win the Lotto or play the lottery option.
– Real player with 129.9 hrs in game