Aka
Ride a bike, watch the clouds, swim in the hot springs under a blossom tree… or take a nap on a giant capybara
Experiment with a farming system inspired by permaculture.
Gather resources to craft shelters, tools, props, food…
Explore different biomes, from cloud forests to snowy mountains.
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Forester Simulator
Take care of a forest, chill out in nature, and protect it from people that just don’t care! You play as a forester whose job is usually quiet and peaceful but sometimes could be a real thrill. Cut trees using big machines or chase wood thieves on quads. Be kind to animals, feed them, and make friends with them. See for yourself what the forest hides.
Unique game mechanics
Thanks to the Forester being a simulator game, it introduces some nice and fun mechanics.
Feeding animals is one of the best activities out there! It is a part of your job as a forester but really, it’s just a pleasure. Do it with love and you’ll certainly be rewarded with their gratefullness.
We all love it - taking care of plants. The most important thing is to plant new trees and making sure that they are safe. Plant new trees, count bugs populations and do everything else the forest needs.
And there are more activities to take:
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cutting a tree (also using a big machines),
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chasing bandits on quads,
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forester quests: plant trees, check out the growing, count bugs population, etc.,
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removing traps,
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reporting thieves and vandals,
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decorating your own cabin,
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… and more.
Gameplay
Forester is a first person simulator game. You spend most of the time in nature doing quests given by the mother Earth herself. These are: planting new trees, feeding animals, checking if everything is ok with the ever-growing forest. Beyond that, you are also responsible for reporting crimes, chasing bandits, and taking care of other things that may interrupt a peaceful life in a beautifully green environment.
How does it feel?
Can you imagine being in the woods right now? Birds singing, a forest cover smells so unique when the sun is rising. The moss all around you is sparkling thanks to small water drops still being there… this is what the game captures. Being a forester is what we all desire from time to time and somehow we almost feel like we miss it. This longing will be hopefully fulfilled by playing the Forester game.
Make yourself cosy
Arrange your own peaceful wooden house! Wandering through the forest endlessly is great but there is no place like home. You can decorate it as you want using all kinds of rare stuff found in the woods. Of course, not everything you need is delivered by nature so you can always use a shop to make the interior feels like home. Build new fence, decorate your house, and make the forester’s life even better!
Quests and Free Mode
The game offers a singleplayer campaign full of quests. The completion of all tasks requires time, love to the forest, and some bravery. Prepare for moments of chill but be also ready for some action!
For those that would like to just set their own pace there is also the Free Mode. It’s nice to simply take care of the forest and deal with random encounters from time to time. If you love nature and you want to relax in the woods - this is definitely a game mode for you!
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Maneater
It’s a lot like Destroy All Humans, but even better. It’s honestly way more fun than I expected it to be. It’s ridiculous and it checked a lot of boxes for me. If you wanna be a shark eat, grow, and mutate, and listen to meta humor then this is for you! Enjoy! :D
– Real player with 43.2 hrs in game
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Base Game (8.3/10)
In the game you are a shark, whose mother got killed by Scaly Pete in the tutorial, and this is the beginning of a bloody revenge raid that devastates all of Port Clovis, and not only in the human realm, because in every area there are Apex Predators to defeat.
The unusual thing about this game is that the whole game is moderated like a reality TV by Chris Parnell, who also voices ‘Jerry Smith’ from ‘Rick and Morty’, so don’t expect a biology lesson from this game.
All in all, a very fun game to relax.
– Real player with 32.4 hrs in game
The Kalalau Trail
Very epic hiking simulator. Slightly less physically demanding than the real trail as well which is nice.
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
Great fun re-“hiking” this trail with my Wife. :D
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Thousand Threads
Thousand Threads is a game about walking through beautiful landscapes and the mysteries that emerge in the distance. You deliver mail, and, if you’re curious, peek at the letters before passing them off. You discover ruins, and wander through the ancient stones hoping to find something that could tell you about the world you’re in. You stumble through woods into the path of a bear, and then flee the bear only to bump into a passing stranger. The bear attacks the stranger instead. Maybe you beat down the distracted bear, and heal the stranger if they fall. Maybe you let the bear subdue the stranger, and loot the body after.
– Real player with 26.8 hrs in game
This… is a weird recommendation to make. I had a lot of fun with Thousand Threads, but I don’t think it succeeds at being what it clearly, explicitly sets out to be. To give it a thumbs down would be dishonest - I enjoyed this game for what it is! But what it is involves a tremendous breakdown between intent and execution.
I wouldn’t call it a good game. I WOULD call it an interesting one.
Thousand Threads is a game that wants to be a human connection simulator and is instead more of a frontier justice simulator. You deliver letters between a fairly large number of ambulatory cardboard standees who are more or less machines of petty grievance and aggravated assault. You wander beautiful environments, picking flowers, beating wolves to death with the world’s strongest stick, and also beating whatever NPC decides to ambush you on the road to death, also with the world’s strongest stick.
– Real player with 13.2 hrs in game
Trash Panda
It’s garbage night, and there’s no human in sight! Explore neighbourhoods of Toronto as the unofficial mascot of the city: the Trash Panda.
Make a Mess!
As a mischievous raccoon, make the biggest mess you can knocking over trash bins lining the streets. The bigger the mess, the higher you score. Some of the trash is yummy-yummy treats giving you additional points. Find power-ups too!
Explore the Real-World Streets of Toronto
The maps of Trash Panda are created from real-world street data of Canada’s most populous city. See if you can visit every street on the map!
Challenges!
Some crescents and dead-end streets are home to territorial raccoons that don’t want you knocking over their bins. Should you enter these areas, a nemesis raccoon may challenge you to a match! Which of you can knock over the most bins? Winner takes all!
African Safari
It does what it says it does.
Unfortunately, the thing it does is fairly boring.
The map is HUGE and sparsely populated.
Sound bytes of real animals come in extremely loud and are not located on the map. IE. Walking away from it doesn’t make it quieter.
Not worth the price.
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Epitasis
At this point I cannot recommend this game.. It’s beautiful but very strangely organized. There are also a number of technical problems, which you might or might not encounter. They have brought me to a point where the game is essentially unplayable. Your experience might be different.
Totally mind boggling what many reviewers have said about playing the game in two to four or more hours. I have explored and struggled and experienced many, many unnecessary crashes at the middle stage of the game. Lately whenever I click on a glowing object, the cursor gets stuck. There seem to be two different pointers, one belonging to the mouse, one thrown out by the game. Often in trying to disengage from the stuck point, the game becomes unplayable. Swings from high to low screen resolution and often crashes (“minimizes”) down to the taskbar icon. Generally the position is “saved,” but what saved means is open to debate.
– Real player with 53.7 hrs in game
Summary: Loved the aesthetics, music, and gameplay, puzzles were trivially easy, don’t get it if you want any challenge.
This is Talos Principle for kiddos. It uses a similar world system as Talos, where you can explore a beautiful world and 2-3 puzzles are contained within each world. Sometimes the puzzles overlap which is cool. The way the game uses colors is really fascinating and advanced, so if you’re after effects and aesthetics, you’ll love the hell out of that aspect of this game. There’s also dynamic weather! This works for the beauty of the game but can make navigating a bit confusing because levels at certain times of day do not look anything like they do at other times of the day. Loved the color and the natural design, simplistic but pretty. The soundtrack is amazing as well, it really added to the whole experience and is one of the better ambient game soundtracks I’ve heard.
– Real player with 5.5 hrs in game
PhotoWorld
I recently bought this for the sense of exploration and finding secrets, as I love hidden object games and exploring, this game was a huge miss and a let down, while you can scale the world to any size you wish, the achievements aren’t working, settings in the game and the UI in general are unable to be interacted with, there’s a section of the menu that is a portion for achievements, like take a picture of a tree, tree context picture menu, it won’t update no matter if I favorite a picture, try to right click or left click a tree picture in the gallery, or taking a picture in general when the set task is on a tree, I’ve also posted in the forums for help, but no responses, game is dead, there is also a second game made by the same person, maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t, I wanted the opportunity to enjoy my exploration of secrets but it seems I can’t even do that
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
game is boring, and achivements are bugged
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Secret of Sardinia
Secret of Sardinia is an open-world adventure game full of mystery and mythology. Swim, translate, explore, and discover!
Ancient Mythology
Locate magical bottles that contain the voices of departed souls. Collect stone fragments to rebuild the Tablets of Ages – ancient writings which tell the forgotten lore of Sardinia. Examine the Tablets’ cryptic markings and identify hieroglyphics to translate its legends.
Fish-Fantasy
Control Sam the Sardine using a carefully-crafted swimming mechanic that lets you move with 360 degrees of freedom. Test your skills with trials scattered throughout the ocean to attain union with the sea herself and unlock new abilities. Master these techniques to avoid the gaze of the unliving, lest you decay.
Open Seas
The Sacred Basin. The Giants’ Grave. The Cursed Cavern. The Undercurrent.
Swim through four connected realms to find the answers you seek – and then travel beyond. Unlock entrances to hidden caverns revealed by the Tablets of Ages.
Features
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Fluid and customizable swim controls
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Four haunting realms to explore
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Hand-drawn, fully translatable hieroglyphic language
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Hundreds of collectible bottles and fragments
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Original mythology communicated through immersive voice acting
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Beautiful, original soundtrack
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