Cascade Cafe

Cascade Cafe

Well paced. Relaxing tunes. Cute story. Most fun when played with a friend 👍.

–-{Graphics}—

☐ You forget what reality is

☐ Beautiful

☑ Good

☐ Decent

☐ Bad

☐ Don‘t look too long at it

☐ Paint.exe

—{Gameplay}—

☐ Very good

☑ Good

☐ It‘s just gameplay

☐ Mehh

☐ Starring at walls is better

☐ Just don‘t

—{Audio}—

☐ Eargasm

☑ Very good

☐ Good

☐ Not too bad

☐ Bad

☐ Earrape

—{Audience}—

☐ Kids

☐ Teens

☐ Adults

☑ Human

☐ Lizards

—{PC Requirements}—

☐ Check if you can run paint

☑ Potato

Real player with 6.6 hrs in game


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Flavours of Fluff

Cascade Cafe is a well-framed brain teaser. What you see is what you get - a relaxing puzzle with a warm atmosphere. It’s all about combining tiles, matching values, creating paths, collecting usable items, setting traps, exploiting board gimmicks, and using auxiliary abilities that usually do something listed above. Sounds like a lot, but it’s actually all there is. Think ahead, enjoy the well-animated cascade effects you cause, and don’t sweat it. Despite never playing the Cascade board game, I breezed through this one with relative ease. Not prodded by hardships or a sense of achievement, but having the calm disposition and pristine autumn melancholy in my sails.

Real player with 6.2 hrs in game

Cascade Cafe on Steam

Tokaido

Tokaido

I love the board game, it is one of my favorite board games, and this is actually a pretty good implementation of the board game. Unfortunately this digital version is as buggy as can be for multiplayer, and seems to have gotten worse over time. I would not recommend you purchase this game if you want to play against any actual people. I am generally pretty understanding of little bugs and things, but this game has not seen any attention in years and these issues definitely existed then as well.

Real player with 24.4 hrs in game


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Do not buy this! I have yet to be able to play a game online because no matter who tries to set up the room to play (me, or any of my friends who I convinced to get this game), the room will either (a) not be created, or (b) be created, but not allow anyone to join the game, sometimes going into a near infinite look of “Are you sure you want to join this room?” dialogs.

When a room is created, it looks like it is corrupt. My user name is KDLadage; the room name when I create the room is “’s RoomKDLadage” – this would be nothing more than amusing were it not for the fact that none of my friends can join the room.

Real player with 19.3 hrs in game

Tokaido on Steam

Tsuro - The Game of The Path - VR Edition

Tsuro - The Game of The Path - VR Edition

Loved it… After some 1 hour playing…. It´s great board game. Didn´t tried the original one. But this VR version is awesome. Very easy to play. Quite difficult to beat. Totally recomended to relax with your VR visor. Played on Oculus Quest 2. Standing up and seated down.

Real player with 1.8 hrs in game


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Tsuro - The Game of The Path - VR Edition on Steam

FlightChess

FlightChess

When it comes to flying chess, do you remember the fun times you had with your friends on the board? Now you can play online with your friends in the classic and soon the new prop mode!

Flying Chess includes both classic and prop modes, and supports both single player AI and LAN multiplayer modes. The game has four different colored aircraft camps for players to choose from, easy to understand rules, simple and fast operation, and the exact same gameplay as you remember from your childhood, making it a great choice for many casual players!

FlightChess on Steam

Jigsaw Puzzle - Pro Edition

Jigsaw Puzzle - Pro Edition

I like the variety of the puzzles, The only bad thing going on right now is that in expansion pack 8 (with the exception of the first group of puzzles in the row) all of the pictures shown when you scroll do not match the actual puzzle. Which is okay because I like the actual puzzle better. I haven’t checked all of the other expansion packs but this one might be the only one messed up like this.

Real player with 91.2 hrs in game

This is a new take on jigsaw puzzle games, with fresh artwork. The art selection is awesome and it challenges you with complex color combinations and minutious details. Great game. I recommend it for all those who want to take a brake and relax in a slow paced puzzle with awesome art.

Real player with 19.1 hrs in game

Jigsaw Puzzle - Pro Edition on Steam

Jigsaw Puzzles

Jigsaw Puzzles

A good time killer

Real player with 4.5 hrs in game

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Real player with 4.2 hrs in game

Jigsaw Puzzles on Steam

Color by Number - Pixel Draw

Color by Number - Pixel Draw

This has been a blast playing, like paint by numbers when I was a kid. And with the DLC’s they go from very simple to more complicated with much detail.

Real player with 218.0 hrs in game

So since the dev has fixed the executable file, I’m going to re-review this.

Pixel Draw is an okay game. It’s not good, but it suffers from various flaws that make it’s competitor the much better product. Many of these flaws come from the UI, which in my original review said was clunky and had no reason to be as large as it should be. I stand by that. It’s obtrusive and gives you less screen to work with.

The only thing worse than the UI is the lack of tools. There is no erase function, so should you accidentally misclick, you’re stuck with that color on the screen. Which leads to another problem - obstruction. Sometimes the misclicked colors can make it hard to identify which block is lit up with the color you’ve chosen. (Especially when you are zoomed out.)

Real player with 138.5 hrs in game

Color by Number - Pixel Draw on Steam

MahJong - Medieval Fantasy

MahJong - Medieval Fantasy

For me, it is a nice and casual game, almost feeling like a stress-reliever game. The goal is simple to achieve, and there’s nothing too risky about matching two identical tiles- unless you’re pressured to do it quickly when you have less time. The “Medieval Fantasy” style kinda adds in more detail to the game, especially if someone is an RPG fan or an anime fan. All in to say, it is a simple/casual game anyone who would want to relieve their stress.

Real player with 3.6 hrs in game

Alot of the levels feels very repetitive. The game was fun for the first 2 times i played it but does get boring very fast. should get achievements added to the game.

Real player with 1.6 hrs in game

MahJong - Medieval Fantasy on Steam

The Far Kingdoms:  Magic Mosaics

The Far Kingdoms: Magic Mosaics

Written for 1561’s Thoughts - Honest reviews, for busy people.

The Far Kingdoms: Magic Mosaics :: casual fantasy nonogram puzzle :: help a wizard return to his dimension by recharging elemental stones. Full playthrough/walkthrough available on YouTube. 7/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ8yFjsbfTI

Real player with 7.1 hrs in game

The Far Kingdoms: Magic Mosaics on Steam

Wingspan

Wingspan

First, I love this game. I love the cardboard version, and I love playing the digital one.

Second, the visuals are just lovely, though I don’t really understand some of the design choices (why would anyone choose to view just their Forest?), and I’d like to be able to watch the other players or AIs take their turns.

That doesn’t mean this version isn’t without it’s problems, which isn’t surprising so shortly after launch. I’m not sure what the rationale was for giving so many viewing options, but I only use the “full board” view (rather than viewing each of the environments), which requires a click to view powers of birds that have been played. The interface is very click-heavy to avoid making mistakes and to fix misclicks, which I appreciate, but if you have more than a couple birds in your hand (say 5+ total cards), selecting and playing birds from your hand is SUPER clunky and finicky. Since the game is a bit pricey, none in my gaming group have bought it yet, so I’ve only played the AI, which is pretty easy (no Hard AI has been implemented yet), but still very fun. In my last game I won 115-71-61-51, so it was a rout against the regular AI, but that was my biggest win to date.

Real player with 3321.3 hrs in game

I am a big fan of Wingspan. I’ve been playing the physical board game for a couple of years and the digital version for about a year. I currently have 158.4 hours into the digital version of it as of this writing.

There are plenty of videos out there showcasing what Wingspan is. I recommend you check them out. I will spare everyone the details here and focus more on my own pros/cons.

The big pros of the digital version for me:

-It eliminates all of the set up and tear down of the physical version. My wife only wants to play digitally now for this reason alone.

Real player with 214.1 hrs in game

Wingspan on Steam