The steady stream of chilled-out farming games continues with Deiland: Pocket Planet Edition. Coming from Chibig, the studio behind last year’s charming (if a little rough) Summer in Mara, it’s a “reimagining” of a remake of their very first game—what started as a humble mobile game got remade for PlayStation …
If you want to throw some support behind an absolutely adorable bakery management sim, Lemon Cake is now available to wishlist on Steam. Lemon Cake is the latest creation from 3D artist and indie developer Éloïse Laroche, who’s focus is on “creating cute and cozy simulation games”. As the new …
If there’s one message in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, it’s this: slow the hell down. In a time when trying to rush through a game and see everything it has to offer as quickly as possible—not least of all because there’s a million other games queued up to play afterwards—here’s …
Chucklefish today released a handful of new screenshots for their upcoming magic school-themed life sim RPG Witchbrook, and it’s looking absolutely spellbinding (sorry, not sorry). Witchbook sticks with the colourful, pixel-art aesthetic seen in Chucklefish’s previous games, Starbound and Wargroove. When it was first announced, early screens showed a flat …
Games often struggle with the apparent rift between “casual” and “hardcore” audiences, and there are few genres where this challenge is as apparent as in city management sims. At one extreme, you’ve got the intense micromanagement of competing priorities and complex systems that are interconnected but also fundamentally at odds …
