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In Wytchwood, you play as an aging witch and explore a magical countryside. Create your own enchantments, trick wicked characters, and solve puzzles in this crafting adventure game. The unique art style and fairy tale-inspired storybook world will capture your imagination.
What we like:
Wonderful art style and entertaining dialogue
Fun adventure crafting game with engaging questlines
Unique and unexpected gameplay as an elderly witch
Relaxing gameplay with charming design
Multiple maps with engaging challenges
What could be improved:
Repetitive and tedious fetch quests
Grinding materials becomes very frustrating and obfuscates the story
Limited combat and focus on crafting
Backtracking and running between areas can be tedious
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Immerse yourself in the magical world of Disney Dreamlight Valley. Restore the memories of beloved Disney and Pixar characters, and rebuild a vibrant neighborhood in your unique style. Experience thrilling adventures, solve captivating puzzles, and enjoy the endless customization options. With new content continuously added, there's always a fresh adventure waiting for you!
What we like:
Immersive magical world with beloved Disney characters
Nonlinear gameplay with a variety of quests
Extensive customization options for character and town
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Cozy Grove offers a charming, narrative-driven island-style setting game where you play as a Spirit Scout who helps ghosts trapped on an island. With a range of activities such as fishing, crafting, and collecting resources, this game has an unexpected depth with ghost bear characters having their narratives ranging from comedic to bittersweet and impactful.
Forager is a 2D open-world game inspired by many other farming, crafting and exploration games. You play as a little white unnamed humanoid thing and start on a single small island filled with rocks, trees, flowers and other resources. You use the starting tool to chop down trees or mine rocks to start crafting objects. As you progress, you earn experience points to unlock new skills and craft new tools as well as purchase more land to expand your area of exploration. There are also puzzles to solve that award special treasure chests or items.
What we like:
Fun gameplay
Earn experience points
Craft new tools
Expand land area
Solve puzzles for rewards
Extra content unlocked from feats in game
What could be improved:
No real story needed
Stamina must be monitored closely
Price tag for the game may seem high compared to content offered
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Embark on a cosmic journey in Astroneer, where you can shape worlds to your heart's content. Dig, build, and survive in a sandbox universe, creating bases and vehicles with friends. Uncover mysteries and enjoy a crafting odyssey across vibrant planets—your space adventure awaits!
Terraria is an addictive, systems-heavy, 2D sandbox-survival game that offers exploration, crafting, and combat, where you must defeat enemies and gather resources to build increasingly powerful weapons, armor and housing for NPCs. With pixelated visuals, great controls, and sound, Terraria provides hours of entertainment and is a must-have for Minecraft fans looking for something different in this genre.
What we like:
Addictive gameplay
Pixelated 2D sprites that are beautifully designed
Complex systems-heavy gameplay
The game has a purpose to serve with the housing of NPCs
Great and responsive controls
What could be improved:
The game has too many shortcuts and menus, which may overwhelm new players
Not a lot of screen space on small touch-screen devices
My Time at Portia is an immersive post-apocalyptic game, where you build your own life as a builder. You will be crafting items out of raw resources, taking commissions from the Commerce Guild, growing plants, tending to livestock and even exploring ruins for rare materials. You can also fight enemies and loot for materials or woo a special someone for marriage.
What we like:
Plenty of activities to do
Immersive post-apocalyptic game setting
Plenty of tasks to keep you busy with rewards for progress made
Friendly townsfolk with plenty of interactions available
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DYSMANTLE is a post-apocalyptic open-world game where you explore a world inhabited by nasty and vile creatures. Craft permanent weapons, tools, outfits, and trinkets, farm plants, cook delicious recipes, and solve puzzles to gain upgrades. With over 99% of everything breakable for materials, the possibilities are endless. Enjoy the bittersweet apocalypse and thrive in a dangerous world.
In 'Shop Titans', you get to design your dream shop, enchant items, and assemble a party of heroes to quest for loot in a bustling adventurer city. Whether you enjoy buying and selling or battling monsters, this massive multiplayer world has got you covered. With unlockable recipes and upgrades, this game offers hours of fun gameplay.
What we like:
Fun game play loop of buying, selling and upgrading things
Colorful and cute graphics
Constantly unlocking new recipes and upgrades is great
Embark on an epic adventure in Portal Knights, where you craft, battle, and build your way through a fantastical world of floating islands. Forge your path, conquer the Hollow King, and restore light to a land shrouded in darkness. Dive in alone or team up with friends to become the ultimate hero in a land of endless possibilities!