Chromascape (2026)

Very cute game

[quote]If you enjoy reading this review, please consider following [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/VeesCozyCorner]Vee's Cozy Corner[/url] for more.[/quote] You wake up one day and the world around you looks a little dull, a little less joyous. It can’t be, but you could swear that the world is being drained of its color, so slowly that you haven’t noticed until now. How is this happening and more importantly what can you do about it? Chromascape is a new cozy adventure game by the Japanese studio Zoo Corporation. You can play it on the PC via Steam or on the Nintendo Switch. Palette Planet used to be a chromatic utopia where happiness and harmony abounded. A strange phenomena has been observed lately. It has been dubbed the “Color Loss”. The planet is slowly being drained of color. Worse after having lost the last of their color, people just vanish without a trace. Nobody knows where they are disappearing to or why it’s happening. The world is starting to become deeply concerned. You play as Luna, a young hedgehog and a resident of Chroma Town. She wakes up one day to discover that she has a superpower. She can take color from something or someone and transfer it somewher…

A cute story-focused adventure game. There are some puzzles, rather easy, but you mostly explore and talk to others for the first half, the second one has more gameplay. Visuals are nice, and so is music, although for a game as calm and slow as Chromascape, I'd prefer something more lively. But my biggest problem is the text. Characters keep repeating the same things and explaining everything very thoroughly over and over again. I felt like half of the text was simply unnecessary. Combined with the game's slow pace, calm atmosphere and peaceful music, often I was so bored during dialogues, that I'd minimise the game to do something else. Hence, my play time. Normally, you should be able to complete the game in about 8 hours. Somehow dialogues and characters felt devoid of emotion most of the time, as if it was a machine translation. The problem is, I played the Japanese original. That said, it's a very well-made game with some interesting ideas, so I wouldn't say it's not worth the price, especially if you like those "cozy, wholesome, relaxing games" more than I do. By the way: there are some puzzles where you need to be moderately fast (it's still not an action game). It's much…