Corinne Cross's Dead & Breakfast

Short but fun game

Decided to replay this game after five years. Has a lot of heart. Deals with grief and death in a positive manner.

Corinne Cross's Dead & Breakfast is a compact story-driven adventure that turns a haunted bed and breakfast into something unexpectedly cozy, funny, and heartfelt. Instead of relying on scares, the game treats its supernatural setting as the foundation for a character-focused story about responsibility, uncertainty, and forming connections with a very unusual collection of residents. Developed and published by bad chalk and created by Cecilia Bishton, it has the unmistakable personality of a small indie project that prioritizes charm and storytelling over mechanical complexity. The story follows Corinne, a recent graduate who has no firm plans for what to do with her life. She agrees to watch over the home of a hospitalized acquaintance, believing she is signing up for an uneventful week of housesitting. That expectation disappears when she discovers that the building is actually a bed and breakfast occupied by ghosts. What follows is a seven-day adventure in which Corinne must deal with eccentric supernatural guests, learn more about their circumstances, and decide how she wants to respond to their various demands. Despite the ghostly premise, this is not a horror game. Its atmo…

Played this game on a while back on my Ex's old MAC and brought it on steam since it was so cheap and on sale to leave my review, i won't lie though this isn't my type of game and only played it once when my EX basically forced me to XD. I like that even though the main theme of the game is death it goes in a whole different direction the horror the more cozy and calm feeling is a nice change of pace for the dead and i like it for that reason. The game while extremely basic looking, like it looks like a cool math game if I'm being completely honest, does have some charm to it. The cutesy art style is plus and the beautiful portrait art does help mask the cheap feel of the game. Gameplay rise it's pretty basic, but for this type of game you really don't need anything but the basic's is suppose. I wish it wasn't so hand holdy though most if not all the conflict in the game is always sorted out for the player even when we fail and i think it could of been slight more challenging. The music is really well done a lot of great tracks here so bonus points there. [Gameplay 10/20. Graphics 12/20. Story 13/20. Music 15/20. Repalyabilty 5/10.] Final Grade 5.5/10 Final Score 6/10.

This game has a great story you really gotta play through the first two days and nights to really start enjoying your self the first day you can't do to much but as you go through each day and night the more things you can do the more entities you can interact with it really is such a great story.

This is...not what I was expecting. I anticipated a point-and-click adventure game, not a smaller, less colourful Stardew-like. I completed the first day and feel absolutely no desire to continue playing. Apparently it's short, but it doesn't feel like a game I want to stick with for more than a couple hours.