Cozy Holes

[h1]A cozy game that ends up feeling tedious with no reward, unfortunately. :/[/h1] [h2]Introduction[/h2] [i]Cozy Holes[/i] is a cozy, adventure, exploration game developed and published by FlashPoint Games, LLC. You take on the role of Digby, a magical shovel, and as you're digging layers of earth on the island you inhabit, you discover the island's secrets and perhaps, find a canine companion to help you along the way. As for the gameplay, you dig around the island, and you can use either mouse and keyboard or controller. There is a very brief tutorial that explains a bit about the gameplay mechanics although you'll have to figure a lot of them out on your own. With mouse and keyboard (which are what I used), the WASD functions are pretty self-explanatory for moving Digby around. The mouse can control camera angles, and left-clicking allows you to dig the earth while right-clicking allows you to activate the water hose, which you can find later in the game. Steam achievements are present, but they won't count towards a user's global total until the game is out of "Steam is learning about this game". [h2]Review[/h2] For those who have been following my curator and/or rea…

Edited after many more hours of playtime. Don't waste your money. It's impossible to get 100% due to bugs and the devs are not responsive at all if you reach out to them for assistance. The remaining golden shovels are hiding behind light blue ice walls that are unbreakable even with the shovel fully upgraded, making them unobtainable. I wouldn't have paid more than a few bucks for this had I known it was impossible to 100%. I've wasted many hours looking for ways through or around walls that simply do not exist. Like others I have tried asking the devs for help and was ignored. There are better cozy digging games out there where the devs don't ignore the players. At the time of writing this, the game is no longer in early access.

What should be a relaxing way to waste some time is instead a mess of getting stuck on terrain and clipping through the map. Wasted potential.

I generally like digging games as it's fun to explore what's hidden underground, so I genuinely tried to enjoy this game, but there were just too many issues that made that difficult. A lot of these issues were reported throughout the Early Access period from what I can see, but the game full released without them being fixed. The smallest issue I had was the vague explanations on how to unlock things. One object said I needed more "magical power" for example. What magical power? What quantity of it? How do I know how much I already have? There were no UI indicators that I could find that showed any of that information. Still, I don't mind games that have you explore around to figure out how to unlock things, but I think there still needs to be some sort of indicator either UI-based or tooltip-based at spawn that tells you how much you have/how much you need. Another small-ish issue is the settings menu is a bit too unique. I see what they were going for and appreciate the creativity, but from a user experience standpoint it's generally better to stick with a list of settings so players can find what they need to adjust more quickly. The larger issues I had deals with character m…

Hours of fun, lost in your own world digging galore.....upgrading your spade as you go along, finding lots of buildings.....what's not to like....brilliant graphics, bright colours and strangely the music goes well with everything too....big thumbs up to the devs 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼💐💐💐💐😁😁😁😁😁

This is game absolutely horrible. Everything is glitchy and just god awful do not waste your money.