Critter Café

I really wanted to like this game. I played it for 13 hours and got 79% of the achievements. I am probably another few hours away from finishing it, but I don't really feel motivated to fire this back up for the ribbon. I hope that absence will make the heart grow fonder and a future Me will be willing to get it to the finish line, but I doubt what I say here will make her want to install critter cafe again. What worked: + Some complete ideas: the cafe is a place with decorations and recipes, customers, and mini games, the outside maps are little places and towns, the portals open, you do the little challenge maps, find the critter, ta-da, simple + cute aesthetic, options: different skins for creatures and decorations + bingeable (to a point, in my case) Improvements: - For a game that wants you to perform timing and jumping challenges it is remarkably poor at keeping track of your location. - The simplicity becomes repetition becomes tedium - Timing and jumping became a huge part of the puzzles by the end (23 critters caught) and I found them frustrating. Why is this cozy cafe game about these puzzle maps anyhow? - Running the cafe is not fun. I mostly put on parties. - There …

So I did see someone say this was a glorified mobile game, and in some extent I do agree. The small mini-games and barely any exploration. For a game that is quite cheap you can't expect much, but I really enjoyed playing this. I have not currently completed the game but I feel like after a while it does feel very repetitive. This games strong point is it's cute creature designs and it's character customisation. I do like the little puzzles you have to do when you find a new creature, they are short and fun and I wish there was more of them. This game has an amazing base idea, but I think it needs expanding on to become perfect. For example, the map in game needs to be more clear to show where the player is better and it would be handy to have an on screen map instead of keep pressing tab to make sure you're going the right way. The game feels very polished in terms of graphics and I really like how the creature's all have individual unique designs. I think this game is heavily targeted towards children which is probably why it's so easy to play but I think that's nice because it is heavily child friendly and would be perfect to play with you and your kids. Now in terms of m…

This game is definitely cute, but I was able to 100% complete it within 13 hours. There isn't much to the gameplay, just super simple mini games and puzzles. One thing I did like was the decorating, but it was super annoying that it interfered with the bookings. The bookings in general were super buggy and I almost never got them perfect because of the furniture. The critter features were also hard to judge for those. Since their appearance changes with their variants it can be hard to pick the right critters for a booking. Overall it was cute, but not worth full price for sure. I wish there was a 'meh' recommendation as I wouldn't say I do recommend it, unless you're looking for a mindless repetitive game (which is nice sometimes)

Warm drinks, gentle smiles Lost critters find homes through care Friendship fills each cup

I bought this game on sale and while I wish I could say I enjoyed it, it's extremely boring. Also, the music is very repetitive which bothered me enough to turn it off. Additionally the sound effects aren't great. I think I would have enjoyed this game more as a kid, but as an adult it's both wildly under stimulating and over stimulating in the wrong ways.

not worth it