MouseLife - Parenthood

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Cute little game. A nice port from the mobile version that came out earlier, although I would have appreciated that every button could be used with the keyboard instead of clicking, but it generally isn't that much of a problem. I like the artstyle as well, but the cat could have had more details lol

"MouseLife - Parenthood" is an unusual game, a sort of life simulator adventure game where you control a 2D retro pixel mouse and you have to look after your child by doing various minigame type stuff by adventuring and stealthing around a 2D retro pixel home thing. Like the game Shelter but without any of the emotional attachment or production quality (such as it was). This features really godawful pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks much worse than most other games because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. Games like Terraria and Stardew Valley succeeded [i]despite[/i] the bad graphics, not because of them. The developer chose not to do the job of a real game developer and create meaningful bespoke levels, narrative based gameplay progression and so on. Instead, they decided that "Procgen IS content!" and lazily tried to use procgen algorithms to create infinite, samey, repetitive, soulless levels, because that's a lot less work. …

it's so buggy... Screen flickering, Character vanishing etc... good game but until the bug got fixed. I won't recommend it to be played

Very nice!

Very nice!