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Sep 9, 2019
So many packs, so little time! EA has done it again. They’ve made a beautiful looking game pass for the Sims 4 that we really want. The most recent addition to the roster was Island Living, back in June. On September 10th PC and Mac players will be getting another new pack that is less tropical and more…magical. The Realm of Magic game pack will also be available on consoles starting October 15th! (PS4 and Xbox One)
Once the update is applied, you’ll be able to find a portal in the woods in Glimmerbrook that will lead you to a new world. And there you will be able to learn magic! You can even get yourself a cauldron and start brewing potions. Including love potions! If you feel like it, you can test your new magical skills against fellow spellcasters, too. Magical duels, here we come!
If you don’t feel very magical in your t-shirt and jeans, there are no worries there. The Realm of Magic pack will include lots of new clothing to suit your new abilities. Enchanting dresses, mystical robes, amulets…the works. We’ll be keeping an eye out to see if they’ll also have new furniture and decorating items to make our mini-mansion mystical. Meanwhile, you can view the full video here:
You can view the Realm of Magic game pack on the official site. You can also see all of our coverage of Sims 4 right here.
For more magic fun, make sure to check out Witchbrook by Chucklefish, the Stardew Valley of Magic!
- Sep 7, 2019
With the Kickstarter campaign of Potion Paws going live last Thursday, September 5th, 2019, the developers at Bitten Toast Games decided to throw an online community event within the multiplayer mode of Garden Paws. You may remember our review of the most adorable simulation RPG here and how we haven’t yet had the chance to try out the online feature of the game. Since it has been one of our favorites this year, we backed its spookier potion-making counterpart Potion Paws and took part in the giveaways and party! Besides, if you own both games on Steam, you’ll get crossover items in Creative Mode.
Online Multiplayer and Creative Mode
When you play online in Garden Paws, you have the choice to create a server room and allow up to 4 players into your world. They can help you farm, fight monsters in the dungeon, and pretty much anything else you can do in single-player campaign. This is also a particularly useful way to share rare items. Creative Mode is basically a sandbox mode where you already have access to every single item the game has to offer with some added bonuses which include: a jetpack and magic carpet to fly around, the lawnmower from the Summer games festival, confetti canon, and more! If you’re looking for players to join you can always check out the awesome community of Garden Paws on the official Discord channel here.
Garden Paws Online Community Event
The developers Dan and Kristina are frequently live-streaming on Twitch showcasing gameplay, accepting requests from followers while they continue to add new items and features to the game, and occasionally put on a “creative challenge” out to the community. Meaning, they tell you the theme and you can use the tools and items at your disposal to build and paint anything you can imagine! As mentioned above, to celebrate the Kickstarter launch of Potion Paws, Kristina opened a Dev Server allowing up to 32 people to join and create something carnival themed. You can catch the full 8-hour stream on Twitch here, or see below for our particular experience!
Photo Gallery of Online Party
Since the theme was “carnival”, fellow tater Joelle (that’s me!) decided to join the fun and created her own Balloon Shop! In Garden Paws you can either have your character hold balloons in their hands while running around, or place them anywhere for decoration. As seen in the screenshots below, you can build foundations, fences, paths and place furniture, and then you can paint them with solid colors or patterns. There are even letters of the alphabet to use! I gave anyone who walked up to my booth a balloon because I was so proud of my contribution to this event.
Next up we took a look at Kristina’s (the dev) half-built Ferris-wheel using wood pieces and cabana benches. We all took the available seating for a wonderful photo-op overlooking the sea and islands.
Here we have a wonderfully creative way to build a merry-go-round using in-game farm animals and pets! The details here must have taken quite a long time! Everyone hopped on for a ride! I chose the glittering rare unicorn because I could; I got there first.
There were 3 major attractions that actually turned into little mini-games for all to try out. Someone took garden hedges and created quite the challenging maze, another created a huge 3-story glass house maze, and finally at the tallest point on the island you could glide through some hoops and bounce off of trampolines at the bottom. It took me a while to complete the glass house maze but I had some excellent cheerleaders by my side!
During Creative Mode, you still go through the day/night cycle so that all of your hard work saves at the end of the day. Every time we start the day, we end up together in a specific location which lead to shenanigans. This area of the gallery contains immature screenshots because, well, there exists a fart mechanic. “Look Ma! I’m farting on Twitch TV!”
We redeemed ourselves afterward by celebrating with many fireworks and confetti! This is what happens when you can place as many fireworks as you want before lighting them and being able to equip a confetti canon that you can fire off to your hearts content!
Here are a few other buildings created by the community, including a floating deck perfect for relaxing and enjoying the view. No worries about falling, we’re all wearing jetpacks. We’d also really like to know who built that boat from scratch and how!
After a long day of partying, we all relaxed inside a forest sanctuary built by placing quite a few trees to form walls. I have my pet deer with me and I’m roasting some marshmallows by the fire.
I had a really fun experience with the online multiplayer of Garden Paws and would like to thank everyone that joined this party! Hopefully this brings even more players to the game and to this amazing community full of really great people. If you have any extra screenshots of this event, please feel free to share them with us on social media or comment/tag if you see your character. If you’re just starting out, you can check out some of our Garden Paws tips for beginners here.
- Aug 29, 2019
Garden Paws has been one of our favorite simulation games played this year as you can see from our review here. You can already purchase this adorable game on Steam here or wait for the Nintendo Switch release this December. Garden Paws continues to receive huge monthly updates by developer Bitten Toast Games such as: taming many animals, making new furniture sets, farming expansions, etc. Moreover, there are currently 500 quests which deliver hours upon hours of gameplay alone. Even one particular Potato Family member has reached over 100 hours…
After enjoying everything that the game has to offer so far and seeing how there are many of you that have or will play this game, we’ve decided to make a list of things we wish we knew before starting. As most of you already know, most farming games require you to stockpile certain crops or foraged items in order to advance the game or to complete quests. Garden Paws is less stressful in those regards as you cannot miss out on anything big and out-of-season items are purchasable. However, there are a few rare drops of items you might not want to sell and things that we hope will make your life easier with our guide below. It is also as spoiler-free as we could manage.
Garden Paws List of To-Dos Early Game
- There are extra little islands all around Florens that are hard to reach, even with your glider. Make bridges by using ramps and wooden foundations to get to them. You can actually place anything anywhere by using the Item Shifter.
- On some of those islands there are beehives. Harvest the honey often for your chance to get the rare “honeycomb” drop as you’ll need at least 5 if you want your own apiary.
- While you’re there, every island has their own unique rare flowers. You’ll specifically want to grab every color of dandelion you see as those are the only flowers you can paint with. A villager will also ask you for some dye.
- Poop is something you’ll need to save up a lot of for questing and crafting at the beginning. There are beetles you can tame in a certain cavern that will gather all of your poop for you! Once you reach 100 poop, you unlock the Legendary Feed which you need to tame Legendary animals.
- Look to the skies near Mooney’s every day to see if there’s a rainbow. That means the unicorn is out there somewhere on one of the islands for that in-game day. Make sure to bring your Legendary Feed and a horse stable in your inventory. You’ll want to start doing this early on as the chances of it happening are as low as 1%.
- Mine for geodes often in all caverns because silver is a rare drop and you will need a lot of it for important quests and crafting.
- Make yourself a Stone Furnace so you can turn those silver ores into bars and sand into glass. Just make sure you also put coal in there to get the fires burning.
- The top two fastest ways to make money is by creating bouquets at the Flower Station and cooking dishes (anything with strawberries) with your Cooking Station and Oven. You need to unlock these by doing quests but you can start saving flowers in packs of 5 and plant fiber now. There are also insects inside of plant fibers that you need to turn into bait to go fishing.
- As for hording anything else, you don’t really need large quantities of other items except for your farm animals’ daily drops. Milk, eggs, and wheat requests will come up often to expand certain shops or buildings. Wool is needed to tame ferrets and Delicate Fur is needed to make some furniture. Ferrets will pick up all of your farm animals’ drops such as: wool, furs, feathers, and eggs. Meaning, they are quite the life-saver! You’ll need a specific habitat from the Blueprint Vendor before you can tame them or other forest animals first.
- Flowers, animal by-products, paintings, gems, ores, etc can be donated at the Museum. Once you have completed an entire display case, you actually get an amazing reward. Sometimes even a reward you can’t get by any other means. A couple of them even progress some quests so make sure to save one of each item needed.
To Learn More…
Extra fun tip: press F11 on your keyboard to freeze time to take lovely screenshots or to view anything from above or at a distance. We’ll continue to keep you posted as more updates become available! The developers are working hard on creating an entire dungeon with enemies, bosses, and loot releasing this month!
Thanks to everyone on their Discord channel that have given us the inspiration to write this article. They are quite the fun community where we discuss and answer questions about Garden Paws. Feel free to also drop us a comment below if there’s anything you’d like to ask!
- Aug 15, 2019
If you haven’t yet heard of Garden Paws, it’s a farming simulation RPG created by Canadian indie developers Bitten Toast Games. We here at myPotatoGames have been playing the game on Steam but you’ll also be able to play the content-complete version on the Nintendo Switch December 2019. This game has been one of our favorites this year if you want to check out our previous review.
Spring 15 Easter Egg Hunt
We’ve given you a list of tips for beginners, and now we’d like to share with you all of the Easter Egg locations in the town of Florens, including screenshots. Spring will be the first season you start with and every single year on Spring 15, Ester comes to town with the most amazing of prizes! If you’ve played through several years, like us, and get excited every time Spring comes along but you can’t quite find all of the eggs, well this is the guide for you! However, if you haven’t unlocked every new villager in Florens so far, know that there may be spoilers ahead.
If you want to try and find them on your own, you have until the end of Spring to do so but know that if you find all 20 eggs before, Ester will give you a bonus 10 Tickets! You’ll also want to do this all in a day or two as there is no indicator of which egg you found and haven’t yet found. There is an in-game achievement tracker but it only displays the amount you’ve found. Keep all of the eggs in your inventory (which you’ll probably need to expand at least once) and open all of your eggs at the same time.
Some eggs are rarer than others and will contain better randomized prizes as well as some Tickets. These prizes alone are worth the effort but on top of that, once you’ve collected enough Tickets, you can trade for select Easter-related prizes. You’ll probably need to save up and try again next year for the bigger prizes. Now onto the hidden Easter Egg locations!
All 20 Easter Egg Locations
- At the town gate, on the other side of Charlie, inside a wood bush.
- Climb inside the walled part of the town’s gate, go past the treasure chest to the other open edge.
- Hidden inside one of Malu’s cabbages behind their stall. Malu is the one that sells cloth.
- Go to Boris, the one that sells backpacks and storage upgrades, and find the egg directly behind their stall.
- Next to some crates directly behind Abby’s stall. Abby is the one that sells crops.
- Inside a Plant Fiber near Ester. Go past Ester and just beyond the first tree near the hill at the bottom where there are stones.
- Inside of the well in the middle of the town square.
- Inside a Plant Fiber just behind Miller’s wheat farm. You may not have unlocked Miller yet so go near the pond at the second cave in the town.
- Inside the town’s first mining cave, go to the left next to a torch you can light. Nestled in between a giant pointed stone and two other little ones (inside the inner edge of the pond) is where you’ll find the egg.
- Inside the exact same cave, jump on either the minecart or the lower stones to get to the very top right-hand corner above a tunnel entrance that you cannot enter.
- Inside the pond on the opposite side of the Plant Fiber cave entrance in town. You may not yet have a dock there yet but you can see the egg submerged underwater inside some seaweed.
- In the same pond area in town, jump on top of the stones to the Plant Fiber cave entrance. The egg is a bit hidden by the grass.
- Go directly behind the Mayor’s house (next to Beltran) which is on a bit of a hill. The image below may look a little different if you haven’t upgraded their home to the Town Hall. Either way, it will be in the middle near the sign on the wall,
- There’s an unused red-roofed home right across from Beltran, the town’s Blacksmith, Go to the back where there’s a door and find the egg under the steps next to a large tree,
- If you don’t yet have the Wanderer and his house/Museum, you’ll want to climb one of the tallest hills in town close to Mr. Jones. It’s inside one of the Plant Fiber bushes just below the highest point on the side facing Mr. Mooney.
- Inside the closest water bucket behind Mr. Jones and in his chicken coop. You can jump over the fence where it’s lowest or stand on something to glide over.
- Right next to Mr. Jones’ house in the front there are two buckets and a barrel. The smallest bucket has the egg inside.
- Inside Mr. Mooney’s barn area there are three stacks of hay next to the entrance. You’ll find the egg wedged in between there.
- Across from Mr. Mooney on the beach facing some islands, you’ll find an egg under a bench.
- Go all the way back around to Frank’s little balcony at the back of his house. You’ll need to climb the hill next to them to either glide or do very well-timed jump to be able to reach this egg.
Trading Tickets for Easter Prizes
Now you’ve found all of the Easter Eggs in Garden Paws! The prizes range in Ticket prices (10, 25, 75, etc) for the following items: several skins for your character, different colored bunnies (i.e. purple) for your habitats, balloons you can hold or use as decoration, decorated egg-shaped storage items, an egg tree, a bird bath, a large egg centerpiece, several aprons and crowns/hats, and a large blue flower fountain.
We hope this guide was helpful to you and if you have any questions, please feel free to leave us a comment! Next time we’ll be making a post about the newly added Summer Festival which includes several mini-games and summer prizes! Save up your coins because you’re going to need them!
- Aug 5, 2019
A little while ago we wrote about ways to make your gaming life more comfortable and convenient. Today we’re going to talk a little about making it look better. Skins (often called decals) are available for just about any modern console and can drastically change the appearance of those ubiquitous black plastic boxes. You can customize your set-up in almost any way you can imagine, whether you have a PS4, Xbox One or a Nintendo Switch. The options are so ample, it can be hard to choose.
And though it is smaller to suit its hybrid nature, the Nintendo Switch also has many skins to customize it to your taste. One of the sprouts in this potato patch has the Sheikah Slate decals on their own Switch right now. They can make your console look so different that you’ll clear a more prominent space for it. No more hiding them away…you’ll want to feature it, to better admire its appearance.
And since the Switch is meant to be portable, there is another opportunity to customize it beyond console decals. Carrying cases! Did you know you can get ones that look like Mario or Luigi’s overalls? And there are plenty of cases to match almost any other game-themed skin you choose, too.
Keep in mind that if you have a comfort grip or other custom features on your Switch, you’ll need to choose a case that fits the Switch with the grip on. That, or the grip will have to be removed and carried separately. Some over-eager little potatoes forgot about that fact when buying their own carrying case. And we still haven’t figured out how to make the cords pretty. What does your gaming set-up look like? Have you done any customization? Did you go to any trouble to keep it tidy or organized?
- Aug 3, 2019
We played the demo and have the scoop on all the magic and wonder that is Hive Quest!
Hive Quest is a puzzle and adventure game developed solely by Rod Tyson (Golden Heart Games). It’s an enchanting game filled with faeries, woodland creatures, and a bug friend named Yuna. Yuna is there to help you make a new home and to tell you how to protect your hive. You can check out our previous article about the game here for the basics. Now there’s an updated demo on Indie DB that we have decided to take a shot at. See below to learn about our experience and view our gameplay video.
Finding a New Hive
You are first greeted by Yuna as he explains that the Power (a mysterious being) has sent him to guide us. Meanwhile, a man in a protective bug outfit comes toward the Hive and sprays a poisonous chemical completely destroying it. Take control of the Queen and fly away with the few survivors to a safer area while following Yuna. Now it is up to you to rebuild and manage your resources for your new Hive. All while surviving the Wild Wood and discovering the secrets of Old Orchard.
Looking for food around the new Hive Maintaining Your Resources
You have to keep track of the health meter of the Queen so that she doesn’t starve along with your Hive. You can interact with things within a circle surrounding your Hive but to truly explore the lush environment you will need to take control of your little worker bugs’ minds using Hive Mind. You’ll need to find food, such as maggots from rotten fruit, and Gloop. Gloop is gelatinous blue stuff that comes from fungi or plants that you can use as building materials.
Resources and Queen’s health 
Fungi that give Gloop
Creating New Buildings
Receive your first pulp seed from a visitor and create a workshop that will make more pulp seeds. Theses seeds will be used as blueprints for creating more buildings around your Hive. The next building will be a nursery to grow your tribe in numbers by raising baby drones. At first I thought the hanging bugs were the babies but they might just be mobiles. I have a feeling that that’s why I kept getting a message to “Lay Builder Egg”. As of now, you have to wait a certain amount of time, while giving Gloop, for these buildings to be ready. This process felt a little long but perhaps when there are more things to do around Hive it won’t feel as time-consuming.
The workshop 
The nursery
Meeting Magical Creatures
This demo has one major task; save a faerie trapped in a bottle by a Witch. Once you have done that, she will reward you with two spells you can use right away. One gives your Hive some more food, the other animates a pile of sticks into your first servant; the Stick Knight. They are made to defend your Hive from enemies.
My first Stick Knight Afterward, you meet Pog and Bella from the Snail Rider Clan who have set up a trader camp for you. They also gift you with a magical Sprite Charm which lets you create magical pets. You find your first dormant nature spirit in a tree which comes alive. Then, it begins to build itself a home within your tribe. You can follow it around and see what it is thinking with an image, which is quite adorable. My woodland sprite dug a hole in the dirt and recovered some berries. I’m assuming this pet will be quite the helpful little forager.
Pog and Bella’s camp 
My woodland sprite and his home
Controls, Graphics, Sound
I played with a mouse to move my camera around and got a little frustrated as it wouldn’t always line up with my pointer. Therefore, it could be difficult to grab objects or interact with them. Moving with WASD was simple enough while controlling a drone. However, I wish that when I let go of the forward button that my bug would come to a complete and immediate stop.
In spite of that, flying around with a drone felt quite peaceful when reaching heights. You can see all of the beautiful scenery from above and really get the feeling that you are in a forest. It was also amusing to hear the buzzing of your wings, the wind rustling the leaves of trees, and birds singing in the distance. This was definitely quite serene and captivating!
Flying around with one of my drones The cycle of night and day is fine but I found the nighttime to be a little too dark. I had trouble seeing things in the background and where I was going. The only things I can see from afar is a tiny and the slight glow from Gloop. It’s understandable as there are no other sources of light but just a little more lighting would go a long way to enhancing my experience. The shining lights for your “next location pointer” could also be a little brighter as they can become obscured from all of the tall grass in the game. Aside from that, I really appreciated the golden text to the right of my screen which occasionally displayed helpful tips.
More Information
We at myPotatoGames are excited to play more of this whimsical game so stay tuned with us for later updates with further development! You can also follow the developer on their official website here and wishlist their game on Steam here. See below for 35 minutes of gameplay for Hive Quest’s demo with the most recent update. Enjoyed watching us play a demo? Check out our review of Melbits World Pocket here. That demo is also free and available for mobile now!
Hive Quest Is Now On Kickstarter
Don’t miss your chance to help support this amazing game become all that it can be! You can do so now by supporting Hive Quest on Kickstarter! You can also go to our article here for more about the campaign.
- Jul 14, 2019
Bee Simulator takes the player to the heart of New York, Central Park. You will jump into the role of an adorable and curious little bee and become part of the bee hive family.
There is no life without bees so it makes sense that Bee Simulator is a video game designed to be played and enjoyed by the entire family. It has easy to learn controls so that all members of the Family can jump right in, young or old, you are guaranteed to have fun!
When you are buzzing around Central Park to satisfy your curiosity for exploration, you will see the world from a bees eyes. Everything is huge and people appear to be gigantic. You can choose to interact with food, humans, plants and animals.
While the game is already promising a lot of fun and content to be enjoyed in the sandbox mode, there will be other modes designed to educate and further capture the life of a bee in the engaging story mode. Teaching bee awareness and the importance of our buzzing friends is extremely important and educating people about it through video games is something we are truly excited about.
Pre-orders for Bee Simulator are already open and can be placed through Amazon for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, or wishlist it on Steam. The game is also confirmed to receive a physical release on all consoles including Nintendo Switch. A specific release date has not been revealed yet, but the game is expected to be available before the end of this year. Check out some more buzz, including the gameplay trailer alongside some more details about game below.
If you are looking for more nature games, don’t miss out on one of our favorites and play the free demo of Hive Quest today!
- A unique chance to see the macro scale world from the micro perspective of a honeybee;
- A realistic representation of a place inspired by Central Park;
- Three diverse modes enriched with educational elements;
- A possibility to interact with the surroundings: people, animals, plants, and other insects;
- Lack of violence – it’s a perfect choice for parents seeking a game to safely play with their children;
- Relaxing music composed by Mikołaj Stroiński, who was responsible for the soundtrack of such games as The Witcher 3 and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter.
- Jul 6, 2019
Indie farming games like Stardew Valley, Littlewood and others have captured the hearts of players in no time. These charming and wholesome games are developed by often just one single person who pour their heart and soul into the project, Peaceful Days, though early in development, we already love this carefully crafted world – and we can’t wait to jump in!
Peaceful days is an upcoming indie farming RPG game that aims to please fans of the cutsie, yet so engaging simulation game genre. In Peaceful Days you will meet new characters as you stroll through this beautifully crafted town, make new friends or catch up with lifelong buddies – the choice is always yours.
Nhat Nguyen, the sole developer of the game, has recently posted a lot of updates on her twitter, as she makes more progress on the interior of certain places you can visit in the game. Shops and homes have all recently gotten some love. Take a look at these adorable environments yourself.
Peaceful Days is currently in development with no official release date yet. Very few details have been revealed as of yet, but we are eager to learn more about this adorable indie title!
If you are a longtime myPotatoGames follower you may know that we have a great appreciation for indie developers who spend a huge amount of time in making these wonderful games. The care and love that goes into games like Stardew Valley, Minekos Night Market and even the new addition – Peaceful Days is what makes these games stand out from the crowd. Make sure to send Nhat some love on Twitter.
For more indie farming games, check out Littlewood which is now in early access and Story of Seasons Reunion of Town coming to Nintendo Switch this year!
