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  • svgFeb 22, 2024Indie Highlight

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    Garage Sale by developer Bug Burrow welcomes you to the curious little hamlet of Lettuce Village! You play as Juniper, a young girl who’s shy but eager to make friends. You’ll do that by exploring the town during the town’s communal garage sale, picking up some fun trinkets along the way. 

    This peaceful town is in the middle of nowhere and surrounded by beautiful forest lands. Therefore, the townspeople of Garage Sale are a bit… weird. Get to know your neighbors by completing quests for them, and they will reward you with bits of history about the town. Lettuce Village might be tiny, but it harbors a very interesting past. If you play your cards right, you might just uncover its secrets. While you’re hunting down town secrets, search every nook and cranny for treasures and coins. Then, use that money to purchase fun knick knacks from the different garage sale tables you come across!

    What can you discover from your neighbor’s old trinkets?

    Release Date

    Garage Sale is coming to Steam in Q1 of this year, so hopefully very soon!

    Bug & Seek has you catching bugs for the museum like in ACNH, but has the same toned-down visual style this game has!

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  • svgFeb 15, 2024Indie Highlight

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    Zipp’s Cafe by developer The Wild Gentlemen is a cozy noir interactive fiction game full of love, betrayal, and coffee. You run a cozy cafe in between a city of animals and a district of insects. Talk to your customers to learn their stories. Cook some unusual dishes, prepare coffee, and even get involved in some shady dealings. Ultimately, you’re just trying to start a new life while searching for love and some revenge. 

    Similar to Coffee Talk and Coffee Talk 2, Zipp’s Cafe features a small cast of quirky characters that regularly visit your cafe. Play in full color or noir mode as you get to know 5 different characters and get caught up in their lives, whether you like it or not. They’re all connected somehow, and you might just find out how by listening to their stories. Brew and serve coffees and teas. Prepare unique meals to serve your customers. Even do the dishes, because someone has to. You might even find love, and lose it. Choose if you’ll move on or seek revenge! 

    Release Date

    Zipp’s Cafe is currently available now on Steam!

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  • svgDec 7, 2023Indie Highlight

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    Tales from Hazelwood Post is a cozy combination of puzzles and visual novel-like gaming. Your grandmother has fallen ill, so you return to the small town of Hazelwood to care for her. You unwittingly take on the job of being the new postmaster at the post office, and today is your first day! The post office is a small, dusty little operation that ought to be an easy task to run. However, the homes of Hazelwood don’t have addresses!

    You’ll experience a gentle day-to-day cycle where you open the post office each morning. Explore the ongoing story of Tales from Hazelwood Post as you get to know the residents of the town and nearby Lighthouse Point and Crow Hollows. Piece together clues and figure out who everyone is, then deliver the mail to the people you think it belongs to! Sometimes it’s the regular newspaper delivery, and sometimes it’s a special delivery. You might even come across lost love letters with no signatures, and it’s up to you to deliver every piece of mail properly.

    Your choices affect the story, so choose wisely and see what happens!

    Release Date

    Tales from Hazelwood Post is listed on Itchi.io and Steam. There is no release date available, though!

    This game reminds me a lot of Witchy Life Story, Coffee Talk, and Tavern Talk! But if you’re looking for more games that deal with mail, try Lake and Mail Time!

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  • svgFeb 8, 2019News

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    A Reddit user has shared the exciting response he got from Kan Gao, who is the designer, writer, composer, and director of popular game To The Moon.

    In the exchange between the user and the developer, the user enthusiastically asks whether there are any plans for the game to come to Nintendo Switch. Although rather cryptic, the developer appears to confirm a Switch release (or at least plans for one) in his reply.

    A screen capture of messages exchanged between the Reddit user and game developer Kan Gao

    However, it’s important to bear in mind that an official announcement confirming the port has not yet been made.

    About the game:

    To The Moon is a Story-Rich indie Adventure game with a plot somewhat reminiscent of popular sci-fi thriller series Black Mirror. Although the game was released for Windows back in 2011, it is still highly regarded. This is evident with ‘overwhelmingly Positive’ reviews on Steam (where the game is often praised for its emotive narrative), and in the fact that the game was also released for MacOS and Linux in 2014, and for Android and iOS in 2017. 

    Story: (Contains some spoilers)

    To The Moon features two doctors who are capable of giving patients on their deathbeds another chance to live, right from the beginning. The only catch is that the experience is only in the patient’s head, and that they will die once they reach the end of that life.

    The game focuses on an elderly patient named Johnny, and the two doctors’ attempt to fulfill his lifelong dream. As they uncover fragments of his past, it becomes as ‘clear as day’ that Johnny only ever had one real wish; To go ‘To The Moon’.

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