All posts tagged in Simulation Game
Jun 5, 2019
If you haven’t already heard of Kynseed, it’s a “quirky sandbox RPG adventure life sim from veterans of the Fable series”. You can catch up with our previous post of Kynseed here, before diving into all of the most recent updates. Raise a family, farm the land, run shops, and explore the world as its inhabitants age around you by heading over to Steam now!
Now that the dust has settled from the Steam Early Access release back in 2018, the developers, PixelCountStudios, have begun taking everyone’s feedback and adding it their own plans. Thus, the Kynseed Roadmap was made. Below we have written up this map for you which covers both the short-term view of updates to come as well as a long-term view of the entire game. As you can see, some updates have already been implemented and completed which adds many more features and content to Kynseed!
Completed Updates
First Steps
- Goods Store Selling Tables
- Sell items for a profit
- Stores have special “wanted” items
- Region and Season can affect pricing
- Player Hair Custimization
- Initial NPC Chat System
- NPC Friendship Levels
- NPC Favour Requests
- Fae Wanderers
- Other Additions
- Support for multiple saves
- Save files display character & current season
- Player created tasks system
- Basic NPC ownership permissions
Down to Business
- Blacksmith Ownership
- Purchase the blacksmith shop by interacting with its ledger
- Open & close shop
- Create, sell, & recycle Blacksmith goods
- Store crafted items in a shop cabinet
- Fulfill customer orders
- Greet customers at the counter before they get tired of waiting
- Choose to either accept or refuse their order
- If busy blacksmithing in the other room, you can tell customers to hang on to get a bit of extra time before they get impatient
- Greet customers at the counter before they get tired of waiting
- Hire staff to run the counter
- Locals can be hired to run the counter for you
- Use the ledger to see available locals, hire them, set wages, or fire them
- Some staff will have better traits than others
- More in-depth staff management to come just a few updates from now
- Locals can be hired to run the counter for you
- New Fairweather Items
- Trough (to assist with pig-related chores)
- Rootways (a magical way to get around)
- Home Sweet Home (keeps your farm close)
- Other Additions
- Updated art for growables
- NPC chat/favour improvements
- Snow in Winter
- New books & item collectibles
- Dandelions can now be picked up for later uses
Gnome Pun Intended
- New Region: Tir Na Nog
- New items and collectibles
- Mines containing rare ore
- New Minigame: Squeal Or No Squeal
- Hosted by Gnome Edmunds
- Strategically pop pig balloons and try to strike a deal
- A number of prizes up for grabs
- Pixie Lottery’s Goods Store
- Sells local Tir Na Nog goods
- Also sells H. Pepper’s Naming Nut, a new item for renaming pets
- New Hair Dye Items & Colours
- Hair dyes are now an in-game item
- This allows for changing hair colour at any time
- Can be purchased at various stores across the land
- Plus, a few new colours added!
- Hair dyes are now an in-game item
- Pugs! Because Pugs.
- Other Additions
- Return to Mr. Fairweather
- Yearly Fairweather Tax
- Lightning System Improvements
- Pets can now be renamed when purchasing them
- Added ‘the naming nut’, which allows for renaming already owned pets
- Ambiance added for mines
Keyboard Cartography
- New farm Mailbox Added
- Receive a letter from us for each major update
- (may break fourth wall)
- Added Keyboard Remapping (via Options Menu)
- Initial 3 items on new Cooking Skill Tree
- Other Bits
- Dev tools work (cutscenes, items, & navigation)
- New dev tool: Skill Tree Editor
- Spring Cleaning of unused textures & assets
Future Updates
A Song of Price and Hire
- Goods Store Ownership
- Sell various goods & animals
- Barter with customers
- Display Items
- Feed & care for animals
- Managing Hired Staff
- NPCs have different job-related skills
- Help keep employees happy
- Employee skill will impact reputation
- Gain Shop Reputation
Growing Up & Going Out
- New Region: Loverwood
- Player Aging to the Adult Phase
- Romantic Relationships
- Courting
- Marriage
- Moving in Together
Finally, it is important to note that this Roadmap is flexible so as to anticipate things that the developers can’t possibly predict. Each new batch of updates can take an estimated time of 3-4 weeks each and that is subject to change. The developers mention that catching up on bugs, working on behind the scenes engine systems, or addressing critical pieces of recent community feedback will be their priority.
- Goods Store Selling Tables
- Jun 4, 2019
Indie games are more often than not the hidden gems of gaming and Lil Tribals makes no exception. This indie title is all about making friends, building a community and creating your own village.
Lil Tribals is created by a tiny indie studio which consists of three passionate developers, Jesse Toyota, Jenny Luu and Shirley Tong. The indie title follows Bumi and Jamu who were left by themselves after a disaster struck that destroyed the surrounding villages. The two friends then decided to start building a whole new village to welcome all the people affected by the event.
This is where the story starts off and the player will have to create a whole new village for other characters to find a new home. You will need to gather resources and play a new village, that will hopefully become the new sanctuary for many new villagers to be recruited along the way.
The indie game already features many activities such as collecting resources, building, and even painting you very own tribal mask, a feature that reminds us of the clothing creation/painting tool in Animal Crossing: New Leaf – something we can pour hours into!
Lil Tribals is currently in Alpha, which is an early stage in the games development cycle. Many new features will be added going forward, and bugs can still be expected to be part of the game at this point. The developers have already made an early version available which you can start playing for free on PC today. The game also supports (and recommends) the use of a controller. Check out the cutesie gameplay trailer below and make sure to follow the developers on Twitter to stay up to date on Lil Tribals!
About Lil Tribals
After disaster struck the surrounding villages, the tribes were left without homes and searching for shelter. While searching for a new home, Bumi and Jamu discover a deserted campsite. Instead of leaving, they decide to start a new village, welcoming all the villagers without homes. It will take a lot of work, but maybe one day their little village will become something great.
A 3rd person village management game with city building, survival, and social elements. The game is currently in alpha, but provides the player with the core concepts:
- Paint your mask!
- Layout and build your village!
- Recruit a variety of unique villagers and assign them roles!
- Watch your villagers form relationships and engage in special events!
For more simulation fun, check out Snacko and the latest on the cat-tastic game!
- Jun 3, 2019
Sushi! Lots of it, make it beautiful and run your very own Sushi restaurant in this fast paced pixel adventure. The Sushi Spinnery is about you becoming a famous Sushi chef and running your own most creative and inviting sushi restaurant at the same time. The game is now finally coming to Nintendo Switch as well.
The Sushi Spinnery has been available on iOS and Android for some time now. It received mostly positive reviews and was well received by fans of the simulation genre. In The Sushi Spinnery the player hops into the role of a sushi chef. As you gather fame with serving yummy sushi, you “will unlock all new ingredients and amenities–and fresh possibilities with them!”
Creativity is encouraged and will help you succeed in the game. As you advance in the game you will start unlocking competitions in which you can compete against other sushi chefs – may the best sushi win!
You can already pre-order the game on the Nintendo eShop for $12. It is set to release on June 6th. Bon Appetit!
For more culinary gaming check out Rolling Hills a game about village life, making friends and rolling Sushi heavily inspired by Animal Crossing.
About The Sushi Spinnery
Expand your menu along with your conveyor belt by designing original creations to complement more classic fare.
But it takes more than fine food to win customers over. Show your creative flair not only in sushi but in your business model by offering amenities ranging from salad bars to sumo rings. Make enough fans and you’ll unlock all new ingredients and amenities–and fresh possibilities with them!
As your reputation grows, you’ll also become eligible for competitions around the country. Hone your expertise along with your fish knives and aim for #1 in the national rankings!
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- May 31, 2019
Equilinox is a relaxing nature simulation game which allows you to create and nurture your own living ecosystems. To create an ecosystem you place plants and animals into the world, each of which has its own life-cycle, behaviour, and requirements so you need to make sure each species has a decent habitat with sufficient resources. The game was created by Karl Wimble, the solo indie game developer of ThinMatrix. It was released back in 2018 but has had many bug fixes, tweaks, and new features added since, which you can see down below.
Creative Mode Added
Creative Mode, a sandbox mode, was just added to Equilinox today, May 31st, 2019. You now have the freedom to put whatever you want and however much of it you want in your landscape without any restrictions or points needed. You can put things such as 10,000 swarming bees, Super Mario pixel art with mushrooms, millions of multicolored sheep, or a bunch of angry spitting camels. However, all species have to have been previously unlocked in your Normal World. Although. Although, you will have complete control of the day/night cycle (forward, backward, pause) and will be able to get some really nice screenshots in-game. You can take a look at what to expect with Creative Mode in the creator’s YouTube video below as well as a summary.
Key Features:
- Unlimited placing of plants/animals.
- Unlimited trait modification.
- New color customization options.
- The ability to “duplicate” an object, copying all its traits.
- Hold M when placing to place multiple objects at once.
- Hold N when placing animals to place a “swarm” of animals.
- Day/Night cycle controls.
New Species Added
Flies and carnivorous plants have been added to the game. These plants are able to grab passing flies with their long “tongues” before consuming them.
Meerkats are the first burrowing animals able to dig a network of holes and tunnels in their territory and use them for transport and to hide from predators. They can often be found standing on their back two legs to keep an eye out for danger. Two new plant species were also added for you to unlock. Desert grass provides a new food source for desert biome animals, and the marigolds are pretty flowers which can live in higher altitude woodland areas.
Eagles are now available in Equilinox. These birds live in the mountains but can swoop down to nearby biomes to go hunting for smaller animals. When they catch their prey they carry it back to the nest to feed their young. Furthermore, jellyfish came with the same update as this one. These strange fish will sting any fish that comes too close and can be genetically modified to be harmless or very effective killers. Also, the jungle has one new bush species which blooms spectacularly only once a year.
The most recent addition of species added to Equilinox are dolphins! These aquatic mammals dive in and out of the water when they’re happy.
The developer had mentioned in his latest devlog video that he intends to add pandas to a later update but is already starting to think about moving on to another project entirely. You can catch up all the news you have missed or purchase this game now on Steam here. For other related news, check out our latest article on Planet Zoo and become the very best zookeeper!
- Unlimited placing of plants/animals.
- May 30, 2019
Robert Tatnell , developer of Hokko Life, is hard at work and adding new features and designs every day in his studio, Wonderscope, based in Stockholm. If you haven’t already heard of this game, you can get caught up with us here. We here at myPotatoGames are so excited to play this game and wanted to share with you all of the progress that has been made thus far. Therefore, below we’ve given you the recap from the developer himself for 2018 and a look at his latest updates from March 2019.
2018 Devblog Recap
- The main town area got built, at the beginning of the year it was a one-room demo, but now there’s a whole town!
- There are also mine and forest areas that are randomly generated each day, full of lovely resources!
- Speaking of resources: resource gathering and crafting got in!
- You have a backpack now to store stuff!
- The game is now aimed at a PC/Mac release initially, so a bunch of control stuff got changed to fit this decision.
- Fishing!
- Player Customization!
- Painting tool for making T-Shirts, Wallpaper and flooring!
- Dig holes! Weeds!
- Villagers can now move in if you’re good enough friends with them!
- Villagers give you tasks to do!
- A whole bunch of new villagers got added!
- I started getting sound FX into the game!
Recent Updates – Devlog 2019 Start!
Below are the updates from March which include: improvements on the tools for customizing furniture, improvements on conversations with the villagers, and new information on shop interiors and inventory, and more.
Customizing Furniture
The developer has been testing different “drawers” that contain all the pieces you can add to your creation; much like in a real-world workshop. Improvements to furniture creation were made by adding a very handy menu system so as to be able to categorize certain paints and materials.
There seems to be many options of material designs to work with and apply to your furniture which include: wood, metal, earthen, cushions, paint, and dyes. You will also be able to point and click anywhere, alternating between placing an object and editing it. As mentioned previously by the developer, you will also be able to scale the size of your own furniture when creating it. Moreover, you can see in the image that certain shapes are provided.
Dialog Options
Dialogue options are being reworked to give less of a “randomly generated” feel in favor of a more personalized approach. This ensures there’s more interesting variety in dialogue than there was before by giving you a selection of replies.
If you’re an Animal Crossing fan, then you probably enjoy chatting up the locals every day. Therefore, this new feature is sure to please! The overall dialogue system is still in the works but so far it’s exciting to have the option to choose different text and get different options every now and again. The developer ensures that there will be a little more variety in the player and character conversations. You can also see that it’s possible for you to change and create the outfit the characters are wearing and to take requests for items! One can only hope that they are also given audio of adorable nonsensical gibberish for dialogue.
Shop Interiors and More
The interior of the shops will now have all of their inventory laid out and on display. You can walk up to each item and interact with them before buying. The contents of the shops change every day, so you can look forward to checking what’s new as often as possible. Shopkeepers will have set hours and will otherwise have the store locked. You can find them roaming the town or enjoying certain activities when they’re not working. Robert Tatnell also added new animations for mining and fishing which you can read in more detail with the link to his official website here. There, you’ll find all his devlogs which include all the details of his journey from 2018 to present.
For exclusive information about Robert Tatnell and Hokko Life, be sure to check out our interview with him! There’s a lot of new information you will not want to miss!
- May 28, 2019
Adventure on the high seas with a crew of fun, quirky characters!
In Critter Cove you can explore the world, trade cargo, do missions for others, decorate cabins, customize your character, collect exhibit items for the Museum, go treasure hunting, salvage shipwrecks, swim, dig up treasure, meet new NPCs and befriend them, and upgrade your ship to home more crew members.
This game is an open-world RPG set in a world of fantastical islands, crazy critters, and high sea adventures. After a massive storm you awaken on a tropical island inhabited by a cast of quirky characters who help get you back onto your feet. At the helm of a second-hand ship, crewed by your new friends, you set sail on a quest to become the greatest captain of all time.
Critter Cove is currently being developed by indie studio Gentleman Rat Studio, a team of three people. The game will initially be on the PC, however, the developers will eventually take it to as many platforms as possible including all current generation consoles. Although there is no release date as of yet, you can take a look at the official website here.
Key Features
- Discover and explore islands in an open world tropical setting.
- Trade goods between ports and help those ports grow.
- Upgrade and customize your ship.
- Recruit a unique crew of odd characters, each with their own personalities and special quests.
- Manage your crews needs to keep them happy or you just might have a mutiny on your hands.
- Master the skills that all great captains must know.
- Collect items from all over the world and donate them to the Royal Museum of Science, Nature and Stuff!
- Find treasure maps to embark on special treasure hunts.
- Make your cabin unique by decorating it with a wide variety of furnishings. Help your crew decorate theirs based on their tastes.
- Fishing, digging, swimming, resource gathering, crafting, and much, much more.
Photo Gallery
We here at myPotatoGames are so excited about this new and refreshing adventure game with the most adorable pirate crew you ever did “sea”! Similarly, if you love exploring beautiful tropical islands, check out our articles on Summer in Mara and Solo Islands Of The Heart.
- Discover and explore islands in an open world tropical setting.
- May 28, 2019
Garden Paws is a multiplayer RPG simulation game developed by indie team Bitten Toast Games. Grow plants, run your shop, tame animals, rebuild the town, go spelunking in the caves and more in this relaxing and unbearably cute game. The game was released early in 2018 on Steam here but is currently still in development. You can also play a shorter free demo here. The demo has a limited amount of quests that result in 2-4 hours of questing gameplay, but you can continue exploring the world and running your shop past that. Garden Paws will be set to officially launch in December 2019 on the Nintendo Switch and PC.
About Garden Paws
In Garden Paws you have inherited your grandparents farm as they set off to travel the world. Work with Frank at the local construction shop to finish off the final touches on your new home. Aid Frank and Mayor Wilson in building up the town so it can reach its full potential.
To build up the town you need coins, what better way to earn those then by running a shop! Explore the islands and its caves to collect everything from flowers to poop to sell in your shop. Over time and with each building built, new townsfolk sail to the island with new items for purchase and quests to complete.
Key Features
- Turn your small home and shop into a large farmland through upgrades and questing.
- Grow seeds into beautiful flowers and vegetables to sell in your shop.
- Raise and care for animals like chicks and chickens. With recent additions including calves, lambs, baby goats, baby alpaca, foals, and ducks.
- Build up the nearby town adding a Museum, Blacksmith, Inn and more!
- Overcome natural disasters with the help of the townsfolk!
- Upgrade your tools and weapons.
- Collect artifacts to sell or donate to the Museum for fame and rewards.
- Explore caves and dungeons for unique loot!
- Take a break and do some fishing!
- Invite up to 3 friends to play with you in your farm!
- Personalize your character with unique skins, accessories and more.
Photo Gallery
Recent Updates
- There’s now a horse mount and stable. You can also ride many of the larger farm animals!
- There’s an assistant! You can now hire an assistant to run your shop, for a % of the sales that is.
- More cooking has been added! You can now use the churn, the oven or the cooking station to make over 20 new recipes!
- Furniture Blueprint Merchant has been added, and can be upgraded in town through Frank.
- You can now nap for multiple hours at a time at the hammock. (Only available in Single Player.)
- New quests, new items, new skins, new collectibles.
What’s Next
- More Quests with Fast Travel
- Procedural Dungeon (optional combat)
- Creative Mode
- A HUGE new island to explore
- More Furniture Sets and Building Pieces
- Berry Bushes and Fruit Trees
- Legendary Animals
- More Animals to Tame and Raise (plus Beekeeping!)
- Bunny and Chicken Breeding
- More NPC’s and Quests
Legendary Giant Chicken Mount For more information on this game you can check out the official website here. If you love town-building and adorable animal villagers, check out our article on Rolling Hills.
- May 24, 2019
In Merchant of the Skies you’re the captain of an airship! Sell items, gather resources, and build your own trade empire in the clouds! Merchant of the Skies is the trading game with light base-building and tycoon elements. You start off as a captain of a small cloudship and work your way towards establishing your own trade company. The game is created by indie developer Coldwild Games and will be available on Steam Early Access July 30th, 2019.
Key Features
- Become a trader! Find the best trade routes and profit from them.
- Discover the world! Travel between flying isles and face different encounters.
- Sandbox gameplay: do what you want at your own pace.
- Gain experience and become more savvy when it comes to trading, then start your own goods production.
Current Updates
Coldwild Games is currently working on adding set goals for Merchant of the Skies. In other words, you will have tasks to complete for those of you that like to have a purpose. For those of you that don’t, you can always set the game to “no objectives” and play at your own leisure. The goals will vary by length which you can often customize. For example, it will take 20, 40, 60, or 90 minutes to complete.
Uncover new islands on your map and visit each destination for information and goals. Once you have discovered the area and see what it has to offer, you can easily plan your trade routes accordingly.
With this game you can build a company in the skies. Similarly, check out our article on Flotsam where you build your village on the open seas!
- Become a trader! Find the best trade routes and profit from them.
