All posts tagged in Simulation Game
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.
- May 2, 2019
As of May 1st, 2019, Calico: Magical Girls Running Cat Cafés, successfully raised $70,634 with 2,721 backers! That is over 200% past their goal! If you missed our news about this game, you can get caught up and learn more here. With more funding came more customization options such as furniture, potions, outfits, and animals. Most importantly, the project hit 2 of its stretch goals to implement amazing new features! See below for what’s going to be added to Calico.
More items to decorate your household Character Creation
The first stretch goal was a character creator at $45,000! Now you can make your own playable character with several customization options. This includes skin tone, body type, gender, hair color and style, as well as outfits!
Animal Customization
Secondly, you now can dress up adorable animals in their own little clothing items, such as collars, hats, and bows! In addition to that, you also have the option of creating your own cats and dogs! You’ll be able to customize certain traits like fur color and size.
Merchandise
If you are as excited as we are at myPotatoGames for the release of this game (year 2020), you can continue to help support CatBean Games by getting these adorable shirts and tank tops here. Stay tuned with us as we keep you updated on Calico! Now we leave you with this adorable animation from their Twitter page.
- May 1, 2019
Automachef is an indie puzzle game in which you will have to build automatic kitchens for a robotic fast food tycoon who believes he’s a human. Automachef will be releasing for PC and Nintendo Switch in Q3 2019. This game is developed by Hermes Interactive and published by Team17 (My Time at Portia and Overcooked). Prepare yourself to become a masterful kitchen manager and wishlist it on Steam!
Robert Person is the name of the robot…we mean human…that will guide you and offer you help throughout the levels. You can choose from dozens of different machines to build your automatic kitchen in exactly the way you want. For example, conveyor belts, robotic arms, splitters, computers, gates and much more! Automachef features computers you can program in assembly code, or using a simple visual editor, to make other machines, such as robotic arms or ingredients dispensers.
Our very trusty “human” friend Robert Person The game features 30 campaign levels, 10 bonus levels, three exciting game modes, dozens of different recipes to prepare (i.e. cheeseburgers, salads, hot dogs), special events, disasters, and more! The three modes in Automachef are: the Campaign Mode, building a business in Contracts Mode and practicing your builds or playing freely in Test Site Mode. Furthermore, if you have created the perfect production line, you can save your plans as blueprints to use in future kitchens!
Filling out orders with your production line Key Features
- Plan. Position. Program: Design and build automated restaurants, then program them to run like well-oiled machines! Do you have a can-do attitude and the know-how to conquer the world of automated restaurants?
- Challenging Puzzles: Fine tune your mind as you tackle intricate spatial, resource management and scenario puzzles! Not enough hot dogs? You’ll sort it! Kitchens on fire? No problem for a smart human like you!
- Multiple Brain-Tickling Modes: Take on the campaign levels, traverse your way through the business world in contracts mode, or just go nuts and bolts in the sandbox test mode and play until you get your fill.
- Endless Charm and Quirky Humor: All delivered in an abundance by our helplessly misguided (robot) human protagonist – Robert Person. Who is definitely a human. Don’t ask questions.
- Mod Support (Steam): Think you could bring some more pizzazz to the table? GREAT! Step on up to the plate and create your own ingredients, recipes and scenario levels via Steam Workshop!
Do you love cooking games and want to play more? Check out our most recent news on Cook Serve Delicious! 2 right here.
- Apr 18, 2019
Animal Crossing New leaf: Welcome Amiibo is having its 8th! annual bunny day. Animal Crossing Bunny Day is the one day a year that all of your villagers will participate in the egg hunt. First introduced in City folk, bunny day has become a fans favorite holiday to celebrate. Zipper will appear in your town on a Sunday in March or April to celebrate Bunny Day! While this years Bunny Day is still a few weeks away, it always takes some time to prepare for major events in Animal Crossing.
In Animal Crossing: New Leaf Welcome Amiibo the player will be able to hunt for six different kind of eggs. Easier said than done, finding the eggs can be challenging, so prepare yourself to turn your village upside down. You can find the eggs by performing certain activities, fishing, diving, tree shaking, hitting rocks, digging up holes, and shooting down presents from the sky with the slingshot.
All of these activities make the event more challenging but more fun at the same time. Once you find the eggs you can open them to receive a prize. Prizes vary and can either be candy (yum!) , winning tickets or even a grand prize ticket.
If the egg ends up looking super delicious, you might end up eating it, in which case you will receive a prize ticket. Tickets can be traded in for an item in the egg series, while the more rare grand prize tickets can be exchanged for Zippers picture. However, there is one item that can not be obtained using tickets, and that is the beautiful egg basket. This item is rare and can only be received if you collect all of the six different eggs on bunny day.
The friendly and adorable bunny – Zipper T. will award the player one of the following items from the egg series for every Bunny Ticket! If you can’t sleep without a photo of Zipper on your night stand, then you need to look for a grand prize ticket.
Trading in that ticket will make Zipper gift you his picture. You don’t have to settle with just one picture of him, the grand prize ticket can be obtained more than once during the Animal Crossing Bunny Day.
Animal Crossing Egg Series
Egg Basket
Egg TV
Egg Bed
Egg Bench
Egg Chair
Egg Clock
Egg Dresser
Egg Lamp
Egg Stereo
Egg Table
Egg Toy Set
Egg Wardrobe
Egg Wall
Egg FloorWhen Is Animal Crossing Bunny Day?
Bunny Day will always start at 6 am and end at 6pm, the day it takes place varies each year. In 2019 the Animal Crossing Bunny Day will take place on April 21st. So make sure you plan ahead and get ready!
If you want to know how other vide games celebrate easter, check out our list of all the games featuring easter events this week!
- Apr 11, 2019
It has only been three days since we talked about another game in which you can run your own restaurant. What can we say? we love food, so does Henry, our Potato mascot. Cafeteria Nipponica takes owning and running a restaurant to new levels, with an amazing overwhelming amount of customizations only known from games like The Sims or Animal Crossing.
In Cafeteria Nipponica you will of course be tasked with running your own restaurant, provide good food and of course amazing customer service. However, the game goes beyond the typical simulation features we are accustomed to. In this restaurant management game you will also decide how your interior looks, from the table cloth to the mounted tv on the wall. Customers will also rate your dinner based on how good the food is, but also on how stylish your dinner looks. This is an interesting twist to an already great genre.
Cafeteria Nipponica is coming to Nintendo Switch on April 18th, 2019 for only $12 we will be sure to picking up this game on day one. The game is currently also available on iOS and Android.
About Cafeteria Nipponica
Don your chef’s hat and hit the kitchen! You’re the chef de cuisine in this scrumptious simulation that’ll have you coming back for seconds… and more! Run your own restaurant, find ingredients, research recipes and spice up your culinary repertoire! Only you can bring your establishment sweet success!
Decide every detail of the floor from tables to TVs and do whatever it takes to make your customers happy! After all, their ratings determine whether you’re chef…or sap. Score enough points and you’ll be able to host a variety of fun events from eating contests to cooking classes, further boosting your popularity!
But of course, what’s a cook without a crew? Recruit eager faces to build your own five-star team. Play your cards right and you might find yourself running multiple restaurants at once!
The sky’s the limit in this sizzling new take on restaurant management, incorporating a uniquely Japanese spread that will train your brain and tantalize your taste buds!
- Dec 11, 2018
We recently made a post informing readers that the Multiplayer update for Stardew Valley on Nintendo Switch was imminent.
We are delighted to announce that a set release date for the free patch has finally been confirmed.
The update is being released tomorrow, 12th December 2018.
Yep, you heard right. As of tomorrow, if you own Stardew Valley on Switch you’ll be able to invite 1-3 friends via Switch Online and local play. You can then decide whether you want to create a brand new farm together or use an existing save file.
About Stardew Valley:
Initially released on Steam back in 2016, Stardew Valley is a Harvest Moon-reminiscent RPG farming simulation with pixel graphics. Developed by ConcernedApe and published by Chucklefish, the game was very well received. It currently holds a 10/10 rating on Steam where it also has ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ reviews.
Game features include:
- Raising animals, growing crops and improving your farm
- Improving skills in 5 different areas (farming, mining, combat, fishing, and foraging)
- A variety of complex characters, places, enigmas, and secrets to discover
- Diversity in character customization and dating
- Over two hours of original music.
Stardew Valley has obtained a 10/10 rating on Steam, received numerous ports for a variety of platforms, and is still a chart topper on the Nintendo Switch eShop. It’s, therefore, safe to say that the game is highly regarded and popular.
The highly anticipated multiplayer update for the PC version of the game was released on 1st August 2018.
Multiplayer update features include:
- The ability to play with up to 3 others in online co-op
- A 3-day travelling festival where farmers can come and go as they please
- A mysterious new winter event that enables farmers to start a new ‘secret’ collection type
- Farmers who have made great progress will be given the opportunity to help out a townsperson
- New character events
- Changes to the Skull Cavern
- Ability to change your profession
- Ability to craft signs
- New outdoor decorations
- Introduction of the auto-grabber, an expensive item that automatically harvests milk and wool
- Introduction of garden pots. Garden pots allow you to grow any crop inside year-round
- A new crop that only grows indoors
- Fireplaces and new furniture
- Ability to put a hat on your horse
- Dec 1, 2018
Initially released on Steam back in 2016, Stardew Valley is a Harvest Moon-reminiscent RPG farming simulation with pixel graphics. Developed by ConcernedApe and published by Chucklefish, the game was very well received. It currently holds a 10/10 rating on Steam where it also has ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ reviews.
Game features include:
- Raising animals, growing crops and improving your farm
- Improving skills in 5 different areas (farming, mining, combat, fishing, and foraging)
- A variety of complex characters, places, enigmas, and secrets to discover
- Diversity in character customization and dating
- Over two hours of original music.
Stardew Valley has obtained a 10/10 rating on Steam, received numerous ports for a variety of platforms, and is still a chart topper on the Nintendo Switch eShop. It’s, therefore, safe to say that the game is highly regarded and popular.
The highly anticipated multiplayer update for the PC version of the game was released on 1st August 2018.
Multiplayer update features include:
- The ability to play with up to 3 others in online co-op
- A 3-day travelling festival where farmers can come and go as they please
- A mysterious new winter event that enables farmers to start a new ‘secret’ collection type
- Farmers who have made great progress will be given the opportunity to help out a townsperson
- New character events
- Changes to the Skull Cavern
- Ability to change your profession
- Ability to craft signs
- New outdoor decorations
- Introduction of the auto-grabber, an expensive item that automatically harvests milk and wool
- Introduction of garden pots. Garden pots allow you to grow any crop inside year-round
- A new crop that only grows indoors
- Fireplaces and new furniture
- Ability to put a hat on your horse
The solo developer of Stardew Valley (ConcernedApe) has previously announced that the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch versions of the game will also get a multiplayer update eventually. The developer has confirmed in tweets and updates that the co-op will not be cross-platform. As disappointing as this is for fans to hear, the decision is understandable.
Whilst an exact date hasn’t been given, the game’s publisher (Chucklefish) has recently confirmed that Stardew Valley for Switch will be next to receive the Multiplayer update. Having been submitted for final approval, it is expected that the update will be available either by the end of the year or in early 2019.
