Arctic Eggs

This is such a strange and cool game! Its also a lesson in really lean and efficent game development > Craft an isolated and physics-based gameplay mechanic, marry it with tight and resposive controls, go for low cost but still neat indie art direction, enveloped it all in a goofy and myseterious post apocalyptic narrative and wrapper. As a gamedev, I lift my hat to The Water Museum. Visually its going for the trending PS1-era low poly retro look. Its an aquired taste. My mom plays games but when it comes to 3D games she cut her teeth on The Last Guardian, so if a 3D game doesnt look like that its 'ugly and unplayable' to her. Its a shame because the gameplay in Arctic Egg is really solid. The problem is that many gamers are like my mom. So when indie studios are going out of their way to make their games look 'too indie' it will not appeal to gamers like my mom. Which might be fine. Arctic Eggs might have brought The Water Museum ROI. Gameplay is where this game shines. I have only played around 30 minutes of it and can already forsee the rest of the game. The reason why I have not played more is because I want to savour it. Similar to Children of the Sun. I want to play it on a rainy day in the future when I'm finshed with games that have a bigger pull on me.

Some of my absolute favourite dialogue and aesthetics of any game ever. Yes, a little frustrating at times but difficulty options are there. I'll be thinking about this game for a long time.

Slavic breakfast simulator

it's all right: keeps introducing new mechanics, does not overstay its welcome.

it's a very comfy game

A very coherent game about cooking simple dishes for people.

once u get the hang of the flipping u feel like a frying pan god. was not deep or philosophical lolol the dialogue is nonsense but in some ways adds to the charm. good pacing of little suprises and increasing the difficulty. some levels were tricky but never felt the desire to rage quit! delightful art direction perfect on the steam deck :)