Bear and Breakfast

Its a very cute game with a lot of visual charm for sure, but that's kind of where it ends. Grain of salt, as I'm not super far into the game, but that is actually part of the problem. I am barely in and I am already bored. There's nothing to do. You get introduced to a lovely and colorful cast of characters that are super cute and well designed, but after the first property is completed they all just kind of fade into the background. Your friends don't help you run anything, they just stand on their home map and regurgitate the same lines over and over again. Gameplay is lacking, a lot. In a management sim I typically expect to be able to be constantly doing something to progress, but in this game the progression is painfully slow, to the point I'm just afk walking around waiting for nightfall so I can skip to the next day and get and inch closer to the next story beat. Its aggravating. They drip feed you crafting recipes at a painfully slow rate and the spawn rate on trash (which you use as an important currency) is SUPER low, even when you have the dump unlocked. You do property quests to unlock things, but then it increases the needs of your guests without giving you the recipes or furniture pieces to keep up with their needs. For example, I have a property quest right now to increase the room quality to level 2, but the game doesn't inform you of how to do this, doesn't give you updated recipes to make that happen, no new side quests to progress, and doesn't give you the overview to even see how close you are to reaching level 2 through trial and error. So you are essentially stuck, inventory stacked with resources that you are waiting to use, just sitting there twiddling your thumbs to hopefully complete another painfully slow property quest that *hopefully* gives you what you need, while also knowing every time you complete these quests your guests will want stuff that you can't give them yet. Yes, games have gameplay cycles, but this game never really gives you the satisfaction of reaching a goal and enjoying the fruits of your labor. There is way too much downtime in this game with NOTHING to do. Your inventory is stacked with resources, so farming resources like wood and stone is a non-issue, but then trash is painfully slow, you get maybe a handful of pieces a day. NPCs are irrelevant after their first quest, and talking to them just cycles through he same dialogue. There is literally NOTHING to do, other than WAIT. They give you a cute diner, but you can't run it, there's no diner mini-game. Same thing with the travel center. They're just building you build, they give you a one time passive buff like +1 booking, and then they, like the NPCs, just become background dressing. I cannot stress to you *how much* boring downtime there is. I spend more time waiting then playing, which is not what I want from a GAME. Layering is also bad. They let you toggle walls, but that toggle doesn't effect doors or wall hanging items, so you can barely see half the room since the doors and wall stuff cover so much. Certain items that should go on a shelf (like the scent sticks) don't, so if you buy them you end up having to scrap them at the dump or place them on the floor in a weird corner. I was really excited for this game. Its beautiful, the hand drawn art is so charming. I love management sims, a lot. But there is just genuinely not enough here to keep you interested unless you are playing this game while also watching a movie and browsing the internet to stave off the looooong downtime. You have to play it like an idle game that you have minimized half the time.