Dawngrown

dawngrowth feels like a couple interesting ideas thrown together in a very short span of time without much deliberation put into shaping them into something fun or engaging. it clearly wears aspirations of being a cute wholesome comfy game about emotions but it falls short of evoking anything in me beyond it being nice to look at. there's not much to see here and what is here is fairly rough. i'll say again that the game looks nice, the pixel art is competently crafted and the character designs and world are adorable at but it feels vaguely cynical how shallow every other aspect of dawngrowth is. the character writing is at best inoffensive but at times feels almost desperate and vaguely cloying. the whole story feels like it was adapted directly from a one page rough draft. the most important aspect of a cozy game like this is endearing a player to the world and characters and dawngrowth seems like it makes a token effort but utterly fails. the gameplay alternates between clearing areas of corruption and then "painting" over the whole level screen with a separate tool. it's simple and promising gameplay at the start but levels quickly become tedious as options are introduced but then strangely taken away making the whole experience a chore. the screen painting is profoundly annoying to do with a controller. i switched over to using mouse and keyboard for those segments but neither set of controls feels quite right for playing the whole game. i want to stress that the problems with this game are not that it's small, i love a lot of small games that put all their effort into a handful of ideas. dawngrowth is trying to do slightly too many things for its very short length and as such fails to develop any of of its ideas much at all. it leads to an unfocused experience.

If you are looking for a game with a beautiful structure in pixel art, good game play music, with an original concept, this game is for you. As well as, if you are one of those who want to support new developers and be part of their projects, I recommend it. Now if you are looking for something where you can immerse yourself and explore how to exploit the game's potential, I don't recommend it, as it is a game that looks really cute and short, but the game play feels unfortunately rather lacking in some cases. Overall, play the game and enjoy the short adventure of a Froggy who wants to clean the world from corruption!

Short and cute. Hugi's debut game on steam was a good one. great graphics, music, and gameplay loop that'll make you joyous. Great work to the entire team!

Dawngrown ist ein kleines Indiespiel mit einer interessanten Mechanik: Mit einer Kanone muss die Spielfigur wuchernde Infektionen bändigen. Allerdings reicht der Tank immer nur für kurze Zeit und muss dann wieder aufgefüllt werden. Parallel dazu muss man die von Infektion befreiten Gebiete wässern und wieder zum grünen bringen, wodurch auch die Tankauffüllung vereinfacht wird. Klingt alles kompliziert? Ist es aber nicht. Tatsächlich ist das Spielprinzip recht simpel und intuitiv und macht auch zunächst durchaus Laune. Auch die eher hässliche Grafik kann daran nichts ändern, wobei sie für einen Pixellook durchaus liebevoll gemacht ist. Mit der Zeit wird das Spiel dann allerdings mühsamer und langatmig. Die Infektionen werden härter zum Bekämpfen und das begrünen wird bald nur noch mühsame Fleissarbeit. Das Spiel stand bei mir gerade auf der Kippe zu "oje ist das nervig" als es zu Ende war. Punktlandung. Nach nicht ganz 90 Minuten war ich durch und das war gut so. Länger hätte das Spiel nicht dauern dürfen. So aber hat es eine gute Länge, sodass die mühsameren Teile nicht gleich ins Gewicht fallen. Denn umgekehrt ist etwas Anderes hervorzuheben: Die Story. Ja, es ist nichts weltbewegendes, aber wo man am Anfang ziemlich perplex ist, was zum Kuckuck das alles soll, so löst sich am Ende doch das Ganze sehr befriedigend und auf eine tolle Weise auf. Eine richtig runde Sache, die als Schlusspunkt auch grosses Gewicht hat, weil es letztlich genau der Twist am Ende ist, der im Kopf hängen bleibt (und nicht die mühsameren Passagen zuvor). Fazit: Eine kleine, nette Indieperle mit einem interessanten aber mit der Zeit etwas ermüdendem Gameplay und einer interessanten und gut durchdachten Story. Kein "muss man gespielt haben" aber für Indiefans durchaus ein Blick wert.

Really cute little game! The corruption gets quite intense!

I love this game. I have bought it for the Steam Deck and its very relaxing. What amazed me and i liked: - 16:10 support - healing nature using touchscreen However, what I did not liked its that it use a lot of power, at 100% i have 3 hours left. And before you say Deck is the issue, games like Stardew Valley can last 7 hours. Just wanted to say it. All in all its a great game.

A short story about a frog that can not only heal the environment. Pros: -unique mechanics -various weapons - Good pixel art and sound design -nice story twist Cons: -no overview of the controls (keyboard&mouse; controller) -not enough info about the characters

Been having a lot of fun with this game. I love the little sound effects when cleaning the corruption. The music is delightful and it's kind of relaxing to clear the corruption and restore the land. This is a good game to play when you need a change of pace. Definitely belongs in the cozy games genre

I actually liked playing this game, its so charming and chill, but its just way too short. Please add more content to Dawngrown. 6 dollars for less than 2 hours of gameplay?