Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop)

噱头大于实用性，中看不中用。细节糙、优化差。中文打上去就是方块乱码，这个其实无所谓的，重点是真的很无聊。 基本上没讲任何的故事。玩家就为了少得可怜的交互方式，基本上全是为了打字沟通的漂流瓶功能，当然是和陌生人沟通，把完整的大地图割裂成好几块需要加载的小地图，其中细节缺乏到让人疑惑割裂的目的是什么。 也就是说，你得外向成什么样，才会买这款游戏：在家里给陌生人写封信，去屋子外头的书店继续给陌生人写信。然后坐地铁传送到咖啡店，当然你喝不到星巴克，只能在咖啡店的顾客面前用英文输入法进行诗朗诵，或者像是凤凰叔扮演的小丑那样在舞台上说无聊的笑话。最后天黑了，你去天文台观赏美丽的繁星，这时候系统强制蹦出写信界面，您猜怎么着，又可以给陌生人写信，呜呼！问题来了，那我为什么要出门？

/!\ THIS GAME DOES NOT REPLACE THERAPY. Saw some ppl complain that they didn't receive the best magical advices and I was flabbergasted because yeah? The players are just people, sharing a point of view with no professional knowledge behind. Go see someone qualified if you need help with serious stuff... This game is more for sharing and receiving a pat in the back or food for thoughts, bathing in positive vibes and receiving short recommendations. I was reluctant at first because you can easily tell yourself that it will feel fake and won't have any real positive impact. By that, I mean that if you go to buy this game, chances are you don't feel too good about something and you are looking for some kind of support. And yeah, actually it does help IF you are in a place where you're able to receive that help. Some of the overly positive stuff didn't resonate with me at all but writing to others and receiving thoughtful replies actually did. It suprised me with how you can feel the different ppl there is on that game through their replies and so far I haven't come across any trolls. I ended up LOVING giving advices, sharing recommendations and participating in the chains of thought in the forest. The stickers you collect as a "thank you" are a very nice touch, I just wish we knew which response earned each one. When you spend some time writting to someone and you never see it again, wondering if what you said was alright, it is a bit frustrating. Still, I am glad I could help some people in here and I am grateful for those who answered my questions and gave me recommendations. I also really enjoy all the reflections this game inspires because of how many different situations are shared. All of that said, 19.50 euros is a bit much for the content there is, some stuff feels repetitive/useless to me. But I get how it can interest someone else. At last, I don't regret buying this, I hope there will be new updates to add some more activities, the cat one is quite creative and lovely!

Nobody ever deserves to live their entire life without experiencing random kindness from another.

ITS SO CATHARTIC. Please, if you need therapy, this is NOT a REPLACEMENT. This will restore your faith in humanity. Seriously, I cried.

I don't often write reviews, but I felt compelled to do so given the nature of Kind Words 2. It challenges the definition of what a game is, and in this case, it's a wonderful departure from everything else out there. It seems that this game was created purely as a way to establish human connections, allowing players to request and receive kind words from others. There's no real gamification per se... no reason to be artificial or rush through anything. Just a number of mechanisms for players to ask for advice (often because they've fallen on hard times) and for players to respond to said requests out of the goodness of their hearts. And it's beautiful. Interactions are completely anonymous, and I have yet to experience anything other than positivity from the community. I've fallen on hard times recently, and reached out just looking for opinions and reassurance. To my surprise, I was flooded with responses, and I can honestly say that it helped to just know that there were other humans who understood my situation. And it was equally satisfying to scroll through the requests out there and do my best to help others as well, with nothing to gain other than the sense of helping someone out. The only critique I had early one was that I wished I could reply to someone's response with something other than a sticker. There were a few instances where I wanted clarification on what someone meant or how I might go about doing what they suggested... but at the same time, that would risk breaking anonymity, opening up the opportunity for disagreements, and change the overall vibe. After a few hours, I concluded that I support the developer's decision to make conversations one-and-done, as it preserves the purity of the idea. In short, if you enjoy being a good human and want to support others, I can't recommend this game enough.

In 2005, before I learned to be disgusted with startup and corporate culture in Silicon Valley, this kind of thing is what I thought social software might be like in the future. So maybe I'm calling it a fresh take on social media. Basically social scripts over the internet. Good to see. Maybe I'll do one too.

I love the Kind Words games! If you played the first one and want to pick up the second game, all your decor and request history can be transferred. If you haven't played the first one, just get this one, it's literally the same game but upgraded with many new features, rooms, customizations, and different ways to interact with random people and share messages. It started as just a little room where you could read people's requests and send them a letter in response. You could give advice, emotional support, or just let them know they weren't alone. You also had the option to send your own requests and hopefully get some nice letters from kind strangers! Now there are many new features on top of this. Everything is done anonymously. Your signature is just a letter, and if you're using the request system, there's no back and forth, just a request and a response. Once someone gets a response, they can send a sticker to say 'thank you', but that's it. It's heartwarming to see so many people take the time to be kind to strangers! It's also worth noting that the game doesn't have achievements, so you won't find people sending random letters to get achievements or something like that. The devs take really good care of people and the community is lovely!

A very necessary game.

Go-to when I'm feeling down. I love responding to other people's requests or just hopping on to vent. There are so many interactive options in this version that make it really enjoyable/effective.