Little Sim World

I had the weirdest experience with Little Sim World. I enjoyed playing it for a while, mostly loving the art style and appreciating the nice tutorial. After a while, I realised that the game is actually not that good? But not in a "smacks you across the face" kind of way, just more like a boreout. The town is a set of squares, not very explore-friendly, just boring. Most of the things are locked behind town rank and levels, and leveling up is tediously boring. The quests are basically just fetch quests, bring this to that person, not in a very compelling way, just running around. I feel the needs decay is unoptimised, I couldn't really find a daily routine in when to eat, drink, toilet, shower, clean, sleep - it felt like those needs were decaying at different speeds, making it feel chaotic and reactive. All in all, there just isn't much to do once you get beyond the "this game looks cute and funny".

I wish there was a in between option to rate this game :/ I want to start by saying, I know the game is still in EA, but I will be giving my honest opinion on this game. I did not come across any bugs or glitches and it also ran very smoothly on my PC. I liked and enjoyed the game myself but it is quite boring and repetitive. Basically in short all that you are constantly doing is making money. You are constantly walking from one place to the other and you are so slow. Even when you run, you are moving at a nicer pace but your stamina runs out so fast. The only ways you can make money in this game, is by painting (making and selling paintings), writing (write books and sell them) and by doing bullitinboard tasks (quests the townies give you and you have to complete within a xx time span). I find it so unfortunate that they do not have any jobs you can do in the game, because I think that would make the game 10 times better! Especially considering that you can go to university to let's say get a degree in a certain job, that would've be nice right? yeahh going to college doesn't really add much, other than improving your skills which you can also do without going to college. So you can go to college, the library and the gym but I've never went to college, I've been to the gym & library maybe once or twice. From my own experience I'm too busy making money that I barely have time for the other stuff. Because taking care of your little sim also takes up quite some time, constantly needing to restock stuff and buy food items, while also working on the quests you get, it's a lot. And then also each 2 weeks you have bills to pay. There's no friendships you can build, there's no romance, there's so little gameplay. Overall I feel like the game could've had so much more potential and cool things they could've add. Which they just didn't and I truly think that's a missed opportunity, to make the game more fun and to give it more life and things to do. I feel like at this point just get the sims 4 for free and just play the basegame without any packs and you might be better off. If you don't mind the repetitive and little gameplay then get the game, but if you do so get it on sale. If you're looking for a similar game, I would suggest checking out 'To Pixellia' it has so much more gameplay and crazy things you can do within that game.

Played on and off since early access through patreon. I wasn't a huge fan of the way your character looks but overall loved the artwork and gameplay. Now that its launched in 1.0 I cant recommend it on steam deck. The controls are messy and all over the place and interactions don't work right. I just left the game more frustrated and disappointed with how the game plays. This game has serious performance issues on deck and overall cannot recommend it.

For my review, I think this perfectly sums this game up and why I did not like playing it throughout the entire time. Th person said "Boring and bland. Many elements are borrowed from The Sims, minus everything that makes The Sims fun to play.".

引导实在是太少了，最开始的任务我一直在找 “未完成的材料” 要如何获得，因为游戏中没有任何提示，后来我才知道原来是在工作台制作练习中概率获得.....，钓鱼有 bug，我在里面的池子里钓鱼百分百触发 bug，在我点击鱼群开始钓鱼会弹跳出一个绿色的圆圈，如何提示我未命中，随后退出钓鱼状态，我就无法移动了，哪怕是使用了菜单中的紧急情况也没有任何好转，只能重启存档，当我是码头钓鱼，这种情况就消失了。【然后是最重要的！！！请尊重女玩家，你们的中文翻译中默认称呼玩家为 “兄弟”，我很不舒服，如果你们的目标群体是男性，请标注说明并且给我退款，如果不是，就请改正这个称呼。】 There is far too little guidance in the game. During my earliest quests, I spent ages trying to figure out how to obtain the "unfinished materials" since the game provided zero hints. I only found out later that they are obtained randomly while crafting practice items at the workbench. Fishing has a bug. I encounter this glitch 100% of the time when fishing in the inland pond. When I click on a school of fish to start fishing, a green circle pops up indicating a miss, then the fishing interface closes. After this, I become completely immobile. Even using the emergency option in the menu does nothing to fix it; I have to reload my save file. This issue never occurs when I fish at the dock. 【And most importantly!! Please respect female players. Your Chinese localization addresses players as "brothers" by default, which makes me very uncomfortable. If your intended audience is only male players, clearly state this and issue me a refund. If that is not the case, please revise this form of address immediately.】

基本上都是跑图做任务，没什么自由度。偏偏任务剧情都又臭又长又烂。npc跟有性别障碍似的张口闭口就是兄弟谁跟你是兄弟啊。动态发布的信息毫无逻辑和乐趣可言，非常像是ai生成的。打折后的价格闲得无聊的时候勉强可以玩吧。文案可以拉出去砍了。

The game starts out really strong, but it didn't take long before I felt it suffered from trying to be two different games at once. One of those games promises an interesting life sim, where you go grocery shopping, cook, do the laundry, play chess in the park, buy a subscription to the gym or library and gradually increase all your skills. I loved the detail! Putting on the laundry overnight! Picking up loo roll from the store! The gameplay loop for this part of the game is compelling, and is mainly let down by your person being very happy and comfortable even with the starting furniture, food and entertainment, seeming to give little motivation to make money and buy anything other than for aesthetics. The other game layered on top, and what felt like the more pushy one, is what seems to be an endless series of fetch quests that have you running around the town from dawn until dusk. It is a LOT of walking. At first I thought these quests were a way of introducing me to the various shops and people, but they just kept going, and going, and I wasn't quite comfortable ignoring them in case there's a point to them. They wore me down. If you don't mind these kind of quests, then I don't think you'll get bored the way I did. I would prefer a quest system that mostly set you broader goals, to give you time and motivation to play the life sim part of the game rather than running endlessly back and forth between npcs. Bugs: Yes, found some of these. An inventory bug during the tutorial, and, when I reloaded the game from the main menu to try and fix it, another bug where my character was just a floating head with their hair slinking along on the ground beneath them. Both were luckily fixed by rebooting the game.

I bought this game in early access and have really been looking forward to the full release since, but I just can't recommend it, unfortunately. The pacing is clunky and even though the themes are cute, I feel like I've been working after I finish a session of gameplay. Travelling is particularly problematic and you spend a lot of your time going from place to place. Collectibles also move slowly and the leaf catching mechanics are a pain. I thought things would be smoothed over before release but aside from fixing bugs and adding additional content, a lot of the issues I had from day 1 are still present. There are just other sims more worth your money at this point.

I think a lot of people are expecting this game to be something it isn't. It is extremely unique, and understandably not a lot of people's cup of tea, but I personally LOVE this game! Like I said, it's a unique concept. I've never played anything like this game before, and for me, that's really not a bad thing! The game is completely non stressful, but that doesnt necessarly mean its boring. I enjoy doing the little care tasks like feeding myself, bathing and all that. I SUPER love the way the grocery store works, where I can buy ingredients each week and make meals with them throughout the week. I love LIttle London and it's quirky characters, I love the weather system and that I have to dress properly for the temperature. I even like waiting for the stop lights to change! This game is leisure to the MAX. But that is something that I really value when I'm feeling stressed out. It's a game where I can just vibe and not have to think too hard about what I need to do, or worry about getting stuck during the main story. It's just super chill, and for me, that really works! I've been playing it all day, every day since I bought it and I'm only a little ways into the story because I'm just doing other little things. It feels nice and comfortable, and nothing is pushing me to do something before I feel like doing it. It's just living a life that isn't mine, and it's a perfect escape! I love this game. I get why others may not like it, but for someone who just likes to exist as a cute little character and do silly little chores, this game is PERFECT.