

Canteens and Gear can also be used to improve your access to resources through the game. Explore a tiny and peaceful open world and build cozy campsites at your own pace Plenty of quests and a heartfelt story keep you busy for 2-4 hours with many.

Enjoy moments of everyday life as a relatable couple while cooking meals, crafting and collecting. Explore the planet looking for parts and material to fix your ship and make it a cosy home. Play two lovers at the same time as they settle into an unknown world. Resources can be tough to come by especially when someone is at the place you’re trying to reach! Campfires allow you to share a space and time with other hikers. Yu and Kay have escaped to a forgotten planet, leaving everything they knew behind. The trails, represented by tiles, get shuffled in between each season and laid out anew for the next round. You can play at your own pace, discover quests and meet cute characters along the way. The game was inspired by A Short Hike and Animal Crossing. Find and build nice little campsites, meet and make friends with the campers. These cons aren’t dealbreakers by any stretch, but they do somewhat sour what could’ve been a truly stand-out example of a bite-sized, wholesome little game. Each trail represents one season of the year, and each season, the trails will change and grow steadily longer. Haven Park is a small exploration game where you need to take care of a natural park. Haven Park is a lovely game that suffers a bit from strange movement choices and a partially underbaked camp construction system. Collecting these memories in sets will allow players to trade them in to visit a National Park at the end of each hike. Everything is does exudes a bright, feel good simplicity to it. These memories are represented by various resource tokens like mountains and forests. Haven Park is easily one of my favourite gaming experiences of 2021. While on the trail, these hikers will take actions and collect memories of the places your hikers visit. In PARKS, players will take on the role of two hikers as they trek through different trails across four seasons of the year. While there is a day/night cycle in the game, you can play at your own pace, and nothing feels time-sensitive.PARKS is a celebration of the US National Parks featuring illustrious art from Fifty-Nine Parks. Overall, it feels like a nice mix somewhere between Cozy Grove and A Short Hike. The developer has been making some updates to improve clarity, game issues and quality of life, so I could see myself returning to this after a while, major updates or not. As a game made by one person, many will compare to A Short Hike, but is actually an original and endearing experience all its own.

It's an intricate open island that packs in plenty to discover. You play Flint, who is repairing his grandma's park to attract new campers. And depending on the order in which you find some side quests, it could get confusing as what sequence you need to complete things.Īll in all, the game is adorable, the challenges and side quests don’t divert too much from the main story and you could finish the game in one or two sittings. Haven Park is a strategy game where you build camping spots in a national park. Though I did find myself running around in circles from time to time due to a big empty piece of the map I hadn’t yet cleared. If the player unlocks the 'Cartographer' skill, more details will be added, such as paths and milestones. As the player discovers campsites, more portions of the map are filled out. At the beginning of the game, the map will appear completely blank aside from a small area in the lower center. The map slowly reveals itself as you discover additional campsites, and there are trail markers to keep you from getting lost too badly. The Map is a tool that the player can access at any time by opening their Notebook. While maintaining the park and satisfying visitors, Flint has to meet his grandmother at a certain place in the park. Haven Park is a place to relax, to enjoy and to make your own Key Features - Explore a tiny and peaceful open world and build cozy campsites at your own pace - Plenty of quests and a heartfelt. There is an overarching story among the side quests and challenges.
