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The Quarry

A star-studded branching horror anthology from the Until Dawn team that splits its own reviewers on story quality and delivers far less mechanical agency than its "your choices matter" framing implies, launched alongside a broken multiplayer promise and now caught up in the same 2K Terms of Service controversy documented independently on the publisher's other 2022 release.

6.5 / 10

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The Sims 4

The base game is free and the creative tools are still the best in the genre. The full catalogue — all 113 add-ons — costs about NZ$1,580, and almost every negative review this game has ever received is about that number.

6.5 / 10

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Thrifty Business

Spellgarden Games follows Sticky Business with a charming, wildly popular Unpacking-style thrift store decorator, but a review sample that's overwhelmingly warm still agrees the content runs out fast and the actual "business" side barely exists.

6.5 / 10

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Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip

A short, goofy open-world collectathon about launching your car into space, whose charm, humor, and dense little hub city earn comparisons to A Short Hike and Simpsons Hit & Run, undercut for a real portion of its audience by a specific, widely reported camera problem that induces genuine motion sickness.

6.5 / 10

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Virtual Cottage

A free ambient "focus companion" app that puts a cozy, lo-fi cottage on a second monitor to study or work alongside, earning near-unanimous praise for its vibe while reviewers repeatedly debate whether it's a game at all and flag one specific, alarming performance complaint worth taking seriously.

6.5 / 10

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Wandering Willows

A charming, Animal Crossing-adjacent casual RPG about crash-landing on an island and taming pets to complete quests for its inhabitants, fondly remembered by longtime players from its earlier Yahoo Games era — tempered by one detailed reviewer's account of real instability and repetitive pacing across multiple purchased copies.

6.5 / 10

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Whimside

A charming creature-collector that sits at the bottom of your screen and calls itself an idler — a label its own highest-voted negative review calls "downright misleading," since catching rare creatures demands close, active clicking rather than the glance-and-go companion the marketing promises.

6.5 / 10

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Beauty Store Simulator

A cozy Supermarket Simulator-style shop sim reskinned around cosmetics and fashion, whose relaxing stock-and-serve loop won over most players even as a real, months-long silence from the developer fuelled "abandoned" complaints before a major core-engine rebuild finally delivered the achievements and decoration system players had been promised.

6.4 / 10

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Desk Garden Review: A Charming Screen Companion With a Grindy Back Half

Siesta Studio's cube-styled idle garden makes for a genuinely relaxing desktop companion for hundreds of hours, but gacha-style plant unlocks and an increasingly demanding endgame grind test the patience of even its biggest fans.

6.4 / 10

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Ocean Pop! : Calypso Collision

Ocean Pop! : Calypso Collision is a $4.99 physics-based underwater merge puzzle game from solo UK developer circyn software, and this review's full 9-review sample is unanimously positive, backed by a genuinely active six-month support history that culminated in a free new Challenge game mode.

6.4 / 10

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Hozy

A gorgeous, hand-crafted restoration-and-decorating game asks players to clean, repair, and furnish nine forgotten homes one room at a time, and its very large review base is split between people entranced by its craft and people worn down by its camera, its bugs, and how quickly it ends.

6.3 / 10

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A Thousand Bees

A hand-illustrated hidden-object game about spotting a literal thousand bees across a dozen sun-drenched levels — a gentle, good-looking way to spend an afternoon, though not much of a "game" once the novelty of the art wears off.

6.2 / 10

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Loafing Town

A desktop toy with a surprisingly deep loop underneath Loafing Town's pitch is simple: a strip of pixel-art village that lives at the bottom of your screen or on a second monit

6.2 / 10

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Mothkeep

A short, hand-drawn nature documentary of a game where you wander peaceful sanctuaries cataloguing real moth species, egg to wing.

6.2 / 10

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Novel Haven Review: A Free, Cozy Bookstore Worth an Afternoon

SkyCat Games' free lighthouse-bookstore sim is short, gentle, and charming, tied to a real novel by co-writer Anabelle Stehl -- but reviewers flag real friction in its item-placement UI and confusing mini-games alongside the relaxing atmosphere.

6.2 / 10

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Alchemist's Garden Review: A Cozy, Clicky Incremental With a Grindy Back Half

A cute, relaxing potion-shop incremental in the vein of Digseum, praised for its charm, music and short completion time, but let down by heavy manual clicking and a decoration system that scatters your shop's layout on every upgrade.

6.1 / 10

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