What Did We Play Yesterday?

Caiys has become one of my favorite developers, and I'm working my way backwards through their catalog now. Spirits Abyss is a roguelike platformer that gets compared to Spelunky. It's all the usual Caiys goodness, from the pixel art to the weird characters to the strange vibes. Your mission is to collect as much gold as ye can while venturing deeper into the abyss. I feel like I learn a bit more each run. So far, it's an enjoyable romp that nicely scratches the died-lets-do-it-again itch.

Grabbed this farming creature collector mashup that's been languishing on my list for a while. It's very cute, but I went into it understanding it stretches itself a bit thin trying to do all the things. I mainly wanted to see if I could get into a creature collector.

Grabbed another of these chill cat hidden object games to play with kiddo. This one demands mapping the zoom function if you're playing on Steamdeck. There's a castle but I wasn't prepared for the cat-stlevania aspect so that was a surprise.

Decided to centralize the horsies and move the lower left quadrant apple farming area, which always felt cramped, next door. I'm trying to make sure food resources are close to the animals they feed.

Made the castle cooler. The bamboo area has always been a little cramped so I moved the house to free up some space and planted a lot more bamboo there, which was inspired partly by a quest needing way more bamboo than I actually had.

I still have a good number of lots to unlock, but the barrier is my farm level. So now I'm just filling up the space I have however I can.I experimented with having clusters of animals that would be a few of each type, because I never liked having like... a massive field of x pig or whatever... but that's really not enough livestock to level up and unlock additional species timely. I've begun to start stashing clusters of animals of one species stashed away in various nooks and crannies. I'd like to have a dedicated plot for each type of crop and animal, I just don't want to have lots of boring uniform boxes like it's some factory.

Well, I am officially back on my bullshit. Today I expanded and beautified my vineyard.

I belatedly realized there's an event in Farm Together 2, and now I'm sucked back into it. The timeline is a little tight on this one, so I had to grind at a megafarm to make sure I'd get the points.

Very excited for unicorns (and peacocks, an unrelated recent update). They provide much better diamonds compared to the fruit bat trees.

I finally got around to redesigning my castle layout and I'm much happier with it. The previous one was too cramped.

Playing around with various gameboy games.