Spooky's Playground

       12 Hour Museum came out when finding anomaly games were extra popular. Normally, I don't care for "find the anomaly" games, but this one caught my interest, as I love museums. You play as an unnamed male, who was knocked out in an accident. He wakes up in this museum and everything seems normal, until nightfall.      The goal is to survive the night by finding the anomaly each hour. You must find the anomaly before time runs out, and find 12 in a row or else you restart the count. There are a total of 45 different anomalies in the game, some being harder to find than others. My favorite ones to find were the ones that changed the paintings.      The game consists of 7 different endings, which are affected by the way you play. Once you find all endings and all 45 anomalies, an extra mode is unlocked and adds 54 additional anomalies. The first playthrough takes about 30 minutes on average, but once you get extras and work on clearin...

      This game is my worst nightmare in 3D graphics. If you don't know, I have Thalassophobia. Now don't get Thalassophobia and Aquaphobia mixed up. Aquaphobia is the fear of water itself. Thalassophobia is the intense fear of deep bodies of water like lakes, the ocean, and rivers.     In this game, you fall off your ship in a storm. You wake up, floating in the ocean on a wooden raft. In the distance you see a bell buoy. Following the lights you end up back at your raft with a box on it. On top of the box is a letter telling you what needs done. In order to complete the tasks, you need to swim from place to place in the ocean, all while disturbing sounds and invisible creatures stalk your every move.     What scared me about this game is the unknown. You're jumping into the ocean without being able to see anything around you and you have no idea what may be lurking under the depths. I could handle the monsters and creatures that torment the main char...

      Terrarium is a PC game that was recently released on January 10th, 2025. I came across this game on the Cozy Gamer group on Facebook. I instantly fell in love with the graphics, style, and premise of the game.  In this game, you decorate different bottle terrariums. That's it. Super simple. I LOVE games like that and have made several terrariums in my life, but now I get to enjoy doing them virtually! You get 8 slots to create with, and unlock several additional items as you play.     While making terrariums in real life is an amazing experience, it can get pricey at times. I've made one out of a Pokeball, one with flowers I've dried, and several different terrariums for when I raised Isopods and now for my 3 Hermit Crabs.       As I said, they can get expensive to make, especially if it comes to involving real critters. This game is an amazing alternative to pricey terrariums, with a price tag of only $3.99! Better yet, Terrarium ...

     Stray Cats in a Cozy Town is a super cute hidden item game where your goal is to find all the kitties hidden around town. You can also search for water buckets to make sure the cats all stay hydrated. This game took me about an hours to complete (there's ALOT of cats).      This game is free to play on STEAM, but does have a paid DLC called Night Lights, where all the proceeds go to helping stray cats. The DLC is about $2.00, so for skipping Starbucks for even just 1 day, you can help a stray kitty AND get a absolutely adorable game! Overall, this game may not have much to it, with being a find it game, but it is a treasured addition to the hidden cats game genre! There are so many hidden cat games out there that it has become its own full genre now. Most are free to play, with paid DLCs or additional content. It's a genre that I hadn't been 100% sold on at the start, but the more I've been playing them, the more they have grown on me, especially when ...

  https://shawcat.itch.io/sketchy-individuals My husband and I came across this game when we saw it pop up in a YouTube video. We watched through the first level before we both realized we wanted to play it. It strongly reminded me of the game Fingered, which I've reviewed in an earlier post. In this game, you play as a police sketch artist, tasked with drawing the criminals described by their victims. Don't worry, there's no actual drawing involved haha. You go through each description, picking the option that best fits with what the victim says, then looking at the line up to best match your drawing. There are 10 levels, each progressively getting harder and harder. What bothered me the most was that it didn't tell you if you got the person right or wrong at the end of each level. At the end of the game, you find out how many you got wrong and how many you got right. The whole playthrough took me about 15 - 20 minutes in total, so relatively short, but lots of fun! Th...

  Broken Shell is a game with a to-be-determined release date. You play as Mr. Hermit Crab, following the story of him and his wife, Mrs. Hermit Crab. The story begins with the couple meeting in a little coral field, when you accidentally crack your beloved wife's shell. She's very upset, but you are able to make her feel better by giving her a flower. From there you solve puzzles to progress the story, helping other adorable characters along the way. One of my favorite characters was Blob fish! The art style is what originally drew me in. I'm a sucker for cutesy, colorful artwork like the devs used for this game. I searched for hermit crab games, because my husband and I adopted 3 precious hermit crabs yesterday. Wyn, Riv'n, and Vesper and we are absolutely in love with them! Since they're my gaming buddies, I wanted to play a game that was about hermit crabs. Unfortunately, there's not very many hermit crab games, but with Broken Shell coming out, I can...