Whitethorn Games, connoisseurs of all things cozy, bite-sized, and beautiful, have several updates for their published and upcoming titles that they are excited to share with you today. So brew yourself a cup of tea, settle into your favorite gaming corner, and get ready for more Whitethorn Games goodness.
You Gotta Be Kitten Me With These alicoUpdates!
Business at the cat cafe has been booming, and that’s claws for celebration! Introducing Calico: Pawsome Edition, coming later this summer. This updated version of the paw-pular life-sim features new cooking minigames, new animals, and more!
Check out the trailer: https://uberstrategist.link/Calico-Pawsome-Edition-Trailer-YT.
As well, Calico is free with Amazon Prime Gaming for the remainder of June. Download it before it’s too late!
Calico is a day-in-the-life community sim game where you are given an important and adorable task: rebuild the town’s cat café and fill it with cute and cuddly creatures! Build up your café by filling it with cute furniture, fun decorations, yummy pastries, and get it bustling with animals again! Play it right now on PC via Steam, Epic Games, the Humble Store, itch.io, and Game Jolt, or on Xbox One and Series X|S, or Nintendo Switch!
Beet the Heat in rincess Farmers Summer Update
Everyone could use a little summer fun, even hard-working rabbit royalty! Princess Farmer’s next update, The Guardian’s Beach Break Part 1: Swimsuit and Shells and a Tournament, Oh My!, is the first episode of a three part story that trades vegetable matching for shell matching!
Watch the latest trailer: https://uberstrategist.link/Princess-Farmer-Update-Trailer-YT.
Princess Farmer is a match-3 puzzle and visual novel game with easy to learn action mechanics and different play styles that let you breeze through the game or challenge yourself. Princess Farmer was just an ordinary farmer when one day she woke up under the Gaia Tree. Now through the magic of Mother Gaia, she can hoist up whole rows of veggies with ease to make matches and smash obstacles by herself, in co-op, or even with an AI companion!
Princess Farmer is available for PC via Steam and Epic Games, Xbox One and Series X|S, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch.
Something is Brewing for *ytchwood*
Good news for fans of crafting, fairy tales, and PlayStation! Wytchwood is now available on the all-new PlayStation Plus. Subscribers to the PlayStation Plus Extra tier can play the beautiful storybook adventure to their heart’s content!
Wytchwood is a crafting adventure game set in an expressive land of gothic fables and fairytales. As the mysterious old witch of the woods, players will explore a strange countryside, collect magical ingredients, brew sorcerous enchantments, and pass their twisted judgment upon a capricious cast of characters and creatures. After all, how will they ever learn if someone doesn’t teach them the moral of the story?
Wytchwood is available for PC via Steam, Epic Games, the Humble Store, and GOG, and on Xbox One and Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and 5, and Nintendo Switch.
*APICO*Swarms onto a New Console
Have you heard a weird buzzing sound coming from your Nintendo Switch? It might bee the bees of APICO island moving their hives onto the console in preparation for the big day. That’s right fellow beekeepers, APICO launches on Nintendo Switch on July 7th! Take your bees on the go, and play with your friends using cross-play!
Combining resource gathering, biology, and minigames with ideas from both real-life and fantasy beekeeping and gardening, APICO will teach players about the ins-and-outs of maintaining a healthy hive and the importance of our irreplaceable pollinating pals. The islands of APICO were once abuzz with different species of bees, and it’s up to players to rediscover lost species, cross-breed new ones, and repopulate each unique bee-ome. Progressing further into the game may also uncover some forgotten secrets. But that’s none of our beeswax.
APICO is currently available for PC via Steam, Epic Games, the Humble Store, itch.io, and Utomik.
Soothe Your Soul with *nsen Master*
Hot springs are a place of healing and relaxation, but someone has to make sure things run smoothly. As luck would have it, there’s a job opening, available for anyone with a Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series S|X, or PC. Interested applicants can purchase Onsen Master this summer and see if they have what it takes to run the hot springs of Izajima!
Onsen Master features arcade-style single and two-player co-op, where players must manage the customers of their hot springs, and prepare and put together the correct ingredients to cure their ailments. Running around the hot springs, wrangling wandering customers, and putting the right concoctions into the right baths can be hectic enough already, but troublesome yokai look to impede players’ excellent service as well. Can you overcome obstacles to revitalize and reconnect the communities of Izajima? Spring into action this summer and find out!
Play akeAnywhere via Google Stadia
Meredith Weiss deserves a break, and so do you. And now, you can take that break anytime, anywhere through Google Stadia’s new “Click to Play” feature. Right now, by visiting the Lake Stadia store page, you’ll be able to try the game for 90 minutes absolutely free on any browser-compatible device!
Check out Lake via Google Stadia for free, here: https://stadia.google.com/game/lake.
Travel back to 1986 and take on the role of 40-something-year-old Meredith — an overworked programmer at a software company — who leaves the fast-paced drudgery of her big city life and returns to her quiet, rustic hometown. During her two-week vacation in the beautiful lakeside community of Providence Oaks, Oregon, she’ll fill in for her dad — the local mail carrier — where she will not only deliver letters and parcels to new and old friendly faces but will also rekindle old friendships, make new ones, and maybe even find romance.
Lake is available now on PC via Google Stadia, Steam, or Epic Games Store, on Playstation 4, and Xbox on and Series X|S and Game Pass.
Updated Demos From Whitethorn Games at Steam Next Fest
Re:Call and The Forest Cathedral will have updated demos available until June 20 as part of Steam Next Fest.
In Re:Call, you’ll play through the memories of the character you’re controlling. Your actions inside these flashbacks have immediate consequences in the present moment, letting you take advantage of the situation in order to progress the story. Tackle mind-bending puzzles that rely on altering your own memories to shape the future.
Play the demo and wishlist the game on Steam.
The Forest Cathedral is a first-person psychological thriller set on a remote island. Players will use advanced environmental technology to solve 2D/3D connected puzzles in a dramatic retelling of the attempted silence of Rachel Carson and her discoveries on the harmful pesticide known as DDT.
Play the demo and wishlist the game on Steam.
