Calico Reviews

Love everything about this game. It's cozy and adorable!

I haven't played for very long but I'm having a lot of issues with the game. The controls are confusing and unintuitive. When you open the game it says it plays best with a controller but then gives keyboard and mouse instructions. I can't find a way to display controller instructions. I also don't like that as far as I can tell, there's no way to fix the camera on my character.

The cooking game was fantastic i would play that as a full game for hours. There was one cat "Pudgems" who was beautifully animated and I turned into a horse, I loved walking around on him. I didn't get anything out of the fetchquests or the different areas you can unlock, everything felt empty. the animals walk in little circles like sad zoo animals and it felt bad to kidnap them. The game is also janky but nothing really hurt my experience beyond the blinking quest for the DLC i didn't have.

It has a good idea but executed poorly. The game feels very unpolished and has a good few bugs. The quests get repetitive very quickly and decorating the cafe flt very cumbersome and off putting to do

i recommend this game - BUT ( and a very important but at that ) only if the aesthetics and the cuteness is something that immediately draws you in at first glance. i love this game to bits despite the poor controls and physics and its many bugs and glitches, because the many many cute animals you get to play around with make it all worthwhile for me!!! you mean i get to put a bunny on my head ?!? i'm sold. also i am a sucker for fetch quests which this game has plenty of, and plenty of cute character designs too. i wish i could wrap myself up in this game and never leave... but really make sure to get this game on a sale, it's too buggy for its full price as of now :(

Don't get me wrong I love the game but ever since I first played I got so stressed by the fact that I could NEVER get a perfect score on the cookies. The time was always never enough, and I tried recently, (because maybe I was just bad at the game when I first tried) but I still only ever got silver! I just think it would be nice to give more time to bake, I like to play games to 100%, but it's impossible to get a good score on some baking levels. Still, if your in the game just for a short cozy experience it's amazing! It's cute, silly, and one of the most cozy games I've played. Overall It's great, but I would love more time to bake.

I really want to recommend this game, because the premise is fun, it has a lot of cool ideas, and the style is charming, but it's in dire need of polish; just moving around in the game feels bad. Turning slows you down, so unless you go in a straight line and turn like a robot it's very hard to go exactly where you want to, plus you auto run if you go straight for too long and I couldn't find a way to turn that off. You can toggle run, and choose to run everywhere but this doesn't really fix the turning issue, and the game never tells you it's even an option so you would only know if you did it accidentally or checked the keybinds. This all wouldn't be a huge deal but it is an open world game so you are walking/running around all the time. There are also a ton of other issue, like the animal pathing not being great (they keep getting stuck next to my cafe door), one tried to follow me while I was doing the baking minigame, the toy is hard to use, I had a pulsating notif to check my mail and it turned out I literally couldn't because of a bug, etc. etc. None of these are game breaking, but they all contribute to a noticeably worse experience that left me wishing the game had more polish or was a little less ambitious or something. If none of that sounds like a deal-breaker for you than by all means go for it, I think the game has a lot of heart and I desperately want to enjoy it but in its current state I just can't.

Calico: A game about magical girls on an island surrounded by wildlife. The player gets to create their own character with a pretty decent create-a-character system and run a cat cafe and talk to different villagers to complete a set of quests (three per villager), meet and own different kinds of animals, bake several goods by completing different mini-games depending on said baked goods, and (depending if you bought the DLC) interact with several things around the parts of the island that make it feel more alive. You can beat the game between 8-10 hours with DLC included and earn 13 total achievements. Pros: -Relaxing cat game -Cute and unique graphics -Decent amount of gameplay -Good music Cons: -Controls feel clunky -Achievement system is glitched (locked me out of the "Animal Expert" achievement) -World feels lifeless (DLC helps) -Animals don't stay inside cafe (they walk in place at the door outside) and have a tendency to spin Very good game. Bought a copy for my partner and are doing our run at the same time. It just feels like an unfinished product

I REALLY want to like this game. Truly, I do. But when I can't use my controller because my mouse keeps constantly glitching back on screen, and I can't use my mouse because of general wonkiness, I simply can't get behind it. I'm going to try again in a few months, maybe, and see if the controls get optimized. Fingers crossed! It has potential, but it's definitely not there yet.

the game is great!! very cute & i love designing my own cafe. i do wish there was more to do in the game because i feel it’s very easy to complete and then there’s not much to do anymore :( but i do love the game and i rlly enjoyed my play through!! <3