Calico Reviews

literally my fave game

I love this game with my whole heart.

it's fun but,i'm alone.that's why i recommend,to play with other's.i'll be nice i promise. :- )

Super cute! Perfect to play on the Steam Deck. And lots of love for the soundtrack ♥

Very cute game, my biggest grime is the keyboard controls. They do advise using a controller but I don't have one currently. You can remap some of the keys at least!

Its a cute game but does not work very well on keyboard and mouse. They want u to use controller but i HATE controllers. Its fun but it is a bit wonky.

i always feel weird reviewing a game that i honestly enjoy, while simultaneously not really recommending it. perhaps this is another "maybe" from me, but because i can only click "yes" or "no" i must click no. as i said, i like calico. i think the art is adorable, the world is so cute, and i'm obsessed with wiggling, putting on head, petting, just interacting with the animals🐈🐈‍⬛!! :3 i liked decorating my cafe as well, i just enjoy decorating broadly. but that ends the good things i can say about it. the quests were mainly ehh, just fetch quests mostly. the controls felt off on both keyboard and controller, i couldn't really get either of them to be functional. while it recommends controller, i ended up just using my keyboard (i have an xbox controller.) and i just, never got certain parts of customization to work at all. getting around always felt like a chore. and honestly? so many people talked about how they love the cooking minigame; that had to be my LEAST favorite part. with how difficult i found the controls, i could never actually complete a cooking mission fast enough, if within the time limit at all. always bronze stars over here. but, this is just my opinion, perhaps if you had a good grasp on the controls, the cooking minigame might be more fun. also i get this game is geared towards girls, but i at least there should be, a boy model, or some way to present as male or not just female. (yes i understand there are minimal options for males, no i don't think there's enough) so i guess to summarize my thoughts on this game, to quote Gwen Stefani, i'm "just a girl" and as a girl, i find this game absolutely adorable and probably will replay it in the future. but i only "maybe" recommend it because it never felt finished to me. was kinda weird to me to see a DLC come out for the game without a base game update of sorts. with a simple polish, i would recommend this game. random, irrelevant thought: the calico world to me is 100% "cotton candy skies like i'm stuck in a dream" 💗💖

Really liked this game! Definitely easy game to complete so if you're looking for something cozy and comfortable I definitely recommend. My favorite part would have to be the aesthetic of the game, Its just simply satisfying. Since it was my first cozy game I have ever played I don't have much to compare to. This in my opinion was a great transition to cozy gaming life, and not too badly priced. In my opinion completely worth it :)

A cozy and colorful game that can be completed quickly, as others have mentioned. I'd personally give around a 6-7/10; decently worth it for the price point and gives a good handful of missions and exploration, but the world can feel a bit buggy and sparse. You also tend to run out of things to do near the end of the main mission, where it felt like i couldn't exactly explore the two end areas because i didn't have many townsfolk left or animals to find after running around once or twice. the cooking minigames are interesting and fun on their own, though the timer feels a bit strict (or i'm just really bad at the games.) the game works well for the cozy vibes and lack of stressors - you don't need to worry about time or losing anything. the visuals are decent and i really love all the color utilized. finding the different animals is fun, and making them big and riding on them is a very funny action! go forth my cat army! (Having the big ones in the cafe can cause them to bug out a bit.) the different biomes can be fun to walk around in, and i like how flowers and plants can pop up around the player when they walk. the different cooking minigames have a lot of variety and can offer a challenge to get gold on everything. however, again the game can feel a bit empty or shallow at times. - while you can decorate the cafe, have a handful of animals around, and put out various food types, there's not much management past decorating or baking new food every now and again. - NPCs dont have much depth, about 2-3 missions each, and you cant talk to them about much else - many areas of the game don\t have much going on other than a few animals wandering out, with some spaces like the beaches not even having much of that either. the janky animal ragdoll physics usually make it more enjoyable though! it's very funny, but can be buggy at times.

This would get a mid score if that was an option. I like the game's visual style and overall theme/feeling. But it is a bit sparse and short. Not much interaction with the world, just animals and NPCs, so it ends up feeling a little empty. Overall, you can finish this in under 10 hours. I like the animals, super cute of course. But if you want a deeply mechanical cafe simulator type thing, this is not that kind of game. Super casual, super cozy, but I was left wanting a bit more. It's like a my-first-stardew-valley kind of thing, with no real concerns about time. This game is not at all punishing, which is a good thing here. I appreciate the effort, but would want to see this game a bit more fleshed out. Overall 5/10.