Steam] Happy Valentine's Day! The sweet and sweet PC games we recommend!

Table of Contents

1. "Cake Bash," a quick and exciting party game

2. "Lost In Sweets," a relaxed management simulation

3. "Jolly Battle," a casual board game that brings back memories of the old days

1. Cute cakes engage in fierce battles! Cake Bash" is a quick and exciting party game that can be played quickly and easily.

• Cake Bash (High Tea Frog)
• Genre: Action
• Release date: October 15, 2020
• Price: 2,050 yen (as of February 7, 2021)
• Copyright: (C) 2020 High Tea Frog

When one thinks of a typical sweet, what comes to mind is probably a cake. With its fluffy sponge, smooth cream, and colorful decorations, cake is not only delicious but also gorgeous to look at, and is an indispensable part of events and anniversaries. Cake Bash" is a quirky party game in which cakes are involved in hot battles.

The main characters in this game are cute little cakes with postcard-like faces and arms and legs.
There are various types of cakes, such as cupcakes, shortcakes, eclairs, and doughnuts, and each cake has multiple color variations.

The combination of cake types and colors to create your favorite sweets, such as "Strawberry Chocolate Donut" and "Green Tea Shortcake," is more exciting than simply creating an avatar and will keep you pondering over it.

Once you have finished creating the sweets that will become your control character, the game begins.

The player's objective in this game is to outshine the other sweets and become the sweets of choice for the customers.

However, even if you are chosen, you cannot compete on taste, as the sweets shop where the game takes place does not have a tasting corner. So, what is the main competition?

In order to appeal to customers, players must buy toppings and put them on their bodies to decorate them. The world of sweets is a very graphic and worldly world, where no matter how good the taste is, if it doesn't look good, the customer won't choose it. ......

In the "Cake Bash" world, you need "chocolate coins" to buy toppings. In order to collect more of these chocolate coins, the sweets engage in an epic battle of blood for blood, or rather cream for cream!

So, this title is a party game in the style of fighting in mini-games to get the chocolate coins.

The mini-games include a stage called "Bash" and a stage called "Snack," and this "Bash" is the key to this title. The rules of the bash games are simple, such as "get more toppings that fall during the stage within a time limit," or "throw as many fruits as possible into the pie in the center of the stage, like a ball tossing competition. However, during the game, players are allowed to punch their opponents at any time. How violent ...... is, even though it looks cute!

It may seem a little awkward to beat up these cute and tasty-looking cakes, but the world of competition is a world where you can't always play nice. You have to make good use of the "punching" action to win the mini-game. The formula for victory in this game is to hit the opponent who has the most toppings attached to him and make him scatter the toppings, or to hit the opponent who has 10 times as many golden fruits and knock him out. Has there ever been such a fancy mood of mortal combat? ......

The "Bash" mini-game also includes a variety of chaotic elements to spoil the mini-game, such as the random appearance of obstructing weapons (such as lollipops and pepper bottles) in the stage, strong winds, and giant pigeons that attack the stage. The game is based on the "Mario Party"-style mini-games, and is a unique messiness that is like the essence of "Smash Bros." and "Fall Guys" added together.

In the "Snack" mini-game, which alternates with "Bash," you cannot perform any punching actions, nor do any weapon items or gimmicks appear.

These mini-games are purely a test of individual skill, as you cannot drag your opponent down, but many of them, such as "a game of roasting marshmallows to the right degree of doneness" and "a game of catching falling ice cream and stacking it high," require delicate manipulation and technique, and the visuals These games require delicate operations and techniques, and are challenging to play in spite of their cute visuals.

Among these games, the one that hooked me was "Sweets Royal. It is a mini game in which the player who survives to the end wins by running around on a narrow hole cake with forks flying at full speed from above and in all directions.

After getting chocolate coins in the mini-game, players purchase the toppings they need to win in the "Topping Shopping" phase.

Since collecting three of the same toppings will give you a high score, you want to choose carefully, but this shopping phase has a very unfriendly specification: all players move around at once and the first one to buy wins.

The shopping phase is not quite as relaxing as in the mini-game, where players cannot fight each other, and even if a topping sells out, it is immediately replenished with a new one.

And what makes this shopping phase even more heated is the gacha. The gacha can be played as many times as you want with cheap chocolate coins, but it is a quirk that sometimes you will get a topping that is not the one you want.

While there is a chance that you may get the toppings you want, there is also the risk of losing a large number of points if you get a hapless topping. We know that it is not a good idea to overdo the gacha, but the charm, or rather the magic, of gacha is that it makes you want to keep on playing. ......

The player who has the highest total score of toppings at the time of the announcement of the final result is the winner. The game also includes an element of luck, such as negative scoring toppings from gacha, so no matter how many wins you have in the mini-games, you never know who will come in first until the very end, which is the thrill of the game.

Cake Bash" is a game that is a perfect combination of cute and comical visuals of cakes, simple yet exciting mini-games with clear rules, and action-packed fistfights, which sets it apart from other party game titles. With an online mode that lets you play with players and Steam friends from around the world, "Cake Bash" is a title that we confidently recommend to anyone looking for a game that is easy to play and fun to get together with.

2. Pastry chef girls try their hand at making sweets in a different world! Lost In Sweets" is a relaxed management simulation game.

• Lost In Sweets" (Conteride)
• Genre: Simulation
• Release date: November 1, 2019
• Price: 520 yen (as of February 7, 2021)
• Copyright: (c) 2019 Conteride

Have you ever tried making sweets?　I am a specialist in eating sweets, so I am always impressed by people who can make sweets. I am secretly hoping to have him treat me to a cake the next time I visit my parents' house.

Lost In Sweets" is a management simulation game about a patisserie whose business is making sweets.

The main character is a pastry chef girl wearing a cook's hat with a big ribbon. One day, she is suddenly transported to another world with her store, and with the help of Jashin, a support robot she met in the other world, she makes sweets and sells them to the local creatures to earn money and purchase a warp device to return to her original world.... ...and that is the story of "Lost In Sweets".

The first thing that catches your eye when you start the game is the hand-drawn graphics with a gentle touch. Not only the characters, but also the backgrounds, text, and other areas of the game are designed in a warm, handmade style, and just looking at them is relaxing and comforting.

The soft atmosphere of the game may lead you to think that you will be running a store at your own leisurely pace, but surprisingly, this game has the concept of time and date, in which time passes with each action. As time progresses, the player is presented with missions such as "prepare 5 pancakes by the end of the 4th day," and the player is expected to run the store while aiming to accomplish these missions.

There are two main types of actions players take to run the business: making sweets and gathering ingredients. Selling sweets is a simple matter of placing the finished sweets on the display shelves, and the robot will take care of the rest.

Incidentally, the robot will also do the shopping for items useful for management. I want this robot. ......

Naturally, ingredients such as sugar and milk are needed to make sweets, but the setting is an alien world where mysterious creatures and robots live. There is no way to go to the market or supermarket to buy the ingredients like in the world we live in, or rather, substances such as sugar and milk do not exist in the first place.

This is a world where making sweets is already a dead end. ...... but in this other world, there are sweet nuts that could be used as a substitute for sugar. This is a patissier girl who decides to make sweets using local ingredients, but even so, this girl who can easily make pancakes and jellies from strange ingredients in a strange land must be a tremendous genius...! But then again, this girl must be an incredible genius to be able to make pancakes and jellies from strange ingredients in a strange land...!

So, the "gathering ingredients" system is based on a system in which the player selects a location such as a "plain" or a "forest" and the girl will gather things that could be used as ingredients. The longer the player sets the time to search, the more materials she will gather, but be careful, as this will greatly reduce her physical strength. By the way, stamina can be recovered by sleeping on the bed in your room.

Once you have gathered the ingredients, it is time to try your hand at making sweets. However, there is no need to take any difficult actions, and you can simply select the recipe and cooking time for the sweets you want to make. Note that there is a possibility of failure depending on the probability.

In addition, while making sweets, the girl may come up with a new recipe. At first, she learns only about five recipes, but eventually she can learn more than 30 recipes. There are no hints in the game as to the conditions for inspiration, so you have to try things out on your own to find it, but this sense of exploration and excitement is reminiscent of retro games in some way, and I found it deeply satisfying.

The main routine of the game is to earn money by repeatedly collecting ingredients and making sweets, but the main point of interest for me is the presence of mysterious creatures that visit the store.

Starting with Putti, a creature that looks like a combination of a rabbit and a cat, there is a small water dragon-like creature, a flower-like creature that floats in midair, a black rabbit with a springy body, and a cute ogre with a big horn and dull eyes. They will entertain you.

When they first arrive at the store, we see an interaction event between the girl and the robot, and all of the strange creatures' ecology, as explained by the robot, has a mysterious charm that is so interesting that it could be a stand-alone work by itself.

Despite its relaxed atmosphere and casual gameplay, "Lost In Sweets" is packed with the fun of a management simulation game that makes you want to do this and do that. It is recommended not only for simulation game lovers, but also for those who are looking for an easy-to-play game and those who like cute things.

3. Sweets battle of deduction and intuition! Jolly Battle, a casual board game with old-fashioned competitive style

• Jolly Battle" (JollyCo)
• Genre: Table
• Released on July 27, 2018
• Price: 100 yen (as of February 7, 2021)
• Copyright: (c) 2018 JollyCo

The Switch software "World Asobi Daikon 51" includes a game called "Dots & Boxes".
This is a simple competitive game played with just paper and pencil, and although the rules are completely different, it reminded me of the XX game I used to play on the blackboard in elementary school, and it made me feel irresistibly nostalgic.

Jolly Battle" is another game that may bring back memories for some people.

Jolly Battle" is a board game with a motif of sweets. It is a naval battle game. In this game, two players take turns placing rectangular panels on their own sides, and taking turns opening one square at a time to reveal the position of all the other players' panels before the other player does. It is a simple game that requires only paper and pencil, and since retro games based on this naval battle game were also released, some of you may remember playing this game as a child.

In naval games, the frames are usually modeled after battleships, but in this game, you place pies, cakes, doughnuts, and other sweets. The game is characterized by its unique and gaudy colors, which give the game an atmosphere of foreign sweets, and its comical cartoon-like faces. Furthermore, if you look closely, you will see that the board on which the sweets are placed is also made of cookies, which is a thoroughly sweet touch.

As in the original naval battle game, the game proceeds in the same way as the original naval battle game: first, you place a predetermined number of sweets on your board, and then you and your opponent take turns attacking the opponent's board, one square at a time.

If you successfully hit the square where the sweets are placed, you can attack one more square. If you are successful, you will be able to vacate squares one after another in a single turn. It is no exaggeration to say that the greatest thrill of this game is the feeling of successfully completing a series of empty squares through intuition and deduction.

The game is designed to provide a hint, which is essential for guessing, as to which shape of candy is left and how much is left, and this information is always displayed in the upper left corner of the screen.

In this game, the rule that sweets cannot be placed next to each other is adopted. This rule gives the player a big advantage in winning the game, because if he or she finds a candy, he or she will be informed that all the surrounding squares are "no candy".

However, there are no other clues at all, and in the early stages of the game, especially until the first candy is found, the game is completely a game of luck. In such a case, you may want to use a bomb-shaped rescue item. This item allows you to attack multiple squares at once, such as a horizontal line, a vertical line, or a 3 x 3 square area, so it can be very effective in obtaining information in the early stages and in the final stages.

Incidentally, these items are consumable, and in order to acquire them, you need to complete missions that are updated on time, or purchase them with coins obtained by clearing stages, so be careful not to overuse them. The system in this area is similar to that of casual games on smartphones.

The main mode of this title is the "Campaign Mode," in which players clear stages while competing against the AI.

In this mode, players can select from three difficulty levels for each stage, which is unique for a casual game.

In Easy difficulty, the board is narrower and the number of sweets is smaller, but in Hard, the board is wider and only one square of sweets/donuts, which are difficult to hit, appear. In addition, the enemies use powerful rescue items, so it is not so easy to win. The fact that you can enjoy both a quick and easy difficulty level and a tough and sturdy difficulty level is a key point that makes the game replayable.

The exhilarating feeling when your guesses and intuition are right on target is addictive, and despite its simple gameplay, "Jolly Battle" has an appeal that keeps you playing. The game also features an online battle mode, and at the time of writing, is priced at a reasonable 100 yen, so it might be fun to give it as a Steam gift to a friend to enjoy a sweet battle with them.

Author：Nero Hyakkabe

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