Lonesome Village

released on Nov 01, 2022

Lonesome Village is a cozy, quiet town struggling to rebuild after a strange calamity wiped out their homes. Take the role of Wes the coyote and help bring this village back from the brink of destruction in a puzzle-filled life sim!


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Se você quiser fazer tudo, provavelmente não será incrível em nada, mas tudo o que fizer provavelmente será bom. Lonesome Village sofre com essa falta de foco mecânico e acaba com vários pedaços que não combinam com a qualidade dos demais. Eu adoraria jogar mais quebra-cabeças como os da torre, mas não acho que a parte de simulação seja suficiente para sustentar uma jogatina sozinha. Felizmente, essa combinação de jogabilidade, juntamente com visuais e história fofos, cria um pacote divertido de experimentar, mesmo com suas falhas.

I sorta found this game randomly in the switch eShop. I was drawn to the cute art style and the mention of puzzles. Unfortunately, although i thought i like puzzles, it turns out that I'm really bad at them. Some of the puzzles were pretty easy and some were pretty difficult. It's a mix of thinking puzzles and agility puzzles.

The story of the game is pretty much some bad guys showed up in town and trapped all of the towns people in a puzzle tower in town. As you complete a floor of the tower one or two villagers are released. As you go through the story, more and more villagers are rescued, which starts to populate the town. In order to move higher in the tower, you have to have a certain amount of friendship hearts. Friendship hearts are acquired by doing fetch quests for villagers. These quests range from flowers, fruit, pastries, wood and stuff. You unlocked different areas of the maps as you progress up the tower.

Overall, i liked the game but i def had to use some online guides just to get through some of the puzzles. I enjoyed the world and atmosphere, but i was a bit frustrated at some points. I feel like its a great game, but probably just not my strength.

Tip: I spent too much time totally broke. I did not realize that you can sell stuff. There's a guy in the shop, standing in the back, named California. Sell stuff to him for money. Once you get the golden pickaxe ax, he especially pays well for gems.

---The Good
Simple game play when completing quests
Beautiful art style
Extensive play options after the main story ends
Interesting story

---The Bad
Hard puzzles with no hints
No questing list, you have to remember who wants what.
Night time gets a little dark

c'est des petites énigmes cool, tu te prends pas forcément la tête, tu parles avec les gens du village que t'as secouru en réussissant les énigmes de la tour, tu remplis leur quête pour obtenir des selfies avec eux, bref j'ai pas fini

Really fun little adventure game. The puzzles in the tower were pretty simple, but enjoyable. I enjoyed rebuilding the village and learning the stories of each animal.

At first glance, this game looks like a simple puzzle game with some farming and city management nuzzled in. Unfortunately, this game never finds a good balance of either, with most sections being either brain-dead easy or insufferably hard.

Graphically it looked fine, almost like it was originally made for mobile phones, but it's cute enough to get by. The city aspects were very half-baked, with it boiling down to a series of fetch quests to unlock the next set of puzzles. The puzzles themselves were extremely easy, until the final couple of rooms where they ramp up to impossible without a guide.

It's just an unfair and not very fun experience, and I wouldn't bother playing this unless you are very curious... but even then just watch a guide.