Really enjoyed my time with Bloom. A sweet coming of age story about a queer women in Japan who opens a flower shop. The game takes place in real time, with flowers growing over the course of multiple-real world hours. The story is told through Midori's phone, which every few hours or so will buzz with a new conversation for you to read through and make (basically meaningless, but still nice to include) choices. The stakes are never high, and every minute spent looking at Midori's tokatsu or her little stray black cat is a minute well spent.

I will say that I felt the subject matter was kind of an odd choice for a dev team entirely (as far as I can gather) made up of American men. While I definitely don't think you can't write about things you haven't directly lived, there were periods where it felt very much to me like I was reading what a man thought two young queer girls would interact like, instead of anything real. But I could just be reading too much into that.