This review contains spoilers

Hands down the best game on Playdate for now.

Bloom is a narrative game where you are Midori, a college dropout that chases her dream of owning a flower shop. The game has two halves: the one at the top floor where you plant and harvest flowers to pay upgrades for your garden and the other at the bottom floor where you talk with people through your phone, progressing in the story.

The game advances in real time, so you gotta wait sometimes minutes, sometimes hours to get your reply. Getting to read everything that happens to Midori through her phone, sometimes being unable to reply or keeping through her good or bad decisions makes it somehow super relatable and it's a great fit for the console.

I just wish the garden stuff wasn't like a separate entity to get you entertained and doing something through completely unrelated in the end with the story progress.

Reviewed on Sep 20, 2022


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