Heart's Harvest by AidanBacon
Take care of your residents!
Play as a caretaker in a hospice facility - grow food, cook meals, and listen to the residents. Hear their stories and make their last days as comfortable as possible. Little story-driven bittersweet game.
| Link | https://aidanbacon.itch.io/hearts-harvest |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/hearts-harvest |
Ratings
| Given | 3🗳️ | 2🗨️ |
What I liked:
* Characters and mood are great. I enjoyed the small conversations and spending the time with the characters.
* Very cozy feeling - I felt like I really got to know this space by the end of the game
* Cool concept with you trying to please the residents
* Beautiful art and music!
What I didn't like:
* A few bugs and the interface wasn't very intuitive. For example, I still have no idea how to change the square that is "selected" from your inventory boxes at the bottom of the screen (I always had the left one be the "selected one" and moved things around to make the one I wanted to use the left most one which was really awkward). I also kept accidentally cooking/cutting stuff I didn't want to and there was one specific case where I got stuck because I couldn't pick up something that finished cooking and I had to restart the game.
* It took me a while to figure out what the "objective" is, as I kept just feeding them the same fries every day. However after I restarted I got much more into just "role playing" and trying to please the characters and then it clicked for me.
Anyway, really enjoyed my time with this game, thank you for making it!
Game idea is really cute. I like the art and how ambitious it is- the map is pretty big and the detail on the house is lovely. Incredible how you build something so ambitious in just a weekend.
Suggestions:
I wasn't able to progress that far because I found the interface was quite unintuitive. I wasn't able to chop the potatoes by following the instruction to click again after placing them. It took me quite a long time to work out how to plant seeds because of how the whole active item slot works.
As others have said, I love the cozy + cute feel of the game. It took a minute to get the hang of the ui, but once I did there were so many interesting mechanics to play with. Really great stuff overall!