Twinkleby is out now, and gives you the chance to furnish a house on a floating island, in the growing genre that is ‘cozy gaming’.
As you’ll see from the video, below, I didn’t get things right at first, since I realised I’d placed my house back-to-front, so when Georgiana sails in, she couldn’t enter! However, I did think she’d just walk straight in through the ‘open-plan’ set-up, but I was wrong.
Hence, I started up again, and she did enter, but in a bid to try and direct her around the house, and hopefully get her to sit on the far side of the table so she faced me, I’d occasionally take things away, such as with the bookcase once she goes to read something from it, to force her back to the table.
One thing you can do in the game, which might seem a bit extreme, is to dispose of household items by simply throwing them off the island! This can even include the house! However, when I did this a few minutes into the game, I was asked, “Do you really want to evict Georgiana?”
Erm… nope!
I did feel a bit “EEK!” with the thought I might kill someone who’s just walked in, so Twinkleby does take us back to the days of Little Computer People in the ’80s, as they’d wander about a house, albeit in 2D fashion.
Clearly, she didn’t take that potential to heart, though, as she ultimately rewarded me with a map fragment, and there’s more rewards for others who go the full route.
Overall, Twinkleby isn’t really my sort of thing, but while I enjoy some ‘cozy’ games, I’m not into world-building games. However, I know there’s a huge market for it, so this will no doubt do very well.
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Thanks to our friends at Might And Delight for the review code for this game.
Twinkleby is out now on PC/Steam.
Important info:
- Developer: Might and Delight
- Publisher: Might and Delight
- Players: single-player
PC specs:
- CPU: AMD RYZEN 9 7950X3D
- Motherboard: MSI MPG X670E CARBON WIFI AMD X670 S AM5 DDR5 PCIe 5.0 4x M.2 2.5GbE AMD EXPO™ ATX
- RAM: 64GB (2x32GB) Corsair DDR5 Vengeance RGB PC5-44800 (5600Mhz)
- Graphics Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XTX NITRO+ 24GB GDDR6 Ray-Tracing RDNA3 6144 Streams
- 1st Storage Drive: 2TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2 (2280) PCIe 4.0 (x4) NVMe SSD TLC V-NAND 7450MB/s Read 6900MB/s
- 2nd Storage Drive: 2TB Samsung 870 QVO 2.5” SSD SATA III 6Gb/s MJX MLC V-NAND 2GB Cache Read 560MB/s Write 530MB/s 98k/88k IOPS
- 3rd Storage Drive: 2TB Samsung 870 QVO 2.5” SSD SATA III 6Gb/s MJX MLC V-NAND 2GB Cache Read 560MB/s Write 530MB/s 98k/88k IOPS
- 4th Storage Drive: Seagate IronWolf Pro 14TB NAS 3.5″ SATA HDD/Hard Drive
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