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Cute, cozy game about cleaning up the environment and helping out little creatures. I will continue to play the entire game, but I ran into an issue that will make me walk away for at least a few days in order to cool down.

In each level, you have a meter in the corner showing you your cleaning progress. Cleaning up the piles of muck and vacuuming up the garbage is pretty easy to complete, and the random items you need to collect in each level is simple, but I've ended up at 99% on just about every level due to a plant that needs watering. Either a plant that wasn't completely watered (each requires enough water to "bloom" three times) or I missed a small grass-looking plant that ended up hidden behind a fully-bloomed plant. Unless there is a late-game upgrade I'm missing, I would've loved to have some kind of radar to track down that last bit. You can finish any level at 95%, but let's be real. Cozy gamers are completionists.

Now, that isn't my game-breaking gripe, just the precursor. While searching for the last 1% in the Japan level, I paused the game to walk away for a bit. You can only do so much circling around and watering nothing in hopes of finding the missing plant. You can try to use the auto-watering tool, but it has a smallish range and if what you're trying to water is behind something else, it won't get hit.

Anyway, while sitting at the pause screen, I clicked on the "Return to Map" button. No "Are you sure?" dialogue box or any other warning pops up. It just takes you to the map. I clicked back on the Japan level, which reloaded the entire level back to 0% complete. The game doesn't auto-save, so there was nothing I could do to get back to my 99% game. I just stared at the screen, sighed, and shut off the game. Then immediately started writing this review.

I don't review games, but this is egregious enough for me to change my ways. I still recommend the game because it scratches an itch that I know a lot of cozy, ADHD-addled people like myself have. It's cute, colorful, has puns, and I got it for $4. I just wish there was a bit of polish that prevented even the most relaxed gamer from rage-quitting.

Everything I've ever wanted in a game and more.