On the last day of a deadline for writing an academic report, my classmate sent me a video of a super short, vague commercial about this game, that didn't get the spelling of the name right. Did it matter – N.O.

I went to its page on Steam and had a looksie through the videos and skimmed through the description. I did not need much more.
And I tell ya, it's well worth the hundralapp, as we say in Sweden.

I love the style – it brings me back to one of the coziest games I know: Sable. But in this, it's combined with my favourite app, Habitica.

It's a lovely Ghibli-esque hot pot stew of lovely ambience (which could not have had better timing since the report I'm writing is about our project that was an audiovisual ambient concert named "Ambient Evening, a pause in the life." And it so happens that my contribution to this concert was in the name of Zen and Daoism — which is very much the essence of this game.)

And I L.O.V.E that a timer is included (because if I am ever going to learn how much time certain tasks take, in order to create a decent freelance business, I will need that effing timer and use it.) But it so happens my go-to is the Pomodoro technique, which you can customise according to your needs (within limits).
So, to summarise: I can say bye-bye to my Pomodoro app and Habitica and get that therapeutic feel from Sable when using this game to get my ♥♥♥♥ done.
Oh, did I mention you can also write a journal and track habits in this game?

There's so much I love and have use for in this game that I find it difficult to find any critique. But there is one major thing I've discovered.
Instead of actually writing my report, I could not stop myself from 'playing' the game.
I wanted to discover all its features and found myself skipping through the different landscapes, violently clicking everything, because I wanted to find more of those cute li'l spirit creatures. And I kept checking on how many coins I earned, because I was dying to customise everything I could. And I kept customising and discovering and adjusting the volumes and changing the playlist. For. So. Long.
This sort of defeats the game's purpose of making me do the thing I need to do.

But… and here's a big BUT.

The development in the game is quick. I level up so fast because it's constantly running and makes you feel like you're being productive, when in reality you spent time talking to your cat, plus you had a visit to the loo, and your friend needed an ambulance (I'm not making this up, tbh).
On the contrary, it's beneficial.
Why? Because I lost interest in the game after I had discovered what I could. I learned its limits very quickly, and that report was starting to seriously call my name. The audio was a lovely background noise that helped me focus on the task at hand.

So if you can relate to this somehow, all I can say is – it's definitely worth a try and they very much deserve the money for this lovely and useful game.

I would not call this a game though. This is a Tool!

I have been struggling to get the game to work on my computer. It doesn't save any information, doesn't set timers longer than 1 minute, I cannot use the travel, map or home buttons, and it opens a fresh game every time I use it. Is this how it is supposed to work? I would like to be able to save journal entries and weekly goals, but it doesn't. Has anyone had similar issues?

Edit: I was contacted by the developer, which was lovely to see. However, with the advice to reset my game with the reset button, my game shut down, and when I re-launched it, I had the same set of issues. The home button, travel button, and map buttons still don't work and I am still set to level 99. I also can't get the music to work now. I'm not sure what else to do unfortunately.

I bought this as soon as I could and it does not disappoint! I love it so much, I was not expecting the built in to-do lists and habit tracking but it's genius. Gamifying the chore list in a way that is low pressure but still rewarding.
I would love to have more in-world interactions of some kind, but other than that my only complaint is WHY is this not on every platform. PLEASE, I NEED THIS ON IOS.
I look forward to future updates, hoping for the best!