19 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 1.2 hrs on record
Posted: Nov 22, 2024 @ 10:58pm
Product received for free

Apples Busy Day is a short, cute and cozy game about helping others. Perform some basic fetch quests and sit back and enjoy some quirky humour whilst helping out your fellow fruit and vegetable folk.

Pros
  • Cute, quirky & cozy
  • Silly but wholesome humour & dialogue
  • Easy 100% achievements
Cons
  • Repetitive vocal sounds became off-putting

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Gameplay
There’s not much of a story, but you, an unemployed apple … aptly named Apple, wake up and summon the courage to touch some grass (this is actually a quest title). Upon doing so, you start interacting with your fruit & vegetable neighbours to help them out with their problems.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3370475318

Find a special ticket for Radish, catch all the butterflies for Kiwi, locate some fries for Potato and get Tomato’s ball back! These quests are just a few of many, but essentially it works like most of these similar games. Finish a fetch quest with one character, to be given an item that finishes another quest for different character and so on. You are mostly running around the smallish item to collect things and speak to various characters. There's no difficulty or anywhere you'll get stuck. It's just a nice, calm way to spend a cozy afternoon.

Characters have silly, witty dialogue that is sure to put a smile on your face if you liked games such as A Short Hike, Smushi Come Home, Lil Gator Game etc then you will most likely like this one too, but just keep in mind that it is much shorter and less established.

Visuals & Sound
Visuals are cutesy and very simple, whilst dialogue isn’t completely voiced, there are many sound effects like “ohh” “hmm” “ahh” “ooh” etc. They’re mostly voiced by the same character but if you’re a quick reader and speeding through the text, the symphony of these repeated sounds gets old very quickly.


Playtime: Around one hour

Replayability value: No, I received 100% achievements upon finishing the game after doing all quests

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3370475414

Conclusion
Apples Busy Day is a cutesy and simple game where you help your vegetable and fruit folk with some item collecting and fetch quests. It is only around an hour long, but well worth it for fans of Lil Gator Game, A Short Hike & Smushi Come Home.

Review copy kindly provided by IndieGems
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2 Comments
Mz Cookies Nov 23, 2024 @ 5:16pm 
Haha I hope you like it Janner!
janner66 Nov 23, 2024 @ 2:42pm 
I did enjoy the three you mentioned. I'll pick this fruit. Thanks.