
Over time, your "frenz" will award you friendship stickers along with bonus resources just for hanging out. Speaking with most of the residents in Badgetown and occasionally completing personal quests for them will net you friendship points. After watering your crops over several days, you can sell them back in stores or in bulk at Penny's for extra gummies so you can buy more seeds at Meed's, clothing at Kibbonbon's, or furniture at Manatwee's.īeyond farming chores, there's plenty to do around the small, offbeat town. Clearing rocks, weeds, and logs will earn you nurnies and planklets as well as open farmland to plant muz, sweetiebeeties, caroots, and more. Like Stardew Valley, you have a limited amount of time and energy to complete your daily tasks.

It will likely take you several in-game days to get your bearings, if just to get all the names of things sorted. In exchange for her assistance, she asks that you help her restore Badgetown's former glory in the eyes of the Ooblet High Council. She recommends that you swiftly join one of four Ooblet clubs - Peaksnubs, Frunbuns, Mimpins, or Frunbuns - which decides your starter monster. You travel by boat to the mainland of Oob, where the cheerful Mayor Tinstle, surprised at both your poverty and lack of knowledge of Ooblets, gifts you a ramshackle farmhouse. Like many farming sims, you start off as a nobody with no money and no skills, hoping to start a new life away from your stuffy hometown. With developer Glumberland finally ready to release version 1.0 of Ooblets, does it live up to its potential or buckle under the weight of carrying multiple genres at once? You're just a nooblet Removing all the weeds, rocks, and logs will give open farmland to till, plant, and water crops. So if this review starts reading like the Rick and Morty commercial for a Plumbus, that's by design. The names of the crops, items, and Ooblet monsters sound like something Dan Harmon might come up with. The game's unusual humor, music, and art fit somewhere between the more chill vibes of Animal Crossing and the mellower side of Katamari Damacy.

Even in its unfinished state, the game was lauded for its quirky style and its strange blend of genres: a farm simulator with monster collecting and card-based dance battles. Ooblets will be familiar to anyone who read impressions of this kooky indie title when it released in early access on Xbox One and PC in July 2020.
