Spiritfarer is super fun and amazing!! Personally I love the art style and I find it aesthetically pleasing. The game is about helping the souls of humanoid animal friends move on to the afterlife. It can be a little sad at times (since to move on you have to say goodbye), but I think overall its a positive game.
You play as a set character with a pet cat in charge of ferrying souls to the afterlife on your boat. Your character is controlled via side scrolling mechanics, and you can jump on platforms, fish, and harvest materials to build stuff on your boat, such as a garden to farm crops or a loom to weave thread into fabric. You can also collect special materials to learn new skills like double jump, glide, etc. to access new areas of the map. As I mentioned your goal is to help "lost" souls say goodbye and move on to the next life by fulfilling their final requests or helping them tie up loose ends. There are also several fun mini games that you can unlock when meeting new characters. Another fun feature is that someone else in real life can play the game with you as your pet cat, who can move around and perform all the same actions that you do!
Overall I really love this game and I think it takes about 20 hours to complete. In my opinion its a pretty low key game where you can just do whatever you want when you want (no time constraints) and I really like playing it in the evenings before bed.
Also idk if you like point and click style games, but
Röki is a super fun, sort-of point and click adventure game that is also aesthetically pleasing to me. Unlike most point and click games you can actually move your character around freely, which is why I hesitate to call it a true point and click. Either way its a very relaxing game where you play as a young girl and her brother who get pulled into a Scandinavian fairytale where you have to explore a magical forest, collect clues and items, and solve puzzles to reach the main goal (I don't want to spoil anything). The graphics and music of this game are so beautiful and the story was incredible and surprisingly mature. I really enjoyed it and would highly recommend it, even if you've never played a point and click before. Plus unlike other point and click style games I've played this one is actually fairly "long," and took me about 10 hours to complete.
One last game- if you
do like traditional point and click, I would recommend you try
Tangle Tower. You can't move your character and only use the mouse/controller to literally "point and click" but its a really cute murder mystery game with aesthetically pleasing hand drawn graphics. You look for clues around this mystical mansion, solve puzzles, and talk to characters to find out how this girl died. It has a really cool plot twist at the end, and also has great voice acting that really bring so much life and personality into the characters (the background music is also really nice too!). I really enjoyed playing this game and my sister did as well. It is relatively short though (I think it took me 2 or 3 hours to complete) but its really fun and cute, and I would recommend getting it on sale since I think the normal price is around $20.
chicory looks exactly like my kind of game and i think i will buy it when my paycheck comes!! i already own spirit farer but i havent played it much. have been picking it up again recently and ooommmggg it is so good!! definitely helping to scratch my gaming itch rn haha
