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Gryph is Playing World End Diner | Hidden Gem | (#Blaugust 2023 #23)

Posted by Gryph on August 23, 2023

Posted in: Animal Games, Gryph is Playing, PC Gaming. Tagged: #Blaugust2023, Animal Games, cozy games, early access, hidden gem, simulator, Steam, World End Diner. Leave a comment

World End Diner title screen. Various forest animals are in a clearing, surrounding what appears to be a broken robot. The game is 2D pixel art in design.

My weekend has gotten away from me due to pets and extra errands, but in trying to find something relaxing to do between tasks I stumbled onto a game that is absolutely my jam. I’d never heard of it, but it came up a couple times on random Reddit threads while I was googling “cozy cooking games,” and I was intrigued enough to check it out.

In World End Diner, you are a robot who is cooking for forest animals and fellow robots. I don’t know yet why the world ended, or how, or why I’m cooking for rabbits and otters and robots. I also don’t really care because this is the cozy cooking simulator I didn’t know I was looking for.

Gryph is (Still) Playing Lemon Cake (#Blaugust 2023 #22)

Posted by Gryph on August 22, 2023

Posted in: Gryph is Playing, PC Gaming. Tagged: #Blaugust2023, cozy games, simulator, Steam. Leave a comment

Player character is sweeping up flour piles in their kitchen. There's fire in three ovens behind them, and a cooler along one side of the room.

Despite still being pretty sure this isn’t a game I want to livestream, I’m definitely still playing a lot of Lemon Cake. At some point during the last week, I hit a point with the game where I’d unlocked the easier upgrades on the shop tree, and I had to decide if I was enjoying myself enough to justify going for some of the grindier ones.

I’ve unlocked all three ovens, the freezer, the cat cafe option, all of the greenhouse except the lemons, and all the window displays. I’ve unlocked a good portion of the recipes, and only have one more space to unlock in my Daily Menu space. The only unlocks I’m not near the end of are the decorative ones for the bedroom, since I decided to save those for last.

Gryph Streams To the Rescue! (#Blaugust 2023 #20)

Posted by Gryph on August 20, 2023

Posted in: Animal Games, Gryph Streams, PC Gaming. Tagged: #Blaugust2023, Animal Games, cozy games, Steam. Leave a comment

Music by Chillhop Music: https://chillhop.ffm.to/creatorcred

For today’s post, we have the gameplay I promised a few days ago when I covered To The Rescue! as a game I’m currently playing. Kind of coincidental since I finally started my longer series on what I do at work all day, but the timing just worked out like that.

I have some extra errands to run on my days off this week, but I’m hoping I can spend some time streaming back in Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town and hopefully at least one other game TBD. I’ve mostly been playing Lemon Cake during my workweek, but I’m not sure that’s one I really want to stream. It’s more a game I like doing while I’m watching or listening to something else than one that would be a lot of fun to watch me play.

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Gryph is Playing To The Rescue (#Blaugust 2023 #16)

Posted by Gryph on August 16, 2023

Posted in: Animal Games, Gryph is Playing, PC Gaming. Tagged: #Blaugust2023, Animal Games, cozy games, simulator, Steam. 1 Comment

To The Rescue: A Dog Shelter Simulator. Image is a cartoon person with her arms gently around a large dog, petting him on the head. Other people play with dogs in the background.

After playing To The Rescue for quite a few hours on my rest day yesterday, I decided I am going to do a full post on it after all. I was on the fence because I did encounter some bugs, but in… *checks* Holy crow that was 10 hours! In 10 hours of on and off gameplay I only ran into one bug that actually required a restart and happened more than once. Still not ideal for a game that was released in November of 2021, but I’m very much enjoying the game as a whole!

To The Rescue is a cute little indie game I did not get in that Humble Bundle set. I’d been looking at it ever since I was doing my shelter fundraiser. I was trying to find themed animal games to play for the donation streams. I ended up going with Animal Shelter Simulator – a game I wound up loving, and should definitely post about – but I always meant to come back and check this one out as well.

Rest Day and State of the Blaugust (#Blaugust 2023 #15)

Posted by Gryph on August 15, 2023

Posted in: Blog News, Life Stuff, PC Gaming, Writing. Tagged: #Blaugust2023, cats, cozy games, food, pet tax, Steam, TNR, TVAR. 2 Comments

Charlie. Our black and white cat is curled up on the floor, fast asleep.

Today we’re going to do a quick Blaugust check in since we’re about halfway done, as well as some random life updates I haven’t put together into full blog posts yet. It’s also a grab bag because I’m still pretty exhausted – enough so that I canceled my stream for the night.

I am doing my best to have a rest day.

I’m hitting my goal of a full Blaugust this time, but I am starting to struggle with the time. Finding things to write about is no problem, but every brief post wants to be a normal post and every normal post wants to be an essay. Add in editing and finding pics, and the time does fly.

I know I said I was going to be less picky about my posts as an experiment, and I have been! But I legitimately enjoy editing, finding pics and screenshots, making the design of the page appealing, and writing the alt text. Skimping on any of those isn’t really giving myself a present, it’s blocking myself from part of the process I get joy from.

Gryph is Playing Lemon Cake (#Blaugust 2023 #14)

Posted by Gryph on August 14, 2023

Posted in: Gryph is Playing, PC Gaming. Tagged: #Blaugust2023, cozy games, Steam. Leave a comment

Lemon Cake title screen. Cartoon people scramble to deliver pastries while a cat snacks on a doughnut.

I had a few different posts in the works for today, but by the time I got home I just wasn’t feeling any of them. It was a busy week at work and I just wanted to play something cozy and then blog about something light.

So I dipped back into the Whimsy and Wonder: A Cozy Games Collection Humble Bundle to try out Lemon Cake. I love cooking and baking IRL (I usually prefer cooking since it’s less exact) and I usually enjoy ingame cooking as well. I’m also a sucker for any game that allows me to collect recipes. I’m still proud of myself for collecting every recipe in Super Paper Mario. 🙂

Gryph Streams Cat Cafe Manager (#Blaugust 2023 #13)

Posted by Gryph on August 13, 2023

Posted in: Animal Games, Blog News, Gryph Streams, PC Gaming. Tagged: #Blaugust2023, Animal Games, cats, cozy games, Steam. Leave a comment

Music by Chillhop Music: https://chillhop.ffm.to/creatorcred

I decided to play something new for this stream and try out one of the games from the Whimsy and Wonder: A Cozy Games Collection Humble Bundle. I already blogged about it here and here, but suffice to say I fell in love with this game and played for HOURS past the stream. 🙂

Coming up in my Blaugust schedule, I have a post mostly prepped that gets into more about what I really do in a day at work, but I think I might have to split it into two parts. I have a fun little post on five electronic devices I use daily, and I’m going to do another one on either the top five or top ten apps I use daily.

My TNR cat trap just came in today, so I’m tempted to get some pics of it and do a post about TNR, as well.

I’d like to dig into my Steam backlog a bit more, and I’ll definitely share any gems I come across. And I might have another Good Omens blog in me. (I mean, let’s be real, I probably have 50 in me, it’s just about how much I want to actually write about it.)

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#Blaugust 2023 #10 – Taken over by Cat Cafe Manager, don’t send help.

Posted by Gryph on August 10, 2023

Posted in: Animal Games, Gryph is Playing, Life Stuff, PC Gaming. Tagged: #Blaugust2023, Animal Games, cats, cozy games, Steam. 1 Comment

Screenshot from Cat Cafe Manager, a close up of multiple cartoon kitties sleeping in fancy beds.

I’m going to do another short post today. I was up Entirely Too Late playing Cat Cafe Manager and rewatching Good Omens Season 2 for the umpteen millionth time, so I need to actually try and manage my time today before my work week starts tomorrow.

Now, before the imaginary member of my audience objects that’s just an every weekend thing for them, it’s NOT for me. I only legit stay up until dawn gaming maybe two or three times a year.

Gryph is Playing Cat Cafe Manager (#Blaugust 2023 #9)

Posted by Gryph on August 9, 2023

Posted in: Animal Games, Gryph is Playing, PC Gaming. Tagged: #Blaugust2023, Animal Games, cats, cozy games, Steam. 1 Comment

Screenshot: Title screen of Cat Cafe Manager. A cartoon-style orange cat sits in a window, wearing a flower crown. There is a small table in the foreground, holding a cup of tea in a cat-face-shaped tea cup.

This…might be a short post since coincidentally I’m trying to get Adulting Stuff done so I can stream this game later today. (https://www.twitch.tv/darkgryphon42) But I already have the post written, so we’re going for it!

Cat Cafe Manager is one of the games I picked up in the Whimsy and Wonder: A Cozy Games Collection Humble Bundle. I was looking at the bundle already when a friend mentioned she very much enjoyed some of the games on it. That was just enough of a push despite my already massive game backlog.

Cat Cafe Manager is a cute little building and management type game. Build yourself a cat cafe, decorate it as you like, get new recipes, serve your customers, make some friends…and of course, collect and/or adopt out as many cats as possible!