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Bear & Breakfast
Bear and Breakfast is a laid-back management adventure game where you build and run a bed and breakfast...but you’re a bear.
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Bear and Breakfast is a game that I’ve been keeping my eye on for quite some time. Its visual style and gameplay instantly connected with me when I saw the fi
Bear and Breakfast is a laid-back management adventure game developed by Gummy Cat and published by Armor Games Studios. In it, you play as Hank, a young loveable bear swept up in a deal where you set up your very own B&B resorts in the middle of the woods.
While a cozy management game, Bear and Breakfast still needs to polish some of its "bare" necessities.
In Bear and Breakfast players take on the role of a cute entrepreneurial bear and run multiple bed and breakfasts. Why would humans trust an ursine running a resort? Because he makes the experience bear-able.
The most glaring problem for Bear and Breakfast is that controlling the game is an immense chore on Switch, which means it ends up being a chore to help a bear complete his own chores. Opening up new areas and completing specific goals to move forward in the game is rewarding, but trying to navigate menus with the clumsy control scheme isn't worth getting out of bed for. Despite its flaws, Bear and Breakfast is no doubt a better game on PC, so play it there if you're smarter than the average bear.
Players will begin by building simple bedrooms in their first property, and Bear & Breakfast utilizes similar mechanics to games like Two Point Hospital for how players will design each resort room. Comfort and decoration points are determined for each room by the levels of furniture and decor they contain, and each potential guest will have an expected level of each they expect for their stay. Matching or exceeding guest expectations will result in higher reviews and pay, while the opposite is true for an underwhelming stay. The review system is solid in terms of its mechanics, although the a...