sobosuba

A perfect game to relax with. You can play it after a long day at work. You can play it at work. You can play it on your steam deck in bed under the covers. You can play it on the toilet. You can play it while you are waiting for the plumber. You can show it to the plumber, so they can play it after they get home from work. The goal is to try to craftily merge your way to the biggest sobos you can, without triggering the overfill. There's some surprising strategy involved. Because everything is physics based you can slingshot smaller sobos into the wedges of larger ones in the hopes they bury deep enough to join their crushed counterpart. You can also do things like rapid fire sobos onto one side to try to push the entire pile over to try to force some merges in the chaos. There's some other neat tricks to discover like being able to air merge, or developing strategies for how to get the 8k or even 16k sobos. I think the community will come up with some neat stuff no one even anticipated. It's a good game, in the purest sense of the word. It is the culmination of a lot of hard work, careful thought (and perhaps overthinking), consideration, and love put in by the developer, keepeetron. This might be a dying breed: games that are carefully nurtured, by hand, by their creators, rather than mass-produced. I've had the pleasure of being able to know keepeetron, and seeing them grow as a person to be able to realize their dreams. For anyone who has put real effort into creative work, you know what I mean. It can be so hard to cross that finish line and I'm so happy to see this game come out. If you believe in real people making real games, with a lot of love and care put into it, and you want to support that, I think this is an easy purchase, and you even get a fun experience out of it. If you're on the fence, just try the demo. Listen to the sound effects, watch yourself fall into a comfortable feeling as the softbody sobos join together to form larger masses. Make the decision for yourself, but for me it is as relaxing as listening to a gentle summer storm rolling in over the hills. To any players, I hope this game brings you peace of mind and at least a few hours of enjoyment, as it has for me. To any aspiring creatives, I hope you take inspiration from projects such as sobosuba and know that you can do it too! And to everyone, the world needs more sincere, heartfelt projects. This is one shining mote of light in what feels like a growing void of slop. I know sometimes voting with your wallet feels meaningless but in this case I *know* it is helpful. I hope my experience inspires you to fall in love with games, or any art in general, and improve your life just a little bit more. I genuinely believe sobosuba can offer that to you. Thank you, keepeetron, for sharing this game for us. I look forward to seeing what you do next.