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Reviews for "Maple's Maid Service"

What a cute game! I typically love my games to have a lot of action and guns and challenge and all that jazz, but this game made me really enjoy just wandering around helping all these nice characters.

I was really impressed in general with the game's cute graphics, nice characters and their dialogues, and wholesome premise, but even more so I was impressed at all the little touches that go into making the game feel charming and alive, like being able to bump into trees to make them shake and make leaves fall, being able to kick balls around and even into the water, giving head pats, and just being able to plop down on a tree stump or bench for a little sit whenever you like! In general I love the almost overwhelming sugary-sweetness that this game has: even if you clean your room and go to bed immediately, the game still treats you nicely in the ending screen even though I felt like I didn't deserve it, haha!

The only complaints I can think of at the moment is that it can be a bit confusing getting used to mapping the town at first: I had so much trouble figuring out where the pizza deliveries were supposed to go since they give street address style directions but there are no street signs or house numbers to help (I did like how you can go back and ask for directions though!) It's actually probably because I stumbled upon the pizza quest too early before I could map out the village and there's no way to opt out. Also there are some weird graphical annoyances, like how the broom sweep graphic is kinda lazy and can be layered really awkwardly, like it goes behind a fence you're standing in front of and such. There are some weird audio annoyances as well where music will just cut out or not play and you need to hard reset it by transitioning areas to get it back on track. Oh, and I would've loved even more emotes and character portraits for various emotions!

Overall though it's a lovely little adventure and I look forward to getting a full heart run! Gotta admit though, I wish there was a save/load function since its a lot to do is just one sitting!

EDIT: I spent way too long literally pushing the sheep to the barn without realizing that they were already set to follow me once I pat them.

EDIT 2: Woo, I finished all the tasks! Finally, proof that I'm a good person.

Bleak-Creep responds:

Thanks for such a detailed write up! When I was designing the overworld and the houses, my biggest goal was to make each area and interior feel distinct and unique, and then Peti really took it a step further with some of the animations they were able to add into it, like the swaying wheat or the falling leaves.

We probably should have added a grid to the map screen or some way to toggle a grid though; that's a very valid complaint that's popped up a couple times now.

Glad you enjoyed your time enough to go for a full heart run though! Always makes me happy when I see a new person nab that medal. :)

Peti responds:

I've been anxiously waiting for this review to come out, as soon as monthly voting began every notification made me incredibly nervous lol bc I didn't know when you'd finally see this. To hear that you enjoyed the game and was impressed by it means the world to me. Thank you, I can finally rest easy now! šŸ‡šŸ’•

The only thing I can add is that music not looping/not always playing is intentional, so that the player can listen to the ambience sounds. Similar to Stardew Valley or Minecraft.

Congratulations on finishing all the tasks, and thank you sm for the great review service as always! You ARE a good person!! šŸ™ŒšŸ‡šŸ’•

Cute little game.

I LOVE THIS GAME!!

This is so good like actually I don't usually play games on here but this one caught my eye and it's is really good.

Bleak-Creep responds:

Yay! Happy you gave this one a shot, and Iā€™m glad you enjoyed too. :)

This game is actually very calming. The music and visuals are absolutely beautiful.

Bleak-Creep responds:

Glad you enjoyed! Relaxing and stress free vibes were exactly what we were aiming for :)