Haven Park is a lovely game that suffers a bit from strange movement choices and a partially underbaked camp construction system. The visuals are well-realised with some ambitious depth of field and particle effects (which do put a dampener on performance but we think it’s worth it), and slowly but surely making our way to the higher portions of the island felt just taxing enough to be rewarding. Eventually we started jumping and running all but constantly to circumvent this.īut despite all this we still very much enjoyed our time with Haven Park.
Most games would simply have your character skirt around the blockage or even pass through it completely, and considering how many blinking shrubs scatter the picturesque landscape, it can be a bit tiresome to have to navigate so precisely. For some reason if you so much as brush against a tree or a rock you’re brought to a near-standstill as though the object were supremely sticky. Movement is also in need of a bit of a tweak in our eyes. We eventually found it embarrassingly close to the book we were reading, but to call two warning signs, a shovel, and a pickaxe in a small dip a ‘construction site’ felt a little bit unclear in the moment, and with no note about what we were looking for or way to re-read the book we started double-guessing if we hadn’t misread or misinterpreted the entire thing. Despite not making much sense, Flint also exclaimed that he saw a shovel in ‘a construction area’, but without giving any other indicators of where it could be on the island. One of the highlight subquests had us reading a sort of Choose Your Own Adventure book and, at one point, requiring us to retrieve an in-world shovel in order to progress. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Docked)Īt times puzzles or objectives are laughably simple, which would absolutely be fair enough if some others weren’t uncharacteristically obtuse. It’s certainly a pleasant surprise to hear about some hidden treasure from one person, only to have another camper provide further details that lead you to being able to discover the promised booty, but sometimes Haven Park doesn’t quite hit the difficulty mark. Finding campsites, scouting for truth about rumours you hear from campers, finding the mushrooms necessary to build a working radio (yes, really) - everything funnels you down a new path or three to discover something new. With about 3-4 hours of gameplay in the main story and a lot of fun little side quests Haven Park is perfect to sit back and enjoy a colorful world after a busy day.And the wandering really is the jam in this gaming doughnut if we hadn’t made that clear already. “Haven Park is the first game I developed and I couldn’t be more excited to share it with you! It’s been an incredible journey and I’m thankful for everyone that helped bring it to life”, says solo-dev Fabien Weibel who has been developing Haven Park for just over a year as a means to deal with being in lockdown and avoiding going crazy. Haven Park wants you to relax and enjoy just as much as your campers. There’s a lot to be discovered but do it all at your own pace. Soon enough they’ll even start telling you little secrets and legends about the park and send you off on various quests. Maintain and develop several cozy camps in order to attract even more characters and find out what they need to make their stay the best vacation ever.
Haven Park is a wholesome single-player exploration and building game that lets you explore its beautiful world freely while taking care of the park and its quirky little campers. In Haven Park you inherit your grandma’s old camping grounds and soon find yourself maintaining the park and meeting its whimsical campers to restore the resort to its former glory.
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Indie publisher Mooneye Studios and developer Fabien Weibel are proud to announce that their first joint wholesome exploration game Haven Park is out now on PC and Nintendo Switch.
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