Ooblets
Ooblets—the squishy life sim first debuted as an early-access game in 2020—has all the farming stuff you’d expect. You can grow squiggly plants, sell treats you made, and engage in the noble but classic farm game objective of transforming your run-down town into charming paradise. But it also places a surprising and delightful emphasis on dancing.
A good chunk of Ooblets involves growing and hanging out with ooblets, small creatures with jawbreaker-sized eyeballs that look like radishes, or fish, or anything else tiny and tender, and you can battle them like in Pokémon. Except! Instead of engaging in actual combat, you send your ooblets off into White Chicks-style dance-offs. It’s a nice chill-out game, and was released in its final form for Switch, Xbox, and PC (via the Epic Games store) on September 1.
