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Haven Park really is A Short Hike meets Animal Crossing, and it’s cute, cosy funAn island worth exploring
An island worth exploring
As someone who both adores Adam Robinson-Yu’s wholesome adventure gameA Short Hikeand has spent many hundreds of hours playingAnimal Crossingover the years, Fabien Weibel’s new camping indie gameHaven Parkseems like the perfect cross-section of my personal gaming tastes. It’s set on a colourful island paradise-cum-outdoors adventure park, much like A Short Hike, and your task is to make this place a nice, cosy hangout for prospective campers, building and crafting new facilities to fulfil their needs, which is very much in the same vein as Nintendo’s animal life sim. And having played a bit of the game so far, I am happy to report that this really is the perfect cross-section of my personal gaming tastes, and I will likely be losing the entire weekend to it as I continue my little adventure.
Haven Park - OUT NOW - Official Game TrailerWatch on YouTube
Haven Park - OUT NOW - Official Game Trailer
There’s a lot of flexibility in where you place your various creations. While each campsite has a generally defined area where you’ll need to put things down in order for them to count as ‘being’ in that site, you can plop down a tent, grill, radio, bench - you name it - pretty much wherever you want. You’re not tied to a set grid like Animal Crossing, and once you’ve decided on the rough location you can rotate your item to whatever jaunty angle you desire. It’s a bit likeHokko Life, in that respect - albeit with a much clearer set of goals and objectives attached to them.
Once you make a camp fire, campers will start appearing at a site and ask you to build more facilities for them so they can have a nice time.
If that sounds like your kind of game, Haven Park is out now onSteamandGOGfor just £6 / $8, which I think you’ll agree is just perfect for an afternoon’s worth of cosy, island fun.
