When your parents leave on a year-long vacation, they leave you in charge of of your hometown’s post office. It’s your job to sort the mail and prepare parcels for the villagers and your neighbors. Take the train into the quaint little town of Willowbrooke.
The post office management simulator, Willobrooke Post, is brought to us by developer Dante Knoxx and publisher Excalibur Games. Excalibur Games is based in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. Their main focus is real live simulation games. They are known for games such as Dad Quest and Circuit Breakers.
Willobrooke Post starts off with you riding the train back to a small town you haven’t called home in a while. Your parents have decided to go travel around the world, so it’s your turn to jump in the world of responsibility. They’ve left you the house key and you start out showing up in the middle of the night with no one around. Your parents have left a few letters on how to run the place and left a bit of food for you to cook in case you get hungry. Seems like your normal day to day simulation game from the get go.
The art style reminds me a bit of Minecraft. Very retro and pixelated. It’s a super common art style in use today. The characters have blocky heads very much like Minecraft but the surrounding background and house design was well thought up and detailed than things would be in other pixel games. So if you enjoy a throwback feel to your games, you will enjoy the design aspect of Willowbrooke Post.
To be honest, I like simulation games. Sometimes it’s nice to view yourself in a different life or profession, but Willowbrooke Post makes it tedious. It felt like a normal day being an adult. So there are many things I did not like. There is no real tutorial on how to go about your daily tasks and there are several ways to “fail” a day. If you run out of energy during the day, you instantly go to bed, save the game, and start the next day. There are several things that revolve around having money to spend. Your utilities are due daily and cost most of the money you made the day before. Also in order to make food so you have more energy to do you job costs money to buy. Customers are nice and friendly but quick to leave if you don’t respond immediately. My biggest complaint is that it froze twice in the middle of a short time gameplay and I had to force quit and restart. I know the developers are still working out kinks but freezing twice in the time I played was way too much and turned me off to the game. It was more a frustrating experience than a relaxing get away that I look forward to.
Overall, Willowbrooke Post is a decent simulator if you are into that sort of gaming. It does give you a great perspective on a day to day life in a small town. There is more work to be done on this game before I will give it another go.
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Willowbrooke Post is available for Windows PC for $9.99 via Steam Early Access.
Lady gamer of over two decades that started out adventuring in RPG's and gradually branched out to modern day First Person Shooter and Massive Multiplayer Online Games. A lover of a good story and a sucker for a great soundtrack. Gaming allows us to see the world through different experiences.
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