I’m 45 days into my Camp Spirit journey. It’s a great game that I make time for every day. Making money is a bit grindier in this sequel; in the original you just planted as much fruit as possible, turned it into tincture, and got rich. I miss easy mode, but there are a lot of profitable recipes in this version, so purchasing in-game storage hasn’t been too difficult. The discord community is really helpful with finding ways to make coin. The game play is similar to the OG; you run around helping bears find peace in the afterlife while trying to get yourself back home. The themes are similar, but different enough from the original that the stories are engaging. This one is very modern; the first bear is a podcaster stuck on the influencer treadmill. Another story line is about the stresses of landing VC funding and keeping the wheels of a business turning. I’m guessing that Spryfox is writing from life.Update day 120-ish: I love it so much. The stories are rich and complex. Spryfox made insightful changes to how bears progress that are so hopeful and also emotionally real

I was a big fan of the original Cozy Grove and I had high hopes of Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit. The slow pace of the story was never an issue because you could always farm and build up resources to sell and upgrade your storage capacity / tent and create items. Decorating your tent and the island was fun. However, Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit has nerfed and slowed down even the money making ability now. Items are harder to make and sell for a lot less money. The creators just updated the game to stop players from being able to recycle quartz gemstones for money because they said it was a waste of resources. We’ll, if I could “waste resources” today I could upgrade my backpack today. But now I have to jump through hoops to create higher class gems, then go buy a limited amount of furniture from Kit or Darla and then resell it to them to make any money. It will take me a week to do this because there are only a few items Kit sells everyday and Darla isn’t there everyday with her limited items. It’s way too much time and effort for a simple backpack upgrade. I introduced two of my daughters to Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit so we could enjoy it together, but the slow pace on everything has caused them to lose interest. Unfortunately, I’m very close to losing interest myself.

Here’s the thing: Spry Fox likely would have gone under without Netflix outright acquiring them in 2022. There probably would not be a Camp Spirit without Netflix. I understand people are upset that they need a Netflix account to play, but leaving bad reviews whining about it is stupid. It is what it is.The game is fantastic and a huge upgrade over the original - it’s the same bones, but it’s bigger and better and there’s just more Cozy Grove goodness here. If you liked the original, I recommend getting a Netflix subscription to give this a shot. Their games library is meh to me personally, but I loved the original game so much that I happily bought a Netflix subscription for a month to try this out and am loving it so much that I’ll keep my subscription until I feel like I’ve gotten enough out of Camp Spirit. Great job, Spry Fox!

I saw this on Netflix and immediately downloaded it b/c I played the first one when it was available on Apple & now I play the original on my switch. The thing that irritates me the most and the reason for the two stars is: WHY HAVE YOU ALL REMOVED THE OPTION FOR US TO RECYCLE GEMS??? Not only did it help us free up space but it allowed us the ability to make more money too. It makes no sense to strip the PLAYER of options of how they wanna spend their gems/money because yall deemed it as “wasting resources”. Sadly, I’m deleting this and I’ll just keep my original game on my switch. No one in the reddits/articles I’ve read is happy about this downgrade or thinks it was a smart move. Some don’t even know what to spend their gems on, like me- where do you spend them?? I have 2,337 gems just taking up space in my backpack/storage when normally I’d turn that into millions of old coins by now. There’s no furniture right now asking for gems and when I found a bear to accept gems for a purchase, I bought two deer for 20 gems -_- I still have a buttload just taking up space😭Sorry to sound so angry I just loathe when ppl touch stuff or “fix” stuff that’s not broken😞