Forest Camp Story 4+

UPDATE: Changing this from a one star to five star! A few days after writing my original review complaining about a game (and save file)-breaking bug, the game’s been updated and the bug is gone!

Now to the game itself: It’s an amazingly relaxing camping sim in the same vein as other Kairosoft games. Cute, fun, and with ever increasing numbers and research projects, making a camp that’s fun looking AND useful is an enjoyable challenge!

One interesting aspect of this game is that you don’t just manage a campground, but you also manage a store in town that sells camping gear! In a cool attention to detail, the goods you sell in city will also show up on the campers that come to your campgrounds!

I’ve loved kariosoft games for years and years, my favorites being sushi spinnery, pocket stables, pocket clothier, and game dev, amongst a few others. This one is a good concept but unfortunately I didn’t find myself getting hooked, and I think that was due to progression. It felt a bit slow and formulaic, with not much in between spending and saving sprees. Usually these games have me hooked and coming back for hours on end, but with this one I played for about 3 hours straight, then couldn’t find myself wanting to open the app again. This could entirely just be my own experience, but I believe the concepts of the new ones right now like tropical resort and convince store might just be a better fitting theme for me.
Overall, give it a try! It’s good fun as always but just felt slower and not much to keep me personally engaged for very long.

This is exactly the kind of kairosoft game I want. It’s fun, cute, lots to do, easy to learn. This whole game is so charming and makes me feel like I did playing some of my other favorites like Cruiseship story, hot springs, ski resort, and The Megamall. I love that we can alter terrain and add water to the landscape and that the pathing for the visitors is better. Visitors can walk through/around everything to get to where they need to go so it’s easier to place buildings and decorate. Thank you for those improved features. I definitely recommend this game.