Review anarchistica 1/5 · Nov 14, 2025
Lazy mobile game
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Playtime: 83 minutes
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Played: 2025
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Expectation: Mixed. Lots of worthless games in this genre
Intro
This is a very barren and basic farm life sim.
Review
I have played well over 500 bad games and Summer in Mara still managed to surprise me with some its design elements. There are no graphics options, just a single slider labelled "Quality". The …
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Playtime: 83 minutes
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Played: 2025
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Expectation: Mixed. Lots of worthless games in this genre
Intro
This is a very barren and basic farm life sim.
Review
I have played well over 500 bad games and Summer in Mara still managed to surprise me with some its design elements. There are no graphics options, just a single slider labelled "Quality". The map doesn't show your location. To confirm actions it shows the left mouse button highlighted with "Accept" next to it. Clicking doesn't confirm, you actually have to click on Accept (lol).
There are also more familiar bad design elements. There is a completely pointless crafting timer despite time being paused. To change the handful of setting you have to quit to the main menu. Controls cannot be changed, which is especially annoying because i wanted to use left-click to interact (i.e. cut trees) instead of E. Cutting trees also involves press E and waiting several seconds three times per tree. And then you have to pick up the wood manually too. There is also no run toggle so you have to hold Shift for the entire game. Finally, even the translation is flawed; you "eat" drinks.
The story and quests are also impressively bad. Right after the tutorial part there is a timeskip which is not indicated at all. You wake up and suddenly it's years later? Literally nothing showed the passage of time. Then at some point your character goes "wow look at the light on the beach" and you have to find it. There is no light, just a tiny octopus in the water. The next night the game tells you to talk to "Napopo" with no indication who that is or where they are.
I haven't even mentioned how this looks like an asset flip from at least 15 years ago, with irrelevant music and no voice acting. I wouldn't recommend this even if you got it for free.
