Main game
2.50 average rating based on 6 ratings
Spirittea serves up a creative and addictive (after)life-sim loop of attending to bathhouse spirits and helping townsfolk. The tools and menus don’t offer the most fluid experience, and the minigames are often overwhelmingly complicated, but there’s enough to do here that means you can dip in and out of things when you don't like them. Anything you do like, you can soak in for hours.
I like the concept, but the demo doesn't really show anything interesting enough to make me want to buy the full game. (Tip of the hat, though: I like that they introduced an anti-frustration feature with the "meet the townspeople" quest, that is a very nice touch.) This is one that might have benefited from the BioWare treatment, where instead of going in strict chronological order they cherry-pick a couple of missions to really put the game through its paces and sharpen the intrigue.