Confetti’s Cozy Corner: Cinnabunny Review
Cinnabunny hopped its way into our hearts last month and is a cozy life sim that centers on the main character bunny which you can customize with an overwhelming number of customization options to make the cutest bunnies ever!
Cinnabunny begins in your hometown, where you learn how to make baked goods, gather water, and farm. Your parents let you know that the water supply is dried up and, unfortunately, has made the home uninhabitable. But Momma Bun plans to send you to Sugar Creek Burrows, a paradise for bunnies, to earn enough carrots (the currency in Cinnabunny) to move the entire family there and start a new life!
Cinnabunny has SO many options to customize your bun that you will spend a lot of time making the perfect and cutest bun ever.
Once you move to Sugar Creek Burrow, you will meet the mayor and other bunny citizens who will make you feel welcome. The map is a decent size to explore from the pretty massive beach and town with the ability to unlock more areas as you progress through the story. The abandoned bakery you take over is very small, but if you move the furniture just right, you can make the space functional.
The game mechanics are straightforward when it comes to baking different items, from pastries to bread, desserts, and more! I enjoyed the small motions of kneading the bread, mostly because it was not overwhelming for me as a gamer with carpal tunnel.
The challenge with baking, I say, stems from figuring out which bunny citizen likes, as building relationships is important! The way to figure out what bunnies like is, honestly, trial and error. Moreover, you, the player, must manually document in the window who likes what, which I wish was an automatic feature, but on the other hand, I understand it adds to the immersion of the life sim aspect of the game! Once you get feedback on what a bun likes, you open the menu to your notepad and record the information that was given to you. For example, your sister bun, Luna, loves spicy and bread in a roll shape! The more you develop your relationships, the more recipes and cooking utensils will be unlocked!
Baking baked goods and selling them is not the main way to make carrots. That will come from foraging for mushrooms and selling them to Anita, who enjoys tart, savoury, and salty flavors! You will find many mushrooms in the cave, which you can unlock at the post office via the community board for 200 carrots! My advice is to make a lot of flatbread in the beginning to save up to the 200 and unlock the cave as fast as you can to make the big carrots!
There are other things you can do for carrots, such as taking photos of birds for Wren, capture recycle bots for Rowan, job quests, and more! But the caves are the key for carrots!
I am personally about twenty hours in with three family members moved to Sugar Creek Burrow. After unlocking everything I could, the grind for carrots can become, well, a grind. But the goal for Cinnabunny is to go at your own pace and enjoy the experience, which I can say I am doing!
My favorite part of this cozy game is that there is no fishing mechanic. In cozy games, more often than not, I find fishing mechanics to be overwhelming, so opting not to have one helped me relax and immerse myself in the game even more. The pressure also felt lighter when you learn that crops grow on their own. There is no need to water them every day, and they grow on their own.
CinnaBunny is a wholesome game created by a solo developer Patrick Gauthier/Reky Studios. This game has masterfully given players who truly want a peaceful experience in a life and baking sim exactly that. Most pressures and limits have been removed to give players a laid-back approach to just having fun in a game about bunnies, baking, and helping others.
I hope one day to see Cinnabunny come to other platforms so more players can get to enjoy the peaceful fun of Cinnabunny! Meanwhile, it is available today on Steam for $24.99.
Score: 4.5/5.0
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