Seclusa is relaxing photography game with daily tasks, photography jobs, collecting cards, and jigsaw puzzles. A game you can return to for some down time to enjoy a serene landscape with time and weather adjustments available.
Gameplay
Sadly you cannot walk around but that does not stop the game from being enjoyable. You are at a fixed location where you can click an animal to photograph, stand, or sit in a chair and enjoy the view. Once targeting an animal you do have some freedom with your drone to move in directions around them.
You earn experience and credits from most things you do which lets you buy more customization options like camera filters, cat fur variations, cat hats, new jigsaw puzzles, refreshments for your table that you can interact with. and lastly card packs to fill out your card collection.
Jobs- Your primary means to currency and experience. You start with 1 available to photograph a specific animal. After completing, it's 3 minutes to see a new one. You can also press X to change your task and from what I could see did not have a cost. Making the money pretty easy to flow.
Over time you will unlock up to 4 jobs based off Reputation earned and they will start to have specific conditions, weather, time of day, or a specific filter like Studio Lighting or Black and White.
The Lodge- This is your home space where you can do jigsaw puzzles, water your plants and initially where you will need to pet Paca to earn love. Completing all the tasks under each Objective earns a special reward which you will also be able to interact with in this space.
Additional Games to play in The Lodge was a nice surprise.
There are 9 Jigsaw puzzles available and the 9th allows you to use any of your photos. Then from completing all the tasks for the Photography objective your rewards are 2 labyrinth puzzles. Then completing tasks for the Cards objective rewards a memory matching game with four levels.
Paca - Is your precious furbaby to love. You can pet them 5 times every 3 minutes to fill their hearts. And once maxed Paca will come to locations with you and sit in your camp being cute. Achievement for photographing him as well.
Card Collection- There are 184 cards to collect and you buy Packs with 3 in each. The packs come in Standard, Deluxe and Premium increasing rarity value with a higher cost to purchase.
You also earn Trade Points from opening card packs and they can be traded for a random card shown on the card shop next to the packs. You can pay with Credits to Refresh it for another choice. And you can exchange 1 point for 50 credits, but I don't suggest it given how easily you earn money.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3668107783
Features
There are 7 locations with animals and The Lodge which is your home space where you can do other activities. You can freely travel between them once unlocked and this will cause the animals to change which helps with Jobs.
Camera- Your camera is not just a standard screenshot, you get a variety of functions to zoom, sharpen, filter, freeze time, slow it and move the view around before you take the shot. The filters are all purchased with the Credits earned from Jobs.
Weather- The weather cannot be changed until level 10, you just have to swap to/from location until you meet that requirement if its needed for a Job. However the time of day you can adjust the slider to a specific time and guesstimate Dawn, Dusk, Evening, etc. But you can spend 200 credits for each specific one to just click and go.
Summons- Once you have a three star ★★★ card of an animal you can Summon it from the Compendium. It is at the bottom center.
Adding this in because I didn't even notice it, and thought other's may not as well.
Rare Animals- There are also 5 rare variations to pick up. You can just keep bouncing between two locations until you see it. They will have sparkles at the bottom center of the screen and you can click it to go right to them.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3667844813
For my achievement hunter & completion friends
Daily Tasks will be the longest taking 8 real life days for those who play legit.
So far it's been 4 daily tasks to complete daily.
Developer replied to someone that there is the system clock to negate the wait but for those who don't know & may care, universal achievement hunting rules frown on system clock usage.
Next is most likely maxing level 25.
Prior to what I thought when originally posting, the card collection completed pretty quickly. And will likely come with ease from just earning experience towards max level.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3668105390
If it helps anyone with time to complete
After 8 hours, without focusing on completion I was at level 14 and realized I had enough credits to buy all the items. This includes puzzles, refreshments, cat hats, furs, and camera upgrades. Still having 15k left.
This left 5 of the 7 objectives finished. Those being Jobs, Campsites, The Lodge, Paka and while typing this realized I should finish Cards (10k spent buying packs.)
This set me at 38/48 achievements.
The remaining two objectives, Photography and Global together have 5 tasks left. And the achievements left are related to those as well minus the one to finish all jigsaw puzzles once.
Bye.
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Secluse was gifted to me from a sweet friend. Many thanks for the kindness.ːthreeheartsː
Thanks to War Bear for the assist on Summon. Apparently I am blind. ːDː
