Lofi Haven

Craft the room of your dreams with lots of furniture options, a customizable and animated cat companion, dynamic weather and day system and relaxing lofi beats. [h3][u]Gamplay & Settings[/u][/h3] The game starts you off with creating your own custom room or choosing from 4 available templates to get you started. There are plenty of options for furniture, windows, finishes and accessories. I have listed the highlights of the game below as well as some things I’d change. Settings & extras include; language, time format, date format, invert camera, auto hide UI, streamer mode, audio controls, video options (display, frame rate, resolution), https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3660164832 [u]Highlights[/u] ⬜ Lots of furniture and items that are customizable ⬜ Furniture has object permanence so when you move a table the stuff on it stays on it! ⬜ Edit the size of your rooms in [i]Blueprint Mode[/i] ⬜ Change furniture materials and colors ⬜ Pattern size on floors and walls can be adjusted along with the colors ⬜ Toggle snap mode on or off for easy placement ⬜ Lighting is adjustable to show time of day and you can also change the lighting color ⬜ You can hide the UI to take screencaptures ⬜ Nice ambient sounds (listed under White Noise) such as lighting, rain, crackling fire, water and birds ⬜ The lofi selection is nice and I enjoyed quite a few of the tracks [u]Issues[/u] 🟩 The weather needs work. The elements do not appear “outside your window” except for the rain. The rest, like snow or blowing leaves, is just an overlay over the whole screen. Sunlight outside is simple, making the outside image brighter but is lackluster. 🟩 The light and highly saturated colors look to flat (which gives a fake look) 🟩 Instructions are needed for how to exit [i]Desktop Wallpaper Mode[/i] 🟩 The pet beds are not customizable in size, patterns or colors and are very limited. 🟩 The ability to interact with the cat does not always work [u]Personal Wishlist[/u] 🟪 The ability to copy the color and/or material and match it to another item OR give names to the materials for wood and floor treatments 🟪 Add mirrors both for practical use and decoration 🟪 Add more lighting, such as string lights of various sizes 🟪 Have seasonal decor (like Valentines Day coming up) 🟪 Have more options for all furniture and carpets to have adjustable materials and sizing 🟪 To be able to freely pan the room instead of being forced to view it at an angle 🟪 More pet variety and allow us to customize our pet colors 🟪 The ability to add walls or half walls (there is a divider under storage but no walls) [h3][u]Overall Experience[/u][/h3] I would recommend this game at a sale price. I put in over three hours into the game and feel that it needs more items and tweaks (color matching, panning freely around the room) to flesh it out. The developer is interested in feedback and ideas and plans to add more to the game going forward. Hopefully some of my notes and ideas inspire them a bit and have, at the same time, informed other gamers through my personal hands-on with the game. [hr][/hr] [quote][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32732116-IndieGems/] Follow [b]IndieGems[/b] [/url] for more reviews like this one. [/quote] [quote]Please follow our curator page, [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/4680120/]Otome Lovers[/url], if you'd like to see more reviews like this one! [/quote]

[b]Lofi Haven[/b] is a cute decorating game with built-in productivity tools and unique features (plus cat!), but the controls are a bit… wonky. Now that I've gotten the hang of it, I enjoy leaving it on during work and occasionally dipping in to decorate new corners of the room. [h3]Gameplay + Details[/h3] The rare idler/productivity tool that doesn't make you wait or grind! You can access the full furniture catalogue right away and place items with minimal restrictions while enjoying 65 lofi tracks and ambient sounds (found under "White Noise"). Includes a simple To-Do List and a Pomodoro timer. [b]Controls. [/b]Keyboard + Mouse only. [b]Settings/Options. [/b]Windowed and Fullscreen modes, or "Wallpaper mode" that literally makes this your desktop wallpaper. [h3]What Works For Me[/h3] ✅ Pomodoro timer includes options to set an alarm or pause music. ✅ Customizable cat is adorable and always moving. ✅ Nice city view, plus lighting sliders and weather toggles. ✅ Great variety of furniture items, including cool wall art. ✅ Most objects can be re-sized and re-colored by right-clicking. ✅ Free camera mode and option to hide UI. [h3]What Doesn't Work For Me[/h3] 🟥 Unintuitive, click-y controls. 🟥 Textures are inconsistent and cannot be recolored. 🟥 "Snow" happens inside the room, not outside. 🟥 [i]Strong[/i] collision protection can be frustrating. 🟥 "Streamer Mode" reduces lofi tracks to 11, [i]but[/i] does not hide screenshot file path (which may include your full name). [h3]Wishlist[/h3] 🟠 Option to paint walls and floors tile-by-tile. 🟠 Reduce collision restrictions; let us overlap things! 🟠 Decorative pillows and framed photos. 🟠 "Backspace" to delete items. 🟠 Recolor-able textures. I want a green velvet couch! [h3]Important Disclosure[/h3] Meow Games provided a key in exchange for an honest review, and also offered to create an item of my choice if said review was posted during House and Home Fest. Does that mean this review is compensated? I don't know. If you doubt my integrity, please see [url=https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198018894642/recommended/3003690/]Amjara's detailed review[/url] instead. (Dear Devs: I would echo Amjara's request for string lights, but we need at least one chandelier. I like the Sputnik ones.) [h3]Final Thoughts + Recommendation[/h3] I had a hard time with this at first. The controls felt awkward; it's difficult to delete and switch between new items (everything needs to be dragged to the trash can on the right side of the screen), and collision restrictions prevented me from building custom shelves or placing plants in corners. The cat clips through a different plane of existence. [i]However[/i], I play a lot of decorating games, and this one stands out for its customization potential and how much the small team seems to care for its success. Regular updates not only address reviewers' concerns, but also introduce new features. The lofi tracks are great if you're pouring over spreadsheets. I recommend [b]Lofi Haven[/b] to patient decorators looking for something that can run in the background. If you've exhausted [i][url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/2113850/Spirit_City_Lofi_Sessions/?curator_clanid=45365863]Spirit City[/url][/i] or if [i][url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/3511030/Mini_Cozy_Room_LoFi/?curator_clanid=45365863]Mini Cozy Room[/url][/i] didn't satisfy your decorating needs, then this will be perfect for you. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3697802711 [quote][b]Follow [u][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45365863/]Eekz Today[/url][/u] for more crafting, life sim, management, strategy, and story-rich recommendations.[/b][/quote]

In Lofi Haven, you start from one of four preset rooms or an empty apartment. To fill it, the game offers dozens of tables, wardrobes, shelves, stoves, carpets, plants, beds, ... all the way to speakers, workout tools, mugs, pans, and cutting boards. Many of the objects can have different textures applied to them or be painted in simple RGB ways, and being able to resize them with correct scaling or by skewing their X/Y/Z adds even more creative freedom. The limit here truly is your own imagination. Like many games these days, there's a complimentary cat included, but here, you can not only choose from 50+ cat presets but also customize the fur color as well as shape-morph your cat. You can even freehand-draw on the fur before you watch your highly customized feline prance about the place. The in-game audio player comes with more than 60 fitting lo-fi tracks to put you in the mood for real or virtual rainy days. Additionally, you can customize your own mix of white noise background sounds to combine with the music, or let that play instead of them. A pomodoro timer and simple to-do list round out the many features, but the most impressive certainly is the desktop wallpaper mode, in which the game vanishes from your taskbar and your current camera position becomes your desktop background, complete with rain outside of your apartment (or the aforementioned cat walking around and cat things). However, among the advertised features, we were not able to find the online co-op mode or other social features. While there's a city outside your apartment windows, the camera you control can't actually go there. A few object interaction choices remain untranslated to English, but as they do have reasonably descriptive icons it's not a big problem.