De Tom Plays
Independent reviews, honest verdicts and genuine impressions from the games I spend time playing. Every review is based on my own experience, helping you discover games that are genuinely worth your time.
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🏰 A simple tower defence game that became the most demanding challenge! 18 hours of experimenting, many failures and one glorious victory, I eventually conquered endless mode, reaching 5th place on the leaderboard!
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🌱 Garden Buddies is an adorable little adventure filled with friendship, kindness and gentle puzzles. Perfect for younger children, although I'd recommend picking it up during a sale!
🚀 After hundreds, maybe thousands of hours exploring No Man's Sky, I'm starting fresh on PC. So much has changed, I've forgotten so much, and somehow it feels like a brand-new adventure!
🌳 Restore neglected gardens at your own pace in this relaxing cosy simulator. After loving the demo, the full game brings even more satisfying cleanup tasks, new gardening tools and hours of peaceful enjoyment.
🏝️ A wonderfully relaxing clean-up adventure where restoring polluted islands, rescuing wildlife and watching paradise return is incredibly satisfying.
🏡 A charming old-school pixel art RPG where settling into a new home leads to exploration, colourful characters and a world that rewards figuring things out for yourself.
🌱 A beautiful cosy adventure where every flower, tree and returning creature helps transform a dusty, lifeless planet into a colourful world bursting with nature once again.
🪕 A calm and colourful India-inspired adventure filled with exploration, musical instrument crafting and a wonderfully distinctive atmosphere that left me wanting to discover more.
🌱 A wonderfully satisfying incremental journey where a tiny rain cloud washes away the ash, grows steadily stronger and gradually transforms a forgotten world back into somewhere green and full of life.
A wonderfully relaxing farming life sim packed with charm, freedom and things to discover. Stardew Valley is the sort of game you can happily call home for hundreds of hours.
🃏 A relaxing and beautifully presented Solitaire adventure with useful upgrades, a charming story and increasingly challenging levels where strategy and a little luck go hand in hand.
🏰 Build a medieval settlement from the ground up in this wonderfully absorbing city builder, where organic growth, production chains and plenty of freedom make the hours disappear.
🐻 Join Bearlie on a colourful platforming adventure filled with coins, critters, belly bumps and unusual mushrooms in the six-level first chapter of Bearly Awesome.
🪨 Build a growing Pib civilisation in a wonderfully charming incremental where new systems, meaningful upgrades and little surprises keep the numbers going up.
🪄 A wonderfully grindy incremental adventure where gathering, crafting and steady progression kept me hooked right through to 100% completion. Slow-paced, satisfying and very hard to put down.
💜 A wonderfully simple cosy town builder filled with cute animal residents, gentle gathering and decorating. Papaya Plaza proves that sometimes relaxing really doesn't need to be complicated.
🧛 Hundreds of hours later, Vampire Survivors remains one of my first loves. Simple to play, packed with things to discover and dangerously good at turning one more run into several.
😇 Click, prestige and command an army of cherubs while dealing with ex-girlfriends Legion and Lucifer in a wonderfully silly incremental journey that somehow ends with pizza.
🌙 Farm by moonlight and build a cosy life as a young vampire in this charming supernatural life sim filled with magic, exploration and wonderfully unusual neighbours.
🌾 A satisfying incremental harvesting game packed with upgrades, prestiges and plenty of numbers going up. I happily played to 100%, although I'd recommend catching it in a sale.
💜 Build a kingdom from almost nothing, grow stronger through prestige and do it all over again. Crownhold kept me hooked through five prestiges and all the way to 100% completion.
