![]() ![]() You need to strike a balance between these management elements and completing main story quests, because you can only progress so far in one facet before hitting a roadblock in the other they’re cleverly designed to go hand in hand. You only unlock the ability to cook – that all-important breakfast in the equation – around halfway through the main story, and it gradually becomes more challenging to juggle all your priorities. There are five hotels to unlock around the Valley, and each will add new variables to the mix. Additionally, there may be requests for specific drawcards in each location, such as a distillery or a campfire. Guests need to be matched to rooms based on their requirements – factors including comfort, decorations, hygiene, etc. This becomes a bit monotonous once you get familiar with the formula, but the interior design element involved is enjoyable nonetheless. When you find a new location for a B&B, you’ll need to clean it up and restore it to serviceable condition, as well as build and decorate rooms before assigning guests to them. ![]() You’ll explore the Valley on foot, meet new friends, scout and repair new locations for hotels, collect building materials and pick up trash to trade for furniture from Took the raccoon (is that an Animal Crossing reference?) to build your empire. You meet Fin, a stuffed shark with a speaker strapped to it, who with quick wits and an opportunistic approach, tricks Hank into working for the conglomerate Pawn Voyage to franchise a chain of B&Bs, with the goal of bringing human tourists back to the Valley. Bet you didn’t expect a game about a bear running a bed and breakfast to be lowkey post-apocalyptic, did you? It has fallen into a state of decay, after being ravaged by fire, so only animals and a few humans roam the wastelands now. When Hank’s mother asks you and your besties Anni and Will to venture out of The Thicket for supplies one day, it becomes apparent that the Valley beyond your little pocket of safety was once occupied by humans. He’s just single-handedly running a chain of bed and breakfasts while trying to solve the major economic and environmental issues the world is facing – and making friends along the way too.īear and Breakfast is a life sim B&B management RPG where you play as Hank, a wide-eyed brown bear, who quickly goes from living a simple life in a woodland cottage with his mother and two best friends to being a well-travelled property tycoon. ![]() The eventual goal is to have all versions of the game on the same patch, so anything coming to PC will eventually be coming to Nintendo Switch as well.ĭeveloped by Gummy Cat and published by Armor Games Studios, Bear & Breakfast is currently available for PC via Steam and Nintendo Switch.There’s a bear wearing pants and a trucker cap decorating your hotel room while you sleep, but there’s nothing weird about it, I swear. Ideas include more community requests, quality-of-life changes, new story stuff, improvements to controller support, and more. There have been a lot of reports of crashes and bugs on Nintendo Switch, and this update aims to squish them.Ģ023 will also be a pretty big year for updates. Soon after that (there’s no announcement past “soon,’ sorry) will be the Switch update. It will be released for PC and include loads of bug fixes, a “highly requested” feature (oooh the mystery!), and winter-themed decorative furniture. Some are pretty set in stone, others are still loosey-goosey.ĭuring next month, December 2022, the first major update will launch: the Winter Update. The developer has medium- and long-term plans for Bear & Breakfast. Keep guests happy to keep your reputation up, attracting more gusts. Each room can be individually customized down to the fixtures. Players build and personalize their own inns with guest rooms, bathrooms, parlours, and more. As the business expands, the mysteries of the forest seem to get deeper and deeper, until Hank is knee-deep in it. Him and his friends discover an abandoned building in the woods and decide to turn it into a bed-and-breakfast to earn some cash. It’s describes as a laid-back management adventure game. Its staff has been catching their breaths post-launch, but they’re ready for more beary action now!īefore I get into the update details, I’d like to talk about what exactly the game is. Today, the developer (Gummy Cat) shared its vision for the game’s future in the coming months. A bear? Running a B&B? Perfect! However, the bear management adventure game has had some complaints since launch, especially for the Nintendo Switch version of the game. ![]() I’ve been in love with the concept of Bear & Breakfast from the get-go. ![]()
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