In the same way that Cute 'em Ups are a spin on Shoot 'em Ups, I think it’s fun when a game replaces the desensitized gore and violence of FPSes with something cute or abstracted in an interesting way! FPS games are pretty unappealing if you don’t like guns, but there’s no reason it should have to be that way.
The steam FPS sale is on so I finally grabbed Lovely Planet, and it’s good fun! The chirpy music and soft colors elevates the game to feel breezy even when the precision run and gun platforming gets difficult. Shooting hearts is addictive!
I don’t know if it qualifies as “cute”, but The Unfinished Swan does not involve shooting guns. Instead, you splat paint around to reveal the environment as you move through it.
It’s not on Steam but I think this Doom mod Mr. Friendly fits here. It’s basically Animal Crossing for Doom and allows you to finally Talk To These Creatures.
It works with all the original maps but also any user created levels that are “vanilla compatible” so of course it pairs well with silly stuff like Boaty McBoatwad.
Mileage may vary on this as it’s still basically guns, but crime crackers is an early attempt at this and I find the characters and backgrounds cute enough?
The backgrounds really hold up to this day, I think.
I like this one, where you explore a library Bernband style and throw books.
The same developers also made a P.T. clone that seems to have expanded a lot since I played it (unless it was always that big but I forgot).
Okay, I now see that I only played the short freeware version on itch dot io. Which I guess now serves as a demo for the one on Steam. Which I guess I’m going to have to try at some point.
I was pitching my first-person collectathon platformer game the other day for some industry ppl in preparation for an event this coming week and I used first person cuter as on of the terms to describe my game. As it doesn’t revolve around shooting with guns, doesn’t have any gore, and the players main offensive ability in regards to projectiles is an unlockable power that allows them to deflect or block certain types of these “bullets”.
One of the guys I presented it to questioned me in regards to this term. The main collectable is “human skulls”, and he wondered if that was included in the “cute” aspect, and if so, what is cute about a human skull lol. Would you ppl of this fine thread deem a game with human skulls as a collectable unworthy of the term First Person Cuter? Perhaps to give you a better view of what I mean is to show you how the game looks. So here is a short dev-trailer for it:
I found the energy mechanic in Forza Polpo absolutely dreadful, and I ended up quitting the game because of it. It’s a shame because it could have been good.
I recommend everyone to try Robbit Mon Dieu, the Japan exclusive third Jumping Flash game. Instead of the classic level structure you do missions to help people. Quite humorous, drastically expands the series’ concept, one of my all-time favorite games.
Sadly no fan translation. I wish there was one, as the little bits I’ve parsed have been great. Essentially I’ve only experienced a heavily distorted version of this game, yet I love it in spite of that barrier.
You can get through the story fairly easily by just translating the mission descriptions and going by intuition. Luckily its a pretty visual game for kids, so you can infer most of what’s going on.
