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In the same Steam discovery queue that presented me with that other piece of desiccated dogshit, there was also HipWitch.
It's a free game, and it took me 2.1 hours to finish, according to Steam. It's pretty good, for what it is. You play as a witch named Prom. And you're solving problems in a forest park. Mostly just fetch quests with a tiny bit of crafting for casting spells, most of which you only ever cast once or twice.
A few hints: 1) The "mind read" spell requires one flower OR two red mushrooms, which I'd initially misread as needing one flower AND two mushrooms, so the spell kept failing for me. 2) You don't have to worry about ingredients, because they respawn when you return to an area after loading into a different one. In any case, you can only ever hold at most five of each at one time, anyway. 3) The little white things you find are apparently cat claws, even though they look more like a different type of feather or maybe flower petals or something like that to me. They're what's needed for talking to the cat.
The only actual problem I had with the game is a rather strange one. At least for me, apparently, the game deletes the executable file when you close the game. I had to save and quit at one point early in, and when I came back later and tried to run the game a second time, Steam gave me an error about the executable being missing. And then, the game got stuck with a "write error" on the download screen when trying to update, apparently to try to re-download the exe file. Verifying files did nothing. It was only after I completely uninstalled the game and rebooted my computer (as it wasn't letting it run again even after reinstalling, without first rebooting), and then reinstalled the game that it ran again. At least I was able to resume from the save, rather than having to start over. And it did the same thing again just now when I exited out of the game after finishing it, but at that point I just uninstalled for good, since I was done with it. (EDIT) It turns out all of this was due to Avast quarantining the file due to detecting "IDP.generic," whatever that is. (/EDIT)
Anyway, aside from that oddity, it was a pretty cool game.
It's a free game, and it took me 2.1 hours to finish, according to Steam. It's pretty good, for what it is. You play as a witch named Prom. And you're solving problems in a forest park. Mostly just fetch quests with a tiny bit of crafting for casting spells, most of which you only ever cast once or twice.
A few hints: 1) The "mind read" spell requires one flower OR two red mushrooms, which I'd initially misread as needing one flower AND two mushrooms, so the spell kept failing for me. 2) You don't have to worry about ingredients, because they respawn when you return to an area after loading into a different one. In any case, you can only ever hold at most five of each at one time, anyway. 3) The little white things you find are apparently cat claws, even though they look more like a different type of feather or maybe flower petals or something like that to me. They're what's needed for talking to the cat.
The only actual problem I had with the game is a rather strange one. At least for me, apparently, the game deletes the executable file when you close the game. I had to save and quit at one point early in, and when I came back later and tried to run the game a second time, Steam gave me an error about the executable being missing. And then, the game got stuck with a "write error" on the download screen when trying to update, apparently to try to re-download the exe file. Verifying files did nothing. It was only after I completely uninstalled the game and rebooted my computer (as it wasn't letting it run again even after reinstalling, without first rebooting), and then reinstalled the game that it ran again. At least I was able to resume from the save, rather than having to start over. And it did the same thing again just now when I exited out of the game after finishing it, but at that point I just uninstalled for good, since I was done with it. (EDIT) It turns out all of this was due to Avast quarantining the file due to detecting "IDP.generic," whatever that is. (/EDIT)
Anyway, aside from that oddity, it was a pretty cool game.
