The Little Acre

 PlayStation 4
User Score
6.5

Mixed or average reviews- based on 26 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 26
  3. Negative: 4 out of 26

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  1. SuperkenGaming
    Dec 13, 2016
    7
    The Little Acre
    A charming, but Rushed Experience.
    The little Acre is a point and click adventure game where you play as both Aidan and his Daughter Lilly Aiden Wakes up, and the game instantly does a great job of setting the tone for the game and giving you an idea of what it will be like by forcing you to get dressed without leaving the bed so that you don’t wake Lilly.. Usually    The Little Acre
    A charming, but Rushed Experience.
    The little Acre is a point and click adventure game where you play as both Aidan and his Daughter Lilly
    Aiden Wakes up, and the game instantly does a great job of setting the tone for the game and giving you an idea of what it will be like by forcing you to get dressed without leaving the bed so that you don’t wake Lilly..
    Usually adventure games have stupid puzzles that don’t make sense like mixing a toaster with a bathtub to end your suffering... here thankfully every single puzzle makes sense… which could lead veterans of this genre to feel the game is too simple…
    But it was a nice change of pace, and I enjoyed the simplicity of these logic puzzles…
    The art style and animation is hands down the greatest peart of this experience and is ultimately its saving grace..
    The entire game is done in an old-school hand drawn Disney style… and the way the characters interacted with different items in the game, their facial expressions… everything about the animation made me smile way more than I had any hopes of it doing…
    Unfortunately the animation was all that kept me going… and the gameplay was enjoyably simple enough to not make progression feel like a chore… even offering hints and solutions making this a very friendly game for all ages to enjoy… but the overall feel of this game is little below average
    thanks to the voice acting and the story delivery…
    Aiden wakes up and wonders where his father is…
    You have to unlock his shed, where you find this machine that takes you to the land of chibi formed characters…
    Shortly after Lily makes breakfast for herself as her dad is gone and goes on a search for him... ending up in this same land…
    All of this is fine… it’s a great plot… but its laughably rushed…
    There’s no character development… no reason to care about anything going on…
    It feels like a story board with no meat between plot points…
    The delivery is literally
    Where are you? Found you.
    It’s that fast.
    No conflict, no build up…
    Its question and instant answer for 2 hours.
    And the voice acting here isn’t necessarily bad... but it doesn’t fit the characters…
    The evil dude just sounds like makiplyer telling a ghost story… and Lilly and Aiden sound more like brother and sister than father and daughter…
    You can tell that no effort went into finding fights for the vision of these characters... almost like they were randomly assigned to people and they took whatever they got…
    While The Little Acre tells a rushed story and doesn’t offer too engaging of a gameplay experience…
    The charm of the animation is great enough to make this game worth the 2 hour run-through…
    I give the little acre
    a 6.5/10    … Expand
  2. Letiste-Gaming
    Jan 3, 2017
    6
    A pesar de que la calidad de los personajes (sobre todo gracias a la labor de sus actores de doblaje) unida al trabajado apartado visual palían en cierta manera sus carencias, en el fondo The Little Acre es un juego decepcionante.

    Con su nula dificultad, puzzles poco inspirados y corta duración, sin duda será una tremenda decepción para los fans mas veteranos de este género. Pero por    A pesar de que la calidad de los personajes (sobre todo gracias a la labor de sus actores de doblaje) unida al trabajado apartado visual palían en cierta manera sus carencias, en el fondo The Little Acre es un juego decepcionante.

    Con su nula dificultad, puzzles poco inspirados y corta duración, sin duda será una tremenda decepción para los fans mas veteranos de este género. Pero por otro lado, si que pienso que es una aventura idónea para los mas pequeños de la casa, y como introducción al género también funciona bastante bien.

    Quizá esta fuera la intención del estudio desde el primer momento, pero el siguiente título del estudio necesitara mucha mas madera en el asador.    … Expand
  3. BlitZeR_95
    Apr 28, 2018
    6
    A charming short indie game of finding your son. It is a nice game but definitely not for everyone
  4. bergcamp101
    Sep 21, 2020
    7
    The worst thing about this game is it's length. With so sweet characters, and nice design, I'd love to have a long, puzzling adventure...

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Metascore
67

Mixed or average reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 16
  3. Negative: 1 out of 16
  1. Edge Magazine
    Feb 27, 2017
    60
    The stakes are raised in the closing stretch, but the drama is undercut by the story's brevity. [March 2017, p.106]
  2. DarkStation
    Feb 6, 2017
    60
    On the whole, The Little Acre might make for an entertaining couple of hours to spend with the family, but offers little substance or lasting appeal. This does not suggest that the game is without merit, and one can only imagine the countless hours that the team at Pewter Games poured into the The Little Acre’s art and animation. Beauty aside, however, the game simply isn’t supported by its art-style alone.
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  3. GameCritics
    Jan 26, 2017
    80
    The Little Acre is a small game, but an extremely well-made and well-loved one. I enjoyed getting to know Aidan and Lily, and look forward to getting to know Pewter Games better as well.
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