Kabuto Park

There are a lot of things I love about Kabuto Park: the adorable storybook art that feels like a warm afternoon, the charming and often hilarious dialogue, the whining cicadas that provide the summer soundtrack. But what I love most is that there are just so few games like this. Outside of the works of Millenium Kitchen, most of which are only available in Japanese, there’s not much else that captures that very particular feeling of childhood freedom. And now that the game is on the Switch, you can experience Kabuto Park’s vision of summer in the actual outdoors.