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, Wake 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 are hands down the greatest part of this Experience and are ultimately its saving grace.
The entire game is done in an old-school hand-drawn Disney style… and how the characters interacted with different items in the game, their facial expressions…, and everything about the animation made me smile way more than I had any hopes of it doing… Unfortunately, the animation kept me going… and the gameplay was enjoyably simple enough to not make progression feel like a chore…. It even offered hints and solutions, making this an amiable game for all ages to enjoy… but the overall feel of this game is a 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 storyboard with no meat between plot points… The delivery is literally. Where are you? Found you. It's that fast. No conflict, no build-up… It's a question and an instant answer for 2 hours. And the voice acting here isn't necessarily bad... but it doesn't fit the characters… The evil dude 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. It's almost like they were randomly assigned to people and took whatever they got… While The Little Acre tells a rushed story and doesn't offer too engaging **** experience.

This game was an absolute GEM! I played it with my kid and she LOVED it! We both did. The cartoon style is very nice, the humor is excellent and the puzzles were clever and kind of challenging. There were a couple where the timing was off or you had to click more than once to register and a couple missed the mark. But overall the game was incredibly entertaining. I only wish it were longer! Kind of short, but that's a compliment. I really hope they make more!!!!

Cute but short, and a bit of moon logic / nitpicky in some of the gameplay (like really difficult to get the correct placement for Lily so the sword would cut of that gnome's head - I was sure there was a bug! but there wasn't, just really, really particular on placement ). I wasn't thrilled with the female parts of the voice-acting, though the father was fine. And the mix of accents is inconsistent - the father sounds vaguely Scottish, but the daughter Lily sounds more American, and Nina sounds very American indeed, while Merr is just - well ... tedious. And the spoken comments and dialogues are kinda slow and longwinded in many places., and difficult to get to skip after first run. I'm usually happy with slow-paced games, but found this an unevenly paced mixture of in places annoyingly slow exposition combined with some cartoon-frenzy action. And some scenes have lots of detail and interactables, whilst otheres have hardly any - so it sometimes felt a bit unbalanced in the gameplay.
Feeling a bit mixed on this one as I guess shows.
But : it's charming, and cute without being twee, good enough story though shallow, and overall colourful and enjoyable for passing a couple of hours on a bored afternoon.
No real violence past some standard cartoon-fighting, but a bit of sudden monsters (Disney type cartoon monsters, so not very terrible) and being swallowed whole by some water monster thing. So not very scary, though Merr at the end was a bit over the top with his devil-ishness, and at first glance seems that he kills both Dad and dog, although resolves fairly quickly that they come back to life.
So the game should work for smaller kids as well as people looking for (mostly) non-violent.
Note on hints/help: I wish it had been clear that there was Hint /Solution to be found under the Notes tab. I didn't realise that until after game completion. (And therefore had to resort to walkthrough a couple of places where the moon logic had me stumped).

Cute and fun, with some great art! The game is very short though (took me less than 3 hours to finish), and has some pacing issues in the second half. I recommend waiting till it's on sale!