Cosy games keep finding an audience, and the latest to strike a chord is Yumegari: Dream Shop, a gentle tile-drafting game that raced past its Kickstarter goal within hours. Published by Lucky Duck Games, the studio best known for the Chronicles of Crime app-driven mysteries, it puts one to five players in charge of a magical store on the eve of a festival, with a magical familiar as your shop assistant.
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Find events near youThe idea is simple and moreish. Each round, deliveries of enchanted wares arrive; you draft an item tile from your hand, move your familiar one space, then slot the item into your shop, arranging your goods into the prettiest, highest-scoring display. Then you pass your hand along and do it all again, across four rounds of the Festival of Dreams in the fantasy world of Lunareth. A game runs around 30 to 45 minutes, so it fits a relaxed evening rather than eating the whole night.
Backers clearly like the look of it. The Kickstarter campaign blew through its EUR 5,000 goal almost immediately and has since climbed to nearly triple that, with more than 350 backers on board and weeks still to run. That's the kind of early momentum Lucky Duck's warmer titles tend to attract.
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Set up your group for freeIf your game night leans towards the gentle and low-stakes rather than the cutthroat, Yumegari is worth a look. The campaign runs into early August, with delivery planned further down the line. Cosy games are best shared, so once it lands, round up your group and give it a spin.
Sources: Kickstarter | Meeple University
