Button City follows a cute fox that has just moved to town. Why not try to get to know the locals through working to save the local arcade?
Being new to town is never easy, so I already feel for Fennel before I’ve even met them. The town is a bright, vibrant place, though, and it (currently) has a pretty cool arcade. It’s in trouble, though, but you can do what you can to help save the place. You might need to get to know the locals and make some friends if you’re going to figure out what to do to help. A shared love of arcade games will at least give you something to talk to all of these new people about. And if they don’t love you immediately, solving puzzles and doing favors does tend to make folks like you. Everyone here is PRETTY ADORABLE, so I found it easy to want to do things for them and make them smile.
Then again, I did have a tendency to get tied up playing arcade games instead of helping folks. In a game about saving an arcade, it’s nice that it lets you play the things you’re saving. You can work through some dancing games, racing titles, and a shooter. Guiding someone else through dance moves instead of trying to move my own clumsy feet was pretty fun. The racer and shooting game were also delightful (I’m so annoyed I didn’t notice this came out a while ago, as I’d been keeping an eye on it), and especially so since they were rendered in the same bright, low-poly style as the rest of the game.
Button City may start off a little lonely, but as you make friends and try to help people, you’ll slowly feel like a part of the town. Well, the part of the town that likes to play arcade games. Those are my kind of people, anyway.
Button City is available now on the Nintendo eShop, PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store, itch.io, and Steam.
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