It seems I’ve hit a wall with this one - not in terms of difficulty but rather annoyance. The further I get, the more annoying new enemies (or their variants) become. I’m not going to say “the game is bad now” or anything like that, I just need a short break to avoid burnout. I’m also back home so it’s harder to just step away from my desktop and hop on the Steam Deck but that’s a “me” issue.

I’ll be back soon.

I keep chipping away on this from time to time in an attempt to finally complete the main story. I managed to reach Phantom Liberty ending a few months ago but I never got past the start of act 3 of the base game - I complete the parade, do a few side quests and that’s pretty much where my playthroughs usually end.

I’ve updated and expanded my mod list, refreshed motivation to continue and decided to complete the game “eventually” rather than “as soon as possible”. I had to drop the difficulty a notch as my idea of playing extremely underpowered character doesn’t mesh well with the mod adjusted damage and the amount or type of mandatory combat this game has. I’ve been also having some issues with crashes when reloading saves - can’t say redoing sections in such circumstances is a welcome prospect.

So I’m back again, right before the parade. Can I stick around till the finish line this time? No idea. The only thing I can do is try.

At least I got some neat screenshots again.

As the title suggests, it’s a cosy crafting game where you design and make dresses. There are dozens of individual dress pieces you can mix and match to come up with your ideal design, huge number of materials you can use to piece it together and tons of accessories to make it look exactly the way you want it.

Gameplay is also really good. You start by taking measurements of your client, then selecting the design for each piece of the dress (bodice, collar, sleeves, dress) to fulfil their requirements. Once that’s done you have to cut the necessary pieces from the material (gotta spread them the right way to avoid waste), align these pieces on a mannequin and get to sewing. The last part is a simple mini-game, where you manipulate the piece to keep sewing according to the marker - the better you do, the higher quality of the dress. What’s really great is the fact that the controls during this part are set up to simulate the act of real sewing (you press space to advance and mouse to rotate the fabric).
Last, but not least, there are accessories. This is technically an optional step (at least in the requests I’ve played so far) but some well placed additions can completely transform your creations so it’s definitely worth playing with.

Besides client commissions, you can also just design and sell your own ideas. In this case you get to skip the first step (measurements) and don’t have to stick to specific requirements (style, main colour etc) - simply go wild with your imagination and make the dress of your dreams. Or whatever you’re able to do with your available funds/materials.

It’s a fresh release (came out last week) so not exactly a good subject for this community but it’s great so I wanted to mention it. It’s also really cheap (about €15 without the launch discount, I believe) which is pretty awesome.
To be clear, I’m talking about this game, not the application with similar name also available on Steam.