Published: February 11, 2026
Note: This review was originally written in 2024 and is being published now with minor edits.
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| Features – Character customization – Home customization – Farming simulator – Creature collector – Turn-based battle |
The Farming Sim I’ve Been Waiting For
All I need is a cozy dream farm where I can relax into the rhythm of tending the fields and harvesting crops, and I’m happy. But when you add creature collecting, exploration, cute and cozy visuals, AND playfully snarky dialogue… now you really have my attention. When I first heard about Ooblets, my hopes and expectations were high. The developers easily could have shattered them, but I’m so happy to say they DID NOT. Instead, Gumberland LLC delivered the farming sim I’ve been waiting for!
What are ‘Ooblets’?
Ooblets are cute little creatures that love to dance and grow from special seeds. Just like crops, you plant them on your farm, nurture, and harvest them. But instead of selling ooblets, these little guys stick around and can help with farm tasks, or they can follow you around and participate in dance battles for your honor. Yup, dance battles.
Farming Sim Meets Creature Collector
The farming simulation elements mixed perfectly with the creature collecting. As I mentioned above, the titular ooblets grow from seeds on your farm and can assist you in the field. In addition to ooblets, you’ll also grow regular crops, which can be used for cooking recipes or to meet the requirements for competing in dance battles.
Competing in Dance Battles
Like most other creature collectors, Ooblets allows you to battle your creatures. But instead of fighting with their fists, your ooblets duke it out on the dance floor. Using a card based system, you choose their dance moves and take turns striking each other’s points. I thought this was a wholesome and unexpected twist on the typical creature battleing systems we see in games where the goal is usually to deal physical damage to each other. It was fun to accumulate cards and play through these dance battles with other little cuties.
My only complaint was that it was all just too easy. I feel like battles should begin easy then get more difficult as the game goes on, but this is not the case for Ooblets. Throughout the whole game, characters do stupid things like hurt themselves for no benefit. You also never seem to need to use certain ooblets against others, so I don’t believe there’s any benefit to keeping certain ooblets or switching them out other than aesthetic. Some people might like this, but I wish there could be more strategy to the creature collecting.
Main Story
The main story in Ooblets centers on helping Mayor Tinstle revitalize Badgetown and gradually reconnect the town with the rest of the world. Eventually, you’ll unlock the ability to travel via hot air balloon to other regions, each with different crops, shops, ooblets, and activities to discover.
Gradually going beyond my homebase in Badgeotwn and gaining access to other places kept things new and exciting. It was something I looked forward to as I played, excited to get out and explore every time the hot hair balloon touched down in new territory. My favorite was Nullwhere, the spooky region where part of the yearly Halloween Event is held.
Choose Your Aesthetic with Character and Home Customization
Ooblets lets you create cute characters and personalize your home. You can get clothes from Churles, haircuts from the barber, and furniture from various shops. Using Wishes unlocks even more clothing, hairstyles, and furniture, and reaching Port Forward on the map gives you access to additional furniture options. I love the home decoration aspect, which has become popular in farming sims, and Ooblets delivers with cozy, adorable furniture and plenty of space to make your home your own.
So Many Objectives
In addition to restoring the towers and filling out the almanac, there are plenty of other objectives to work on. You don’t need to complete all of them to finish the main story, but they’re fun to tackle if you enjoy being a completionist. I appreciate that Ooblets gives you so much to do, and the variety of objectives keeps things from feeling boring or repetitive.
- Develop the Wildlands
Expand this wooded area where you can drop off and pick up ooblets.
- Friendship Stickers
Become closer friends with the townsfolk and earn rewards for nurturing your relationships.
- Hankerbot
Each day, the Hankerbot forecasts which character will experience a hankering. Satisfying an NPC’s hankering improves your relationship and earns more stickers.
- Club Quests
You choose a main club at the start of the game, but you can still complete quests for all the clubs in town to earn special items.
- Collect Ooblets & Figurines
Bring each new Ooblet to the Lernery to log them in the system and receive figurines you can display in your home or at Town Hall.
- Cooking Recipes
Your cookbook starts empty, but you can gradually fill it by wishing for recipes at the Wishing Well or by collecting and assembling ripped-up recipe pieces.
- Collect & Build Items
Items can be purchased from vendors or crafted using the Fabricuter at the Manatwee furniture store.
- Tasks
There are multiple types of tasks that you will be asked to complete, some separate from the main storyline. Tasks are often given by clubs or individual townsfolk and sometimes result strengthen relationships with those townsfolk.
- Bulk Orders
Deliver food and items to the Plenny’s office to complete bulk orders for money.
Updates
Note: These updates were current as of 2023 and are included for historical context. Some details may no longer be accurate.
The developers took out loan to work on a new driving feature! You can see glimpses of this new feature on the Ooblets TikTok Page where it was announced on July 13, 2023. It looks like this update will allow us to give our ooblets teeny-tiny little cars to drive around. They post didn’t elaborate much, so I’m not yet sure if this will have practical effects like allowing ooblets to harvest crops from their cars.
Localization updates in French, Spanish, and German expanded Ooblets to new audiences.
A roller skating feature was added back in November 2021 which you can access via a vendor in Pantsabear Hills. Once purchased, equip and unequip your skates in the clothing menu like any other pair of shoes. I found this feature to be useful when covering vast, open space like in Pantsabear Hills. However, controlling my character with the roller skates equipped is too clunky to want to use it anywhere else.
Collab with Moonstone Island Announcement see on Twitter here.
TLDR / Final Thoughts
Add Ooblets to your cozy game arsenal ASAP. There are so many things to do, places to explore, and friends to make (both human and ooblet!) I also loved the tongue‑in‑cheek dialogue and absurd item names. These kept the tone light and genuinely funny.
It takes about 30 hours to complete the main story, but I’ve put in well over 40 hours and still have room for adventure. All this considered, I’m over the moon with the value this game has provided and have to say that this is one of the top games I recommend to any farming sim enthusiast or cozy game lover.
| Pros – Funny, tongue in cheek – Cute and pleasing visuals – Variety of objectives to keep you busy – Different cozy locations to visit – Fresh & unique take on farming sims |
| Cons – Battles are too easy |