Bunny Haven review - "Adorable Bunny Cafe"

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Bunny Haven review - "Adorable Bunny Cafe"
  • Featuring: Cute little bunnies that you can level up
  • An Idle game with a lot of interactions at first
  • Plenty of mini-games to keep you busy

Ever want to run a little bunny cafe? Personally, I've never been to a place where I could just play with bunnies and eat a cute treat, but I would absolutely love to live in the place I have created in Bunny Haven.

Bunny Haven is a pretty simple, yet adorable, concept. You are running a place where bunnies can come to live. People then come to visit the bunnies and possibly get a little sweet treat while they are there. Bunny Haven is an idle game, with there being a lot to do when you start but then the game slowly becomes a long-burner, where you need to wait long amounts of time before you can really interact in a meaningful way.

Delicious Treats mini-game in Bunny Haven

People will come and line up by your fense. They all want a specific level of bunny and have their own personality showing as an icon. If you match a bunny to their personality, you will get a bonus heart for their interaction. Once you have given a customer a bunny, they will move into your garden and start playing with that bunny. You can tap on them to learn their story and see how much longer they are planning to spend in the cafe. When they leave, they will tip you in the form of hearts. Sometimes, they get a ! icon above their heads, which means they want something from you.

In Bunny Haven, you need to solve little mini-games to get additional resources. This can be through the customers; making crepes or teas, or they can be things the bunnies will need. Sometimes the bunnies will make a mess of leaves or need treats, which you will be able to tap on and complete for more resources.

Close up of the bunny Pippen

These resources are then used to level up your bunnies, so that they can be played with for longer. A main way you are going to get the bulk of your resources are through leveling up your cafe or through baskets, which are awarded for gaining hearts. These baskets require you to wait set amounts of time to open them (or pay a premium currency to open them now).

Bunny Haven also has daily quests and in-game events, the current one running has you waiting to open up bundles of plants, which are then sold to customers at a greenhouse. I am not sure what this has to do with the main game, but it's a nice distraction!

Bunny sitting with a person

You can also earn coins that are used to purchase fruniture within the game. This fruniture seems to just be for your own joy as nobody interacts with the items I have placed or feels happier visiting for any reason. I do wish there was more point in the fruniture in the game.

Bunny Haven is a simple game and feels quite fun to play in little bursts. I do feel the increase in time you need to wait is intense, quickly going from waiting 30s to waiting hours before you are able to interact with the bunny again, but I do like collecting and upgrading the bunnies. It's a cute game, with lots of mini-games within it. 

Bunny Haven is a cute, simple idle game that is fun to play especially if you are a fan of bunnies. Though the times quickly got too much for me, I can see others enjoying dipping in each day.

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Jupiter Hadley

Jupiter Hadley

Jupiter is a prolific indie game journalist with a focus on smaller indie gems. She covers thousands of game jams and indie games on her YouTube channel, letting every game have a moment in the spotlight. She runs indiegamejams.com, a calendar of all of the game jams going on in the world, and judges many jams and events. You can find her on Twitter as @Jupiter_Hadley

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