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Bear and Breakfast blends Animal Crossing with Monopoly in a charming job sim

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Jess Reyes
25 de jan. de 2024
Bear and Breakfast is the Animal Crossing-Monopoly hybrid that nobody knew they wanted. It subverts the typical trope of humans transforming a town full of anthropomorphic animals. Instead of something like Animal Crossing, where a human moves to town and takes charge of renovations, Bear and Breakfast is the opposite. Hank, a well-meaning grizzly bear, leaves home to run an errand and ends up starting a line of scenic resorts. It’s the perfect cozy game for someone interested in an animal-themed job sim with interior design and resource management at its core.

Hank’s business venture starts with a robot shark that gives him a specific set of instructions on how to build his first hotel. Said plan involves booking rooms in a dingy getaway to humans looking for a nice vacation. One thing leads to another, and you end up acquiring an even bigger, more modern rental. Next thing you know, you’re expanding your empire into a whole other town. You don’t even need to worry about guests like you would in a Diner Dash kind of job simulator. All you need to do is book guests to rooms that match their tastes and let the rest of the game play on autopilot. Hank somehow doesn’t even need to sleep.

The thing about Bear and Breakfast is how absurd the entire thing is. Each guest has standards measured by comfort and decoration levels which you can raise with the furniture in any given room. The room can be barely inhabitable because of the furniture crowding it, yet meet the demands of a high maintenance customer. They don’t even care if your furniture came from the local dumpster diver, Took the Racoon. In fact, you can expect most of your first few pieces to come from their dump. Gotta support local businesses, after all.
Bear And Breakfast Blends Animal Crossing With Monopoly In A Charming Job Sim Building
I particularly enjoyed filling rooms with furniture, fiddling with the layouts of my buildings, and seeing Hank’s business grow with how much effort I put into juggling these small tasks. If you stick with the game long enough, the lore about its setting and sense of discovery could also impact your playthrough. There’s not much outside of building Hank’s business, but if you love decorating and putting things in their place, then it could easily keep you entertained for hours.

Bear and Breakfast also definitely doesn’t forget to lean into the fact that Hank is a bear. Exclamation points pop up over guests heads in the beginning before Hank dons his first set of clothes. Later, when you customize Hank’s outfits, they no longer have to be appalled at his nakedness. Not that you really see anything because, you know, he’s a cartoon bear covered head to toe in chestnut brown fur. Besides Hank, the other animals in the game also embody the characteristics of their species, like a racoon that hoards trash and a beaver that teaches him about woodwork.

In short, if you’re looking for a job sim with an animalistic twist, then you should try staying a couple of nights with Bear and Breakfast.

Bear and Breakfast is available on the Epic Games Store.