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It's hard not to think that something else is happening in this rabbit greenhouse. (No.)

Bunhouse makes me a little creepy, but it's not Bunhouse's fault. This is the fault of all self-referencing games like Frog Fractions, which are cute on the surface but are actually meta-horror games or ARGs that last for many years. At Bunhouse, I can’t help wondering if I’m just a rabbit with floppy ears, growing monstera plants in my rabbit greenhouse. Maybe the real monstera is hidden behind my rabbit’s big eyes...

Or maybe Bunhouse is just a cute game about bunny running a greenhouse. This is the reason for the publicity on Kickstarter and the happy Steam user reviews from the people who funded it on Kickstarter.

“Sometimes we just need to take a breath and relax in a happy little world full of rabbits,” wrote creator Patrick Gautier, who makes games under the Reky Games brand. "There is nothing to kill, no one is better than anyone, there is no task or debt to be paid..."

Or is there? No, no, absolutely not. Well, you can fish, and the ethics of sport fishing (as far as I know, rabbits don’t eat fish) is controversial, especially in the anthropomorphic world of rabbits, where people can assume that fish are like people. Just in case, I threw back a fish I caught. My rabbit is not a murderer.

Otherwise, Bunhouse violates the true colors of indie games (Undertale, Pony Island, etc.). There is no "just kidding, this is actually some creepy stuff made up by teenagers on the forum." Here, it's just that the rabbit is the one who happens to own and operate the houseplant nursery. This kind of rabbit will provide for the millennials living in the apartment. They purchased the Fern app online. (There is research on the benefits of owning plants, okay? Leave us alone.)

But I still can't get rid of the feeling that something is wrong. Plant growth is simple: fill a pot with soil, put seeds in it, and then water until the correct moisture content for the plant is reached. Wait a moment and you will have plants for sale. Order more seeds to plant more. This is boring, but nothing strange. However, leaving the greenhouse, things became a bit strange. 

Here are some of the problems I encountered while exploring Bunhouse:

(To be fair, I think I should allow rabbits to have a complex economy including cash crops.)

I don’t have the answers to these questions — I still don’t know if rabbits can fish — but I know that Bunhouse allows you to customize your rabbit’s ears (upright, lop-eared, lion head, dwarf) and jump with your rabbit friends Come and go (only for local cooperation, but it supports Steam's remote play together function), planting rabbit plants and doing rabbit yoga, I like rabbits, so I fully support all these things.

However, before you buy Bunhouse for $20, think about how much you love rabbits. Once I was sure that nothing sinister was hidden under the greenhouse or the backyard cemetery, the rabbit plant business could no longer attract my attention. This is a lovely project that can be played for an hour, and it’s worth mentioning that Kickstarter supporters seem to have got what they want, but if you want your brain to fall into a fake farm, I still recommend Stardew Valley , Even if there is no rabbit yoga. (A serious mistake.)

Tyler played Rocket League for more than 1,200 hours and was slightly less picky about the PC Gamer style guide. His main news beat is the game store: Steam, Epic, and any launchers that squeeze into our taskbar next.

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