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Re:Fresh

PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch • 2023

Should you play it?

Restore your town as you run, jump and dash through cozy locales while helping lovable townsfolk! Become immersed in a tight-knit community of animals and robots while becoming the town hero in this heart-warming solarpunk adventure.

What works
  • Cozy and relaxing atmosphere
  • Adorable art style and characters
  • Fun and fluid platforming mechanics
  • Short and accessible gameplay
  • Worth the price especially on sale
Things to keep in mind
  • Very short playtime
  • Minor bugs and camera issues
  • Limited character customization
  • Some floaty and imprecise controls
  • Lack of replay value and depth

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Adorable Adventures

  • Grow Up

  • Mimpi

  • A Tiny Sticker Tale

  • Cirno! Lifts a Boulder

  • Grow Home

  • Super Chipflake Ü: Quest for the Uncooked Schnitzel

  • Yooka-Replaylee

  • The Multi-Medium
Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Mimpi

  • A Tiny Sticker Tale

  • Cirno! Lifts a Boulder
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Similarity map

Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Why this game works” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot for a screenshot preview, score, and top score gaps; click to compare in the panel on the right.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Re:Fresh: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Thrill, Fantasy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story, Fantasy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Survival.

Why this game works

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