Video games are designed to capture your heart and captivate you with their narratives, gameplay, and designs.
Sometimes these places are entirely optional, while others are where our journey begins.
12The Ranch - Slime Rancher
The Ranch inSlime Rancheris a place of conflicting emotions.
It is home, your refuge in this strange place you found yourself.
It will wrench at you with loneliness yet somehow invite you to stay in its warm embrace.
You want to return there, but you feel a slight sadness every time you do.
It feels safe, straddling a line between pangs of nostalgia and beautiful serenity.
Even the creepiness of Wuwang Hill has a certain charm to it.
Outset Island gives you a warm and fuzzy feeling, like snuggling into a familiar blanket.
Good luck trying to tear yourself away after that.
Everything around you is rundown and grimy, to the point of repulsion.
The Roost is a coffee shop, found inside the already off-the-charts cosy museum on your island.
In Skyloft, there is everything you could ever want from a cosy little town.
It’s suspended in the sky, safe above the ruined and scary surface land below.
There are ponds, a town square, friendly neighbours, warm air, and a cool breeze.
