#kabuto park

[frogdetective]

Kabuto Park | Enjoy summer in Kabuto Park! Catch the cutest bugs, train them and win the Summer Beetle Battles Championship in this tiny bug collection game! Upgrade your equipment to find rarer, stronger and shinier little friends.

[bee-bumbles-about]

Kabuto Park (review)

Lately, I haven't been doing so well with my mental health. I have many physical problems with my back, muscles, liver, eyes, etc. This week has especially taken a toll on me due to a procedure I need to determine a problem with my optic nerves swelling randomly. Let me tell you, reader, I feel like a plague child at times. I call myself that quite often. Some think I'm joking, but I'm not, really. It all feels too real, the pain, and being told one thing and now being told I was right for being suspicious. Honestly, I didn't expect to finish another game so soon, but I just had to with this adorable game called Kabuto Park. I thought I would take a moment to talk about it and how it's helped me with my mental health. I hope ya'll don't mind me getting personal.

Two developers made this game. Their goal was to make a game where you went to a camp and caught bugs. You meet a lot of faces and even get to battle your way up as a champion. If this sounds familiar, it's because it's very much like the Pokémon games. Not many people know that the creator of the Pokémon franchise got his inspiration from bugs and catching them as he grew up. I loved the idea of having actual bugs fight rather than your typical caterpies and beedrills. It was very refreshing. Some of the beetles I had caught, I didn't even know were a thing. Not to mention that the designs of these cuties are very adorable! I would love a plush of the Hercules Beetle. Who knows, maybe in the future, they'll make a MakeShift petition! I'd vouch for it, for sure.

I didn't have anything that I didn't like in this game. It was very relaxing and chill compared to other games like Stardew Valley or Slime Rancher. I like to just take a break from pixel art and 3D art styles, so the 2D simplistic art style was refreshing for me. There isn't a lot of animation in this game, either. I find this not lazy but rather unique for the vibes it's going for. It feels like you're looking through an old postcard collection when looking at the still images. I like postcards, so of course I adored this decision. It also wasn't very busy or overwhelming for me to get from task to task. Very straightforward and easy to understand. There is also a terrarium you receive from your friend named Hana, which lets you look at all the bugs you put under FAVORITES. It's nice to watch the little guys just have fun crawling around. I also found it very relaxing, especially for deep breathing exercises.

One fact that I didn't expect to do while playing this game through was to get all of its achievments! Honestly, while there may not be as many as other games, I think having small goals can help give the player another goal to have rather than a million. It felt so nice to just get some achievements for chilling out and battling, or catching bugs. They even have shiny bugs in this game with a different color palette. Sometimes, they may be bigger and stronger, too. 

Overall, I had a relaxing time with my buggy companions! I hope the developers think of adding some kind of multiplayer mode. I think that would be fun! I'm gonna give this cutie patootie game a 9/10. You should play it if you're having a bad day or if you just need something positive to focus on. It helped me a lot through this rough week I've had, so I hope it at least brings others joy, too.

(By the way, I would love there to be a MakeShift plush of the bugs from this game. I'm just saying!)

[ohheplays]

Playing Kabuto Park by dodoot.bsky.social inspired me to make some bug codes for my island - including a few I never heard of before playing! 🪲🐜🐞

The ladybugs come in a variety of sizes because I couldn't decide on just one and there is an alternate version of the snail inspired by @krystalkatpaws old snail code! 🐌

Let me know in the comments which bug is your favorite! 🔎

[maskedgnat]

A friend gifted me Kabuto Park yesterday and I'm excited to play! Bugs, bugs, bugs and a very cozy premise!

[dezertvideogames]

10 Quite Underrated Games In My Library/Radar

Rabbit & Steel

Rabbit & Steel is an absolutely adorable game with clear Touhou inspiration. It's a co-op, with a single player mode, that's a puzzle-combat-bullet hell. I didn't even know that genre existed. You start with a group of rabbit girls, and go through the mystery of these cursed kingdoms while unlocking more girls and more weapons for the girls.

Price Expectations: Cheap

Genre: Bullet-Hell | Puzzle | RPG | Online Co-op (1-4)

Extra:

Stylized art style

Small but active online community

More difficult than it looks

Rewarding

Re-Playable

Girls

Library of Ruina

A sequel to the management sim, Lobotomy Corporation, but this one isn't a management sim. It's a turn-based combat x story-driven visual novel that later lead to the creation of Limbus Company, the third installment of the Project Moon worldbuilding.

Intense worldbuilding, fantastic Korean voice acting with subtitles provided, mysterious and intriguing characters, returning characters and anomalies alike, and the aftermath of Lobotomy Corporation's ending. It makes you curious, morbidly so, to see what happens next.

Price Expectations: Moderate (Arguably a little expensive)

Genre: Turn-Based Combat | RPG | Visual Novel | Team Management | Heavy Worldbuilding

Extra:

Upgraded artstyle from Lobotomy Corporation

Grim-Dark Project Moon worldbuilding

Fantastic voice actiing

Beautiful Original Soundtrack

Upgraded & more diverse character editor from Lobotomy Corporation

Good Writing

Reasonably Challenging

Look Outside

One of my top ten horror games. What is up with horror rpgs being so damn good? Fear & Hunger, Omori- Now this and OFF. I'm drowning in good horror. This game blew my mind. It's genius, its messaging is though-provoking, its gameplay stressful but painstakingly intriguing. The characters and humor are amazing. And the boss fights-

Please experience it for yourself, or at least watch someone play this game. It's so good.

Price: Very Cheap

Genre: Survival Horror RPG | Eldritch/Cosmic Horror

Extra:

Great Humor

Unique and Memorable Monster Designs

Great Characters

Difficult

Good Writing

Strong Atmospheric Horror

Body Horror, So Much Body Horror

Dance-Worthy OST

Labor of Love

Good Boss Fights

Reverse: 1999

I know what you're thinking. Another Gacha? I know... Im sorry too... But I'm in deep as an f2p and I have to keep hoping that this game will grow a global fanbase as feral as I am for this game.

Picked this up on a whim one day, and became hooked. Not intrigued, hooked. I mean playing this game until the sun came up because I lost track of time hooked, not because of gambling, I don't think I ever rarely pull. I play for this story. The drama. The doomed lesbians. The death?! This is a stunning visual novel hidden underneath a turn-based gacha.

(The gameplay is fun too I guess)

Price: Free & Gacha

Genre: Turn-Based Combat | Strategy | Visual Novel

Extra:

Stylized and stunning artstyle

Tweening and stylized animation

Great Characters

Good Writing

Heavy Worldbuilding

Mystery

Character Deaths

Has Its Difficult Spikes

Grindy in the long game

Lesbians

Beautiful Soundtrack

Passionate Voice Acting

Odd amount of horror???

Not as bad colorism as Genshin Impact, but could be better

Kabuto Park

Cozy, bug-catching game where you go around a park challenging children to beetle battles. It's an incredibly cute game, very relaxing, can get oddly competitive, and has a lovely catch them all no worries kind of vibe.

Price Expectations: Very Cheap

Genre: Creature Battle | Bug-Catching

Extra:

Stylized and cute art style

Shiny Hunting

Simple Strategy

Casual game

Beetle

Fun Humor

Chants of Sennaar

This game is too funny to be as unrecognized as it is. If you like linguistic puzzles this game is easily your next game of the year. You play a character in this tower of babel-like environment trying to get through it again and again as language continues to change. You start knowing nothing, and slowly uncover the truth in people's bizarre words.

Price Expectations: Moderate

Genre: Linguistic Puzzle | Stealth | Adventure

Extra:

Incredible humor

Dynamic puzzles

Mystery

Monsters

Extensive Worldbuilding

Stylized & Bright

Barotrauma

Have you ever wanted subnautica to be scarier, more difficult, and to play with friends who are more likely to kill you than the ancient horrors of the deep for the sake of the bit? Your answer is Barotrauma. A sort of 2D deep sea space-sub survival horror, where you and a crew of friends try to complete missions without sinking to god only knows where.

Price: Somewhat Expensive

Genre: Survival Horror | Submarine Simulator | Co-Op | Team RPG |

Extra:

Terrifying choice of 3D to 2D modeling

Quite Difficult

Everyone has a role on the ship

Deep sea alien horrors

There's enemy factions in the game?!

Wait who was supposed to keep the power from dying?

Are we on fire?!

Can this thing blow u-

Have a Nice Death

I surprisingly liked Have A Nice Death. I didn't initially think I'd like it as a roguelike, because I was very guarded when it came to games in the genre, especially with the metroidvania take, to meet my high expectations now. I mean these games have to keep the attentions of players who played games like Dead Cells, Rain World, Hollow Knight, and Hyper Light Drifter

The gameplay is incredibly smooth, I liked the hades-style take on the weapons, the humor was of course very morbid and existentially refreshing. The bosses were good challenges, and I liked the re-playability in exploration of this take on the underworld. The atmosphere was very dark, workcore, and super well animated.

Price: Moderate

Genre: Roguelike | 2D Platformer | Metroidvania | Bossfighter

Extra:

Existential Dread

Fantastic Animation

Well Designed Areas & Background

Fun & Grim Boss Designs

Interesting Worldbuilding

Workforce Commentary

Smooth Combat

Your Only Move Is Hustle

Here me out. Turn based fighting game. How does that even work? I asked that very question myself, and I still don't know how to describe it. Really only looking up a YOMIH video and seeing the eye-bleeding action packed clips will only make you more confused. This is a good game for the patient, stickman lovers, and mod hoarders.

(But can it beat cowboy?)

Price: Very Cheap

Genre: Turn-Based Fighting Game

Extra:

Hustle

Huge Modding Community

People started adding their OCs and favorite video game characters, and then next thing you know you're Jotoro fighting Sans to the death in turn-based combat somehow

Base game classes are awesome too

They're so broken

Everything is broken

10/10, its like 5 bucks

Fallen A.C.E.S.

It's still in beta, but if you're an FPS enthusiast and wanted to support the same publishing team behind Ultrakill, you must check out Fallen ACES. It's pokes fun at everything vintage all at once, while providing a batshit insane storyline and insane combat. I will admit though it's a difficult adjustment to get used to the combat style, but mesmerizing once you figure it out.

Price: Currently Cheap

Genre: Doom-Style FPS & Combat | Stealth | Noir | Comic Book

Extra:

Incredibly funny

I mean its so stupid

Comic book art style and cutscenes

Noir inspired

Insane MC

Great Voice Acting

Fun Map Designs

Very Difficult (imo)

[daniople]

tomorrow @ 7:00 PM ill be playing KABUTO PARK !! 🪲 a short and sweet game about collecting bugs, leveling them up, and fighting other kids to become… the Summer Beetle Battles champion!!! 🏆

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[clementine-png]

do any of you play kabuto park. I just finished getting every shiny yesterday. gaze upon my bug army and their silly fucking names

[mysticfyres]

Kabuto Park (2025)