Oide yo Doubutsu no Mori is basically Animal Crossing for the DS, but with that extra Japanese charm. You start off moving into a tiny village full of animals who all have way more personality than they should—like, one minute you're chatting with a grumpy cat about turnip prices, and the next you're getting guilt-tripped by a duck because you haven’t visited in a week.

At first, you’re just fishing, shaking trees for bells, and maybe planting a few flowers. But then you realize you’ve spent an hour rearranging furniture in your house because that one chair looked slightly better two inches to the left. The real magic is how the game moves in real time—if it’s nighttime for you, it’s nighttime in the village, and good luck finding anyone awake past 10 PM.

It’s the kind of game where nothing really *happens*, but somehow you lose entire afternoons to it anyway. Just don’t forget to water your flowers, or they’ll wilt and the villagers will judge you for it.