One rabbit’s journey to a million carrots!
Ever felt like you wanted to give up your hectic lifestyle, move away to a small town, and just grow carrots? Well, that’s what Tsuki’s Odyssey is about.
Developed by RapBot Studios and released for iOS and Android by HyperBeard in 2021, Tsuki’s Odyssey is the spiritual successor to Tsuki’s Adventure. Both games are passive adventure games where the titular character Tsuki, following the death of his grandfather, decides to quit his job and move to his hometown, Mushroom Village to his grandfather’s carrot farm. There he reunites with his old friends and begins a new, calmer phase of life.
Fig: 01 – You move from the city to Mushroom Village to tend to your ancestral home and grow carrots.
But Tsuki’s life at Mushroom Village is not a walk in the park. For starters, his so-called best friend Chi, a giraffe who was given the duty of taking care of Tsuki’s ancestral home, “fell asleep”, resulting in a thief stealing all of the furniture. The silver lining is that Yori, the owner of Yori’s General Store and one of Tsuki’s close friends, is willing to sell new furniture to Tsuki in exchange for carrots. So how does Tsuki grow carrots? Well, the game mechanics are simple. A plot of carrots grows and can be harvested every two hours. You can temporarily increase your carrot harvest, but more on that later.
Herein lies the beauty of Tsuki’s Odyssey. You, the player, do not have direct control over what Tsuki does. Tsuki is not your pet, but a free spirit who will interact with the world as he pleases. So, the game revolves around checking in on him periodically to see what he’s up to. You can however, move Tsuki around with the world map and purchase items and furniture (in exchange for carrots). You can also interact with the other residents of Mushroom Village and help them out of their various predicaments (exploding power generators, lost pens, missing jewellery etc) as the game progresses.
Fig: 02 - Behold, my field of carrots
Or you can just buy a fishing rod from Yori’s Store (if and when it becomes available) and go fishing, and sell off extra fish in exchange for carrots.
Yori and his daughter Pipi run the General Store, which is open 24 hours a day. At night, the store is run by Elfie and Paige. The items on sale also have creative and funny descriptions that are guaranteed to make you chuckle or facepalm (or both).
As you progress with Tsuki, you will rekindle the friendships you had with your old friends and visit new places as well. The Town Hall, for example, is the office of Benny the Mayor who enjoys the “water cooler talks” that he and Tsuki have (you’ll know it when you see it). In addition, a bulletin board outside the office gives you the latest happenings in Mushroom Village. It’s important to keep an eye on the bulletin board as there are new quests and dialogues daily that can be unlocked by interacting with the right character at the right time.
Fig: 03 - Behold, Mushroom Village in all its carrot growing glory
Moving around Mushroom Village, you’ll meet Moca, a budding musician, strongly opinionated against “other music” in the world. Build up a sufficiently strong friendship with him, and he’ll gift you his first mixtape. Let’s just say it’s like nothing you’ve ever heard of before.
As you progress in Mushroom Village, you will unlock more sites to visit. These include Momo’s Tea Shop, a Ramen shop run by Bobo the panda, and a bar run by Ratthew the rat. If all this sounds a tad confusing to you, don’t worry. It took me a few days to get familiar with the characters as well.
Fig: 04 - Yori’s General Store has everything you need (and some stuff you don’t need as well)
Similar to how we use social media to document our achievements, Tsuki’s Odyssey makes use of Parsnap, which is their version of Instagram. Parsnaps can occur when you unlock an achievement, or take part in a specific dialogue. So make sure you interact with the citizens of Mushroom Village as much as you can.
While Tsuki’s Odyssey is by and large a free-to-play game, there is pay-to-play (P2P) content in the form of carrot packs you can buy using real world cash. Thus far, the largest pack is 30,000 carrots for around LKR 1,225. The homecoming package which is a one-time purchase of LKR 2900, unlocks the infinite bag and also gives you exclusive content. As a bonus, you get carrots as well.
Fig: 05 - The town hall is where Benny the Mayor attends to the duties of Mushroom Village, where you can check your bounties and also take part in the gacha draw
For example, the ongoing winter event brought a ton of new furniture and Christmas decor, some of which are ridiculously expensive (we’re talking 10,000 carrots for a fully fledged sled). You can however try your luck by purchasing presents at Yori’s store when they’re available, as these have a chance to contain items the present itself costs a fraction of. It’s a gamble, but as long as you know what you’re doing, there’s no harm done.
Fig: 06 - What utter satisfaction feels like
Overall, I’ve had a blast playing Tsuki’s Odyssey. The fact that you barely have to do anything at all is what I grew to love about the game. While most games require you to login and do stuff, Tsuki makes me want to take a more chilled out approach to life. Trust me on this, you will love the game and it will thoroughly engross you once you get into the mechanics of it.
Note that, Tsuki’s Odyssey is not intended for children and may have some content that is inappropriate for children under the age of 13. Apart from that, this game gets a 10/10 for me so if you’re in the mood to check out a new game, do give Tsuki’s Odyssey a shot.
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