Casual games seem to find a home on the Nintendo Switch. Sometimes this is a good thing, and sometimes the games feel a little out of place. Bunny Park is a game that works if you play your Switch like a tablet, but it isn’t exactly the best casual game for the platform.

In Bunny Park, you take control of the titular park, which has been affected by a storm. All the bunnies have run off, so it is up to you to restore the park. You’ll have to clear debris, decorate the park, provide food for bunnies, and ultimately expand it to an even better park than before.

This all sounds good, and it is if you want to play with the touch screen. However, using the joy-con controllers in docked mode is a little less than intuitive. I wouldn’t say this is impossible to play with controllers, but I would say that it isn’t optimized for their use. There are a lot of things to purchase and a lot of ways to decorate your park, but ultimately, Bunny Park feels more like a casual mobile game than anything else.

There aren’t very many options to work with in terms of volume or even text. The tutorials leave much to be desired as they don’t exactly tell you what qualifies as debris or how you should even start your park-building journey. I’ve played a lot of habitat-building games like this, and Bunny Park feels like an Alpha build at best.

That isn’t to say it’s bad though. If anything, it is just a little more suited for mobile devices and the tablet mode of the Switch than anything else. It is a game meant for casual play, something that’s low impact. It might take you a bit to figure out, and you might not want to play it for very long in a stretch, but to kill some time it’ll do in a pinch.

Bunny Park could have benefitted from a lot of things. It has “tips” that come up on the screen, but it lacks a proper tutorial. In fact, the game itself feels somewhat aimless as you play. I could see people losing interest before really discovering what Bunny Park is capable of. I’m sure a lot of hard work went into it though, and I can’t necessarily begrudge them that. It is good that it came to Nintendo Switch at all, and not just Steam.

Overall, if you’re looking for a casual game that doesn’t ask anything of you (such as microtransactions), then Bunny Park is a decent enough option. I think if you can figure it out, it’d be good to hand off to kids too because it does have some colorful, cute bunnies here and there. If you’re looking for something a bit more substantial though, you might want to look elsewhere.

A Nintendo Switch review copy of Bunny Park was provided by SOEDESCO for this review.

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Bunny Park

$19.99

6

Score

6.0/10

Pros

• Cute Bunnies
• Colorful Visuals
• Simple Concept

Cons

• Aimless Gameplay
• No Tutorial
• Limited Options
• Lots of things to Do