Windrose teaches you to swing a sword and patch a boat, then leaves you to figure out an entire pirate economy on your own.

Every Mii on your island is eventually going to turn to you for advice on what to eat, what to say, and who to fall in love with, and how you answer actually matters.

Every island starts out looking a little sad, with plain shirts, plain food, and apartments that could pass for a cheap motel room.

Getting a baby onto your island takes more than just marrying two Miis off and hoping for the best.

Messing with the system clock seems like an easy way to cheat the daily grind, but the game actively punishes you for it.

Charging into a group of enemies and holding down the attack button gets a character killed fast in Windrose.

Relying entirely on random wild bushes for your survival is a terrible long-term plan. Here is exactly how to unlock the farming system, build seedbeds, and automate your harvest in Windrose.

Dr. Galen's a decent guy, but there's only so many times you can hear the same three lines of dialogue before you start looking for actual professionals to run your camp.

Windrose slaps labels like "Luxuries" and "Munitions" onto half your inventory and then never bothers explaining who's supposed to buy them.

Every level in Windrose hands out points for stats and talents, and the choices made in the first ten hours decide how smooth or sluggish the rest of the run feels.

Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream has a real ending, and reaching it means paying a lot more attention to your Wishing Fountain than your wallet.

Every island eventually ends up with one resident who just needs to go, and thankfully, Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream makes fixing or removing them pretty painless.

A pink heart bubble floating over an apartment window means one of two things is about to happen, and both of them come with real stakes.

Five sliders during Mii creation look harmless enough, but they quietly write the social code every resident lives by.

A happy island prints its own money, and an unhappy one leaves residents standing around a fountain with nothing to show for it.

Managing the fragile egos of these digital clones is a full time job, and leaving them miserable will completely tank your island's economy.

Left alone, the residents of your island will sit in an empty room complaining about hunger instead of walking to the store, so a little daily supervision goes a long way.

Fleet progression in Windrose comes down to hull size, and picking the wrong variant means redoing the grind later.

A weapon that hits like a wet towel doesn't stop mattering just because the armor underneath it is good.

You won't get very far building anything if you can't tell one tree from the next.