Games by Chibig
Koa and the Five Pirates of Mara Switch eShop
- 27th Jul 2023 (UK/EU)
- 27th Jul 2023 (NA)
- 10th Aug 2023 (JPN)
Mika and the Witch's Mountain Switch eShop
- 21st Aug 2024 (UK/EU)
- 21st Aug 2024 (NA)
Summer in Mara + Koa and the Five Pirates of Mara Switch eShop
- 24th Dec 2023 (UK/EU)
- 18th Jan 2024 (NA)
Reviews of Chibig Games
Review Mika And The Witch's Mountain (Switch) - A Cute Ghibli-Inspired Tale That Doesn't Deliver
"Flying used to be fun until I started doing it for a living"
Kiki’s Delivery Service is a movie all about growing up. The night Kiki leaves home to complete a year of witch training, she excitedly overstuffs her bag, makes herself a broomstick that’s too small for her, and crashes into a couple of trees during her flight. She doesn’t have a...
Mini Review Koa And The Five Pirates Of Mara (Switch) - A Cute Island-Hopping Platformer
A Koality sequel
Back in 2020, Chibig released Summer in Mara, a slice-of-life farm sim game set in a tropical world and… well, for our money, it really wasn’t very good. It evidently sold well enough for Chibig to justify continuing the IP, but rather than make a sequel that built on the strengths and fixed the flaws of the original, the studio...
Review Deiland: Pocket Planet Edition (Switch) - Princely Patience Is Required
Waiting for Space-Godot
Another day, another Animal Crossing-meets-Harvest Moon-with-a-twist game. Deiland: Pocket Planet Edition is a farming, fighting, fishing and foraging game set in space, with a tiny, spherical planet upon which to do all of those activities: New Leaf by way of Le Petit Prince, if you will. And you are, in fact, a petit...
Review Summer In Mara (Switch) - Alluring Presentation Hides A Fundamentally Flawed Adventure
A bit of a shipwreck
In February of last year, a promising project called Summer in Mara was released on Kickstarter. Appearing as something of a cross between The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and the Harvest Moon games, many fans were quickly enamoured by the cute art style and seemingly wholesome story. A little over a year later, Summer in...
Latest Chibig News
Thursday27th Jun 2024
News Kiki's Delivery Service Meets Wind Waker In 'Mika And The Witch's Mountain'
Coming to Switch in August
Publisher and developer Chibig has announced a release date for its adorable delivery sim, Mika and the Witch's Mountain, via IGN. The game will be launching on Switch (and Steam) on 21st August 2024, with other consoles to follow at a later date. In the game, you play as Mika, a budding young witc
Thursday15th Jun 2023
News Koa And The Five Pirates Of Mara Is A Cute, Summery Take On Mario 3D World
Out this July
Koa and the Five Pirates of Mara is bringing adorable summer platforming to Switch on 27th July, Chibig, Talpa Games, and Undercoders have announced (thanks, Gematsu!). First teased over a year ago, if Koa and the Five Pirates of Mara sounds familia
Wednesday2nd Feb 2022
News Publisher Chibig Announces Four New Switch Games, Plus Big News For Summer In Mara
Chibig news
The latest indie publisher to hop on the Nintendo Direct-like showcase bandwagon (which, for the record, we're big fans of) is Chibig, the studio behind Summer in Mara and Deiland: Pocket Planet. Their showcase, which is called "Chibig Presents", will be livestreamed on their Twitch channel at 4pm GMT, on Wednesday, February 2nd. The...
Sunday31st May 2020
News Summer In Mara Sails Onto The Nintendo Switch On 16th June
Experience farm life on an island
First revealed for the Nintendo Switch in 2018, Summer in Mara will finally be released on Nintendo Switch and PC on 16th June. Publisher and developer Chibig made the news official via Twitter: In this single-player experience, you'll control Koa - a young girl who must take care of her own island by harvesting...
