Odd Dorable Review

Game: Odd Dorable
Genre: Adventure, Casual, Indie
System: Steam (Windows)
Developer | Publisher: Artur Latkovsky
Controller Support: No
Price: US $4.99 | UK £4.28 | EU € 4,99
Release Date: September 3rd 2025

Review code used with many thanks to GamePiñata

Odd Dorable drops players into a quirky, imaginative world, hand-drawn by the developer’s daughter, with the goal of finding six magic candies to give the princess.

An Imaginative World to Explore

Upon opening the game, I was prompted to choose my character model (which isn’t visible during gameplay) and then plopped into the world. Without any direction, I wandered around the world a bit aimlessly and met multiple characters, who would respond with quirky sound effects also created by the developer’s daughter. It took rereading the game’s Steam page for me to find the goal of collecting six candies for the princess.

The Odd Dorable pink princess surrounded by six empty candy slots — Restore magic to the princess by finding her candies.

While I understand that Odd Dorable is meant to be played without text, some visual indicator pointing me toward the princess and collectable candies would have been helpful.

The environment is quite cute and colorful with its two-dimensional characters placed in a three-dimensional world. My favorite part was stumbling upon an easter egg of the family cats while exploring a maze.

Photo of the Odd Dorable family cats found in the maze — A welcome feline surprise!

Controls Can Be Frustrating

While the atmosphere of this hand-drawn world was nice and cozy, the controls were frustrating to use at times. For example, pressing W to walk forward actually causes your character to strafe to the right as well, so I would have to hold both W and A to move straight forward. There are also areas where there appears to be enough room between two trees to walk through, but I would get stuck and have to walk the long way around.

Trees in Odd Dorable appear far apart enough to walk through — Cannot walk through here, though the trunks look to be far apart.

Though not an unwelcome surprise, I noticed my movement speed increased significantly without warning after collecting the green candy. I also wish there were some sort of indication to show what objects and characters could be interacted with, perhaps through a thicker outline or highlight when hovering over interactable entities.

Conclusion

Overall, Odd Dorable is a short and sweet adventure, and I can sense the love put into creating this game from both the developer and their daughter. Unfortunately, the frustrating controls and lack of direction made this game more difficult for me to enjoy.

Final Verdict: I Don’t Like it