Love is...

I came to this one expecting a mobile port with a thin coat of PC varnish, and what I found instead was something genuinely tender. LUNOSOFT has built the Steam version of "Love is..." around the hand-drawn illustrations of South Korean artist Puuung, whose watercolor-adjacent work has gathered a devoted following across social media for years. Bringing that art into an interactive context was always going to be a gamble, and for the most part the bet pays off. The core loop is a hidden-object game with a coloring-book soul. Each chapter opens as a black-and-white sketch of an intimate domestic moment between two characters, and as you spot the hidden items embedded in the drawing, color bleeds outward from each find, filling the scene like ink spreading through wet paper. The objects you hunt range from obvious household props to tiny letters and hearts tucked into the linework. Some levels feel almost meditative, others will have you zooming in and scanning every corner with quiet frustration. That mild difficulty spike is by design, the game is channeling Puuung's thesis that small, overlooked details carry all the emotional weight. Once a chapter is complete, you receive a quote, a short animated clip, and an unlockable wallpaper, all of which feel like rewards worth having rather than filler. The soundtrack deserves its own sentence. Unplugged piano and acoustic guitar compositions accompany every session, and the sound design understands restraint in a way that most casual games on PC forget entirely. You can sit with it on in the background while doing something else and the music still registers as intentional, composed for this specific mood rather than licensed from a royalty-free library. That attention to the soundscape is what separates "Love is..." from the pack of similarly-themed relaxation games. Where the game stumbles is pacing at scale. With 30-plus chapters and hundreds of levels, some players will find the middle stretch repetitive, the hidden-object categories (hearts, letters, numbered items) cycling through the same patterns across too many scenes without enough variation in the logic. The story threading the chapters together is sweet but thin, more visual vignette than narrative. Players who want plot investment or mechanical depth will bounce off it. This is not a game that pretends to be anything more than what it is: a slow, deliberate, beautiful way to spend an hour or two in the company of someone else's love story. For fans of Puuung's illustration work already, this is a no-brainer, an interactive gallery with gentle puzzles attached. For everyone else, the question is whether you have a use for a game that prioritizes emotional texture over challenge. If a quiet evening with watercolor art and acoustic guitar sounds like exactly what you need right now, "Love is..." delivers that with real craft behind it.

Kai · Scout Team

Indie & narrative

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