Bumbling

So I was reincarnated as a bee, so what?

I recently did a live flip through of Bumbling. This video includes other games, but I have it timestamped for Bumbling. Bumbling is a well-organized and well-formatted game that offers a relaxing way to build a map. I'm sorry for how inept I am at pronouncing the author's name! 

Bumbling is more of a guided map-drawing activity, in a bee-dance-guided fashion. You can form a small narrative as you go, and journal if you wish. As you play you'll fill up a map with the areas around the hive, and you can imagine friendships with the animals nearby if they direct you to flowers. Other bees can be directed to flowers you find, with a light memory mini-game.

It's a very mellow activity.

Bumbling is a solo RPG about bees. You play as a busy worker bee exploring the world, making friends and collecting pollen. Very appropriately, the map is drawn in hexes.

Bumbling is an adorable game, i had a wonderful evening exploring the area around my hive and collecting honey.

Here is a short video review i made about it:

This is a sweet and relaxing way to pass a couple hours of a summer afternoon. The game is more focused on the logistics of exploring and learning your hive's dance language to get your hive full of honey, with some outlet for journaling if you want. There aren't additional rules to enforce specific ways of playing either; you're very free to set your own goals as opposed to trying to optimize via skating close to the limit of some hypothetical set of stricter rules. 

I used graph paper to draw hexagons on (there's a simple way to do this folks can google, even if it results in slightly tall hexagrams) and an abacus to count up the honey cells instead of the scoresheet.

I like that I have both this and "I'm a Bee" (which has much more focus on journaling) for all my bee rpg needs.