Tell Me Your Story Games Collection

Genre: Compilation / Puzzle

Players: 1

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Review:

Tell Me Your Story Games Collection, released on Nintendo Switch in 2025, is a Compilation containing the three games, all cozy family-friendly games with light Puzzle or Simulation elements, each previously released separately on Nintendo Switch.

I have separately reviewed these games. Here is what I thought of each of the games in this collection:

Game	Genre	# of Players	Score
Amelia’s Garden	Puzzle	1	D+
tl;dr Amelia’s Garden is a family-friendly has players repairing pottery in gameplay that’s roughly like a Jigsaw Puzzle, and then fills up space by forcing players through a series of tedious tasks. As a result, there’s very little actual gameplay here. I recommend you skip this game.
Cook For Love	Misc. / Simulation	1	D
tl;dr Cook For Love is a family-friendly game that puts players in the role of a French chef preparing dishes in a restaurant, and while this game has a lovely presentation, the gameplay is so shallow and pointless that this game feels completely disposable. Skip it.
Tell Me Your Story	Puzzle	1	C-
tl;dr Tell Me Your Story is a family-friendly Puzzle game following a young girl visiting her grandmother and fantasizing about traveling the world. This game has a lovely presentation and a good premise of giving younger players a variety of kid-friendly puzzles. Unfortunately, terrible signposting makes these otherwise very easy puzzles unnecessarily confusing, and being published by RedDeer.Games means there’s all sorts of sleazy tactics going on here to try to inflate sales. The result is a game I cannot recommend, despite its positive qualities.

In short, all three games have a warm, inviting, family-friendly 2D art style with a great “cozy game” vibe, but fall absolutely flat in terms of gameplay, either being tedious repetitive busywork or having miserable signposting that makes it confusing what you’re even meant to do.

Still, even with these flaws, these games do share some good themes, so maybe they’ll be a better value as a group? Well, that all depends if the price is right. However, at a bloated $31, this bundle provides only a $3 savings over buying each of these games separately, at least at the standard price. When this Compilation (frequently) goes on sale, it drops to the rock-bottom $2 price tag, meaning you’ll be getting it for a third of the price of any of the included games’ sale prices, a much better value.

Still, even with the added value you get from Tell Me Your Story Games Collection’s sale price, this is still a bundle of three disappointing games. I think if you’re going to get any of these games, you might as well wait until this bundle goes on sale and just buy it instead, but definitely don’t expect anything great here, even if it all looks and sounds quite nice.

tl;dr – Tell Me Your Story Games Collection is a Compilation of Amelia’s Garden, Cook For Love, and Tell Me Your Story, three family-friendly games with a lovely presentation but dull, tedious, and unnecessarily confusing gameplay. If you catch this bundle on sale it’s a much better deal than getting any of the included games on their own, but even so it’s hard to recommend this bundle when the included games are all mediocre at best.

Grade: C-

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