I Can’t Stop Playing “Adorable Home” On My Phone and Here’s Why

My in-game boyfriend constantly risks starvation

Abby Cheval
Counter Arts
Published in
6 min readSep 2, 2021

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A in-game screenshot of a cat standing in a box in a room filled with moving boxes.
Screenshot from my game’s Saved Memories.

In Adorable Home, you buy everything with L-O-V-E.

I’m even not kidding. Money doesn’t exist in this game. I can only depend on my cooking skills and whether my cat will hate me today or tomorrow. Why is that compelling?

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Abby Cheval
Counter Arts

Millennial, noncommittal romantic, walking the tightrope between hope and depression. Sounds like you too? I’ll write something for both of us.