Game: Acornia: Mirror Worlds
Developer: Splashteam
Publisher: Dotemu · The Arcade Crew
Release: Spring 2027
Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2
Genre: Shop management · dungeon crawler
🐿️ Dotemu and Splashteam have released a new “Season-ing” trailer for Acornia: Mirror Worlds. It gives a fresh look at the shop management, baking and farming, and the game is coming in spring 2027 to PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2.
🧁 Sometimes a Cupcake Is Also a Projectile
You play as Alva, a squirrel patisserie shopkeeper returning to reopen her family’s dessert shop in Acornia, a once-carefree tree village now plagued by corruption. That mysterious influence has driven the villagers away and pulled parts of her home into the dangerous Duramen, a dark mirror dimension full of angry spirits.
Switch dimensions any time: bake and sell treats in the light world, then spit pastries at spirits from your bottomless cheek pouches in the Duramen.
Bake. Brawl. Repeat with the seasons.
Indie darling Splashteam, the studio behind Tinykin, and publisher Dotemu have unveiled a brand-new trailer for Acornia: Mirror Worlds, the adorable mix of dungeon crawler and action-adventure shop manager. We first covered the game when it was announced as a shop sim where your stock is also your ammunition, then again with its gameplay trailer. This time the focus is on the cozy side of the loop: baking, running the shop, farming and the changing seasons. Dotemu also published Absolum, which we called a new fantasy classic.
What the New Trailer Shows
🍰 Seasonal Recipes
New recipes come from the Duramen, villager quests and desserts from around the world, each with seasonal ingredients.
🌱 Farming
Grow single-harvest crops, keep perennials happy in the off-season, and rebuild an old greenhouse for out-of-season crops.
🐄 Livestock
Care for cows, bees and chickens to collect milk, honey and eggs for your bakes.
🍄 Mushroom Staff
Hire mushroom employees to automate farming and livestock, run the register, serve customers or restock shelves.
🍂 Seasons Change Everything
According to Splashteam’s Steam post on the trailer, the seasons change which ingredients are available, bring new recipe drops from monsters and traveling merchants, and open up seasonal events. Per the store page, those include things like bug catching and flower decorating, which unlock seasonal recipes and furniture sets. Customers have seasonal preferences too, so putting seasonal recipes on display earns you more.
You can also rebuild the family dessert shop, unlock decorations, and boost your reputation with matching furniture sets.
⚔️ Down in the Duramen
The other half of the game is a dungeon crawler. Swallow new recipes and materials as you explore the Duramen’s dungeons, scurry across multiple floors, dodge-roll past traps, and shoot enemies down with a stream of pastries until you reach the boss. Run out of ammo? Swallow enemies whole and use them to topple the next one.
PC (Steam) · PlayStation 5 · Xbox Series X|S · Nintendo Switch 2
Release
Spring 2027
Villagers
Over 25, each with a backstory, role, daily routine and side quests
Features
Single-player · full controller support · shop customization · farming and animals · employees and automation
Minimum PC
Windows 10 · Core i5-2400 or FX-4350 · 8 GB RAM · GTX 1050, RX 560 or Arc A310 (4 GB) · 1080p @ 30 FPS
📅 Coming Spring 2027
Acornia: Mirror Worlds launches next year on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2. You can wishlist it on Steam now.
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