I have two small children (one is almost nine, the other is six), and they’ve taken an interest in gaming. So I’m always on the lookout for simpler, chill games for them to enjoy. Wild Sheep Studio and PQube are on the case and offer some adorable adventures… with Adorable Adventures.

“Play as Boris, a curious baby boar who must learn how to use his nose to reunite with his family after a forest fire. Explore beautiful landscapes, track scents, and uncover secrets as you slowly reconnect with nature in this cozy animal adventure.”

There just aren’t enough games where you play as a character called Boris. Adorable Adventures is here to tilt the scales ever so slightly. You step into the tiny trotters of Boris the baby boar, who wakes to find his family scattered after a forest fire. His mother is trapped, his siblings are missing, and, being a baby boar, he’s not exactly equipped to handle this alone. So off he goes, snout first, on a quest to reunite the family and ultimately save his mum.

At its core, Adorable Adventures revolves around one thing: smelling. There are scents everywhere. Your siblings’ scents are the ones you’re really after, but the forest is full of other odour distractions, flowers, rabbits, mushrooms, sunglasses (yes, sunglasses), and a surprising number of other whiffy curiosities. With so many smells floating about, Boris understandably struggles to keep track of what’s important. The trick is to identify and eliminate the scents that are muddying your “scent profile.” If Boris catches a whiff of a particular plant, for example, you’ll need to track down a set number of those plants to clear them from the list. Remove the irrelevant smells, and suddenly Boris’ nose is free to hone in on his missing siblings.

That’s the basic loop, but things get more complicated when multiple scents overlap and throw you off… well… the scent. Thankfully, there’s a very handy feature that lets you toggle individual scents on and off. This becomes essential, because some siblings won’t join you until you help them with their own little side errands. One refused to budge until I planted a mushroom garden for them, three different mushrooms, no less. So I popped into the scent menu, toggled the mushroom smell on, and went foraging like a truffle pig with purpose.

The game is set in a national park, and the map strikes a nice balance: big enough to explore, small enough not to overwhelm. There are secrets tucked away everywhere, and plenty of distractions that have nothing to do with sniffing out siblings. I found a football and scored a goal. I found sunglasses and wore them with the swagger of a boar who knows he looks good. There are races, tyre-jumping assault courses, and photo challenges. And yes, you absolutely can, as a baby boar, attempt to line up the perfect nature shot. I even helped a rabbit find its missing babies. It’s that kind of game.

Available now on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox, Adorable Adventures might be one of the most accurately titled games I’ve ever played. It is, quite simply, adorable, and it is, indeed, an adventure. Baby Boris is a joy from the moment he wakes up with a stretch and a yawn. But I do have one niggle: the in‑game map. It’s… not great. It doesn’t show your position, it’s completely static, and while it’s covered in icons, there’s no key to explain what any of them mean. Another niggle is that side‑quests suffer a similar issue. You can view them in the journal (written by an unseen park ranger who narrates Boris’ journey like a nature documentary), but you can’t track them. No waypoints, no markers, no “go here next.” The photo challenges in particular would benefit from a simple “pin this on the map” option. It’s not game‑breaking, but it does feel like a missed opportunity.

Overall, though, Adorable Adventures is a lovely little game. It’s chilled, relaxing, and genuinely fun to explore. You can reach the credits in around 4–5 hours, but going for 100% easily doubles that. As for how it went down with my kids: the younger one struggled with the scent‑elimination mechanic, while my nine‑year‑old handled it better but still needed the occasional bit of help from daddy. Both, however, absolutely loved just roaming around as a baby boar, which honestly might be the game’s greatest strength. No enemies. No boss fights. Just a baby boar, a varied map, and an inquisitive nose. And sometimes, that’s exactly the kind of game you need. Don’t tell anyone, but this fifty-year-old father may have enjoyed the game more than his kids did.