A mix of different play styles and genres. Where the Bees Make Honey tries to make us aware of our worker bee like culture and that maybe we should break free from the hive. But as a game, is this morale shown in the best light? Find out in ChickenPerm’s Where the Bees Make Honey Switch Review.

To note, a review code was supplied by Wakefield Interactive and Whitethorn Games.

Where the Bees make Honey

Sunny is a young adult that finds herself at a crossroad in life. While working an office job all by herself on the weekend, she comes to realize how unhappy and aimless her life has become. Memories of the past come rushing back, leading to a major life-changing ultimatum.

A strange clash of different mechanics and genres.

Where The Bees Make Honey is all over the place in regards to gameplay. I believe the main focus of this game was telling a story about living your life and being happy. Then, they just threw together a mish-mash of all sorts of play styles together.

At first, you control a grown up Sunny in her office with a first person point of view. In this section you basically just walk around the office collecting supplies. Then, you are taken back in time in her memories and play as a third person younger Sunny in her favorite bee costume. You walk around in the snow looking for parts of her childhood bike. Then you take a stroll down a neighborhood street on Halloween avoiding moving jack-o-lanterns.

Then you take control of a bunny rabbit running around a VERY poorly designed outdoor area. As you do, Sunny recalls the time her mom lost her in the grocery store. This made no sense because the narrator of that section is the mom freaking out about not knowing where Sunny is. So how would Sunny remember/know what her mom was saying? Unless she was near her the whole time she was “missing”. Who knows, who cares!?

Monster Truck Controls

Worse than the rabbit controls is the monster truck portion you play next. Yikes. It was nearly impossible to drive anywhere I wanted or even in a straight line. At first I though the controls were like the wart hog in Halo. However, it was not and I just had to power through this part.

The last section of the gameplay is a poor man’s Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. They’re levels where you rotate the camera with the right and left bumpers and have to collect three honeycombs to advance. These areas were the best part of the game, but they were still not that well done.

Sights & Sounds

Young Sunny looks creepy as heck to me. Her giant lifeless bug eyes and broken looking spine causes her posture to be in a C shape- it is just bizarre. However, there were some nice sunset landscapes to take in throughout the game. But aside from that there was not much else positive to say. One time when I was in the rabbit section, I ran to a hill and the bunny just fell through the ground to fall for eternity until I restarted the game.

I really appreciate the voice actor of Sunny and the game being narrated was a rare bonus in a low budget indie such as WTBMH. The script itself could have been written better but beggars cannot be choosers. There is a very very short “song” in the Halloween stage that plays completely randomly and is so shrill. It has about four lines to the song and the most basic acoustic guitar cords behind it. The first few lines are still stuck in my head and I cannot stand it. A little jingle tune plays after you beat the Captain Toad like stages and sounds like it is from a 90s public access kids’ show. It made me laugh every time I heard it (not really a good thing though).

Questions, Comments Concerns

The file size is 6.3 GBs!!!!! For a very short and visually unimpressive game (other than some horizon shots) I have no clue how and why this is.

The whole idea of finding balance of work and personal life along with success and happiness is a very solid foundation for a game. Everyone at some point in their life has wondered if what they are doing is right for them or have felt lost. I applaud the game having this topic be the focus, but it gets to be a bit too obvious towards the end.

NOT THE BEES!

The theme of bees in the game is a nice metaphor included in relation to the morale of the game. I would kind of love to get into a whole philosophical rabbit hole in regards to working your life away like a drone bee or breaking away from the hive to feel free. Nevertheless, I believe that gives enough of an opening for the player to ponder on their own.

I am not sure why the creators made young Sunny look so cartoon like and adult sunny a poorly done realistic CGI model. I mean, it is the same person other than young Sunny is displayed from memories/imagination. Perhaps because older Sunny has been worn down from years of work? I’m not sure…

After you beat the Captain Toad-like section a brief clip of a vintage 70s home video can be seen. I thought perhaps at the end of the game all of the clips would be shown together as one short film. That did not happen though. Just another odd thing that made its way into this title that I had to make note of.

Final Words:



The morale of the game is uber relatable. We are all on an endless search for happiness and that hit home for me while playing; until the end where it was shoved down the player’s throat. The game is ridiculously short and looks like it was just slapped together. It maybe is the first game the creator’s ever made? At least I hope it is. The large file size is bewildering and I feel the title is overpriced as well. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to recommend Where The Bees Make Honey even if it was on a fire sale.

Therefore, I give Where the Bees Make Honey on the Nintendo Switch my score of

Game Info

Switch Release Date: October 17, 2019

Price: $9.99

File Size: 6.3GB

Mode(s): 1 Player

Genre: Adventure Puzzle

Publisher: Whitethorn Games

Developer: Brain Wilson

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