Sort The Capybaras Review Summary

A cute, cozy capybara sorting game with meditative charm, but game-breaking missing capybaras, ineffective graphics, broken audio settings, and loud sounds hurt it.

Cute and Cozy Aesthetic: The game's cute, colorful, and relaxing visuals are frequently praised, creating a cozy atmosphere. Reviewers often mention the charming capybara designs and pleasant music.

Two Distinct Store Maps: The game includes two maps with different collectible counts (2400 and 4800 toys) and unique store sizes. The small map takes a while to complete, providing good content, and the big map has even more cuteness.

Unique Capybara Theme: The capybara theme stands out, with unique toy designs and a variety of capybara types. It is delightful for capybara lovers and features many plushies across series.

Good Performance and Optimization: The game runs well with smooth performance and no stutters, even on Steam Deck. Controller support is also noted as good.

Great Value for Money: Many consider the game worth its cost, offering a relaxing and entertaining experience for a low price. It is seen as a productive and non-wasteful use of time.

Game-breaking missing capybaras bug: Multiple reports indicate the final capybara is missing or bugged, preventing game completion. This occurs in both single-player and multiplayer near the end, blocking level and store completion.

Graphical settings have no effect: Graphical settings do not change quality or stutter, and toggling VSync appears ineffective. Turning TAA off causes a fatal crash.

Audio settings and loud sound effects: Settings menus are broken, with crashes, not saving, and inconsistent behavior. The shelf completion sound effect is very loud, and volume controls only affect music, not sound effects.

Unfinished map and asset flip jank: Some maps are not fully set up, with empty gray planes and default sky visible outside windows, unlike trailers or screenshots. The game is described as a cheap, amateurish Unreal Engine asset flip.

Achievements require painful grinding: Achievements like completing all toys without using skills are torturous for achievement hunters, feeling like a bait to grind. Achievement unlocks also have bugs.

Meditative Sorting Gameplay: The core gameplay involves organizing capybara plushies by placing them on correct shelves in a calming, meditative manner. Many reviewers find this loop satisfying and relaxing.

Co-op Multiplayer Sorting: Players can team up with friends in four-player cooperative multiplayer to sort capybara plushies together. This social element adds fun and is a key feature highlighted in feedback.

Progression and Upgrades: Players can earn cash by placing toys to purchase skill upgrades such as highlighting same toys, a bigger backpack, batch placing, and auto pickup. Store expansion and equipment upgrades are also available.

Category Tags Sorting: Toys must be placed under corresponding category tags, adding an organizational challenge. This mechanic is central to the sorting experience.

Achievements Available: The game includes achievements, such as 'All By Hand' for completing without using skills. Achievements provide additional goals for players.

TAA Off Crash: Disabling TAA causes a fatal crash. This is a critical bug that prevents players from customizing anti-aliasing settings.

Stutters with Capybaras: The game stutters when looking towards piles of capybaras or when all are on shelves. This indicates a rendering or physics load issue with many entities.

Particle Effect FPS Drop: FPS drops due to particle effects from shelf completion spawning at once. The sudden burst of particles causes a performance spike.

High System Requirements: System requirements seem high for a simple sorting game. Players expect lower demands given the game's genre.

Stable Performance on RTX 5070 Ti: On an RTX 5070 Ti the game ran at a stable 70 FPS. This indicates that high-end hardware can achieve smooth performance.

Strong positive recommendations: Multiple reviewers highly recommend the game, with Cluster 1 containing three separate positive recommendations. The overall sentiment from these clusters is very favorable.

Ideal for sorting game fans: Reviewers note it stands out among tidy-up games and is worth buying for fans of sorting or cute object organization. Clusters 4, 5, and 12 express this niche appeal.

Enjoyable with co-op and voice: Cluster 10 finds it great for co-op players, and Cluster 14 highly recommends it for sorting madness with voice chat. The social aspect enhances the experience.

Good for passing time: Cluster 6 suggests it suits players with free time who need to pass the time. It is seen as a casual time-filler.

Motion sickness warning: Cluster 9 cautions that those prone to 3D motion sickness should be careful. This is a specific accessibility concern.

Session length: 6.0h.

Players present the sorting gameplay as fun, especially in co-op with friends or voice chat, with no reported wait before enjoyment. A multiplayer bug can frustrate progress after sorting many capybaras and prevent level/store completion.

Friction: Multiplayer bug after sorting many capybaras; Missing pieces preventing level/store completion; Frustration after time and effort.

Social Co-op Sorter: Plays in 2-4 player co-op, choosing larger maps and coordinating over voice chat. Motivation: Shared social fun and voice-chat chaos while sorting with friends. Stance: buy.

Achievement Completionist: Chases achievements, including the no-skill All By Hand clear, often in co-op. Motivation: 100% completion and mastering optional no-skill challenges. Stance: buy.

Cozy Visual Casual: Casual solo or light co-op sorting at a relaxed pace, focused on aesthetics. Motivation: Relaxing with cute visuals and simple enjoyable sorting. Stance: buy.

Similar to Sort Them Ducks: Multiple reviewers note the game is similar to Sort Them Ducks, but with its own personality, categories, and costumes. It improves upon Sort Them Ducks in several unique ways, and the comparison is not viewed negatively.

Obvious cheap asset flip: A reviewer describes the game as an obvious cheap asset flip, though they note nothing else suspicious about it. This suggests the game may rely heavily on pre-made assets without significant original work.

Runs well on Steam Deck: A reviewer confirms that the game runs well on Steam Deck. This is positive for players using portable hardware.

Amateurish design from dev video: Developers posted a video of the shelf completion sound effect and VFX on social media asking if people like it, which one reviewer found amateurish. This indicates a potential lack of professional polish in the game's design.

Inconsistent developer naming across platforms: One reviewer points out that Steam lists the developer as CapybaraKoala, while social media uses RedPandaStudio and RedPandaGamesStudio, and Discord uses ThanatosGames. This inconsistency raises questions about the developer's identity.