Milan’s Odd Job Collection Review (PC) – Home Alone But With Capitalism

Milano’s Odd Job Collection is an odd entry for a remaster. It is a game that was released on the original PlayStation and never made its way outside Japan. That said, it is one I am excited to try out now!

Game Name: Milano’s Odd Job Collection
Platform(s): PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Reviewed)
Developer(s): Implicit Conversions
Publisher(s): XSeed Games
Release Date: December 9th, 2025
Price: $?.??

Milano is a young girl who is going to her uncle’s house for summer vacation. The only thing is that her uncle is not home during summer vacation. It is up to her to do all the household tasks and earn money by taking whatever job she can find in the city. Luckily, she is allowed to decorate the house with whatever she can find in the store catalogs.

The Good

The first thing that ages extremely well in this release of Milano’s Odd Job Collection is the art. Milano is very charming, and she has an adorable design. Every animal, dish, and even the weird-looking customer looks great in this new resolution.

There is a good variety of mini games to make money around the city. You can find work baking cakes, milking the (not cows) moogans, being a cashier at a fast food restaurant, and even more when you start working on Milano’s stats. Due to not every location being open every day, you will need to practice a bunch of mini games for the money you want in the game.

I really liked the voice acting in Milano’s Odd Job Collection. It is mainly Milano who talks, but you do get other characters throughout the story who can talk too. Either way, it was fun to see the voice acting and made me constantly choose talking on the phone to see the next person Milano would talk to and hang up on.

Milano’s Odd Job Collection has a lot of fun additions to the base game. There are save states, load states, and CRT settings for the CRT feel, with a lot of variety in those settings. There is also a gallery that houses concept art and comics starring Milano. You can also use a rewind feature to go back a day or two in-game. Generally best used if you messed up a mini game and didn’t get any money or experience from it.

The Bad

I tried introducing this game to my spouse to see how easy it was to learn. With some time, it became easier and easier for her, but it would have been nice if there was a practice mode that didn’t have a timer she could use. When you have a low mood score, the time per session feels very short. The length of a job shift depends on Milano’s mood score. It can be increased by skipping jobs to go to the park or by reading books right before bedtime.

This game has a weird schedule for the locations. Every day, there are two or three buildings closed for the day. The bakery feels like it is closed more days than open. I wish there were a schedule you could look at in a calendar or something.

The Steam page does say mouse and keyboard is not supported, but that isn’t the full case. The keyboard is just mapped to PlayStation symbols. You just have to figure out what button is what. Otherwise, it controls just fine on a keyboard. I do wish the symbols changed based on the controller you had connected to the game. It is always PlayStation controller symbols. If you are playing on one of the PC handhelds, then you will have to figure out the PlayStation equivalent button.

The Verdict

Milano’s Odd Job Collection is a fun, charming, and adorable video game. There are definitely growing pains with this being an older title, no key bindings, and no training modes. If you can muscle past that, there is a fun time to be had!

Milano’s Odd Job Collection will be released on December 9th, 2025, for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC.

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