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I enjoyed Harvestella at whatever discount I bought it at. Its definitely more of an JRPG with farming secondarily, but I enjoyed the corny story and the dungeons were generally pretty. Gameplay loop has you grow crops/raise animals/etc to make food, to be your primary healing method in the various dungeons. The fighting system is shallow but I kind of appreciated not having to think too hard. Edit: added the game name to my post and realized that if you don't like the JRPG-y "Crystals are both good... and evil" you'll have a hard time liking Harvestella.
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Saxophone posted:Harvestella is currently 50% off on steam. I think it's still pretty pricy as a farming game when it's more of an adventure game. I've got RF3 to keep me busy (which also has a lot of fighting) until the holidays, so I'm going to wait and see if it drops in price a bit then. Isn't Sandrock reaching 1.0 soon too?
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1.0 was delayed to november so they could continue to optimize the game (especially those load times...)
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Jyrraeth posted:I enjoyed Harvestella at whatever discount I bought it at. Its definitely more of an JRPG with farming secondarily Well thats enough to keep me away. I'm tired of dungeon crawling and fighting in my farm sims. I just wanna grow turnips in peace and quiet.
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anyone tried/have any thoughts about fae farm?
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someone awful. posted:anyone tried/have any thoughts about fae farm? I played the demo and it is extremely cute. I liked how your basic tools don't take up pack space and are instead on a swappable button, I liked how you increase your maximum stamina by making furniture for your house, and I liked the frame story. I'll probably end up grabbing it for Switch.
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Anyone tried Wylde Flowers, Coral Island and/or Cozy Grove? I know WF's got a demo out, but 
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SexyBlindfold posted:Anyone tried Wylde Flowers, Coral Island and/or Cozy Grove? I know WF's got a demo out, but I tried Coral Island and quite liked it, though I haven't had a chance to check out the latest update yet. Review here: Log082 posted:If you want 3D Stardew, just play Coral Island.
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SexyBlindfold posted:Anyone tried Wylde Flowers, Coral Island and/or Cozy Grove? I know WF's got a demo out, but
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Just came to say that Palia is a great game and I’ve had a ton of fun with it and my new friends. Haven’t lived until you are shooting off fireworks and fishing in between steps during a 16 person cake making party! Excited that RF3 remaster got released as well! Still need to finish RF5 though. Still need to check out Harvestella but too many games came out. Palia, Baldur’s Gate 3 and Starfield are eating away at my gaming time. Great time to be alive if you are a chill gamer though!
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Well thats enough to keep me away. I'm tired of dungeon crawling and fighting in my farm sims. I just wanna grow turnips in peace and quiet. I would like to agree with the previous poster and say that I still love Palia, despite the bugs and issues, and it's a pretty good option for farming in peace (although it doesn't have turnips among its crop options). It has no real fighting (just bow hunting), and the closest thing to dungeon crawls are the temples, which only consist of platforming and simple puzzle solving with no enemies. They just released their second of four temples, and it's way better than the first one. 
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SexyBlindfold posted:Anyone tried Wylde Flowers, Coral Island and/or Cozy Grove? I know WF's got a demo out, but I really like Wylde Flowers. It has much more of a story behind what you're doing, why you're restoring a farm etc. The character animations are kinda off-putting at first, but I got used to them quickly. Coral Island - I haven't played much and I really *want* to like it, but I didn't enjoy what I played of it so far. I find the movement weirdly slow and jarring. The town is really spread out, so it takes awhile to get to the general store or find people, and something about the animation just feels slow and off to me. That might just be me though, and I intend to go back to it at some point to try again. Cozy Grove - fun for a couple of hours, then I was done with the grind.
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someone awful. posted:anyone tried/have any thoughts about fae farm? I've been playing Fae Farm on the Switch since launch (just started my first winter) and it's got a lot of issues. Glitches and crashes to start with. Most notably the automatic tool/weapon switching in dungeons will swap your weapon out for a tool if you're fighting near a rock or ore. The game only pauses if you press "+" on the Switch. Pulling up your backpack, going through your inventory to craft, etc. will NOT stop time. Even if you do pause time, area effects that harm your character unless you're protected by a potion WILL continue to harm you until you get wiped out. The game doesn't explain (or is unclear) when it comes to some important things. After juggling my inventory in my backpack and storage shed for awhile and getting frustrated, I found out online that your storage sheds have infinite storage, you just keep moving stuff to one of them from your backpack. (You end up with four farms by the end of the game.) I was also stuck in-game trying to grow a specific crop (for a story quest) and the game was not helpful in telling me what I needed to do. I've also had quest completion notifications pop up hours after I've actually finished the quest. NPCs all sound the same with the same repetitive dialogue. You can expect to hear the same thing from multiple characters in the same in-game day. I don't care about any of them thanks to this, so I haven't bothered to interact with them much beyond unlocking tools/areas. You have to talk to NPCs multiple times to redeem a quest when you redeem a friendship quest/requested item quest for them. They also sound like you just gave them what they wanted when you agree to their request. You only have one in-game day to finish these quests. There's a themed festival at the end of each month but aside from the mayor's request for the spring one, they don't matter and you can ignore them entirely. Doesn't seem to matter if you actually care for your animals, they will give you cotton or eggs or whatever regardless. It also takes a long time in-game every day to care for them. You can breed them to get new ones with higher possible happiness levels which should mean they give you more goods, but this doesn't seem to always be the case. Placing items is a pain because you have a strict limited radius around your character where you can place things. There's a strict midnight bedtime, which will send you back to bed wherever you are. At least you don't lose anything in your inventory or any money. Furniture placement in your home affecting your stats is a nice touch, with the caveats that only one piece of each item of furniture in each house will affect your stats. It's relatively easy to find the mats to make things that will increase your health and stamina, but mana-increasing items seem to be more late-game. Hope you enjoy pausing and going through the almanac in-game to clear out "!" when you find a new furniture recipe, resource, critter, etc. Because it happens a LOT, especially at the start. Multi-player is locked until you complete chapter one. On the Switch, it seems you're locked to your Switch nickname as your character name. Maybe if you sign up for a Phoenix Labs account this is not the case? idk, I don't care enough to sign up for an account just for this because I'm not interested in multi-player. It doesn't seem like you ever get a way to automate farming or taking care of animals beyond upgrading your watering can or an automatic feeding trough. The automatic tool switching is nice, as is the option for "they/them" pronouns during character creation. The game generally looks nice and it's fun as hell to be able to freely jump around in one of these games. Fishing is fine? I went with the easier option in the accessibility menu because I didn't want to bother learning another fishing minigame. Best and easiest way to make money is to mine gems, polish them up and sell them. Makes everything else trivial in terms of earning money, so I haven't bothered much with other ways to make money. Sorry for all the  but I'm frustrated after paying full price for this and wanted to warn other people. I would've been fine paying $20, but $60 was ridiculous. tl;dr: It basically feels like the devs looked at other popular and successful games and just copied them without understanding what made them so enjoyable, leading to a pretty but soulless experience. SilentChaz fucked around with this message at 12:00 on Sep 15, 2023 |
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SexyBlindfold posted:Anyone tried Wylde Flowers, Coral Island and/or Cozy Grove? I know WF's got a demo out, but Wylde flowers is about half farming game and half story-based witchy fetch quest game. The demo will give you a very clear idea if its for you. Coral Island is incredibly buggy. I've tried and returned it three times over the last year, every time the game has crashed on the first day before letting me save in a variety of ways and places. The top sticky on the steam discussion forum is titled "Freeze or crashing when opening Coral Island." It's been there every time I looked at the game. That they haven't fixed it yet, indicates to me that they've no interest in making their game, ya'know, playable. It's a shame, because, by most accounts, the game is fun if it runs for you. Pallia is a free to play online MMO. It doesn't do the MMO part very well, but multiplayer works fine and the farming game aspects are more or less exactly what you'd want. It's incredibly shallow. Most people do everything there is to do in somewhere between 1 week and 1 month and then stop playing. On the other hand, it's free, so there's no reason not to play for as long as is fun, as long as you can avoid spending money in their cash shop.
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Does anyone have any farming sims with minor survival elements they'd recommend? By which I mean actually growing stuff for food, maybe chopping wood for fire in the winter, and so on. I'm not really looking for anything hardcore about it, where you're always worried about starvation, but something different from the Harvest Moon "everything is profit" model. I booted up Stardew Valley again today and I was thinking that might be an interesting change. Bonus points if it plays well on the Steam Deck.
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Bremen posted:Does anyone have any farming sims with minor survival elements they'd recommend? By which I mean actually growing stuff for food, maybe chopping wood for fire in the winter, and so on. I'm not really looking for anything hardcore about it, where you're always worried about starvation, but something different from the Harvest Moon "everything is profit" model. I booted up Stardew Valley again today and I was thinking that might be an interesting change. A proper homesteading game is basically my dream. If you could slowly build up to producing on a level you could barter with your neighbours. Basically a more approachable unreal world.
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Bremen posted:Does anyone have any farming sims with minor survival elements they'd recommend? By which I mean actually growing stuff for food, maybe chopping wood for fire in the winter, and so on. I'm not really looking for anything hardcore about it, where you're always worried about starvation, but something different from the Harvest Moon "everything is profit" model. I booted up Stardew Valley again today and I was thinking that might be an interesting change. Have you tried Medieval Dynasty? It's a survival/homesteading/farming/town management game in a medieval setting. Runs pretty well with controller, but not sure about Steam Deck.
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Bremen posted:Does anyone have any farming sims with minor survival elements they'd recommend? By which I mean actually growing stuff for food, maybe chopping wood for fire in the winter, and so on. I'm not really looking for anything hardcore about it, where you're always worried about starvation, but something different from the Harvest Moon "everything is profit" model. I booted up Stardew Valley again today and I was thinking that might be an interesting change. The game you want is Raft. If that's too easy, check out the survival game thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3655873 I remember Haven and Hearth being a fairly gentle introduction to the genre, but it's been over a decade since I played it, so I'd recommend asking that thread first. Edit: you might give Vintage Story a try. It's a minecraft mod that grew up into its own (off steam) game. You'll probably starve to death or get killed by something in the middle of the night the first time or two you play. But after that it's a pretty good light survival game. You don't have to farm, but it does make things easier. And you can freeze to death in winter, unless you go to the part of the world that's tropical and never snows. It's not a forever game, but you'll get a good 30+ hours of fun out of it probably. Arsenic Lupin posted:Don't Starve. Don't Starve heavily nerfed farming a few updates back. I can't really recommend it to anyone looking for a farming game at this point, although I've got hundreds of hours in it. LLSix fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Sep 15, 2023 |
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LLSix posted:The game you want is Raft. definitely seconding Raft, it really scratched the perfect itch (minus one annoying boss fight) for exactly that type of game Really wish there was another game that I could play coop with my wife in that genre  hopefully that forbidden skies game will make it there
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Bremen posted:Does anyone have any farming sims with minor survival elements they'd recommend? By which I mean actually growing stuff for food, maybe chopping wood for fire in the winter, and so on. I'm not really looking for anything hardcore about it, where you're always worried about starvation, but something different from the Harvest Moon "everything is profit" model. I booted up Stardew Valley again today and I was thinking that might be an interesting change.
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I am still having a great time with Dreamlight Valley. It’s hella charming.
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Thanks for all the replies, I was definitely looking more for a one person homesteading style game than town management though. Raft is an interesting answer, I tend to think of it as more a survival and exploration game but I guess I can see how it meets the requirements.
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Hmmmmmm! https://twitter.com/PdxInteractive/status/1702746938628612564?s=20
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Lots and lots of DLC on the horizon!
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Going to grab the Deluxe version because it includes flake tools right from the start.
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Don't get me wrong I'm hella interested in what they are going to do but my expectations are set correctly.
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paradox's kings of dragon pass
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Snooze Cruise posted:paradox's kings of seasons pass
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Dick Trauma posted:Going to grab the Deluxe version because it includes flake tools right from the start. combine Wirt's Leg and a Tome of Town Portal for the secret cow tools
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Back to “homesteading but with survival,” it’s much more of a management game being a Rimworld-alike but that mix screams Clanfolk to me. It’s definitely only for specific folks, but it does hit both homestead and survival expertly.
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Bremen posted:Thanks for all the replies, I was definitely looking more for a one person homesteading style game than town management though. Raft is an interesting answer, I tend to think of it as more a survival and exploration game but I guess I can see how it meets the requirements. Medieval Dynasty *has* town management, but you don't have to bother with it. If you want to set up a barn and do your own farming and trade your goods with the local town to buy the stuff you need, you can absolutely do that. I don't know that you can get to some of the end-game stuff without the kind of infrastructure a town needs, like, it becomes very clear why subsistence farming as a lifestyle is kind of meagre, but you can still hunt and plant and raise animals and turn your house into something nicer. In theory, Wild West Dynasty might end up being more of what you want, but the reviews say it's just outright bad so far.
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Happened upon this game the other day when it was brought up in Discord. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1681600/Cornucopia/ Early-access Stardew-like, has a 2.5D perspective that I don't think works super well for it (hard to see what you're aiming at when farming), but the main notable thing about it is the fact that they felt the need to showcase all 32 marriageable NPCs in the Steam description.
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i'll probably never play it, but i appreciate how many different old men are available to marry.
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wow, a kappa for the ladies and a kappa for the fellas. either way you float, you can get your shirikodama pulled, that is progressive.
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Inadequately posted:Happened upon this game the other day when it was brought up in Discord. Wow, unavailable in my region. Haven't seen that error before.
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Moonstone island just released. Anyone have a chance to play it yet and have an initial review? https://store.steampowered.com/app/1658150/Moonstone_Island/
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Inadequately posted:Happened upon this game the other day when it was brought up in Discord.
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Talorat posted:Moonstone island just released. Anyone have a chance to play it yet and have an initial review? Interested in this as well.
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