I probably would've already gotten it if wasn't early access, the possibility of having to restart a game that requires a lot of time commitment is a deal breaker for me, so I'd rather wait until it's finished. On another note, I'm kind of tired of so many Stardew Valley clones, I wish there were more games like Rune Factory instead with less farming and more RPG and dungeon crawling. I think the only one like that that comes to mind is Sun Haven(?) and that one has been in my backlog since forever now...
I totally understand this, and I used to feel the same way but then I realized that these creators probably need the support if they are going to go from early access to full release. It really helps, and it wasn't really that much, $14. I canceled World of Warcraft And Hulu for a month because there was nothing to watch there anyway. That was more than enough to buy it. But I don't blame you at all of you don't want to support early access games! I totally understand
I don't really mind early access, but it really depends on the game, stuff that is very pick-up and play like roguelikes and shooters is fine, but anything story based or long is a hard pass for me.
If you haven't yet, definitely check out Core Keeper!
That's like Rune Factory? I thought it was more like Minecraft/Terraria but top-down. It's been living in my Steam wishlist for a while too now, waiting for a decent discount.
No, it's indeed a top down terraria.
Sun haven was a pleasant experience. Rather than automating farming, I just cause earthquakes and rainstorms to plow and water respectively. My only complaint is my thumb hurting from constantly air dashing around.
There was a highly upvoted post on the cozygames subreddit which I'm paraphrasing from memory.
Every time someone shares something in the Stardew Valley genre, there's like a militant group of commenters who are outright hostile to that new game. And yes, I'm seeing that sprinkled in the comments on this post.
Like, imagine any other genre having to deal with people like that? "Oh that looks like it's ripping off Doom how unoriginal looks boring just play Doom".
Every time a shares something in the Stardew Valley genre, there's like a militant group of commenters who are outright hostile to that new game. And yes, I'm seeing that sprinkled in the comments on this post.
Oh definitely. It's really funny though because these keyboard warriors that keep criticizing any game that looks similar to Stardew Valley, doesn't realize that Stardew Valley faced those exact same criticisms when people said that crazy ape, the developer of Stardew, was heavily inspired by* harvest Moon. It was such a silly and absurd thing to say, but everyone started regurgitating it over and over again. Just because one game starts becoming successful people forget the other games that they were very similar to in the past
If people really wanted to go down the rabbit hole though, this all started when Farmville hit Facebook. That was the beginning of it all that I remember personally. Farmville made people lose their fucking minds. People were all over that shit, it was like cocaine. No one would shut up about it for years
Pretty sure harvest moon predates Facebook by at least a decade
Its in my wishlist! I'm waiting for it to release tho, I don't really like playing early access games and risk getting tired of them before release.
Nothing about that screenshot is "the most impressive" anything tbh.
Makes me sad to see it’s Windows only given it’s so graphically simple and low tech. Should be a shoe-in for a Mac and Linux version.
Edit: yes I know proton exists, my point is that as an indie game it is likely built with something like Unity or Godot, and thus exporting a native Mac and Linux build is just a matter of turning on a couple check boxes.
I don't know how gaming on Mac works, but since I switched my home rig to Linux a couple of years ago, I have not once had a problem with installing a new game that doesn't have native Linux support^[1]. I wonder whether developers have learned that they can rely on Proton for their Linux support (for better or worse).
[1]: there was a point when Baldur's Gate 3 stopped working after a big update, but I fixed it by switching to Proton-GE, a forked version of Proton. https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom
What do you mean? Native Linux isn't that relevant these days. Most games run well through Proton, and some even better than on Windows. Judging by the protondb entry, you wouldn't notice on Linux that this was a windows game: https://www.protondb.com/app/2142790
This game works flawlessly on the Steam Deck, which, in almost all cases, means it will work on Steam for Linux through Proton, which is an emulation layer built-in to Steam
Watched the trailer, looks pretty good! Too bad it's still in early access. There's a TONS of farming/dating sim coming out and a lot of them looks...okay i think. Hope it get to 1.0.
This is by far the highest reviewed one I've seen lately. 8k reviews with 97% is insane. Some of the other early access games I've browsed look like abandon ware or something else
I'm not a stardew fan but "this game is legit insane" is not a phrase that would get me excited for any game.
Are there any notable features that make it stand out from Stardew or others?
The storyline is more mystical? There’s a larger focus on skills selections and cooking in this, and the relationships are more varied.
Thanks for sharing, does it have coop?
Yes you can raise chickens
Lol this had me so confused at first hahaha
Game does not have co-op if anyone else was wondering 😅
It’s on my wishlist too. I love the cow designs and how you can swim in some parts.
You can swim? I love pixel games that let you swim!
Played it and loved it. I know I should hold off and wait until it's complete before I play again, bit it's going to be tough not loading it up the second there's another update.
Is the artist behind this a Stardew modder? The animals look a lot like Elle’s animals
I‘ve been playing it for like 12 hours so far, runs smooth on Deck, I’ve encountered no bugs so far, and I‘m not even in my first fall. If it didn‘t say early access, I wouldn‘t have been able to tell yet. I haven‘t regreted my purchase and it‘s honestly cheap even without a discount.
The camera scrolls so stupidly smooth it‘s a joy, played a bunch of pixel games lately and it‘s sadly not a given (Potion Permit and its random stutters and sudden CPU load increases).
this game is fucking lovely, and i appreciate that the early access has about an ingame year of content. really excited to see it come out in full before i play through it all
Well that's definitely a pick-up line.
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