Disney Dreamlight Valley

This game is NOT for kids. Characters do not even speak. Kids cannot play until they are very very proficient with reading LOTS of very boring and redundant text. Game play is overly complex and repetitive. Very boring game overall.

I like the game, it's relaxing Disney interactions, pleasant to look at. Yeah, just what a cozy game should be... I'm only leaving a negative review because I genuinely despise paying for the game and dlc AND also having battlepass/star path and regular microtransactions. Either-or would be fine (pay game and dlc or have stupid free to play monetization) but as-is I would not recommend it...

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game, deleted my cloud save. richest company in the damn world and can't manage a game properly

capitalists

I got this game day one of early access and it’s been a wild ride. From a game that first promised it would be free to play to paid dlc (mulitple of those) and from nice in-game cute outfits to almost only-premium shop content it sure has been a journey unlike I anticipated. But one I am glad to be part of, somehow. STORYAP: You are a traumatized adult living in our world. Somehow, you find your way back to Disney Dreamlight valley, this is either a real place or your own imaginative world you invented to deal with struggles as a child (which is valid). Donald Duck or Merlin or Scrooge (its been years I warned you xD) Welcomes you and in true farming sim fashion you are made the problem solver and in true disney fashion you are not allowed to use your fists. Think of this as Disney meets Stardew meets the sims, but without any needs except your own annoying energy meter, of course. Cannot be a farming sim without an annoying energy meter. Gods I hate those. Anyhow, you are the main character of this valley and all characters relay on you to solve their problems, do their quests and basically also house them. None of this is timed nor is it required to feed the villagers, or else I would’ve ran into a few corpses. Something DDLV does good is that it keeps having updates so far with starpaths which you can unlock with moonstones (cost real money). You can participate in these cute themed events and do tasks and duties to earn the currency and buy cute exclusive items that likely won’t come back, ever. Maybe in a premium shop if you are the gods chosen one. Another thing is the seamlessly woven storyline which is absolutely something unique and amazingly daring for a disney game that proves this game definitely was not made with kids in mind, and more focussed on adults. I will warn you of a big spoiler here and now dive into the end of the main game so beaware. [spoiler] I am as many cozy gamers depressed. A sad reality some of us have to deal with. I admit that the storyline of our character/us basically suffering for what many indentified as depression throughout the story (before we became the evil forgotten) threw me the hell off because this was before they added the warning and I was very triggered and upset and had to put the game down, but after its been four years, I can reflect properly and think this was one of the best choices Disney made in their storylines perhaps ever. It reflects greatly on who I am, my struggles and the Forgotten reminds me a ton of my old self and has become a close friend of mine for that. Many of us saw the forgotten as the enemy, but in truth they are our hurt innerchild that is heavily traumatized and so I think we should give them some kudos for being here at all. That said, not every person dealing with depression wants this confrontation in their games and I’ve heard from many, many many other players they did NOT appreciate this and that is also a valid reaction because none of us knew when we bought it we’d be confronted with it to this scale. Luckily, like many great storylines in Disney, this happens once and is never mentioned again! [/spoiler] DLC notes: DLCS dont add achievements and THANK GODS. The DLCS are fun, add new storylines and characters and I almost enjoyed all of them. There’s two I didn’t enjoy and here is why: 1. I did not finish the wishblossom ranch one, so I cannot give you my honest proper opinion 2. The honeyglow pooh woods (or how its called) is not in my possession at the moment so again, not fair for me to hype it up or blow it to shreds. Just being honest. I didn’t not enjoy them, but I didn’t enjoy them, because well I don’t have them or finished them fully. The BAD. I think I called them out enough on the ‘’free to play to dlc situationship’’ so we don’t mention this here. Oh we just did. Well. Another issue I have is their premium store. The Premium store is the ultimate fear-of-missing-out feast as its this store of WEEKLY new items rotating and they have an expensive price tag attached in the form of MOONSTONES. Moonstones are these in game currency items you need to buy WITH REAL MONEY and that is exactly where my issue lies deeply with this game. Moonstones could be earned with participating in weekly dreamsnaps and making a sacrafice to the gods to win one (I never won more than 4k, which was good enough on its own) and often RELY on new items bought in the SAME premium store you wanted to get moonstones for in the first place. (For example, there is a snowwhite themed snap and you get the snowwhite bundle in the premium shop in the first week. People with moonstones will easily purchase this to get MORE moonstones, when us poor folks remain as poor as we are) This wouldn’t be so bad, if we got free items in our stores which take up a ton of space in our valleys. Long story short: Gameloft has absolutely abandoned this whole store because why would you bother updating this as you can just use the premium store which makes you real life money right? Why would you. A lot of the disney dreamlight community influncers thinks this issue is fine as they often have some way to make money in real life to afford monthly moonstone bundles and buy their socks off but I don’t so I’m gonna give it you straight as it is. It is a terribly greedy design and I hate it. The critters are my weaknes tho. I will be honest. They get me with the premium companion designs EVERY SINGLE TIME. I am poor now though, so there's no need for me to check the premium store, and therefore, in my opinion: No need to log in at all. It’s sad. But that's where the state of the game is at now. I don’t see this improving. I see this getting worse, if anything. I am not saying nuke the premium shop, but that's exactly what I am saying. No all jokes aside, if they just did a small update with regular shop items i wouldve been happier. OVERALL: I think this review started so positive and so good, and I got so much fun when we started but I think this where I need to be honest about it and honest to whoever is reading this big block of text. No. I do not recommend Disney dreamlight valley in its current state, while it is an amazing game, especially if you suffer from fear of missing out, hate limited time events and expensive in game currency, you won’t enjoy this game, no matter how bad the makers play on the nostalgic factor.

Great gameplay BUT most cosmetics even ones you pay for have clipping issues and updates are buggy and glitchy. No quality what so ever. I like to look at pretty things and it's just ugly.

I use to play hours on this game but since the constant releases and having to spend more and more money for DLCs and extra items in the game, I have finally given up. I paid for the game when it first started when it was pre released and paid for and got special items. it was suppose to then after be a free game, that has yet to happen. instead they keep adding extensions and character DLCs and its just not worth it anymore.

Game is so buggy and of course micro transactions . If game was not as buggy I would say a very fun phone game