I really enjoyed the game. It was active and engaging, the vertical farm building is something I haven't seen before, and I really like how it was built into the game narratively. The unique challenges of figuring out how to farm, taking into consideration the post-apoc weather, working around those limitations with water storage and covering your crops were a lot of fun. Those early struggles make the later ability to tinker with the crops genetic makeup to help them thrive even more rewarding. I finished the main story and its only now that I'm slowing down on play, though I drop an hour or two every now and then to work on fully developing my farm, and I'm working towards completing the encyclopedia as well.
The actual farming portion has a bit of a slow start because you have to build up resources in a way that's different from most other farming games. It means that early quest fulfillment is a bit more at the forefront of priorities, and its only mid-late game where it feels like you can really sit back and just live in the world for a bit. For that reason I'm not sure if I would jump into a fresh play-through the way I would with other similar games like Mistria or Stardew.
The only real lingering regret I have is that we aren't able to do anything for [spoiler]Ponka in the end. He was just this kind of mythic figure in the background of the story, from all that the Doloc residents tell him about, to his statue, and then his final resting place at the end where you find out he truly sacrificed everything for the town and people he loved. I know there's that little hint at the end that he's now existing in the supercomputer in some way, but I would love if even as an extended ending we could truly bring him back in some way.[/spoiler]
