Fae Farm

ATTENTION! STOP! DONT FALL FOR IT!!! This game barely works, from what I've read, the support for it is completely gone. Nobody cares about it and it shows, apparently it's basically abandoned. Multiplayer is on life support... Its sad, cause I didn't know till I purchased it for my boyfriend to play with me... and its been nothing but problems the whole way. I really was looking forward to playing this cozy little farm sim, I'm sure at one point it was worth it... Its honestly criminal that they are still selling it to people.

Ok, so... here's the TL;DR, up front. I regret the purchase, overall, but it was fun while it lasted, even while we complained. Eh. Your mileage may vary, if you enjoy grinding, fetch quests, tech trees, or are SUPER CHILL and play it AC style. [h1] THIS IS NOT A GOOD SDV SUBSTITUTE [/h1] If you like Stardew Valley (SDV) solo or co-op, because you can make a farm that you can design yourself, where farming matters, you can have 80Million pigs, you can automate production, where you can spend hundreds of hours making your own fun, and having fun with friends and where you have NPCs you at least kinda like and care about... This game isn't for you. Don't bother. If you like grinding, tech trees, and upgrading to the next level of "stuff" to make the next level of "stuff" (Ark Nova, 7 Days to Die, MineCraft (MC)) but wish those games had a little more direction, and NPCs, this game is probably for you. If you like Animal Crossing (AC) for house decorating and flower growing, bug catching, farming isn't that big of a deal, exploration is interesting, you just want to chill, and you don't mind that NPCs are kinda meh, you MAY like this game. Also, [b] do not be the host and play this game in WINDOWED mode [/b], it has a serious bug that prevents you from interacting with 75% of things, and the only way to fix it is to save, kick out the other players, quit to title and start the host session again. [url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e6wKVkDDwxSXa09EVJc6zD7d8Deq6D_3o7KgHhTa3yk/edit?usp=sharing]See full review here, too long for STEAM[/url] -------------------------------------------- The reason for my rating is this game has a lot of BREATH but very little depth. Middle of summer, maybe? 26 hours (after playing most of the 2 DLCs too, by the way), and we hit the "ending" and there's nothing really we care enough to do any more (played this Co-Op with a single friend, you can play max 4 people) Basically it mixes ACs flower growing/recoloring mechanics, bug catching and fishing, with SDVs basic farming concepts (you have a farm, you can have and take care of animals), with MC/Ark Nova tech trees. [h1] THE BAD STUFF[/h1] The UI is terrible. Enough said. [h2] GATING [/h2] This is our biggest gripe. Gating. Gating is when a game, mechanically, prevents you from doing a thing through some obstruction. "You cannot have a chicken, until you have enough money to buy a chicken" is a gating mechanic in SDV. It's a relatively small and easily surmountable gate. FaeFarm (FF) gates you a LOT and makes prior zones and resource pretty useless. [h2] ANIMALS [/h2] This is so annoying. You can only have 18 animals total. You get 6 types to choose from (available in pairs, and set up to live in 1 of 3 barns). They must be walked TO/FROM vendors, and breeders. They are mostly pointless, tedious to interact with, and largely forgettable relatively early. And they are TEDIOUS to get to, because you cannot move the barns. Hated them very quickly, though they were cute and different at first. [h2] GUIDANCE[/h2] This game is downright terrible at telling you what to do, how or where to do it. It just says "You can make this, but you need this special processed thing... good luck!" [h2] DIRECTION AND QUESTS [/h2] There are 4 kinds of quests. Only 2 “matter” Main Quests (main tech-tree progression stuff, which usually involves completing a 25 level mine and NPC fetch quests) and Side Quests (You did a thing, do this secondary other thing). Ignore the rest (NPC quests, Job quests). DLC also have quests, but… probably don’t need the DLC. Otherwise, you need to do them, and they’re tracked like main quests. Main quests are auto-completed for all in Co-Op. Side quests are tracked in Co-Op but turned in Solo. [h2] FARMING [/h2] You can grow food, after a little while, you gain access to animals. After that, its tech-tree, “magic” crops that are annoying to plant, slow to grow, and limited in usefulness, and totally random what you get from what. Hated this. Upgraded can is “more water” only. To do 3x3 or 5x5 watering requires mana, and it’s VERY power hungry. [h2] SELLING and MONEY[/h2] Money only really matters for buying tool upgrades, and more stalls to sell your stuff. Maybe some seeds or animals, when you can be bothered. Otherwise, money is pointless. Stalls and tables to sell stuff in (no produce box), are not near your farm, limited in space, and annoying. Enjoy. [h2] CRAFTING [/h2] Cooking, wood cutting, smelting, potion making, the cutting stations (there are 2) are great most of the time. Artisan food table is good if you don't have gems to sell. The rest are useful sometimes, for gated things. But you can tear them down and get resources and seeds back, no problem. [h2] MULTIPLAYER [/h2] The Co-Op quest tracking/completion is a nightmare. The bugs forcing world-restarts is a nightmare (they've had the same bug for YEARS and never fixed it, probably because they were purchased by a block chain company that scrapped the studio). The hosting is a tedious multi-step process. You can't just say "I'm hosting, let my friends join in automatically". And if someone disconnects by mistake, any money they spent or resources they had disappear. DEEPLY frustrating, I promise you. [h2] INVENTORY MANAGEMENT [/h2] We became so frustrated with inventory management. Want to combine stacks? Tough, can't. No chests, just ONE shed (with multiple access points for it, which is kinda convenient). All Inventory interactions require 3+ clicks, unless you auto-dump everything into your shed. HANDY! Until you want to keep SOMETHING in your inventory, and have to remember what it was and go find it again with 3+ clicks. [h2] NPCs [/h2] They are boring, forgettable, and you can ignore almost everything they say, even if they are quest givers. Read the quest log instead. [h2] COSMETICS [/h2] Almost everything is cosmetic, and pointless. If you care, grow flowers, and breed them for new colors. Or just be ok with tons of recipes and shop items you will never have access to. [h2] HEALTH, ENERGY, MANA [/h2] In FF you do it by making furniture with the latest Tech-Tree resources. (Helpful but annoying). Furniture gets larger and larger, cram it all in, put the bed by the door, and don’t bother decorating. But... the bed doesn't matter, no punishment for not sleeping in it. [h2] STORY [/h2] Wake up to a slideshow. All skippable, Quest/Story NPCs are only interactable when they want something. [h1] THE GOOD STUFF[/h1] [h2] FISHING [/h2] The fishing minigame is a vast improvement over the SDV fishing minigame. Its intuitive, unless you hit a "too strong fish" which whips you around the map and that sucks. [h2] JUMPING, SWIMMING and EXPLORATION[/h2] JUMPING IS GREAT. I LOVE JUMPING. You can even DOUBLE JUMP later on! And Hover in ONE of the DLC Zones. Swimming is cool! No water death, no PHYSICAL BOUNDARIES, except where there are some for no reason or for gating. Exploration is COOL at the beginning, and then it just becomes "Oh, another recipe I can't and will never use" (they're all themed decorations). [h2] MINES AND MONSTERS [/h2] Mines are more diverse and interesting, with cooler monsters but they scale up to be punishing and unavoidable. In later zones, they repeat a lot. Boring. [h2] SOME DLC CONTENT [/h2] Coasts of Crokia is cool, cuz you can make bugs follow you and give you stat boosts. But they follow you on the same slot as farm animals, which is annoying. Very skippable. Skies of Azoria gives you wings, is heavily dependent on flower growing, and gives a few useless crops except for DLC quests. Skippable unless you like puzzles and annoying platforming.

Word of Warning: This game was immensely hyped up, but can't even live up to basic standards. It looks pretty. It has the basic farming sim elements. But it totally lacks in passion and narrative of any kind. Characters fall flat, quests are boring. It's a shame, truly.

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I'm not sure why my play time says 3 hrs. I have about 15 hrs of active play and have completed 3 chapters of the story. Summary: I am frustrated with the bugs and weird quirks in this game. Details: Within the first hour I encountered missing text replaced with raw code. Then, when I’m already fishing, my game decides that, actually, I want to talk to a villager walking nearby. So, the dialogue opens for the villager and I lose my fish. Okay... that makes two basic quality issues within the first couple of hours. Not good. What about the mines and the combat? Complete bleh. It is so weird to be given a “magical staff," but I use it like a baseball bat?? I just hit stuff with it? Why? This is FAE farm, implying MAGIC, and I just bonk stuff with a staff. No, it didn't get better after 3 chapters of the main story. The first offering/donation type thing broke all the NPCs in the game. As a result, I could pick up multiple requests from each villager, but unfortunately, I couldn't turn ANY of them in. If I talked to a villager I was simply prompted to accept more new quests. Later, I phased through my animal coop because the rabbit brushing animation moved me inside a wall. I had to reload my save because I was stuck. And finally, when buying my 3rd cow, my game froze. Fully locked up and had to Alt+F4 to exit. My last save was that morning, so, I had to re-do the day. This meant I needed to buy ALL my barn animals AGAIN... then walk each one back to the barn... then register it... then run back to the shop... buy the next one... walk it to the barn... register it… over and over... again and again. Waste of my time and killed any interest in having animals. I don't want to walk back and forth with them repeatedly. The worst part of FaeFarm is not just the bugs. It's the fact that I went looking online for help with many of these issues. With some searching I found Steam community posts and Reddit threads detailing the same problems. I realize that I am encountering bugs that were talked about back when the game released in 2023. I'm playing this game in spring of 2025 and these bugs [b]still exist[/b]. Big yikes.

Its a good game but its disappointing. It feels more like a stretched out demo than a full game. Annoyances 1 There isn't much variation in the seasons 2 Romance? Not really I talked to one dude like three times and now the game wants me to woo him. Kinda creepy if you ask me 3 NPCs dont really react much outside of major plot items 4 Not alot of creature variety 5 those DLCs were not worth DLC money 6 why everything got to be complicated with your tools? 7 most if not all of the special features feel half finished. Star dungeons seem half finished. the weather bird doesn't seem polished. Talking to the animals with your shell there is no substance The game does not feel like a full release it feels like an early access. As stated above the DLC was NOT worth DLC money. The way the DLC haunts your game with special spots is just rude and off putting to me. It feels like they arbitrarily decided to lock features behind a DLC pay wall. All in all a game you can by on sale and not be too disappointing in. If you buy it full price though you are wasting your money.

TLDR: amazing bones of a farmsim wasted by being devoid of core farmsim goodstuff and instead a weird fixation on running dungeons (without supporting the dungeons loop at all!) This game is extremely well made... high quality mechanics. all the tech teams nailed it. The tutorials are great. I cant understate how much better the controls and movement feel than almost any other farmsim. Somehow it never comes together despite having almost everything technical nailed. I've never tried so hard to like a game and had it let me down so consistently. I think the main misses are: 1. story/characters: totally uninspired and i get its going for the softest vibe possible but its intolerably bland. I think the target audience was 4 year old girls? 2. economy: there are zero economic goals aside from bag space and tool upgrades... the farming is wildly unrewarding economically. Starting the farm and struggling up is a big part of these games and its a complete whiff on all of it. 3. challenge: similar to no economy there is no way to challenge yourself ever. Go faster is the only challenge and even then its trivial. 4. pacing: it feels like every well polished thing leads nowhere. Getting deeper in the mines is the main progression line which had good mechanics (even some well designed enemies) and moved along the tool upgrades with new metals.. all fine mechanically, but it didnt have that farming/rags-to-riches/collecting vibe these games need to tick. Mines were the best way to make money, only way to progress, basically only thing to do... and they aren't a great gameplay loop. Instead of mining supporting the rest of the systems just kind of become the only thing that mattered. So in effect it becomes a bad dungeon RPG. Zero equipment or anything to progress you just running the dungeon day after day repeating levels to unlock them so you can run them again. 5. it never manages to overlap the different areas of the game that meaningfully. The decorations that raise base stats is GREAT in theory, but in practice you never need a single piece. Pacing/progression fails all over the place emphasized how useless each subsystem ends up feeling. Lack of rewards, lack of quests that matter in any way, lack of feeling like you can impact the world in any way other than the dungeons moving hte main story ahead... it all is just SO CLOSE to good. I should say here how bug catching and collecting for cooking works great, supports potion making for easier dungeon runs... in a way thats elegant but again the effects are underwhelming and end up meaningless. SO CLOSE, but empty again. 6. more missing goodstuff: a museum/collecting is completely missing and the collectathon element is gone. The "job quests" system is supposed to reward you for playing the game naturally but is oddly gated so you have to clunkily get quests you've completed the requirements for long ago. The relationships with villagers feel completely irrelevant and so do all their quests.