Fae Farm

Fae Farm is a cozy, Stardew Valley-like where you do the typical activities: grow stuff and animals on a farm, refine that stuff and sell it, explore mines and fight monsters, develop relationships with townspeople, fish, capture bugs, and solve quests.  It was a perfectly fine one of those. It uses context sensitive tools, which is nice right up until it isn't. It's a bit more action-y than SDV, as the main quests will take you through 4 sets of mines with monsters to kill and plenty of materials to pickaxe and then upgrade your pickaxe and then pickaxe some more.  Relationships aren't something that I really focus on in games like these, and everything is very streamlined here which kind of made it feel even less important. Shopkeepers don't make friends, which I think contributed to that, since half of the characters in the game run shops.  Crops are streamlined too. There are base crops that grow in any season, and seasonal crops that you create/unlock by using a special fertilizer with the base crop.  Eventually you unlock the fae realm and can grow fae crops, which are similar.  It's not a world where I really grew to care much about the characters or story, but I had a good time growing turnips and whatnot. Solidly distracting from the terrible world we live in.

The only thing great about this game was the multiplayer and they took that a way.

This game feels soulless. The characters have like 2 different lines, the story is super short and lacklustre. I finished the story in early autumn, year 1. The animals are kinda cute for the most part, but neither anything you or your animals produce is worth much gold. It takes a lot of time to tend to your farm and animals, the watering can only waters 1 crop, even upgraded. You have to pet and brush your animals daily. It's just not worth the effort and I seriously considered selling all my animals, even though I had just 1 of each. What makes you money is selling ores from the mines. The story is also heavily centered around the mines. So I spent a vast majority of the game there, which was kinda frustrating. I didn't like the mechanism they came up with for the mines. (You have to craft sigils to unlock porting to different levels, but in order to do so, you basically have to complete every level first to collect the necessary ores and then backtrack and unlock the teleporters if you don't want to start at square 1 every time you enter the mine.) Dating is a joke, you basically have 3-4 cutscenes where the character gives you exposition without you being able to participate, and all of a sudden, you're basically engaged. Marriage is just a very expensive wedding dress/suit, because after marriage, your spouse just hangs out at your farm and you can't give them gifts or go out on dates. Meh. Oh yeah, and what was the point of the 3rd farm that was thrown in right at the end of the story? I'll never know, because there is no incentive to keep playing once the story is over. All the job quest feel kinda pointless and rather annoying, imo. I bought this game at a 50% discount, which is 15€. I played much better games for a similar price. Do not buy it for full price. Considering the release price was 60€, it seriously feels like a rip-off. In my opinion, nothing about the game warrants such a high price.

Do you want to buy the game but not sure? Pros: Adorable Crafting in this game is more fun than Stardew Valley and some of the SoS Harvest Moon games Having multiple farms to access is nice The wings in game are amazing and super helpful tbh Lots to do in game DLC is really fun and creative The spirits at the bottom of the dungeons are amazing, super cute and interesting Cons: Marriage is pointless - partner doesn't even live with you / can't have children / its beyond easy to earn hearts / none of the marriage candidates are interesting / there aren't that many marriage candidates Growing flowers is stupid hard in this game and I thought Animal Crossing was hard. And you need all types of flowers to unlock the different types of wings or you're stuck with the fugly yellow/orange wings you get from the Goddess Farming is pointless o.O Literally pointless other than needing it to make food. It makes you little to no money In game progression is stupid easy, I thought it'd get harder around the last dungeon but no lol if anything its even easier than the first dungeon. You can't name your character, it gives you the username you have for the Phoenix Lab account >.> Personal Opinions: I think the idea of this game is great but the execution fell flat. There are some aspects of the game that they hit perfectly but others parts (that make farming games fun) are lackluster. The fact that farming doesn't even make you money is wild to me. There is no point to farming in this game and it's called Fae Farm lol The fact that marriage in this game is pointless makes me wonder why they didn't just opt out of it completely. I know for a fact most people that play farming games like this (giving you the option to marry) are always trying to either be a town flirt or get married to their favorite NPC. The partners literally do nothing. Most farming games I like to take my time with, I like to explore every little thing and I like focusing on farming and ranching but there's very little of that in game. I finished the entire game before the first year ended in game which, lol, if you are big time gamer for farming games you know this isn't good. You might be wondering why I recommend this game, well that's because the game isn't "bad." There's so many things I do love about this game but if you're looking for a challenge (even if you aren't into farming games) then don't get this game. It's too easy. If you're a lover of farming rpgs like me then I'd say get it. I think there are still aspects of the game that are fun but you will 100% finish the game very quickly. If they ever eventually add more to marriage in game then I'll most likely come back.

If you like the Stardew Valley like games this game will provide a similair experience. Though I did NOT like the multiple farms experience. You are given new farms in different areas and I would have much preferred only one location to invest my time into personalizing and optimizing.

Loved the game but got it purely for the multiplayer. When my friends and I heard there was wavering support some time back, we decided to put some time towards other games for a short time and see how the updates go. Well, we were right to step away. If you want this game for multiplayer features, do not get this game. They are discontinuing multiplayer support on September 10, 2025. The game will be purely single player and will receive no further updates. This game had potential and was great to relax with friends, but ultimately the company was acquired quietly behind the scenes, and so I guess we won't ever get to see what this game truly had the chance to be.

편의성은 정말 좋았지만 수작이라고는 볼 수 없는 평잼의 게임... 기대가 컸지만 어쩔 수 없는 양산형 농사생활게임 아기자기한 동화풍 그래픽에 농사겜이 갖춰야 할 컨텐츠 요소는 다 갖추고 있음 특히 편의성은 여태 해본 비슷한 겜 중 젤 괜찮았음 자동으로 바뀌는 도구, 창고-제작기계 연동, 절벽마다 배치된 점프대 등등 한글화도 상당히 잘 되어 있는 편 수집요소도 제법 풍부하긴 한데 재미보다는 피로감을 유발하는 노가다형식 처음 2-3시간은 신선했던 컨텐츠가 후반 가면 스킨 돌려막기에 거기서 거기, 봄에 시작해 겨울이 오기도 전에 동나버림 NPC들과의 상호작용도 너무 얄팍하고 광활한 오픈월드인 척하지만 테마만 좀 다른 복붙맵 DLC에 반 가까이 저당잡힌 도전과제에 (DLC를 사고픈 욕구가 없어ㅠ) 동선 최악의 끔찍한 광산 디자인 (자주 들려야 하는데 진짜 욕나옴..) 전투도 정말 최악이었음 자동화 요소가 1도 없는 것도 좀 아쉬움 결론은 할만하긴 하지만 너무 싱거운 게임이었다~

They are keeping multiplayer! I am GLAD, was having so much fun with this game! Multiplayer genuinely makes this game 100x better and I wouldn't have wanted to play it any other way! So happy for this!