Fae Farm

Good cozy farming game

Good

very cute game and I've really enjoyed it. the cosmetics take a variety of in game resources so there's also definitely that incentive to explore and level up to make everything cutesy.

Love this game so far! I've only encountered one bug when trying to accept a friendship quest, i could not turn it in, i would only lead me to another quest that i couldn't turn in either ahah, but it was fixed the next in-game day. I love the aesthethic and cute characters, don't care about the npcs' personalities really, and like the crafting and gathering materials system. :D

its a very beautiful game and easy to understand.

I've played this game all week and have really been enjoying it, but there's this overall feeling of "that's it?" to the entire game. The art is cute, the environments are pretty and polished, the music is great. I actually really like the mechanic of having to use various effects on plants to get new crops/trees/etc, I think some of the monster attacks are cute and clever (like the ticking clock hands) but there's just this constant nagging like there's supposed to be more. There aren't many outfits at all, and the few there are are either locked behind quests (which isn't a bad thing when there's other options as well) or locked behind lengths of time in-game. The wings are very cute, but the time it takes to get the different flower colors is kind of a drag, partly due to the flowers having a bit of randomness, and the fact that they're static feels like a bit of a shame. Even a very basic flutter animation when double jumping would really liven them up. I like the areas of the map, but they all feel small and incomplete. The spooky woods had some neat potential, but there's literally nothing special about them except a few extra gatherables. Some of that is my bias toward liking spooky levels, but like add a witch with a clothing shop or something! I feel similarly toward the last area of the main story as well. The furniture affecting your stats mechanic is honestly something I like, but there's no real "sets" of furniture, and because my health is locked into certain pieces, I'll never have another bed. There's no double bed for being married. I don't like that the second house is basically right next to the first- it seems pointless. Maybe that's for multiplayer purposes, but I also don't see why this game needs multiplayer? It doesn't feel like the experience would be improved by having another person. Getting different colors is time consuming, so honestly I haven't even really bothered. I think certain mechanics could be explained more clearly. Because the job quests aren't immediately unlocked, I missed out on some mechanics of breeding/crops that first season that could have benefited me. I typically play games like this with the Wiki open, but that's for advice or detailed info, not generally for basic game mechanics. Also the locked size of the barns is a bit odd, but not too big of an issue. I got both the DLCs- the frog swamp area just makes me wish there was a more robust pet mechanic in the game (The critters are pretty cute, some mammals in this art style would be adorable I'm sure). I haven't felt very invested in that area. the Skvale map is cool, but the puzzles can be a bit buggy and I have had to log out and back in a few times to fix permanent buffs and frozen time issues. The areas themselves are very pretty and I like the idea of more platforming puzzles, it's unfortunately just a little janky. This is a fairly long list of complaints, but honestly I think the gameplay loop is pretty fun, money isn't too easy to get but it's not too hard either, and while sometimes I feel like this is geared toward children, there are enough complex mechanics to make it engaging. I like this game. My complaints are mostly that I want more *depth* and more customization objects/hair added to it, because I want more of a reason to stay. I'd give this a 7 out of ten overall, with the desire to give it a higher score. It's a good game for $30, and it's got potential to be a really top-tier fantasy farm sim with some more complexity. If you liked the old MySims games, or Portal Knights, or other fantasy farm sims, I would recommend this.