Kynseed

I married an old naked man 80 years older than me. My male character had twins with said 90yr old naked wild man. I gave magic mushrooms to my friends. I started a small business. And I pleased some ghosts. I can't believe how fun this game is. Lots to do, a big learning curve, but the pay off is satisfying. The game keeps evolving as you progress, and I'm sure it will continue to evolve into hour 50 and 100. I've spent the last two days pretty much just playing this game. What more can you ask for. Well worth $ and I am happy to support developers and artists that are so creative, unique, and bold.

I am not saying that the game is bad, but some decisions are VERY questionable, and it is overall disappointing, really thought it would be on my best farming sims list of all time. (BEWARE SPOILERS) - I dislike the end of the prologue, just too weird, feels too cult-y, a really bad and weird decision there. Just a straight paganism ritual, and the worst one, you know, giving a human sacrifice lol !! Honestly, I am baffled, a bit amused that someone thought that was a good thing to do lol. To make matters worse, you then go to meet a guy that tells you, 'look how bad they are, let me take years off of your life, take you away from the people that love you, and you die at a specific age, and after that I enslave your body and then your child' WHAT????? ROFL, SO WEIRD. I get that it's how the game works, but that could have been done WAY better. I do like that you buy items with years lol. Actually cool idea, and there are A LOT of items. - The game isn't a typical farming sim, it's more of business/building kind of game honestly. You need to befriend villagers to get them to re-build ruined houses, etc. I do like the idea, though should have been done better I feel, as I am now running from one villager to another to gain their friendship. I like the incentive, and that making them your friends actually has more impact on the game, but it does start way too early. Also, giving them a disliked gift is way too harsh -50 is too much. Considering a liked gift does 25-36 or something I am not sure. Business is too much micro-managing for me. They run out of stock, employees get upset, they need a gift, or a raise, etc. - One more thing to add, gifting is generally really well done in this game, one of the best, after gifting, every NPC gives you a hint of sort, and they tell you what other people like and dislike, what they dislike more though, wish it was the opposite lol. - Farming is NOT that important, feels like a trend with "farming sims" as of late lol. It feels like it's only there for the cooking, which is more or less more important. I do like that they take only three days, you don't have to keep filling the water can. Not a lot of crops though. - Really appreciate that you get a mount literally at the start of the game, I respect not wanting to waste my time running around. There is even multiple ways to fast travel. - Challenges to complete. - Skills, though I am not too impressed with them unfortunately, too basic. Only like 5 or 6 total are REALLY good, others feel like an obstacle to get to the good ones. - I do love tools leveling up and giving you benefits. However, 8 types of ore, and you need normal ore and Fae ore for different things, I don't like that. So you might need to have 2 sickles, 2 shovels, etc. - Fishing is fine, nothing new. Not many fish in the game feels like, too. - Too many mini-games, never thought I'd say this, but there are way too many mini-games, some are fun/good, some are annoying/boring. Should have been that after you make 3 (and be able to make a batch) that you can choose to skip the mini-game. making medicine is some rocket science stuff lol, the mini-game feels way too complicated, especially at first glance, and A WHOLE PAGE to explain it. I am more of a visual person, wish they visually explained most stuff. And you can FAIL them! I get that the mini-game can give you a star or take away, it is a FORCED play. Nope. Like, it should be that I can put all 5 star items, and I don't need to play the mini-game. - Combat is actually pretty interesting, different from all others of this genre. Though ranged sucks!! I just died because of it. It doesn't pause (It SHOULD), and you take time to aim, and it has to be somewhat precise, or at least make it like the combat, aim and use a button to choose who to attack. Enemies hit you while you are aiming, WAY too frustrating to be used or make a difference, and it barely does any damage, it is there to stun, I get it, but it does limit it A LOT, especially considering that you stun when there are 3 or 4 enemies, so you can manage, but they hit you and could kill you while you are aiming ??!! Edit: Okay the more I fight, the more frustrating it becomes. The idea is still really good imo, but there are just way too many annoying things. 1- There is no way to strengthen yourself (stats-wise), which is very annoying, you don't feel like you are making progress. And leveling up your sword takes way too much time AND feels like it does nothing. It is either VERY grindy, or done badly. 2- Swords. It doesn't differ strength-wise when you make a sword with better ore!! I made one with Zinc, and it feels like it barely does more from my copper one. It is made more towards this ore for this enemy, good in theory, SUCKS in practice. 3- Skills are not that impressive, AT ALL. AND you don't get the items easily for them. I am literally doing the Midwood, and I am hardly meeting the monsters I want to get the loot, and when I do, it is not the rating I want. And all the different difficulties, REALLY get difficult, I am not following how you are supposed to get better!! I have finished quite a few on level 1 and still barely manage level 2 diff. which doesn't guarantee 2 star rating !!! For now, I am going with done badly, cause even if I have a 'better character' later with my offspring, that is still not done right imo. And you almost always fight 4, and you have to keep track of SO many things happening, your stamina, the enemies' stamina, and they hit together sometimes, your position, ranged attacks, etc. EDIT: You can level up your stats, not as I would have liked, but it is still a cool idea. In two ways, you can through the Kynseed tree after you complete challenges, but it is only about 7 or 8 points available, or when you get a child, you make them do specific chores to raise their stats. More problems with enemy types, so they don't show you what you fight (you have to remember) but the issue is, each type of sword (depends on what ore you use to make it) gives benefits against different types of enemies, and there are a lot. Same with things you use (Charms and Wards). Overall with combat, cool idea, badly executed. - Last thing, which is a bit of a big thing really, NPCs and relationships. Unfortunately, because of how the game is, makes no NPC memorable or have any unique character. Even my 2nd character had really no available bachelors lol. They feel lifeless.