Welcome to Elderfield

[h1]Warning[/h1] Game is not cozy at all, the more you play, the more it demands and you just can't keep up. There is no automation, no quality of life, no balance. Look, every station in the game that works with resources can only take 1 at a time, no queues, no putting many products at once - only 1. You need hundreds of those stations, but crafting them all will take way over 100 hours of real time, cus resources are limited and respawn once per week. [h1]Daily routine[/h1] My daily activity goes like this: wake up, run to the farm that is far from house, water 32 plants 1 by 1, restock water from nearby lake, water another 32, restock, water flowers and trees. Go to barn animals, restock their feed for each of 3 barns separately, click on each animal to give love, click on each to get resource or get from ground. Go back to house, put each egg 1 by 1 into food machine, each veggie into cask or jam maker / whatever. It all takes 3-10 days to make single final produce. Cooking requires 10-30 products for single item. You eat it in battle to heal once. I feel like an idiot to be honest doing all that for such dumb result. [h1]Economy[/h1] Amount of cash you get from fishing, cooking, farming and ranching can't even pay for the ingredients and buildings required to make it. Most of time it is better to just buy food from shops to save on cash and sell ingredients directly. By the time you able to craft something (amor sets) you no longer need it. Inventory is very limited and there is no way to expand it a lot. Farming and ranching are clashing, since you want rain to water crops and save you hands, but it will force farm animals to give no produce. Just why? Who balanced this game, who tested it? I do know demo was out for a while so the answer is, sadly - dev gives no sh*t about any feedback. And it can be easely seen on forums, where he consistently states " everything by design, i won't change it", "it works as intended". People making numerous topics about all problems game has but nothing gets resolved, there was not a single patch since release. [h1]Quality of life[/h1] The map is horrendous, it does not shows anything: no landmarks, no npc, no important places or quests. NPC never tells you what they like and there is no info anywhere in the game about gifting or what it gives. There is no indication which area you supposed to visit at certain stage of game. There are many softlocks player can do to themself, for example, destroying shrines on your farm will spawn unkillable bosses, doing some quests wrong way will cut off huge quest chains and you will not even know about it. Not going to specific areas early can softlock you for whole seasons. Inventory management is horrible: it is hard to move things, hard to scroll through hundreds of items, craft stations don't take items from chests (dev knows it and refuses to change). Changed key-bindings resets after you start game again. There are permanent negative bonuses you can get from random RNG, unless you do very specific build. Monsters overwhelm you with brute force cus have more 'moves' than you and you have to waste a move to cast spell or eat food, which leads to you never casting spells or eating food during combat. And as i already said, making food is too hard, so you rely on random food rewards from elites and bosses. The only way to deal with this is to overlevel by slowly grinding same areas and hoping for RNG dice to give you 6. [h1]Battles[/h1] Actually the best part of game, cus you can equip many items and make builds, considering resistances, dmg types, hp management, defense, gem incrusting etc. But throwing dice and traversing areas takes way too long, you constantly forced to wait for animation and make extra clicks for no reason. Using shower removes both positive and negative buffs at same time, while respawning monsters - quite annoying since getting positive buffs is RNG-dependent, while negative will be showered on you from all sides. The most horrible thing is that gathering from ores or trees has high chance to deal high % dmg to you, forcing to go home and take shower, cus healing items are too sparce. So yeah, while battles are great thing, farming, cooking, fishing, ranching, inventory management and economy are completely broken and need heavy changes. This is not "by design" this is just bad development direction and lack of common understanding of how core features should combine into coherent system. [h1]Verdict[/h1] In such horrible state i cannot recommend this game, until developers starts doing major changes and listening to community. Game desperately needs automation and quality of life, while either removing farming part entirely of fully reworking it.