Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
Came here as a gamer… left as a professional rice farmer degree
The realistic, in depth elements of rice farming combined with honing fighting skills plus surprising character revelations and development make Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin a magnificent game. Beside its beautiful story‚ Sakuna’s personal growth is a pleasure to watch. Her reason for living is tested to the limit. The balanced emphasis on farming and fighting provides a great variety of tasks to undertake, providing dozens of hours of fun.
– Real player with 114.1 hrs in game
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I’ll leave a TLDR at the bottom.
I was hesitant yet curious coming into Sakuna. A game that’s half side-scroller beat’m up, and half in-depth rice farming is something unique and interesting to me.
We are introduced to Sakuna, a daughter of harvest goddesss Toyohana and war god Takeribi. Sakuna is a goddess who resides in the capital indulging herself on all sorts of expensive luxuries until one day she meets a certain group of humans and gets involved in an unfortunate event that has her and the group exiled to an isle of demons called Hinoe. It is on this isle that Sakuna will grow rice, hunt demons, and come to learn more about the humans that were exiled along with her.
– Real player with 83.4 hrs in game
Farm Frenzy: Hurricane Season
Was given a copy for review.
If you played any of the other Farm Frenzy games you will love this one.
2 mini games
Stickers
Slots Machine to win Bonuses
Pretty cute animals. Funny story. It’s a play this …while I watch videos ok game. You click, gather these bits, turn them into other things, and make the goals. Easy to play but it gets harder as it goes. Good for any age. It’s fun when you don’t have too much time to play. And you can play it with only 1 hand.
Fun stuff just not hardcore.
– Real player with 20.7 hrs in game
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Farm Frenzy:Hurricane Season is a delightful little time waster sequel to the popular Farm
Frenzy series.
I was given this copy for review purposes
Graphics
Buka Entertainments graphics in this game are not something to write home about, but they
get the job done. Basic Flash Style Bears, Chickens, cats, cages and backdrops fill every
screen. Every animal is delightfully animated as it romps across the farm land.. I Would
have liked to see a little more variety in backdrops. 6/10
– Real player with 16.0 hrs in game
Farmer’s Fairy Tale
I like the style of game. It’s quite relaxing, with no rush to complete main quests. The “timers” on certain quests is only for the extra reward and not essential to the storyline quests. The graphics are nice, the conversations and flow of the story are quite funny (in a somewhat lame kind of way). The game was a little buggy at first, but the upjers team responded to me quite fast and were very helpful to solve the problem.
– Real player with 204.9 hrs in game
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I had added this game to my wishlist before it came out because it had looked so interesting. After I took the leap of faith in buying it, spending almost an hour non-stop on it, I am very pleased with this game! I was like, “FINALLY”, a game that I can do my own relaxed farming but still have objectives. Not to mention the storyline, graphics, and game sounds are not too shabby at all. They put thought into it and you can zoom in and out of the world, making the control gameplay very easy to handle. It feels like stardew valley with the concept of adding items adds energy, eat food get energy, as well as my time at portia by gathering materials and then having to craft objects. Doesn’t take a long time to get materials. I can already tell I am going to be wasting a good portion of my life on this game. Great job Farmer’s Fairy Tale!
– Real player with 188.1 hrs in game
STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of Mineral Town
Fun & relaxing, a good remake, and easier.
– Real player with 619.6 hrs in game
Quite faithful to the gba game (itself being a port of the psx game)
But i think its a missed opportunity to include many features that are done better in the psx game. eg. No greenhouse, no fish breeding, no rival marriage, no farm evaluation.
– Real player with 81.7 hrs in game
Cupid Island
Welcome to Cupid Island, a cute life simulator about bringing couples together and nurturing their relationships. As a Cupid, you’ll discover many different couples and help their love stories. Build, customize and expand the Island using the Love, Joy and Passion produced by the lovely residents.
MAKE YOUR DREAM COUPLES
Explore the Human World to make a wide variety of couples with your Cupid Arrows. You’ll be able to bring them to live in Cupid Island!
MAKE PEOPLE HAPPY
Chat with the lovely residents to know their personalities and give them gifts. Happier people will generate more Love, and improve their relationships.
AN ISLAND MADE OF LOVE
Collect Love, Joy, Passion and other good feelings produced by the people in the island to expand it and make great places for dates and all types of fun activities.
CUSTOMIZE EVERYTHING
You’ll be able to customize the island, your house and the humans' appearances. Who are your dream couples? You can make them here!
MOD SUPPORT
You can add your original visual elements to the game. Support for mods in the character appearances and even in playlist make this experience truly your own! Listen to your favorite songs while you play!
DAY AND NIGHT ACTIVITIES
You can farm, fish and cook in the relaxing mornings. But you can also dance, sing or play soccer in the exciting nights!
YOUR OWN LOVE STORY
Follow the hardworking cupid Aelia’s story as she builds a relaxing and welcoming community for herself to belong. Maybe she’ll even find true love in this place?
Alchemy Story
I was a backer for this game early on, I had high hopes for it back then and if anything my hopes for it now are even higher. Yes it’s early access, so as such it has some minor bugs/glitches and in the beginning you may find yourself wandering aimlessly. But this game is pure relaxation.. and really, isn’t that why most people purchase and play these sorts of games? The art is charming and beyond cute. The characters so far show promise in terms of personality. There’s a lot of things to do, upgrade, brew and purchase considering how early on in development this game still is.
– Real player with 40.2 hrs in game
So far I find this game constantly trying to kill me with its overabundance of cuteness. If I had to describe this game, it would be the Arcane magic version of My Time at Portia (Magic instead of Engineering), with the small town aesthetic of Stardew Valley, with a super cute Harvest Moon/Animal Crossing art style. As the game is in early access, this review may not always be up to date, but I’ll update when needed for new viewers.
Pros:
The inventory system is pretty easy to get used to and best of all no limits to weight or stack, to my knowledge
– Real player with 28.6 hrs in game
Moondrop Mountain
My wife absolutely loves farm sim games. She plays them until the cows come home. But after spending hundreds of hours in-game, she runs out of content. This game is my love letter to her - an attempt to create a farming game that doesn’t grow stale.
I’ve tried to do that by mashing up the farm sim genre with one of gaming’s old-school genres, the roguelike. Every game will be different, depending on what perks and potions you discover. Choose a different build and learn a different playstyle. Will you be a master miner, excavating for gems in the depths? Will you be a shepherd, keeping watch over your flocks? Perhaps an alchemist, using arcane lore to help plants grow stronger. The mountain trail is full of puzzles to solve and mysteries to discover, and the procedural generation of puzzles means that you’ll never solve the same puzzle twice.
Features:
– A unique plant growth system based on the power of friendship.
– A randomized potion system - potions start off unknown (and potentially dangerous) until they are used.
– Explore the mountain trail, which offers treasure and distractions in equal measure.
– Unlockable perks, potions, seeds, blueprints, recipes, costumes, music, UI skins, house additions, statues, and pets.
– Run-based gameplay - explore a different build each time you play.
– Zero marriage candidates. The main character is based on my wife, and she doesn’t mess around.
My Time at Sandrock
My Time at Sandrock-Just like My Time at Portia, My Time at Sandrock takes place in a wholesome post-apocalyptic world 300 years after the Day of Calamity destroyed most modern technologies.
After accepting a job offer to become Sandrock’s newest Builder, you’ll arrive in the wild and rugged city-state, where it’s up to you and your trusty tools to restore the community to its former glory. Gather resources to build machines, befriend locals, and defend Sandrock from monsters — all while saving the town from economic ruin!
Key Features
Transform a run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility! Use an intricate set of machines to process materials and produce parts of huge structures before assembling them piece by piece to help Sandrock flourish.
Create hundreds of unique items at the worktable to decorate your homestead, give gifts to Sandrock’s residents, or assist with community requests.”
Explore vast deserts surrounding the city-state of Sandrock. Dive into ruins to dig for Old World relics, seek our materials in hard-to-reach locations, or spend time relaxing in Sandrock with your neighbors.
Experience a detailed story complete with hundreds of sidequests and over 30 all-new characters. Spend time getting to know Sandrock’s residents, uncovering backstories, and making meaningful connections along the way.
Quickly shift between melee combat and third-person shooting mechanics in dynamic action battles.Use the new weapons and defense break mechanic to your tactical advantage, or boost your stats to simply smash through battles!
Spend experience to level up your Builder and unlock skills. Become a master crafter, specialize in combat, or focus on social interactions with skills that suit all playstyles.
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Use your workshop’s profits to turn the empty prairie into farmable land;
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Grow crops for extra cash or transform them into delicious dishes;
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Attend festivals with Sandrock’s residents;
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Find secrets and much more!
Both Portians and brand-new Builders who have never set foot in Portia will find a fun new world with lots to explore at their own pace, along with divergent NPC stories to enhance replayability. Experienced Builders will find everything you enjoyed about My Time at Portia and more, and you will feel right at home in the delightful life-sim RPG that is My Time at Sandrock.
No Place Like Home
This game really appeals to my environmental side it’s nice calming game involving a lot of problem solving as well as exploration. visually spot on! I love the way the cows dance. A couple of suggestions…A modifiable sign post recipe would help..I kept getting lost in the underground dungeons and I think an option to change the gender of the player’s avatar would also be better. Just having a female character is a bit stereo-typing, she’s vacuuming up loads of rubbish and cooking for NPCs :)
– Real player with 97.9 hrs in game
This is a cute farming and questing game. I enjoyed it very much, however, there was quite a bit of repetition and every time I would die I had to go all the way back where I was to continue. I did like the idea of clearing trash and collecting items. There was one quest I never finished and decided not to complete it. I wish there was a way to gain health by eating food you cook. I wished there was a way to save the game instead of having to go back to your home. I know it auto saved occasionally but when you quit the game you would be back in your house when you started it back up again.
– Real player with 84.7 hrs in game
Summer in Mara
Being up front the game has a lot of issues. It won’t teach you basic mechanics and it is very easy to get frustrated with quests due to a lack of information. There are some side quests that you are given that you cannot complete because you don’t have access to certain items yet. However the game never mentions that you will later get access to those certain things if you progress the main quest which has led to me looking everywhere for certain things only to learn that I have to progress the main story to gain access to them. While this isn’t outright a bad thing, I personally think it is poor game design to tell your players to get a certain item, while they don’t have access to that item yet.
– Real player with 52.9 hrs in game
Little Koa is growing up on a small island in the middle of Mara. She is alone now, tending to her island but dreaming about exploring the whole world and becoming a pirate one day! When she finds a strange little creature on the beach her days of loneliness are over. With her new friend, Napopo, she set sails to the vast Mara seas. Koa will then meet different kinds of people with their own dreams, problems or old pains and although she is only a kid, she will do everything in her power to help them.
– Real player with 46.8 hrs in game