A beautiful life sim sandbox RPG from veterans of the Fable series.
You’ve been given the Kynseed, a mystical acorn that grows into a family tree where your choices manifest in its branches. Raise a family, farm the land, run shops, and explore the world as its inhabitants age around you. When...
A beautiful life sim sandbox RPG from veterans of the Fable series.
You’ve been given the Kynseed, a mystical acorn that grows into a family tree where your choices manifest in its branches. Raise a family, farm the land, run shops, and explore the world as its inhabitants age around you. When you die, step into the shoes of your children and continue your legacy. In this beautifully hand-crafted world an epic tale of adventure and ambitions will unravel around you as you discover the secrets of the land of Quill and its cast of memorable characters.
Live your life in a quirky world where everyone ages and dies, including your pets! Take control of the mystical Kynseed and grow your family legacy over generations as you pass your skills and powers down to your children.
Run a business such as a blacksmith, apothecary, or goods store.
Go adventuring in dangerous regions and battle dark faery tale creatures.
Farm your land to create the various ingredients that you'll come to rely on.
Develop relationships with NPC’s who have their own lives and who will remember your deeds, actions, and pranks!
Find proverbs to unlock the secrets of this mysterious dark faery tale world.
Gather materials to create items, forge weapons or mix cures for a range of bizarre maladies.
Buy strange artifacts from the mysterious Mr Fairweather - items which can aid your chores, help you in combat, or just let you mess with the world. But be warned of his life tax, for each item must be paid with years from your life!
A world and story which aren't always sunshine and roses (just like real life!).
In Kynseed, live your lives the way you choose in a lovingly handcrafted 2D open world.
ABOUT PIXELCOUNT STUDIOS
PixelCount Studios is a small team of independent developers who have come together to build the game of their dreams. Kynseed is an original life sim RPG inspired by the charm, eccentricity, and humour that permeated Lionhead Studios’ games. PixelCount Studios was founded by Fable developers Charlie Edwards and Neal Whitehead, and is Chaired by game industry legend Sir Ian Livingstone.
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I'm enjoying this game, and do like that the game itself doesn't have a time constraint, as the days pass very quickly and you don't have enough time as a child to get everything done before 11pm, plus explore and learn the world.
What I do like is the style and premise of the game I have hours of playtime in and I'm still in the very beginning. Definitely worth buying and giving it a play through!
I genuinely love this game's atmosphere and worldbuilding. You can do just about anything you prefer, I never felt forced into anything. Still updated often and they've done a great job. It's certainly worth the base price I paid, and on a sale I would absolutely recommend it to anyone who likes games in the same vein and/or is into fable and folklore.
Don't be fooled into thinking this is anything like stardew valley or similar games. This is a very shallow life simulation that while pretty is skin deep. All the mechanics are pretty unsatisfying (other than crafting, strangely enough). It really feels wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle when npcs are generic and you have no real goal.
I did not encounter any gamebreaking bugs, but the gameplay is rather repetitive - especially with the delivery-miniquests. Where to go to is mostly guesswork as NPCs are constantly on the move (like in Stardew Valley only on MUCH bigger scale). If you don't have a map and guide open in a second window, it's getting overwhelming and frustrating very quick, as the ingame tracker tracks people's homes instead of people.
I also highly dislike the themes/presentation (this is spoilery): Devil's contracts, human sacrifices, cults etc. are presented as a normal thing of which you as the main character are approving of and without a choice for the player compliant in. At the end of the tutorial you sell off your kin to a Fae, because the Fae wants a favour of you, which is in itself an hilarious error of logic. The game even says that the Fae will steal an orphen for you to play as, should you refuse to birth children to uphold the enslavement of your lineage. What you get is basically an unendingversion of Nick Cage's Wickerman dressed up as Stardew Valley, including Nick Cage starring as your sibling as YOU are fully on board the cult-train. I'm at a loss what the devs were aiming for here.
I honestly just find this game disturbing.
It's a shame, really. Gameplaywise there's much potential and many good ideas here and I'm sure there are people out there, who will enjoy the strange story-vibes (or don't think about them). I personally would not buy the game it again. For parents: Stick to the PEGI rating (12). For a change it's right in this case.
The game looked amazing at first but it soon degrades into a lot of the same stuff. While this is a personal opinion, I don't like the silly jokes on the books nor some of the conversations with NPCs. There are some political agenda in the game (I'm not say what) and for me this is big downer; there are better ways to do it.
But again, this is particular to me. There are many people who say this game is a 5-star. It had the potential to be superior to Stardew Valley but scope creeping and some political decisions made me drop it after the 14th game day.
But check it, you might like it.
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