Stardew Valley

There is much to love about this game, the bright colorful artwork, the passing seasons , many animated flavor bits like leaves blowing, water ripples etc. There are events that add fun to the game, just because. There are trippy mermaid concerts, and a hermit with self worth issues. There are calves, chicks, ducklings to grow, horses to ride, lands to explore. There are some slight skill trees, do you ace combat or do you want to just wander around and forage. There is love too and friendship. The sheer amount of stuff to do is great, you build up your farm the way you want, you try and make friends for gifts and bonuses, you build up a community center or not. All the while a clock is ticking to seasonal end and new crops to plot or to while away the winter crafting. The music is pleasant and charming as well. What is not pleasant or fun is the timer. very short daily timers leaves you exhausted trying to get something done before you pass out, which incurs a big penalty if you cant get to bed in time. Just getting up in the morning, checking for tv recipes and then watering your crops or tending to animals puts you into the late afternoon when shops/homes close and you have to wait a day. Its rush rush rush which ruins the whole laid back theme of the game. I almost quit in the beginning as i hate timers. i stuck with it and im glad, it gets better the second in game yr. Still, the game is a grind. Sell what you can to gain money to buy the next improvement. grind grind grind. rush rush rush. Im playing to get to the point where i can just chill, farm maybe. try the absurdly hard fishing game, explore. whatever, but at almost 70s hrs in im finding it hard to play cuz of the grind, the insane rush. take that as you may,

Игра замечательная и милая - настоящий отдых для души. Однако, если бы я играл один, я бы забросил ее через пару дней - все слишком размеренно, несмотря на все события, что происходят в деревне. Но, к счастью, я играю в эту игру по сети с дочкой (мне 37, ей 11), и мы думаем, как бы нам заманить в эту игру еще и жену :) Играть вдвоем - одно удовольствие.

I was looking for a game my daughter can play, most Jump´n´runs are to fast for her, she does not like fighting or weapons (Mario Kart is something she loves, at least). So i was glad that i found this for her to try out. And what can i say? Her older brother also started to play and love it, the same happened to me. It´s simply the best gaming experience i had in years. In the meantime i married and have a kid, still not finished the desert temple, but i will... I think this game is good for everyone looking for something like it and even more for the people who would never think that running a farm in a 16bit village while adventuring, fishing and flirting is the best thing to do.

At first, it was very exciting to finally have a relationship-building, harvesting, collecting, crafting game for PC. After about a year worth of in-game time, everything, and I do mean everything, started to wear thin. The interactions with other characters are flat, wooden, and generally uninspired. There is very little to like about most of the characters and very little indication as to what they may or may not like. Planting and harvesting is boring and unoriginal and soon starts to feel much more like a chore than an integral part of the game. The storage system is cumbersome - rather than allow you to add capacity to large storage areas, you have to create additional storage that is opened independently of all your other storage. Want to store enough that you can actually start cooking things someday? Better craft a dozen chests and better enjoy running back and forth between them trying to remember which one has which ingredient. The game is bright and colorful but the graphics are mediocre. I understand the whole pixellated retro fad over the last couple of years, but honestly, a game like this deserves better graphics. The dated graphics feel like a cheap attempt to capitalize on the nostalgia of the old games in this genre. Once I'd seen almost all of the game screens, and encountered most of the major game elements, the luster faded very quickly and I was left having to decide whether I wanted to spend countless hours of repetitive gameplay to accomplish goals that weren't particularly rewarding, or to just move on. I chose to move on. If you've been having withdrawals since the last Harvest Moon game came out, you will probably enjoy this game, but unless you love repetition with little feeling of accomplishment, you're probably best served by avoiding this game. Seeing the popularity of this game makes me wish I could design games because I believe that fans of this genre deserve the game that Stardew Valley wishes it could be.

чувствую себя тем самым деревенским алкашом который роется в мусорках и рыбачит целыми днями =)