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Spirit of the Island

Soulless unfinished Stardew Valley clone

This review is for the finished 3.0.3.0 release. This game is another Kickstarters cash-grab. A decent looking veneer hides the unfinished and poorly crafted gameplay. Earning money sounds fun until you realize how easy cash is handed out and that there is nothing worth buying. Crafting equipment sounds sounds fun until you realize enemies are harmless and drop nothing useful. Talking to villagers sounds fun until you wade through their repetitive, walls of text in broken English. Attending a festival sounds fun until you realize there is absolutely nothing to do there. Raising Animals sounds fun until you realize all you do is click on their barns once a day to gather the single resource they produce. Exploring islands sounds fun until you realize they all look the same and offer nothing useful. So many things are left unfinished. Some trees you chop down and their collision is removed, but the tree doesn't disappear. Items have descriptions like "used as a food ingredient or in medicine", yet have no function. The Museum has large empty spaces and donating items does nothing. You are unlikely to ever buy any supplies as everything you chop or shake drops masses of seeds and resources. Chop grass, get coffee seeds! Wack a fern, get sugar cubes! Check out a shrub, get cherries! If you enjoy building and intricately decorating your own farm, you might get some fun from this game, but there are far better options for this. Controls are laggy, with unintuitive menus. I would not recommend this game for anyone. It is incomplete and horribly crafted, but also these Kickstarter pay-in-advance monstrosities should not be supported.

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