Game has some original ideas and cool mechanics, though at one point it becomes Asian-style grindy, which is my problem for why it's not 5/5 and instead 4/5. Stardew valley requires much less grinding to progress.
The early game is hellish, the characters are obnoxious and ungrateful (with a couple of exceptions), every quest is a chain of deals with about 3-5 steps which are usually scuttled by having to wait for specific characters to be available on specific days, and after all the torture nothing meaningful is resolved in the end. You learn a lot about the history of the NPCs but they've acted so rudely that I sincerely don't care about their complex and tragic past.
I know other people enjoy this game but I can't for the life of me understand why. Stick to Stardew, Harvest Moon, Song of Seasons- anything but this mean-spirited prank of a 'cozy farm simulator'.
To its credit though, after the early game hell, the gameplay loop is kind of okay and the water physics are nice.
This game has issues. Begining drags, since you get little more than a shovel and a body to bury, and the end lags, as the last few quests rely on RNG, which may or might not be kind to you. Not to mention bugs, that haven't been fixed for years, apparently, and probably never will.
The middle of the game is quite nice, relaxing game. Nothing fancy, you probably will have some video on second monitor, but you will lose track of time.
As for time to complete, well, it took about 74 hours for me. Roughly 50-60 of which was enjoyable. About 3-4 hours was waiting for RNG to smile upon me so I could get the item needed for finishing the game, since I used it up shortly before the final quest.
I get it, the devs here wanted to give the "where the hell am I" vibe, and that is definitely the mood of the game.
But boy is it UNPLAYABLE without a wiki. Sure, you can smash your head into every corner of the game until you figure out how to do the most trivial task, or you can just google it and find out how it's done, and it's always in the most unintuitive way possible.
I'm not all in for handholding, but the fact that an external source is almost mandatory should be stated on the store page.
I have only played the game few hours, now. It is quite engaging and there are also some fun moments. Besides the fun it has this social-critical undertone of anti-turbo-capitalism ("Where does that meat come from?"). I like the game.
There is one big "but", though, which is the awfully slow performance on Linux. I haven't tried Windows, yet, but the forums are full with complaints. I have a 4 core CPU with Nvidia RTX 3050 it's basically unplayeable with high resolution and gets a pain with weather changes. I only read that the problem is basically unsolvable, because it is because of Unity, and also that the devs don't care for years.