Another Farm Roguelike: Rebirth

I’m not going to deny my absolute love of management sims. There is, for me, something deeply cathartic about making a plan, designing out an approach, gathering the resources, and doing it. I like seeing the end result and having the satisfaction of not only a plan well-executed, but of then getting to build that plan further and further into grander and grander things. I used to be a project manager, and I hated it. I’m sure there’s something to analyse there about my psyche, but this is a review of Another Farm Roguelike, and let’s be honest, neither of us wants that particular analysis. Another Farm Roguelike: Rebirth is exactly what it says on the tin. It’s a farming-themed roguelike where players design and build a farm, planting crops, raising animals, and earning money to pay an ever-increasing rent. There’s something to be said about the fact that, even in a management fantasy, we are all still beholden to the capitalist demon that is the rental economy, but that is, again, not the point, and no one but me wants that. It is worth getting one obvious truth out of the way from the outset. This is a game heavily inspired by, if not a vague parody of, Stardew Valley. Its graphics, its sprites, its mechanics are all very familiar to anyone who has played any amount of Stardew. Eggs go into the mayonnaise machine, milk into casks, fruit into the juicers, and all the products get sold to invest back into the farm. There is very little about the particular chain of production that is unfamiliar here, to a point that it feels vaguely uncomfortable in how blatant it is. This is not, however, Stardew, as evidenced by the fact that the presence of rent necessitates building not a whimsical, fun farm that might have optimisation if the player playing wants that, but rather, a capital engine. This is a game that’s very much an optimisation challenge, even if it buries the lede a bit on that being the case. Much of how Another Farm Roguelike presents itself centres around it, first and foremost, being an anti-Stardew, with it repeatedly emphasising how much it does not feature the “cosy” elements of Stardew. I’m going to admit that this particular approach of denigrating another, perfectly lovely game rubs me the wrong way, though none of this is necessarily the fault of the game itself. Bad marketing doesn’t mean the game itself is bad, as any fan of the Dragon Age series can attest. More deceptive, though, is the game’s emphasis around player choice and diverse strategies. Another Farm Roguelike, the game’s page argues, is all about having a diverse range of play experiences. Each map is randomly generated, each segment within the map has random resources within it, all leading to the player being nudged to try a variety of different approaches to the problem of paying rent. Except none of that is true. Yes, there are a range of biomes, and yes, resources are random, and absolutely, there are a variety of starting bonuses the player can choose from, but fundamentally, each run of Another Farm Roguelike has one of two outcomes—the player either has the map layout to build an efficient farm, or they lose after two or three weeks. There is no middle ground. Much of the problem of Another Farm Roguelike is that, while it presents the idea that there are many valid ways to scale and grow a farm, in practice, there are not. The fact that rent grows exponentially while the farm’s engines grow linearly means that there will quickly come a point—usually after the second week—where it is physically impossible for the farm to raise enough money to make rent. This is, of course, unless the player has had both phenomenal luck in their map generation, the correct class to make the best use of the map, and the knowledge of what specific plays to make in order to best make use of what they’ve been presented with. What this creates, then, is a roguelike in the worst sense. Rather than growing and learning from each playthrough, and unlocking the tools to make the next playthrough easier, the player is beholden to the whims of the RNG, with no real chance of making a run with a bad RNG work. The other aspect of this flaw is that, once a player does understand how to win and what to look for in a map, there is very little reason to replay the game. Since the number of truly scalable strategies is so limited, the only winning move is to repeat what works for a given class ad infinitum until it’s just boring and trite. The worst thing a roguelike can be is repetitive. The game, to its credit, does offer a potential solution to the rent problem in the form of an “endless mode.” Endless mode removes the rent requirement entirely, allowing players to just build a farm to their heart’s content with no external pressures. To which I ask: then what’s the point? The entire premise of the game, everything it promises and everything it wants to be, is a challenging farm management sim. Take away the challenge, and all you’re left with is a knockoff Stardew that’s missing any sense of charm. This is the tragedy of Another Farm Roguelike: Rebirth. There’s a lot here to like. It’s satisfying to build a strategic farm, and the idea of having a range of biomes and layouts does add refreshing variety to each playthrough. However, when that variety is undergirded by the knowledge that building this farm is a Sisyphean task, much of the fun of it all is lost. What’s the point in building if none of it is ever going to be enough? 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这肉鸽做的怎么玩都没有爽感也是挺厉害的，UI设计也是依托

First game was amazing, this one is kinda good but Why the ♥♥♥♥ the dev thought it was a good idea to force you to chose negative boosts? Second, the UI is TERRIBLE, filled with a lot of information

Support Korean please

难度很高，体力大部分浪费在开荒上，很难在交房租前搞好一个一条线

fun game. bit much to understand without an in depth guide but theres a few in the steam community. I broke the game within 24 hours of buying so definitely a good game in my books. 8/10 roguelike game

难度跨度非常大租地费用是成倍往上叠加 只有特定的倒转流派能游玩 自动收货打开会导致自动浇水有的地方浇不到 经验获取途径少但是死绑定词条

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非常解压，有种星露谷但是加了全MOD的感觉，爽哉。但是一方面是新手引导不足，当我想找到相应的物品配方并没有清晰的指示，以及告诉我下一步指引，且小窗模式经常跳bug；另一方面是物品设置了很多，但是并没有分类机制，新的一天都需要全部手动装填，如果工程量大在游戏里就能体验流水线工人的体验，且因为没有清晰的指示，物品又很多，每次都要tap半天才能发现自己想要的物品（眼神不好的体验感更差了）。

我的天……我感觉制作这款游戏的人已经沉迷于自己的艺术中了，这款游戏操作既不简单，又难理解，一开始就有很多的系统让人摸不到头脑，于是我选择简单模式玩了一局，结果就是过了一个星期交租游戏就结束了……就……挺让人摸不到头脑的。 一点也不好玩。