Blue Oak Bridge

I really love the hand painted art style consistent throughout the whole game! I also found the game progression to be faster than other farming sims I’ve played before, so there’s not as much of that tedious early game grind where it takes several seasons to really get going; there’s a few game mechanics in this particular game that I find make farming a lot easier and so satisfying. There’s still a couple visual bugs to be worked on, but you can tell the amount of thought and effort that went into developing this game. I’m excited to see what the future brings! :)

You wash up on shore. The characters sound like a mix of Sims and Animal Crossing. I dig the art style, the fact that there's a flower that not only drops its plant everyday but also waters the surrounding plants around it. I've grown obsessed with completing the library (what's new) and checking the beach as well as the lost and found for pieces that are out of season. The game play itself is simple. The mines can be a bit of a challenge and not using up all your mana while mining AND fighting monsters can be a challenge. There isn't much of a solid tutorial and it doesn't seem like different fish spawn in other area's. I would suggest this game for people who want a super simple game to play but I would not suggest this if you're looking for something like SDV.

It's a cozy game with beautiful art, fun background music, and lots of interesting quests and characters! I absolutely recommend getting this, it's a fun mix of farming, foraging, mining, and monster fighting, with plenty of quests you can work on for the NPCs.

Was lucky enough to get a key for this game and I can't tell you how grateful I am because this game is an artistic wonder. The game is a cute magical farming sim with a stunning soundtrack and the most visually inviting art style I've seen in a long time. Didn't come across any bugs (so far so good) and am just excited to see if achievements get added in future (please?). Can't wait to keep playing and progressing my lil Jellybloom farm.

I absolutely adore this little charming game. I bought it on sale and I wouldn't have regretted buying it at full price, the time I spent with it and the joy it gave me was well worth it. I liked almost all aspects the story, the farming elements, the decorating, ect... its just such a fun game, and the npcs all make the world feel full properly. You are encouraged to give everyone gifts to experience their drama filled lives, the humor of it elevated this game a lot for me. The stories touch on more adult things like nervous breakdowns, unrequited love, heart break, struggling to survive in this economy, ect... but its still very much in the cozy genre. Its something I think a child would find boring but as an adult I was sufficiently amused. There are some very nice and amusing touches that go along with this. It was well put together. For those of you who find watering and harvesting a chore, the devs do as well and give the player [spoiler] A water potion that waters everything on the field in a single click. You can get a permanent one for the 75% Library crop completion reward. There is also a crop picker (that will not pick flowers (for a good reason as you need those for honey) that will pick all of the crops and all you need to do is walk around and collect them. [/spoiler] All of that being said this game is very, very far from perfect. Its very much a bug and clunk riddled experience. The negative reviews are completely correct. I can't tell you how many times I've run into a weird bug and had to restart the game from it. The clunk is almost as bad. They made some strange and unusual decisions and there are times when you'll be confused. They did not finish quite everything they wanted to in terms of content and there are two areas on the teleport map that don't really exist and one on the normal map. The combat is very simple: swing sword. It didn't really detract from the experience for me, but its once again clunky and sometimes buggy. I've lost sound on many occasion for no reason I can explain. Overall I give the game a 7/10 simply because it really meshed with me. It was really fun underneath and because of its unique quirks. Its a hidden gem that would be way easier to recommend if it wasn't so buggy. Protips: -If you character is walking only in one direction and slower, its not bugged, its a special mode you activated "farming mode" you need to turn off again. 'Shift' on mouse and keyboard. -Join the discord. The devs will help you through some of the weirder issues, like your house upgrade getting stuck, or quest NPCs taking the story off. Not to mention a quick search will show you someone has run into a similar problem like not knowing where to find a certain item or ect... There is also a wiki. -Don't kill yourself for 100% completion on everything. No rewards and also I'm pretty sure its impossible or very buggy. Sitting at one fish that refuses to show up ever, and 3 potions that the wiki nor the discord can account for. If you still want to walk this path, make sure to get gokies to catch fish, the eakeies to get the wild stuff, and set up at least 2 lobster traps in the valley, the ocean, the bog, and the cove. Always throw the first of anything you get into the Library no exceptions. This is sound advice even if you just want to play the game as some stuff you need is very rare. -Keep 10 of everything you'll likely need it for a quest somewhere when you least expect it. -The regrowing plants are your biggest money makers.

It took me a while to get into and was fun for a while. While the art is lovely and there are some good new concepts, in the end this is in unfinished game, definitely not a full release title. I really do hope that the developer sticks to it because the game shows promise but currently the bugs and glitches are very frustrating, the keybindings are unintuitive and not consistent and the game itself lacks a lot of depth.

Does not feel like there is any kind of story in the game and personally it does not feel like there is any reason to continue playing. The game feels like it's in EA to me.

I overlooked many of the minor issues. The final straw for me is that I tried to go to discord with a question about why I couldn't rebind a key to right mouse button(RMB) since left mouse button(LMB) is an option. I'm not jumping through stupid hoops to join a discord that isn't listed on the store page. There are plenty of Harvest Moon games out there. Don't spend money on developers that make communication difficult.

love it

Pretty art, bad controls, unclear where room exits are, freezing on start, and character constantly getting stuck facing the wrong way. I really want to like this game but with these issues on a decent gaming system, I really can't!