Disney Dreamlight Valley

I've been playing the game for about 3 years now and I have 281 hours on record so here are some of my honest takeaways if you're considering it! I'll do the negatives first: 1) This game is grind heavy and quest heavy. It took me over a year to complete JUST the base game storyline because of how many characters you have to level up and lands to unlock. Since then there have been 3 DLC expansions and a ton of base game content added. If you are looking for just a simulator game, this isn't one that you can use cheat codes for to get materials or money, like in the sims. There are definitely ways to accomplish things faster than I did, but I was first playing around the time other players were still figuring out the game so it took me a while and even with faster paths to get ahead, it will still take you some time. 2) The questing can get tiresome and repetitive. All of it is usually just "fetch me this specific thing" or "talk to this specific character" quests. Every single character comes with their own questline and a friendship level bar that you'll have to get to ten. It takes so much time to complete quests and some quests have time requirements on them. Again, it isn't the type of game you can passively play, a lot of important things you'll need later in the game are reliant on you completing all the friendship quests. It can get annoying over time. 3) Microtransactions...In the beginning, the microtransactions weren't as pervasive as they are now, but they are marketed so well now that a lot of players thing they need the items because if they don't get this weeks specific things, then their experiences won't be as authentic as everyone else's. You can play without the microtransactions, but they are literally designed to make you feel less than as a player for not participating. I have fallen for so many of them. Okay some positives: 1) It's perfect for Disney fans. You are literally creating your own Disney World experience by befriending the characters you have loved over the years! There are so many characters at this point that its impossible for there not to be at least one you love. They each bring elements of their storylines to the game and it is fun to watch them unfold as you interact and complete quests for each of them! 2) The main storyline is emotionally heartwarming and designed to help you feel like you and your inner child are healing together. I cried when I beat the final storyline because it definitely healed something in me. AND the game didn't end after the main storyline finished because they keep adding new content (both free and paid) to keep people playing. 3) While it is grind heavy, it IS still a simulation game and the decorating, customization and overall designing of the world are really fun to partake in. I love decorating my valley and wearing princess dresses. It feels like getting to build my own world of dreams come true! With my pros and cons together, I'd still recommend this game but only with the caveat that you are aware of what you are getting into before you buy it!

nothing says nostalgia like paywalls! what happens when a greedy company employs a greedy company? dreamlight Valley is what happens!

great idea however they pump out DLCS not much free content considering the base game and DLCS arent too different in price

Racist Customer Support I came back to the game after a long break and discovered that a major update had completely broken my save. Donald Duck's shop and Remy's restaurant, which I had fully upgraded, were reset to zero. Some decorations that I had paid for disappeared. My in-game currency was gone as well. This was not a small bug. The update broke the game for many players, and the developers told everyone to contact customer support. So I did. And I never received any actual help. Every single time I explained my problem, I got the same automated response saying that my country is not supported. My Steam account is registered in Kazakhstan, but it did not matter. No person ever looked into my case. The company took my money, deleted my progress, and then completely ignored me. My support tickets keep getting closed automatically without solving anything. Think twice before spending money on this game. If something breaks, there is a very real chance that you will lose your purchases and be left with nothing but automated replies.

I'll start my review by saying this is definitely for Disney fans. If you aren't a fan, I think the gameplay loop might get a little dull without the excitement of bringing new characters to your valley and getting to interact with them. The good: The game regularly receives free updates, bringing new characters to the base game without the need for DLC. There are also seasonal events which provide more opportunities to get more decorations and items for free. You can also participate in weekly challenges to earn some premium currency. It's not a lot at once, but if you participate regularly and save up, it's enough to get premium shop items without spending real money from time to time. I have a couple of the DLCs and feel like the additional content was worth the money. The bad: Not a great game if you struggle with FOMO and don't want to top up your premium currency to get all the latest items from the weekly shop. When you crunch the numbers, items are pretty pricey for what you're getting. I only spend moonstones from DLC purchase bonuses and what I get from daily chests and weekly photo contests. Otherwise this could become a really costly game. Additional context: I play on multiple platforms so my hours here do not reflect my true hours in the game.

This game started out as a lovingly crafted, yet awfully coded, sweet Disney game. It was a pleasure to see it evolve from the tiny mess it used to be. Now, that's no longer the case. This game has become one big coporate slop machine, pumping out microtransaction content and never fixing bugs, unless those bugs impact the microtransactions. I genuinely loved this game so much, even though it was always really limited. But I'm done with Gameloft's anti-consumer greed. They have made it very clear that they simply do not want this to be anything other than a corporate moneytree and slop machine, constantly pumping out new stuff with as little required work as humanly possible. The game barely has any animations to speak of, always reusing the few animations (that are also extremly broken) and painting a new look on top of it, pretending that it's somehow different. The warning signs were there since the early days, when the devs promised that new content would be free for everyone, before suddenly acting like they never said that and making every minor thing a microtransaction. We chose to ignore it. And they happily took advantage of every player. I'm not gonna continue to support this disgusting corporate behavior, and I sincerely hope that more people step away from this "game". Ideally, the corporate dirtbags will let this return to being a passion project. Realistically, at best, Dreamlight Valley would instead end up dying in a pit of dragged-out corportate greed. Cannot recommend. If you value your time and money, stay away from this game. I've already wasted enough of mine.

如果不是迪士尼死忠粉，我不推荐购买。剧情像是小学生写的粉丝向作品。游戏与IP是两回事，但制作方似乎混淆了定义，吃相难看。任何一个部分都很儿戏，如果你说这就是个儿童向作品，那你很不尊重儿童！五岁的孩子们知道什么是一个好的游戏。 好的游戏不是空有架构就有了故事，不是拿IP堆砌就有了角色。不是我让米老鼠披着高飞的皮哼两声“呃嗬”他就是高飞，而是即使史高治与瓦利对换了身体，只能说机械音，我也依然知道他老奸巨猾，他在“伪装”里筹谋着什么。识人不是识皮。还有，不是任务种类多，连续任务多就是好玩。尤其是将繁杂的任务种类（实际上换汤不换药，没有新意）穿插到一起的做法，玩起来就像是游戏在努力将一个正常人改造成一个ADHD。[strike]而我一个有ADHD的人，痊愈了！[/strike] 地图探索方面我就不多说了，这么小气的地图我没见过这么贵的标价，看来迪士尼真是寸土寸金，改变了我对巨型城市房价的看法，或许两者原本就是一个意思。 好的方面懒得提，与差强人意的地方放在一起，就没有提的必要了。或许我玩的时间不够长，更多有趣的东西没有体验到，但不就是好莱坞推广的开头5分钟要让主要角色save the cat吗？买了版权就尊重下传统？放在游戏里，我玩了大约十小时（包含挂机时间），也算是给足了机会。 我不喜欢写红评，写起来费时又不解气。那最后就稍微写点别的。 十二岁的某天，我异常悲伤地承认了一件事情，我再也读不了《米老鼠》了。在那之前的两年里，我花光了所有的零花钱跑到邮局订阅一整年《米老鼠》杂志。每次新一期杂志寄到家里，我总是拿着零食津津有味地翻开，总是一次性就看完整本。那是我刚从物资匮乏的童年离开，终于有了些课外书籍可以阅读的时候，奈何美好的时光总爱迅速地闪到一旁，回过神来，我已经站到了青春期的门外，话别《米老鼠》就是我的门票，一张塞进手里不得不入的门票。来路已然塌陷，我轻轻推门，走进了安妮宝贝和村上春树吹开的涟漪。

I have over 1k hours in this game. Obviously I enjoy it, and have for many years. But would I recommend it? No and here's why... 1. I purchased the game in early access with the knowledge that the game was planning to be free for everyone else. The idea was if you wanted to play it early you paid $30, but at full launch the game would be free for everyone. This did not happen, within the year they announced that due to costs the game had to be full price. Disney...complaining about money burns my biscuit. 2. Let's say you want to play all of the content. Well you'll be paying $40 now for the base game and every DLC (there have been 3 with a new one releasing soon) is $30. Right there just for access to all the quests you are paying $130. 3. Premium shop is mad expensive. You can obtain moonstones through Dreamsnaps weekly challenges (and if you have this game I highly recommend you do). Otherwise if you want the Starpath (this games battle pass) you'll need to fork out about $10-$15 for moonstones. I am not a fan of premium currency in games aged for all. 4. The updates are very easy to binge. They don't take that long. So you will have months in between with very very little content. On top of that the Scrooge Shop which is an in game shop not requiring premium currency does not update that many items. To say the least this game is fun for a week once every 3 months. There are better games out there, this one is nice if you want to just pop in and play for an hour and then close it. No stress, simple tasks ect. But it's basically Disney Dreamlight Sims which is fun but not worth $130.

This is a mixed review, while i have over 150 hours in now, and certainly enjoyed it, the more you play it, the more "faults" you come to see. When everything is still new, you love to invest in making your villagers happy, getting excited when someone new joins, but also hoped there might be more then just fetch quests, but unfortunately that's mostly it. And the more villagers you get (about 75ish just for the base game), the more villagers will demand something from you, and eventually it get's old, getting fish, dish or flower number x100. And they constantly want you to wear different costume items or put items in your village while you don't, so you are constantly reverting back afterwards. Quests that also don't always make sense when you need to talk to someone that's just right near you and the quest giver, or show someone items and then get the task to craft something, when you know you are going to have to craft it anyway beforehand. Not to even mention I have to pay for Scrooge's store updates while he is rich or cooking for Remy while he is the cook or most of the times half of your villagers aren't even showing up on your map. And while you have 75ish villagers (minus the pricey DLC) that means you have villagers you don't like, but also many you might like will not be in the game. Some villager even made a joke about being the town gopher, well that's basically you and the game in a nutshell... They should put in Chip and Dale for that. 7/10.