Fae Farm

This game feels like biting into a colorful candy shell, only to discover that there's nothing inside. Fae Farm has a heavy emphasis on aesthetic, pretty cosmetics, and polished graphics but has little else. The gameplay loop is a stripped down version of other farming sims (farming, mining, fishing, and foraging) while lacking the character and charm that makes other games in the genre so great. NPC interactions are incredibly stale, with characters only repeating the same few sets of lines and have very little reactivity to player actions. For characters you can build relationships with, the game doesn't distinguish between friendship and romantic interest, which means that if you want to get to know the bachelors, you risk unintentionally locking yourself into a romance with one of them. There is also very little story, with a gameplay loop of farming and mining that grows dull quickly. Plus, the fairy elements of the game, which the entire thing is marketed around, is locked behind several hours of boring grinding. This would be fine if there was enough intrigue and story beforehand, but without these magical elements, Fae Farm is indistinguishable from any other Stardew clone cashing in on the cozy gaming craze. If this game were in early access I could overlook these issues, hoping that they'd be improved over time. But for a $30 game with equally shallow feeling DLC, Fae Farm ended up being very disappointing.

I bought this game because I love cozy games, but mostly because I thought several of my friends would like to play this together with me, and we have! .................... And now we won't be able to. That was a huge portion of the game, and they're disabling that without even an explanation as to why? Nah. Do not buy this game - it's only been out for two years and they're already dropping support and removing a KEY feature of the game. Shame I can't refund it. I feel like I should be able to when the reason I got the game isn't going to remain.

They took away multiplayer - wont even allow peer to peer. Not worth it

I'll start by saying that I played Fae Farm long enough to generally complete all of the main objectives, but it unfortunately never kept me hooked enough to want to keep going afterward. It's a decent farming simulator if you just want to power through the core progression milestones, but it lacks that special, addictive endgame loop required to make a cozy game truly last. I feel a bit bad saying this because I know a lot of people absolutely adore the visual aesthetic of this game, but I personally found the art style to be kind of blocky and not particularly pretty to look at over long play sessions. With so many visually stunning or beautifully stylized cozy games out there right now, the low-poly, chunky presentation here felt a bit outdated and just didn't completely click for me. To be clear, the mechanics work well enough to get you through the story, and the magical elements add a nice little twist to the standard farming loop. But once those primary tasks are checked off your list, the world begins to feel a bit hollow, and there isn't much substantive depth left to pull you back in. In the end, while it isn't a bad game by any means, it didn't leave a lasting impression on me. Given the higher-than-average price tag for this genre, it is definitely a title I would suggest waiting to pick up on a deep sale rather than buying at full price.

Multiplayer is no longer supported.

I wanted to love this game but it's just really, really boring. I adore cozy games but this game offers nothing exciting and the pacing is abysmal. The DLC being $20 on a $30 game and really just being things that should be part of the game baseline/not adding much at all is pretty disheartening. Maybe if I committed more time to it I would eventually enjoy it, but 1 hour in and I just found myself looking for something else to play. Most of that time was listening to the villagers yap about really uninteresting things. Their personalities are bland and the story is... well, the minimum requirement for calling it a story. Fae Farm doesn't seem to add anything interesting to the genre and feels safe in such a boring way. We have hundreds of other cozy games playing it safe already, at least they might choose a different art style here and there. I wouldn't say the game is bad. But I could think of at least 5 other cozy games that actually give the experience that Fae Farm is promising for the same price or less. Why play a 5/10 game when you can play a 9/10 game in the same genre for the same price?

STOP KILLING GAMES!!

Do Not Purchase The Game, the developers announced that multi player will no longer available and are completely abandoning the game.. no more updates & no multiplayer. Don't even waste your $$$. They are being shady about this, as they have only announced this news on the steam DESCRIPTION. no other social platform.... pretty shady and under the rug.