Farm to Table

I don’t recommend the game in its current state. Maybe only if you genuinely have nothing else to play :C Cons: 1. The game is very boring in terms of content. There simply isn’t much to do. Most of the gameplay consists of repeating the same actions over and over again, while progression feels very slow and ultimately rather pointless. The game doesn’t suddenly become more engaging or varied after a few hours - it simply piles more tasks on top of the same repetitive routine, and eventually it becomes exhausting. 2. The recipes are extremely strange and unrealistic. You can put a single apple into an oven and somehow get an entire apple pie - no flour, eggs, sugar, or anything else required. Later on, you do unlock recipes that combine 2+ ingredients, but it takes several monotonous hours to get there. I personally lost interest before I even reached chickens or the level 2 kitchen. 3. The crop-growing system is not interesting at all. It’s nothing like Stardew Valley or even a typical mobile farming game. I’ve only seen a similar system in 1 other game - Farming & Supermarket Simulator, and I sincerely hope I don’t see it again. You buy a garden bed, and then essentially pay to "water" the crops so they can grow and produce ingredients. For me, this feels like a very simplified approach to farming, and unfortunately it also makes the system less engaging to play. 4. Watering itself is a test of patience. You repeatedly hold down the watering button for around 4–5 seconds per garden bed. And you can easily have around 15 of them. Some crops can be harvested 2 or 3 times per day, which means doing this over and over again. Upgrading watering speed helps a little, but doesn’t really solve the problem. + if you release the button before the watering animation finishes, the timer resets completely, so you have to hold it for another 4–5 seconds from the beginning. 5. Workers are painfully slow and often bug out. Waiters can get stuck standing over a plate. You have to pick the plate up and basically watch them until they start working again. When you have a lot of customers, you’re busy cooking, and the service timer is ticking down, it’s very easy not to notice that waiter has stopped functioning. The cook is also much less useful than I expected. 1 cook only works with 1 specific kitchen station. I understand the logic if 1 cook is assigned only to ovens or only to grills. But if I have 2-3 identical ovens, for example all making apple pies, the cook will still use only 1of them. When I unlock a cook, I expect them to be able to put 1 apple into each of my 2 or 3 ovens. Otherwise, their usefulness is extremely limited. You still end up frantically running between all your stations almost exactly as you did before hiring them + Workers also constantly get in your way, and you can accidentally click on them while trying to interact with something else, which interrupts their work. 6. There is very little reason to use most of the ingredients available to you. You don’t really need to grow a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, take care of chickens and cows, and go fishing at the same time. 7. The interaction areas on kitchen stations are far too small. To take a finished dish from a station, put an ingredient into it, or chop a vegetable, you often have to aim at a very small specific spot. When you’re rushing during service, it’s extremely easy to miss and click beside the interaction area instead. This makes an already hectic kitchen feel unnecessarily frustrating. Please make these interaction zones larger. For example, the entire oven should count as an interaction area when putting an apple inside or taking an apple pie out. There is no real benefit to making the player aim at one tiny part of the appliance. 8. For progression, it’s enough to unlock 3 or 4 dishes and simply rotate between them. Something like boiled potatoes, apple pie, a pretzel, and grilled fish is basically enough to keep progressing through research. That makes a large part of the farming, livestock, fishing, and ingredient systems feel optional rather than meaningfully connected to progression. Pros: 1. The graphics are cute. 2. The music is pleasant. Overall: The progression system needs some serious changes. Instead of relaxing during my day off, I ended up feeling more tired after playing this game than before I started xD I wish the developers lots of inspiration and the best of luck with development. I hope that by the time the Farm to Table leaves Early Access, it will become a wonderful game to relax and have fun with.