Fields of Mistria

Fun and cozy with great NPS's and a reasonable storyline. Would prefer if it wasnt lagginf horribly, but I am still playing it anyway in hopes the Devs fix it soon.

I bounced of Stardew at least 5 times, and looking at some screenshots you'd think this is the same kind of game. But the RPG-lite machanics letting you level up skills, the amazing fishing, the wonderful sprite art and endearing writing of characters: this game is uniquely special and not just a stardew clone. If you tried SD and bounced off- give this a try.

Such a fun cozy game. They have built the game so the stresses of many other farming simulators simply isn't a problem. My only complaint is I can't decide what character I want to romance!

This is my first farming game and it's a pretty fun experience! However, maybe this is just me, but because the clock seems to always be moving forward no matter what, and with a lot of quests thrown at me and running around the town figuring out what to do, I often find myself overwhelmed and stressed having to come up with plans on-the-spot. Even when waking up to the next day, the clock continues to move forward right from the get go, and I always feel like I'm wasting time by taking a breather, reviewing quests, petting my cat, reorganizing my items, redecorating my home, etc (I even spent 10 minutes of real time trying to figure out how to move furniture, and looking at how much time I wasted just looking up how to do so, I chose to reload my save to bring back the lost time)... I think it'd be really nice if the clock just didn't progress while inside my home, this'd be really awesome so I don't have to go through each day feeling like I have no time for breaks, and alleviate the feeling of wasting time :)) EDIT: Turns out pausing(?) does freeze the time, I just never noticed since it felt like the game kept going even when I was going thru bios/quests. Very nice

I'm so hooked on this game. Soundtrack is beautiful, there are endless activities, the characters are so fleshed out, and the story is incredible. 10/10!!

TL;DR - This is a very well-implemented Stardew(/Harvest Moon, but I don't do consoles)-like. If you liked Stardew Valley, you will almost certainly like this. It has some pacing differences that give it a much longer "single playthrough" game time, which may be pleasant or may be annoying. It has some lore/storytelling differences that make it stand out from other imitators in the genre. I just "finished" (defined as, filled most of the museum bundles and got married) my first game today, at 141 hours. (I also played pre-1.0, and that number is included in the count, so the real 1.0 time to more-or-less completion for me was more like 90 hours. That's. A lot more than I expected.) I'm surprised at how much I *wasn't* annoyed at how long all the meta-progression takes in this game. In Stardew I was deeply, deeply annoyed that the only thing preventing me from satisfying all the main game objectives (prior to various later updates) in year 1 was the red cabbage. But in Mistria I was only getting a tiny bit impatient by the time I entered year 3. But anyway, yeah, the meta-progression takes forEVER, largely because of the way the day is paced and how mine levels work. (Meta progression in Mistria is inextricably tied to Mines progression, and while I considered it a normal day in Stardew when I got 5 levels in the Mines and a good day when I got 10, in Mistria it's a good day if I even get 5. So more Mine days than not, I didn't even get a new elevator level.) I love the character writing a lot. There were several genuine surprises for me in terms of character writing and all of them were positive. That said, as with every other title in this genre, I wish they'd let me do polyamory indefinitely; I knew I was going to have to choose and this game doesn't make it AS upsetting as some other titles do, it still wasn't *not* upsetting to get broken up with by mail by two of my partners after I got engaged to the other one.] *Deeply* weirdly for me personally, I do not actually feel like the game is over now that I've bagged my chosen LI and also done... as many of the museum bundles as is reasonable. I actually want to keep playing to design my perfect aesthetic homestead. That is SO out of character for me, so it's probably a good thing. Anyway, basically, there are a lot of things I view favorably from this game over what Stardew/Harvest Moon (? I don't do consoles, so I am only referencing HM as a known antecedent to STV) did, and some I'm less favorable or ambivalent about. But if you like the genre, this is a great example of it.