Grimshire

I love this game. It puts a nice spin on the "common" cozy farming game, plus you can play as a cute animal. The mechanics are nice, there always new challenges as the story progresses and the characters are compelling (I'm so exited for the romances).

No pude darle la oportunidad al juego porque no está en español. Tengo el juego hace bastante tiempo comprado con la esperanzas de que lo pongan en español pero no hay noticias de ello

[5/5]

재밌는데 노가다가 너무 힘들었던거 같네요...손가락을 너무 눌러서 아플정도; 카이 너무 매력있음

This game is Stardew Valley on Nightmare mode, with very charming furries. It's still early access, so there's only one in-game-year worth of content. But that content took me 40+ hours, and I was not faffing around. I did my first run of the game on Grim difficulty, completely blind, and only lost two of the villagers, but they were two of my favorites. Yes, these people can and will die, and you WILL care about them by the time they do. The characters are cute and the worldbuilding is interesting without being too heavy. Bad things keep happening to this cute little village, and that kept me on my toes - I was always hustling to try and get materials to complete a quest before the deadline. The consequences if you don't can be dire. If I could ask for anything in the 'final' version of this game, I would want more story focused content. I want to know more about the villagers and even the world outside of Grimshire, if I can find time to do story quests in between frantically fishing to fill the larder for our carnivores.

What I appreciate most about Grimshire is that it doesn't settle for being just another cozy farming game. Beneath the relaxing routine is a constant sense that something isn't quite right. The looming illness, the atmosphere, and the way the game always feels like it's pushing you to do better every day. You're never fully comfortable, and it often feels like you're one mistake away from failing, which keeps you on edge and makes even ordinary tasks feel important. Definitely looking forward to future updates and year 2 updates!

As a big fan of the farming sim genre since the GBA era of Harvest Moon, this is the first time in a while that I've been so enraptured with a game that takes the idea of the genre and turns the difficulty up to 11. Nothing wrong with having a cozy farming sim, but as a short-term goal-orientated gamer, this game really scratched that itch of having something to work towards which tangibly mattered in the story. There's something super addictive to me about the core loop of the gameplay. It's fairly standard in terms of farming sims, where you farm, gather, fish, mine and process resources, however the idea of needing to do that because the villagers are depending on you makes it feel more engaing, like you're really contributing to a community. The friction of how to optimise the day to day, planning ahead of seasons so that you can gather as much forage as possible as well as deciding what to put your mined resources to really gets me to lock in and absorb myself entirely into the game. Mechanically, it gets that perfect balance between friction and reward. I've always kinda felt the 'collection' aspect in other games was just there for completions sake but in Grimshire, it's weaved into the core gameplay loop as it's the main source of unlocking better processors for food. I also really like the realism of seasons not immediately killing crops (instead it's a percentage chance everyday if it'll wilt) and being split into segments where early spring and late spring will give you completely different foragables. It's refreshing and breaks up the predictablity of foraging that you'd fall into after a couple of weeks. I enjoyed the storytelling well enough, with it being a timed quest based system that has actual consequences if you failed the main ones. The characters were quite charming, although it's a bit tough having them be stuck on 4 hearts as there is no romance system yet and by the last 2 seasons I didn't feel the need to talk to them even though there is a relationship decay system. Overall, incredible game that is well worth the price for early access. Definitely give it a shot if you're into farming sims but feel a bit directionless in the cozier types.

Love this game, the devs clearly care about their work and it's been a fun challenge to play through the story and learn about all the characters. Highly recommend playing! Go at it blind and just do the best you can, the story hits that much harder when you're struggling and trying to make ends meet.

my jaw was on the floor for so many parts i cant wait till the full release!

Fabulous take on the farming sim genre. Good characters and engaging storyline.