Kynseed

Spoilers Ahead: The people are insane. This isn't just a generic 'Cowgirl A' personality, 'Bookworm B'. I skipped most of the dialogue, thinking it would just be 'normal' people having normal lives. No. This is not that game. Yes, its a farming sim like Harvest Moon or Rune Factory. Your cozy life as the 'New Person' in town where you decide to either own a farm, own a shop, be an adventurer, or all the above. It's far more sandbox and open than most Farming Sims. But that's where it stops being normal. People are sacrificed at old age to the Goddess like its Cult of the Lamb. Children will confide in you, wishing their parents could be send to the Goddess so they can live their own life. An elderly couple cheated on each other with their younger neighbors. Your in-game sibling acknowledges the town you live is in CRAZY and leaves to live his own free life. All the while, you pay Life Taxes to an Eldritch horror Fae Trickster for QoL farming tools and sacrifice you, your firstborn, and your future legacy children whenever each one turns 50. Don't have a kid? That's fine, the Fae will accept orphans you adopt. This is not a utopia where the town needs saving. This is a dystopia where the town doesn't need or want your saving, and the gameplay and individual townsfolk storylines are better for it. The minigames are hard, but not required for success. You can choose to either work your own shop, selling items and bartering yourself or hire the townsfolk to do it for you. You can own EVERY shop, and hire EVERY townsperson. Or you can just be a free spirit, living on the edge with dungeon running until you wipe because the combat at full speed is difficult and rewarding... Or you can just do what I do and just vibe with these people who would terrify the residents of Stardew Valley. Not because they are terrifying in nature, but because the culture is so abstractly different. Hate your husband's guts? Send em to the Goddess. Your neighbor pissed on your fence? Send em to the Goddess. The Town Clown looked at you funny? Bet your sweet bippy I'll send em to the Goddess.

Hi, I just started yesterday and im at 16 hours. I got it 75% off during steam sales and I'm really amazed by the quality of the game, the art, the story, sadly the dark story, but mostly farming and adventures!! Feel free to ask me questions if you are concerned about it but I'll try to summarize a few points. I also got it since my friend couldn't play Sun Haven with me much, so I wanted a single player game and it's great so far. I'm also surprised it's not overwhelmingly positive, it's such a well crafted game with lots of love and attention to details. At first when i watched gameplay videos of it, I wasn't as interested, thought it's slow/boring (maybe I just watched a random youtube and wasn't too interested in the player's voice). So this might be something more interesting to the player, when you start collecting things and felt the dopamine and want to keep collecting more, compared to watching someone play (such as minecraft, stardew etc).It might be better if the game has demo and people can try to get a feel of it, since once you start a game, you can usually tell if you like it or not. [h1] Art:[/h1] 1. I love the art. I really like rain, wind effects (trees moving in the background), details like the ducks and swan playing in the ponds, its just so beautiful. A lot of other small creator games lack this amount of detail in their art, even the area is just a few building, tree, mine, and that's it, mostly empty. This game is not, its filled with so much going on in the background, its so beautiful. 2. Music soothing. My chat kept saying it's so calm they're gonna fall sleep lol, I really like it. 3. Only issue is that people are not beautiful like from animates. It's just regular dudes and girls and I haven't found anyone too attractive yet, maybe Ash Brown lool. 4. The other issue is that the color feels too vibrant sometimes, and I'm not sure if' it's a setting I can adjust so it's easier on the eyes. (I'm pretty ok with it now, i guess i got used to it or maybe it's the season) [h1] Story [/h1] 1. Unfortunately, its a dark ish story, where we lose our family in the main story (after prologue), but I'm not too sure about later since I just started. I feel it'll be a long time until I get to age 50 so... ummmmm and yeh I don't want time to pass, cause it's ok if I just get older, but other people get older too, and it breaks my heart to see them age. 2. A lot of "farming, cooking" games, they don't put in much effort into NPC relationships, where most NPC don't say anything interesting, or they even hates you at the beginning. So I'm glad this game, it's fairly easy to become friends with people by gifting them gifts, and they'll love me already. You also need them to fix buildings but I'm not sure what else. 3. There's other towns to explore, and a lot of people that I'm a bit worried of being overwhelmed. At the first town, its just them, but now with two towns and going back and forth, I'm not sure. Technically, I can take my time in things so maybe it's fine lool. 4. Writing: When I first heard that you need to collect notes to learn about things, it sounded more tedious than interesting. But given how clean the UI is and the game keep track of the notes for you, I really enjoy collecting these information, and use them to find the fish that I want. Some review complains about the writing, sometimes it break the fourth wall and there's a lot of swearing (****), but so far it's only a few occurances for me. I enjoy reading everything since it rhymes and it sound really good hearing it. It's also kinda mysterious and adds to the charm of the whole setting written in slightly more old english. It sounds like a riddle, but pretty obvious and easy to understand. :) My chat says its good asmr to go to sleep with lool. [h1] Great UI and many quality of life features: [/h1] 1. No chest management needed (I really like this since managing things is a headache for me.): usually, other games we will create a lot of chests and the QoL would be eg, making it easier to sort items in the inventory, or auto-put things into chests. But this game doesn't have chest since you carry everything on you. There's very specific and clean UI for all items: Under Food tab, you have crops, fish, herbs, cooked food etc. Under Equipment tab, you have tools, buckets, battle related items. Under Collections/Notes, you have all the notes you have gathers for each category (fish, food, crops etc) to give you hint of time, place, effects of the items (such as where, when to find certain fish) 2. simplified tool usage: - tool bar for commonly used items similar to stardew. But certain tools, such as mining and axe doesn't require to be switched out. I'm guessing you don't upgrade those tools. - You improve skills of the tool, and unlock special effects, such as higher drop rates, even auto-collection, so this is very convenient. - no need to refill water from watering can, you can also water multiple crops at once 3. NPC only have up to 3 hearts, so we don't need to spend as much time gifting them gifts, and I'd like that. You build friendship with NPC and they'll gift you gifts back, and you can only rebuild houses/ farm buildings with the help of other NPCs, so that's interesting. creates a sense of community 4. You can TP. The only complaint is that the animation makes me dizzy, but otherwise it's very nice. 5. Similar to the inventory system, there's other tabs that shows relationship, achievements (for lots of money), building progress, calendar for all the events and dates. It's really nice! 6. (small spoiler alert, or hint): If you use your tools for gathering crops, and slingshot for apples/berries, you'll upgrade your tools and that'll give you special effects, like higher chance of additional drops, auto-collect, etc!! 7. You don't need to go home to sleep everyday at midnight (you do at younger age, but after a few weeks, you don't as an adult). I really don't like having to run back home to sleep in Stardew valley, and you'll faint etc. This game, you don't need to sleep. The game will auto-save at 6am everyday or you can save manually at a campsite. 8. Downside: there's only one save file so if you need to do some gamble stuff, might need to manually copy the game file and reload. [h1] Community [/h1] 1. You'll make friends, and maybe get married and have kids. The dark story (spoiler) is that your spirit will live on onto your offsprings or kids you adopted, so that the stats can be improved and past down by generation. It's sad when I found out that I lost my uncle and brother and I'm alone, when we were living so happily together before. But hopefully that's the only sad part and we'll have kids and have a big family afterwards, but I'm not too sure who to marry, cause they look mostly ugly loool. 2. Did I mention that you can take ur friend's crops when you're close enough? (maybe 1 to 2 hearts). That's a lot of free apples and carrots to collect!! XDD [h1] Mini games:[/h1] 1. There's mini games for crafting, cooking etc. It's a cute little game but you can create in batches after doing it 3-5 times. The only thing that prevents you from making a lot is that the star ratings of the ingredients have to be the same. eg. if you use 2 star berry, and you have 5 of that and 7 of 1 star, you have to use them separately, unless the recipe needs 2 berries, then you can choose 2 star and 1 star separately. 2. no mini game in fishing, just wait for them to come and bite. Sometimes it takes awhile [h1] Combat:[/h1] I got whooped at first !!! Here's some tips and tricks: 1. To make it easier (monster attack slower): go to options - accessibility - turn down monster attack speed to lowest. Then it's managable 2. DON'T CLICK DEEPER. CLICK CONTINUE in the dungeon! Otherwise you make the level higher 3. If you die 5 times in the dungeon, you will lose one year of your life!! so I alt-F4, or play LEVEL 1 multiple times, buy healing item

好玩，内容很丰富！但目前游戏内翻译是机翻，翻得比较烂 由于画风的影响，部分情况下分不清npc的性别年龄，很神秘；主角的样貌也稍微有点奇怪，我选的妹妹（姐姐？），成年后主角脸下半部分有一大片阴影，乍看像胡子一样（男性主角好像成年后会长一把大胡子） 想说的点： 1.建议使用工具来进行各种活动，比如采摘、收集等等。 多用工具提升工具熟练度后，使用工具的收益会十分显著（在工具介绍里面可查看效果），例如直接摇树摘苹果永远只有一个，但用弹弓打可以得到1-10个（后期点完技能概率出10个），收割种植物和野外采摘蒲公英等各种花草同样如此。ps：捡粪需要用木桶来捡，木桶在建了工作间后附赠一个。 2.节日时二选一是献祭，选中以后那个npc就走了（且这个节日一直都有）。 可以选择不参加节日，但是依然会死一个npc（随机选人）。女神献祭品左右都可选择，也可以两边都不选，这个没有影响。 3.未成年时有强制健康作息，到点自动昏迷 但醒来就在床上且无损失，所以不回家没关系（我没注意看身上有没有少东西，但醒来都是六点，应该没有睡眠惩罚）；成年后无需睡觉，可以不用坚持晚二早六的老农民作息，直接永动机即可（什） 4.NPC很多，总共四大块图，所以有四个村（镇）的npc，但满好感的剧情设计都比较简单，通常是帮忙找东西、恶作剧这两项，平时公告栏也很多这种任务，所以显得有点单调+重复。 5.故事重点在主线上，重要功能都是随主线推进才能开启，比如开店，得到重要道具，所以强烈建议先进行主线任务。 6.跟妖精签订契约后寿命只有50年且购买道具是用寿命来换，因此培养孩子当继承人是很重要的事。 同性异性都可结婚生子（结婚可以加数值），孩子是大转盘抽奖抽中后飞鸟送到家门口，也可以到鞋子去领养一个孩子（领养需要身上有500及以上的钱才可以（虽然不用花钱），领养的孩子好像属性更好一些？（三天赋），自己的孩子就需要概率；离婚后伴侣会人间蒸发，再也找不到（但会寄信） 折后23，非常推荐O(∩_∩)O

Starts off amazing and then falls off a cliff with absolutely insane grinding for very little payoff and lots of meaningless choices.

Really scratches that cozy pixel game itch. Romance, farming, magic, foraging. I played this in Beta and loved it then, now playing the full release, I love it even more! I've put almost a hundred hours in and still finding new story lines and with the new updates, I love being able to expand the world and game play. A little NSFW in a few places, but I kind of like that! I definitely recommend.

its one of these "neutral" reviews game is not bad, but pretty fast becomes "a chore". story is "meh" and outside of initial "dark twist" nothing much happens outside of the grind so almost immediately game transforms from "omg what a world" into "okay, so i have to grind next level for X time, get a breadcrumb of the story and grind again?" meh

I have no idea why it took me so long to hear about this game; as a Stardew enjoyer, I expected your regular run of the mill farming sim but this is way more than that! Darker, more RPG elements and so much content! The art, the writing, the gameplay, every part of this game is a breath of fresh air. Also I don't need to sleep, and it won't affect my character whatsoever? Hell yeah brother

Sinto um misto de diversão e tristeza com esse jogo. A mecânica de gerações é algo novo, mas me parte o coração ver o personagem principal envelhecer ou morrer após tanto apego. A morte nesse jogo cobra um preço altíssimo, e como ainda sinto muita dificuldade no combate, cada morte eu fico triste por perde anos de vida. Mas enfim é um jogo excelente, mas que me faz sofrer com as perdas!

so slow, too little direction.

This game is just a little bit different. I liked the idea of it and that there are combat forests. You can live multiple lives in game through the family you build and watch the generations pass. I did find it to be a bit less cozy that I generally like, and it was difficult for me to really grasp the overall loop of the game well. I think it is well done, and just not in my preferred style of game.