I am someone who played during early access and had high hopes for this game. I followed the official discord to keep up to date on all the updates and announcements.
The main reason that drew me to this game was the advertised dating and cinematic scenes. The NPCs seemed charming and full of life and personality.
Personally, I love cozy games with the relationship aspect (ex: Fields of Mistria, My Time at Sandrock, Story of Seasons).
Seeing the official steam page to this game, I was immediately hooked and bought the game in early access having believed the ads.
There were a lot of bugs, but the devs seemed very responsive at first, even putting out updates on a weekly basis. It was great to see progress coming from them often.
The building was my favorite part of the game. But it wasn't enough, and the NPCs really killed the game for me. They repeated the same lines over and over on a daily basis and didn't have any character development, the romance was not there at all. The cut scenes were a mess and half of them didn't really make much sense. The dialogue is bland and pretty boring. This isn't at all what was advertised on the steam page.
Still, I figured that because the game was in early access, that the devs would be working out the issues. I stopped playing and decided to wait for the 1.0 release.
Fast forward a few months later, and the game releases. To say I'm disappointed in the game and the devs is an understatement. This game is the definition of false advertising. It doesn't seem as though they took any advice to change the lifeless NPCs. They didn't fix the move in bugs or the dialogue, and the romance is more platonic friendship with no real development. They also removed Youfang as a romance option, which is a shame because he was one of my favorites. The full release was very underwhelming, though some may still enjoy this game.
I would recommend this game to anyone that doesn't care much about NPC interaction or storyline. If you like building, pretty clothes and environments, you'd probably like this game. But if you go into this game expecting the romance and NPCs to be as great as they were advertised, then you'll be left as disappointed like I was.
I will admit that I thought the building in this game is very fun. I spent many hours building and farming. But in my opinion, it's not enough for me to support this company in the future, especially when there are much better games to spend my money on.
