Know what you're getting into: this is a VERY chill game, not at all the kind to inspire the task frenzy you might sometimes get on Stardew Valley or similar. The story doesn't involve any kind of urgent threat or impending doom you need to save everyone from, or even any particularly high stakes on your actions. You have to be in a specific mindset to enjoy it.
And that mindset is a bit like being a Hobbit: the day is long, you've got nothing too pressing that needs doing, so you can enjoy just strolling through the wilderness, cooking a meal for your friends, doing a spot of fishing, foraging, gardening, decorating, or whatever takes your Hobbit fancy.
The minigames themselves are satisfying enough to keep you coming back for a while, particularly cooking, which is important because it's kind of the main gameplay loop: you invite the townsfolk for meals, prepare the thing they're craving (you need to work on getting the right texture and taste, as well as quality ingredients), and, in turn, are rewarded with new recipes, furniture, and relationship upgrades, which unlock new things in the game at certain milestones. Befriend a shopkeeper and they'll sell you new stock, befriend the carpenter and she'll renovate new areas of your hand-me-down Hobbit-hole, befriend the farmer and you get a chicken. In sum, you'll want to have people over for meals all the time. And the characters are charming enough that it will be a fun experience, though you should go in aware that, unlike other games in the genre, there are no romances.
The other progression mechanic are the clubs, which unlock in Act 2 of the main story (so don't feel bad rushing through that). The club tasks themselves are random repeatables which serve to bring some structure to your Hobbit lollygagging -- cook something delicious using mutton! Harvest six squashes! Catch three common perches! But completing enough of these tasks rewards you with inventory expansions, new cooking utensils, better fishing rods, and basically serves as your "XP" for different skills. But you also get club progression for just doing the associated activity, so it's not that restrictive.
The bad: there's some real performance issues, some frustrating/inane quests, no voice acting, no townsfolk daily dialogue, and it feels like the content ends too soon -- we see cows, pigs, sheep, ducks, ponies roaming all around the place, but we only get to have chickens? And this is a very minor gripe, but, with shared meals being such a big part of the game, it feels weird that we can't change tablecloths in any of the dining spots, even at home, considering how the decorating system is otherwise surprisingly deep.
