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Breathe new life into your grandparents' neglected farm | First Impressions - Everdream Valley
3K View2023-06-04Everdream Valley is a delightful and lighthearted farming adventure game that combines the joys of tending to a homestead with farming, animals, and magic. Following in the footsteps of farming games like Dinkum and Stardew Valley; Everdream Valley promises to be another solid addition to the farming sim genre.
In Everdream Valley, you find yourself on your grandparents' neglected farm, ready to breathe new life into it. The game presents you with the opportunity to clean up the farm, help your grandparents, bring back the animals, and embark on quests that serve as both the story and introduction to the game’s mechanics. Although you can entirely do things at your own pace.
There is a lot to do in this game. Starting with the variety of animals: The game offers a decent variety of animals; cows, chickens, deers, sheep, fish, and dogs to engage with. There are different tiers of animal breeds to provide a sense of progression and variety, allowing players to choose their preferred level of complexity in animal management. Everdream Valley also lets you have a pet dog from a variety of choices, the game lets you train it, play with it, or pet it.
As for the farming, Everdream Valley offers the traditional variety of fruits and vegetables for you to cultivate, allowing you to create a bountiful and diverse harvest on your farm. From raspberries to apples and everything in between, the game provides a wide range of crops to cultivate and protect. I also love how the game allows you to easily move and customize trees and crops, giving you the freedom to design and rearrange your farm to your liking. However, harvesting isn’t as pleasing and satisfying as I thought it would be, to the point of being annoying and feeling like a chore to do, instead of having that rhythmic and meditative quality to it like other farming sims.
Exploring Everdream Valley's world is rewarded with the discovery of valuable items and resources needed for future building projects even for free. This incentivizes players to venture beyond their immediate surroundings and uncover hidden treasures and maybe even quests.
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A lighthearted farming sim, with a touch of magic | Full Review - Everdream Valley
Everdream Valley is a third person farming sim developed for the Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, and PC, this game offers a refreshing and immersive experience across multiple platforms.
🟩Pros
+Diverse variety of crops, and adds animals to the mix
+Dream mechanic for the animals and sleeping
+A sense of exploration and Discovery
+Charming art style and relaxing music
🟥Cons
-Quality of Life issues
-Harvesting needs some work to be more enjoyable instead of repetitive
lyndonguitar2K2023-06-04
Grow crops, fix fences, and train dogs in this relaxing farming sim - Everdream Valley Quick Review
PLAY IT OR SKIP IT?
Play it if you’re a fan of farming games. Everdream Valley has modern 3D graphics, but it feels like it could be a hidden prequel to Stardew Valley or Harvest Moon. Instead of running your own farm, you play as a kid spending their summer vacation with their grandparents. Your grandparents aren’t in the best of health, and their farm has definitely seen better days. If you’re up to the challenge, there are crops to water, animals to care for, and locations to explore. The game is cute and cozy, but it’s also filled with things to do, so if you’ve got the farming bug, it should keep you busy for quite a while.
Ndi6K2023-06-12
A relaxing farming game for Harvest Moon fans - Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life Quick Review
PLAY IT OR SKIP IT?
Play it, especially if you’re a fan of older Harvest Moon games. Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life is a remake of a Harvest Moon title that was originally released on the Nintendo GameCube. It’s received a visual overhaul, and there’s lots of new content, but it hasn’t lost any of the original game’s charm. A Wonderful Life has everything you’d expect from a farming game, like crops to grow and cute animals to raise, but it has a unique approach to storytelling that sets it apart from similar titles. The story it tells spans decades, and your choices can shape the course of the game. It’s a truly special title that helped me remember why I fell in love with farming games in the first place.
Ndi7K2023-06-21
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