the game could have been amazing, all the ideas and concepts seem great, but no matter what praises i give to the game, it is dwarfed by the studio's greed and lack of care, both to the game and the developer themselves. this game has been out for over 2 years already yet, it still feels rather half baked. all non-romanceable NPCS have no portraits (no matter how important they are to the story), and even though they do have relationship meters you can't see them from a menu only when you get an increase in the meter they have no affect on the interactions with said NPCs making a lot of them very forgetable if you dont pay attention to every dialouge line they have.
a lot of the mechanics feel rather half baked and some items seemingly should do the same thing but for some reason they don't, animals can either be in a barn forever or be stuck outside forever, which is stupid, there is no way to automatically water crops except one perk that gives a small chance for some to stay watered overnight, or make a specific type of fertilizer to do that, which blocks you from using any other types of fertilizer, even if you can learn a spell that waters a large area at once, considering in the game you have 3 separate farms it means no matter what you are forced to visit each one at least once if you don't want your crops to die which is a pain in the ass,
the museum is a pain in the ass to complete as you have no indication what items can be donated and what item's can't be, making you have to check every time you catch a new fish, or grow a new plant, and even than you can't just give the item's to guy in the front desk, you have to go and place them in the correct spot, which is very annoying when some of the bundles look exactly the same until you place something in them, not to mention their placement is all over the place, the hall of culture has bundles placed with no rhyme or reason forcing me to check each one for the right place for the item, the fish room has an atifact bundle placed in the middle for some reason and all in all donating to the museum makes you want to burn it to the ground.
platforming in this game also isn't great, even though the game gives you an air dash, half the time you will run head first into invisible walls which are all over the place, or get stopped by a tiny rock, or in the caves where you can only cross the river via tiny ledges which can take some time to spot making you waste so much precious time, also your jump distance will never match the gap between the rocks so have fun constantly falling in the water.
and finally this game is a buggy mess with graphical glitches, and game breaking bugs that can literally softlock you, for game that is already 2 years and even longer in early access, this should not be a thing.
and even though steam claims this game has controller support, it doesn't exist at all,it's so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bad trying to use a controller to play this game, so much so i couldn't finish CHARACTER CREATION without deciding to never try to play this game with acontroller ever again.
yet what did the higher ups at the studio decide to do, they just kept releasing half baked mechanics (someof which should have been in the 1.0 version), more romancable characters nobody asked for, and cosmetic dlcs, oh so many cosmetic dlcs, they released so many cosmetic dlcs, that if you wanted to buy all these dlcs you would have to pay 200 dollars ! almost 8 times the price of the base game, yet they kept underpaying their staff and treated them extremely poorly.
if you wanna try this game for the few good things it has, don't buy it, pirate the game if you really want to, and if you're against pirating wait until a big sale, just dont buy it at full price, and especially don't buy the dlcs, they are not worth it, some would say wait until the devs show signs of making amends for their actions, but in my opinion they never will.

This game is amazing in itself and a very solid game to play.

It's like Stardew valley but then more in-depth and with more layers and fun than you can imagine.

Then why would I downvote this game?

Because the management behind this game is terrible.

-Needless censoring of portraits because of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ argument (instead make it a toggle-option, but that is too difficult.)
-DLC for cosmetics (not 1 but like 20 packs) for 7-13 euro. (that's 25% of the basegame.)
-DLC are only for cosmetics, not for extra content or storylines.
-Spends time creating more cosmetic DLC rather than improving their dull and empty romance-lines. (excusing money to the community as the reason, but how can you have money to make cosmetics then?)
-Occasional gamebreaking buggs which need you to brick your entire safefile to start again.
-No credits and developers mentioned, (look up how they treat their employees), should really make you think twice about supporting such a company as even Blizzard and EA look very well managed in comparison.

I really like this game and would really recommend to play it, if not that the director and company owner of this studio doesn't deserve the money after the actions they did.

This game is forcing me to jail stephen