There are bones of good ideas here, but the implementation falls way short of a 1.0 release. As much as I roll eyes seeing every game come out in early access, this game could really use it. The graphics and sound are actually quite good, and the artstyle definitely warms similar to other cozy games. But calling this a 1.0 release is really misleading, and I think that's where the majority of negative feedback is coming from.

My advice to the developer: If possible, consider re-releasing in Early Access. Look a lot of the feedback you're getting right now. And try to address some of it. Be up front that there is a lot of work and testing to be done here, and use Early Access as means to get feedback and address the problems people are seeing. Also, highly reco cutting the price in half with bumping this back to Early Access. Again there are bones here, but there's quite a journey yet before you can call this a 1.0.

Don't give up, I do think there are a lot of good ideas here.

I wanted to love this game so bad, and i tried my best to put in a decent amount of time before writing this.

unfortuantely, in the current state, i cannot recommend this game, especially at its $26.00 price tag (yes, it is discounted to $22, but still). it is INSANELY buggy, i am constantly having to restart days because there is no save feature without sleeping (i literally had to do the first day 6x because of a shop bug). there is VERY little tutorials, and you spend half of the time wandering around mindlessly trying to figure out the cryptic messages that it wants you to do. the watering thing bugs me more than it should - as in you have ONE spot on the map to fill up your watering can until you unlcok the well and the crafting bench to build the well. i softlocked myself for 14 in-game days because i didnt keep rice that i needed for a main story quest, and it doesnt grow in winter. its just overall a very frusterating game. They literally had to release a "guide" on how to fill the watering can... in a freaking farming game.

it has the potential, but the story is boring, the characters are boring, and it is buggy. im not sure why the dev's didnt test run the game with family and friends, because some of the most simplest bugs / QOL should have been fixed before release. they also released it as a full game, not EA, and that is just bizarre to me.

hopefully rhe devs fix the bugs and small QOL things before they lose the playerbase.

If you manage to push through the early game clunky-ness, the game really starts to reveal itself. (About 2+ Hours in)
Overall I had some fun playing the game, even with a few bugs. The more I played, the more fun the game started to feel.

Some solid bones are in place and there is plenty of room for this game to grow and blossom into something truly unique and engaging, but I decided to say I will not recommend the game due to the lack of overall polish.

Not every game needs to be at the same level of polish, but this game is just a bit below average which is likely why people are criticizing it.