the game is grindy but enjoyable. biggest problem is it crashes and breaks your save. lost 15 hours already an had to recovers saves from file restore twice

Fae Farm is a very easy cozy farm game.

Its definitely woke that farm sim considering they have a paraplegic doing construction which had be laughing way to hard. Of all the jobs dude could do in town they gave him the one he absolutely could not do roflmao.

But anyways so what to expect.
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Pros-

Tool Mechanics, i really like how they set up the tools. where in other types of games like this you have to swap to each too or decide to bring the tool with you in general, in fae farm you dont have to do that. Just go up to the stump or stone and hit the button and it auto selects the correct tool for the job. I hope more cozy farm sims in the future follow this kind of mechanic.

Has the standard muti Farm with town approach and mine. Nothing new here.

Fishing is interesting and is actually fun in this game.

It has stamina meter. Now normally i dont like those type of meters but they do it decently here as there is plenty of stuff to eat and cook around to keep it up as you need it unlike other types of this game where you get stuff with 0 stamina by 10 am because your not far enough in the game to have access to food and stuff.

Music is good enough.

Graphics are good enough.
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Cons -

Selling just dosnt feel good at all. Granted you can increase they area to sell but if i wanna sell a stack of items id like to sell the stack not one at a time on the table.

The Characters are super bland and forgettable. I dont even know mister carpenters name out side of being in a wheel chair and laughing about it or the nerdy magic guy and everyone else is just there.

The romanceable Characters are bland and forgettable as much as most of the NPCs

Muti-Player is horrible. Now with say sun haven i can play the game and then jump into the game with a friend when he/she is online with that same character ive been playing. As a result i dont have the feeling of being left behind because my friends played while i was say at work all day. As i too can do the same when they are at work and we can still have fun. However for Fae Farm you join the game and make a new character that is tied to that save file. So if you friend is 6 hours a head of you game play wise they will always be that far a head of you and you feel like you are trying to catch up the whole time. No you cant play that character while they are at work or school. Only when they are online.

All and all its an ok Cozy Farm Sim. its not the best but its not the worse ether. Id recommend it a go when on sell.

This game feels soulless. The characters have like 2 different lines, the story is super short and lacklustre. I finished the story in early autumn, year 1.

The animals are kinda cute for the most part, but neither anything you or your animals produce is worth much gold. It takes a lot of time to tend to your farm and animals, the watering can only waters 1 crop, even upgraded. You have to pet and brush your animals daily. It's just not worth the effort and I seriously considered selling all my animals, even though I had just 1 of each.

What makes you money is selling ores from the mines. The story is also heavily centered around the mines. So I spent a vast majority of the game there, which was kinda frustrating. I didn't like the mechanism they came up with for the mines. (You have to craft sigils to unlock porting to different levels, but in order to do so, you basically have to complete every level first to collect the necessary ores and then backtrack and unlock the teleporters if you don't want to start at square 1 every time you enter the mine.)

Dating is a joke, you basically have 3-4 cutscenes where the character gives you exposition without you being able to participate, and all of a sudden, you're basically engaged. Marriage is just a very expensive wedding dress/suit, because after marriage, your spouse just hangs out at your farm and you can't give them gifts or go out on dates. Meh.

Oh yeah, and what was the point of the 3rd farm that was thrown in right at the end of the story? I'll never know, because there is no incentive to keep playing once the story is over. All the job quest feel kinda pointless and rather annoying, imo.

I bought this game at a 50% discount, which is 15€. I played much better games for a similar price. Do not buy it for full price. Considering the release price was 60€, it seriously feels like a rip-off. In my opinion, nothing about the game warrants such a high price.