Gonna be honest here, didn't like this one that much. I didn't really feel much like Animal Crossing to me, rather than making friendships and connections with villagers (which in my mind is the main point of Animal Crossing) you mostly just grind for materials that you then craft stuff with or give it to the villagers who need 6 of X or 11 of X. It felt more like Farmville with how pointlessly grindy it felt at times, the only interesting aspect this game has is its Disney characters but to me it's very superficial and doesn't add that much to the overall game.

This is one of my favorite games! If you like Stardew valley, Animal Crossing or just cozy games / life and farming sims in general you will love this game!

The story is amazing, and there is so much content! There are a lot of quests you can do and so many characters to unlock.

I 100% recommend this game! Especially to any Disney fan!

I do love how this game plays but it is slowly showing it's greedy little horns with in game purchases that are at times wildly priced.

I did enjoy the story and the cast of familiar characters, their dialogues do tend to land on the simpler side, which I would guess is to make it accessible for kids. The collection system for both reagents and character leveling is well made. The game has cross platform saves which is great and I can see it being useful once the game goes free to play after release. You can decorate not only your house (which can have surprising amount of floors) but also the whole village.

I did have fun with this game in the beginning but I like to collect things and knowing I can't unless I open my wallet makes me want to not even try.

I would recommend waiting for free to play to give it a go. Also don't buy it on Switch it runs horribly, despite many "fixes" it's still super slow and looks worse too. Recently, they introduced option to increase item limit of items placed in your village on "high performance hardware" which excludes Switch.

I didn't think I'd get into this, or even try it out, if it wasn't on Xbox PC Game Pass. I LOVE the farm/life sim genre, and I have a lot of nostalgia for Disney, but this didn't exactly feel "must play" to me.

I was wrong! It's incredibly charming and it's filled with fun activities that you'd expect from a game like this - fishing, farming, home decorating, outfit collecting and decorating, etc. There's even a social link component where you can rank up friendship levels of residents and unlock furniture/outfits and story quests.

That being said, it has plenty of early access growing pains. Glitches and issues galore. Friendships max out at level 10, and they're not hard to level, so you're stuck with residents who feel kind of useless. Characters have a habit of repeating voice lines, etc. over and over again. Quests can bug out, or require a grindy amount of materials to craft.

Fortunately, the developers have listened to players, and continue to update the game to fix bugs and add new things to it (which you'd expect from something in early access, but still). If you're curious, give it a shot when it comes out of early access and goes F2P later this year.

I haven't touched this one in a while and figure I probably won't go back to it. have a hard time finding any of types of life sim style games to even come close to the charm of Animal Crossing but Dreamlight Valley comes close.

Craft stuff, cook stuff, upgrade your house, pick weeds, mine ore, talk to Disney characters... it's what you would expect from this style of game.

The only issue for me is that I feel like I'm spinning my wheels all too often in the game. The progression vs time spent for me just doesn't compute. Cute game though, I could see die hard Disney fans really digging this one, but after around 22 hours and not much to show for it, I'm hanging up my mickey ears.