This is an enjoyable game that falls into the same category and has similar gameplay to games like Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing, My Time At Portia, etc. You move to a new place and have to start your life. There is farming, mining, cooking, etc. involved. You can befriend (and romance) the people who live in the town. This game is unique in that it includes a main storyline revolving around the main character being a witch. That was a fun story to explore. Other than that, I would say it’s not too different from other games in this genre. What impressed me about this game was that I first discovered it as an Apple Arcade game and it was still a full game. It didn’t have that ‘mobile game’ feel to it at all. I played most of it on my iPad using a controller and it was a good experience. I know that certain other games in this genre have been ported over to mobile platforms as well, but I was impressed that this started out on a mobile platform and was still a full game. This makes me feel like mobile gaming is going in a good direction and we might actually see more “real” games available to play locally on iPads or even iPhones. My main negative point about the game was with the achievements. In order to fully 100% this game, you would have to go back and marry several different people. Although this can be done in one playthrough, it involves a lot of divorces and basically replaying the dating storyline over and over with each character, which is just kind of boring. It makes the choice of who you marry feel quite worthless. I wish they had used a general “got married” achievement instead of specific achievements for each person you marry. In my eyes, this was a HUGE oversight by the developers. But other than that, it’s a very solid and enjoyable game.

Reviewed on Jun 25, 2023


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