Criminally underrated game with a unique twist and a good amount of content. The game revolves around balancing your time exploring the map to find items, seeds, and upgrades, and while also managing your farm to produce health and currencies (roses and cashews) that you can use to buy items from the town store. Your farm grows during both day and night, but can only be attacked at night. There is a lot of time management and risk-reward in the core gameplay loop that you don't find in many games of this type.

Just be aware that it's primarily a bullet-hell roguelike, and the farming elements are an extension of the gameplay and are often hectic and rushed, so don't expect some relaxing farming sim game. The game has permanent upgrades that you can unlock as well having progressively harder loops, where each time you complete the game you can advance a year up to year 10, with the game getting a bit harder with each year (you can freely choose between them before the run).

The game has also included numerous free updates that have vastly improved the quality of the game, with the Doom and Bloom DLC being a massive overhaul and major improvement.

The only downside is the artstyle is not that great and there can be an excessive amount of grinding, but there is a lot to see here so it rarely grows repetitive.

Reviewed on Jul 28, 2022


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