- Jumped up screaming because husband finally asked me to have a baby

- Actual real-life-husband runs into room asking me why I'm screaming

- Tell him that we're finally going to have a baby

- Real-Life-Husband LOSES HIS MIND


10/10 would break husband again

Can it possibly be the best Harvest Moon game?
Yes, it can!

It only does everything

CAUTION: hella addictive

>Be mexican dude
>Marry Penny, a white woman
>Get black son
>Glare at Demetrius, the only black man in the community

10/10 would be cheated on again

> Gives a girl flowers
> Waits for next day
> Picks flower to gift
> Already gave her 2 gifts for the week
> Doesn't know what to do with flower
> Eats it right infront of her
> +13 energy

This review is painful to write. I loved Harvest Moon so much, right up until yesterday when I reached a lot of sad realizations.

HM, you were so cute and accessible. Your values and atmosphere informed some of my most deeply held ideals. And then.... I started getting too used to you. Your tropes, settings and characters remained constant. And while I will always have fond memories of the times we had together and your comfortable familiarity, I have changed and you have not.

HM, you were a pioneer but your soil is no longer as fertile as it was. I need to grow. I must move on to a land where it is understood that tradition is kept alive by change, where I can test the things you taught me and experience whole new challanges, as well. Fear not, you are not lost to novelty. Stardew Valley is your child and you set a wonderful example for its generation. You have kept something important alive and passed it on.

Thank you, Harvest Moon, for all you have done. Thank you, and goodbye.

Developer: Concerned Ape
Publisher: Chucklefish Games

Introduction
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Over the years we've seen our fair share of casual/farming titles. We've come to know of a couple of series that symbolize the genre: Harvest Moon and the lesser known but still great Rune Factory. They're simple enough: buy crops, tend your farm, sell crops, manage farm animals, and with Rune Factory add fighting monsters, managing equipment, and crafting.

Stardew Valley takes a lot of inspiration from the aforementioned games, combining a lot of the mechanics from them into one amazing game. Some mechanics are even inspired from Animal Crossing! Let's take a closer look at these features and mechanics, shall we?

Gameplay
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Right off the bat, you may feel overwhelmed at the sheer amount of things available to do in Stardew Valley. Nearly everything is available at the very beginning of the game. You'll start off with your farm and land, and are pretty much left to tend it or do whatever you want. You can start planting crops, chopping down trees for wood, clearing stone, or even go across town to the mine and start searching for ores and minerals. After a little while you'll be able to build a barn and even a chicken coop and start tending animals. You even get a dog or a cat, depending on which you chose during character creation.

One of the biggest things about Stardew Valley is getting to know the other people who live in town. Remember the feature I mentioned inspired by Animal Crossing? This is it! Each townsperson has their own likes and dislikes, certain types of gifts they like receiving, and each day they have their own schedule that they go about doing. When you get to know someone enough, and give them enough gifts, you can marry them (gender does not matter!) and even have children.

At some point, you have the choice to back an intrusive/destructive corporation (not recommended) or help restore the town community center. In the community center, a group of spirits will task you with collecting bundles odf items for them. In return, they will unlock a different feature around town that will help you in various ways, such as the rail system for fast travel.

There are so many more things to do, it would literally take me an hour or so to detail them all out. I've pointed out the more important ones though, and these should keep you busy for awhile!

Graphics
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This game just OOZES charm. The graphics are amazing for this type of game. Sprites look great, the animations are great, and you can easily tell what everything is. It's sometimes hard to believe one guy made the entirety of this game all by himself. He did a fantastic job, especially on the endearing artstyle.

Sound and Music
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As a casual game, it has some amazing relaxing music. Every area has it's own theme too, and sometimes it's different depending on the time of day. It makes the game more interesting and a perfect choice to play to unwind after a hard day at work or school.

Performance
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I experienced no major issues (or even minor issues) while playign Stardew Valley. 30+ FPS at all times (30 is my minimum), no lag or stuttering, no obscene loading times, and the controls are very easy. Just point and click along with WASD to move. You CAN play with a controller, but it feels a lot different and a little clunky to do so. Mouse/keyboard method is recommended.

My only gripe, although minor, is that you can only save the game when you sleep in your bed at night. Again, this is minor, and not really a big deal, but nowadays most gamers expect the freedom of saving anywhere.

Final Thoughts
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You've just got to try this game. You will easily lose dozens, if not hundreds of hours simply managing your farm, earning money, and getting to know the townsfolk. Not to mention designing your farmland, placing buildings, tending animals, and crafting. This game will find you saying "just more more day" at least a dozen times before you finally close the game.

Gameplay Demo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AcJEX0fI9Q

Nerd House Verdict:
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Wake up

Go to Flower Dance

Get rejected by everyone at dance

Ride horse to mine

Break rocks to hide my inner depression

Pass out at 2am

Lose half my ♥♥♥♥ to a hobo

Force quit game

Launch

Repeat
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♥♥♥♥ you Linus

Harvest Moon probably isn't coming to PC any time soon, so if you haven't played one in awhile then now's your chance. It plays much like the classics, expanded in nearly every dimension. More crops, more fish, more mining coupled with LoZ themed combat in a procedurally generating mine dungeon.

Crafting takes the spotlight as a means of ramping up your farm. Most convenient are the sprinklers that help you skip out on the tedium of watering your crops. Since they require you to go spelunking, there's a mixture of gameplay between the classic elements and braving the cave.

The characters, exposition, festivals, and music don't live up to my nostalgia, but the variety of things to dig up and uncover really keeps things moving at least until you buy one of everything. The endgame brings things to a screeching, unsatisfying halt, but until that moment comes you're in for an addictive game that's very easy to pick up and play in small or huge doses.

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(Since I spent sixty hours on this game, here's my unabridged review.)

Among the most time-consuming single player games I've ever experienced.

It's Harvest Moon game for people who play on PC. There are a LOT of satisfying, nexpected conveniences that streamline gameplay and crush the early/mid game tedium. Long gone are the days of depositing plants 12 at a time into the bin. You can carry as many of one plant/resources as you want. Keep in mind you can only carry so many different items, but if you were to plant 200 cranberry seeds in fall then you only need to visit the bin once.

Spend the first 3 months planting (mining on rainy days) and you'll be absolutely set for money for the rest of the game.

Much like item-hauling, the overall objective of the game has also been given a meaningful touchup.. Early on you're given a scanvenger hunt checklist. As you collect/gather items of a category the game unlocks new upgrades to make your farm more productive. Gather every item and you'll find the community become more cohesive, going so far as to kick out those filthy not-walmart immigrants blighting the town. They have to go back.

Similar to the classics, your progress is reviewed after two years, but the requirements are really relaxed. I was able to satisfy the requirements for the highest ranking by the end of the first year.

That said, this game isn't without its flaws. The developer expects the player to tolerate a distasteful volume of grind in mining, fishing, combat (kill 1500 slimes lol) and leveling up your attributes. Unusual since they streamlined gathering crops. The slime hutch, the most expensive late game building, does ♥♥♥♥ all and is a poor investment.

The NPCs are all very bland, not a single one endeared me and even now I've forgotten the name of my wife, let alone the other villagers. Even those I rasied the affection level to max on didn't seem to flesh out their personalities all that well. The biggest improvement this game needed was in making the NPCs look better. (I know that many of them went through dozens of revisions, so this was a partiulcarly difficuilt point for the developer as well.) Even the written characterization didn't enchant me as much as the classics. I can't tell if that's a result of my age compared to when I played HM64 or if they just didn't do a good job with the storyboard.

There aren't enough festivals, with only two a month, though they are nicely fleshed out and unique. The OST is absolutely nothing compared to the classic tunes that to this day I can remember off the top of my head. By comparison I don't remember a single song from this game and I just beat it. The farmland itself is also way too huge. I only used about 1/6 at the very most for planting crops, with maybe a 1/3 in the second year as a grass pen.

Finally there are a few unpleasant bugs. Notably when mining or planting crops or exiting a doorway the character will begin running in a direction different from where I'm pointing (only stopping when I let go of the controls). The resting place of my mouse cursor interferes with my usb controller far too often, giving the character contradictory/wrong inputs. Grass grows to choke out plants as a feature, but as a bug it also displaces any tiles you have equipment on. It erased my expensive artisal equipment without warning. ♥♥♥♥ move.

Finally, the endgame is seemingly devoid of content. Once your plants water themeleves you'll probably have enough money to warrant not planting anymore. There's nothing new or fancy to spend my cash on other than even more seeds, and the incentive to find the remaining fish or mine the last artifact drops seems hollow and pointless. I had enough money at the beginning of the first winter to buy every building, expansion, and upgrade. By the first year I had upgraded everything I needed (not even using my ultimate watering can that I strove so hard to make for sake of the ultimate sprinklers).

Do you like farming ?
Do you like crafting ?
Do you like social life ?
Do you like shopping ?
Do you like fishing ?
Do you like mining ?
Do you like home design ?
Do you like summer,fall winter... ?
Do you like animals ?

If you said one "yes" answer. Buy this game.

If you said all questions "no"
Shut up! And buy this game :)

Awesome game i recommend :)

Ok, well i guess i will write a review for this game..

Well 1st off, this takes the old harvest moon games, and improves on the idea. Basically, an upgraded version of harvest moon games. If you want a game more like the old harvest moons used to be on steam, try World's Dawn..that is about as close as you can get. Anyways, back to the review...here i will break down the main points i see in this game:

I see these as pro's:

`Extremely Addictive - be aware of this when you play it..
`Farming and planting
`Dating and Marriage
`Foraging for Mushrooms and such
`Possible more things added to game in next patch
`Great fun at festivals

And my con's:

`Artifact hunting is repetitive and boring
`Fishing can be challenging for the legendary fish
`The mini games are quite difficult to play
`Controller specs do not work, even if it says "partial controller support" in description

All and all, a great game. I don;t want to spoil everything in this review, but there is more to this game than i posted here, so if you like what you read here, try it and find them out for yourself if you dare.

Final Thoughts..i recommend this game to everyone on my friends list and everyone.