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[Rolan7]

You're absolutely right.  That's how it is when my brother starts up a multiplayer server, too.  He just... fishes.  His ex farms hard.  I tend to go mining/farming.  The day feels so short when one's alone, but with other people it's amazing what gets done every cycle.

Counterpoint, I just purchased 380 starfruit seeds in Spring Y3.  It would have been 480, but I plan to need to harvest 100 pineapple (or taro, which is a separate plot) for a future quest.

I cannot help who I am:

Spoiler: Red Mage (click to show/hide)

That said, Elliot mentioned seafood so I "wasted" like 2-3 hours getting him a fresh crab from the traps and buying some oil to fry it in.  Totally disrupted my morning <3

[LordPorkins]

Part of the charm of the game for me is getting away from my usual video game tendencies.

A youtuber i like, Baertaffy, once said that this game is basically the video game version of a Spa Day, and I whole heartedly agree with him. Have an open Saturday, throw on comfy jammies, and play some stardew? A good use of your saturday.

[Akura]

Does the Switch version of the game get all the new stuff? I have it on both PC and Switch, but I haven't checked the Switch version in a while.

[E. Albright]

It doesn't have it yet, but probably will soonish.

[Vector]

Gonna just ... drop this here in case it is of interest.

[Aoi]

Gonna just ... drop this here in case it is of interest.

Does anybody else find that the transition to something other than pixelart causes it to just lose a bit of something? I could tolerate Rune Factory, but everything else in the genre kind of puts me off.

[Vector]

Honestly, I still think that Harvest Moon 64 was the best farming sim ever made, and that was 3D. But it was definitely cuter than the art assets shown.

I'm mostly interested in it because of the changed flavor to island life? yeah.

[Folly]

Coral Island...I like everything they've done, but from the trailer and kickstarter page, I'm seeing absolutely nothing new to the farming sim genre. Not even any noteworthy refinements to the systems we've seen a dozen times before. Hard to get excited over something so unoriginal.

[Jopax]

Eh, if you want somewhat different My time in Portia hits that spot pretty well imo. Less of a farming focus but it's still there. There's a bit more to the mining, combat and crafting parts which makes it different enough I think.

Coral Island looks very pretty, but other than that like Folly said, doesn't seem to do much more than that.

Edit:

I did just stumble upon Roots of Pacha, which looks like SV but set in the stone age, seems to be more about cultivating stuff to develop your village, with things like new ideas that pop up and let you develop tech like sundials or wells. Seems interesting and rather developed for something still early in development.

[E. Albright]

I kinda like the look of One Lonely Outpost, but it also doesn't look like it adds anything really new - evolutionary rather than revolutionary. The graphics also look like a nice compromise between "not just pixels" and something very drawn like Coral Island above - they seem charming in more of a late 90s way than an early 90s way, I suppose.

[Nighthawk]

Coral Island...I like everything they've done, but from the trailer and kickstarter page, I'm seeing absolutely nothing new to the farming sim genre. Not even any noteworthy refinements to the systems we've seen a dozen times before. Hard to get excited over something so unoriginal.

I'm in agreement with this sentiment. When I saw the phrase, "Reimagining the farming sim game," I was hoping they were doing something wacky, but the more I watched the more it felt less like a reimagining and more like a rehashing of the same old ideas.

Not that these kinds of games need to be completely turned on their heads or anything; the genre is attractive to people largely because of the laid-back structure, and I'd hate to see that go. But, to entertain my cynical side, this looks more like an attempt to capitalize on Stardew's success than anything else.

[Mephansteras]

Yeah, the look of One Lonely Outpost appeals to me more than Coral Island does.

But none of these really feel like they'll be a major step forward in any way. Still, it'll be nice to see some more PC games in the genre.

[Vector]

Yeah, I was extremely excited for the one about gravedigging, but the reviews said it was a grindathon ...

Well, frankly: I'm still really interested in the flavor shift based on the devs being in Indonesia. I agree that it mostly looks like ~more of the same~, (mechanically) and I wonder if they're not biting off more than they can chew. But I think a lot of the charm of Stardew, to me, is the sense of place; I wouldn't mind experiencing that sense of place somewhere that I'm less familiar with.

Still glad I posted the link, cuz I got to bookmark One Lonely Outpost and Roots of Pacha :3

[Frumple]

I think gravekeeper has been decently improved on the grind front by eventual DLCs, for what it's worth? Was some automation additions or somethin' like that. Watching a bit of a playthrough didn't look that bad...

[BigD145]

Rune Factory first came out in 2006. I'm not seeing much more than another minor iteration with Coral Island. I was tired of false advertising decades ago.