I probably would've already gotten it if wasn't early access, the possibility of having to restart a game that requires a lot of time commitment is a deal breaker for me, so I'd rather wait until it's finished. On another note, I'm kind of tired of so many Stardew Valley clones, I wish there were more games like Rune Factory instead with less farming and more RPG and dungeon crawling. I think the only one like that that comes to mind is Sun Haven(?) and that one has been in my backlog since forever now...

There was a highly upvoted post on the cozygames subreddit which I'm paraphrasing from memory.

Every time someone shares something in the Stardew Valley genre, there's like a militant group of commenters who are outright hostile to that new game. And yes, I'm seeing that sprinkled in the comments on this post.

Like, imagine any other genre having to deal with people like that? "Oh that looks like it's ripping off Doom how unoriginal looks boring just play Doom".

Why does Hayden look like he wants to consume my magical items?

Its in my wishlist! I'm waiting for it to release tho, I don't really like playing early access games and risk getting tired of them before release.

Nothing about that screenshot is "the most impressive" anything tbh.

Makes me sad to see it’s Windows only given it’s so graphically simple and low tech. Should be a shoe-in for a Mac and Linux version.

Edit: yes I know proton exists, my point is that as an indie game it is likely built with something like Unity or Godot, and thus exporting a native Mac and Linux build is just a matter of turning on a couple check boxes.

Watched the trailer, looks pretty good! Too bad it's still in early access. There's a TONS of farming/dating sim coming out and a lot of them looks...okay i think. Hope it get to 1.0.

I'm not a stardew fan but "this game is legit insane" is not a phrase that would get me excited for any game.

Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2142790/Fields_of_Mistria/

Are there any notable features that make it stand out from Stardew or others?

Thanks for sharing, does it have coop?

It’s on my wishlist too. I love the cow designs and how you can swim in some parts.

Played it and loved it. I know I should hold off and wait until it's complete before I play again, bit it's going to be tough not loading it up the second there's another update.

Is the artist behind this a Stardew modder? The animals look a lot like Elle’s animals

I‘ve been playing it for like 12 hours so far, runs smooth on Deck, I’ve encountered no bugs so far, and I‘m not even in my first fall. If it didn‘t say early access, I wouldn‘t have been able to tell yet. I haven‘t regreted my purchase and it‘s honestly cheap even without a discount.

The camera scrolls so stupidly smooth it‘s a joy, played a bunch of pixel games lately and it‘s sadly not a given (Potion Permit and its random stutters and sudden CPU load increases).

Well that's definitely a pick-up line.

this game is fucking lovely, and i appreciate that the early access has about an ingame year of content. really excited to see it come out in full before i play through it all