Fae Farm, it’s just an overall magical experience.
It’s been a while since I played another farming game besides My Time at Portia, which isn’t full-on farming, but still in that category. I’ve been craving another game similar to it and wanted to see if Fae Farm could scratch that itch.
- Developed by Phoenix Labs
- Published by Phoenix Labs
- Available on Nintendo Switch
- Available on Steam
Who is this game for?
- Achievement hunters
- Animal lovers
- Any age gamer
- Art aficionados
- Collectors of collectibles
- Fans of cuteness
- LGBQT community
Game length
Around 20 hours, sticking to the main game
Genres
Explanation to Negative Feedback
Farm animals can be annoying
If you’re trying to water your plants or something along the farm, your farm animals have a chance to just run up to you and get in your way, making you pet them until you stand there and do nothing until they wander away. Not only that, but if you’re trying to pet and brush some of the animals, you have to walk a little away and then back to them for the prompt to come up.
It’s super annoying how you have to maneuver around these creatures just to make them like you on a day-by-day basis.
High price point
While there’s several things you can do in the entirety of playing the game, there’s a lot of things that are lacking compared to the expansiveness of other farming games.
Not as many main quests (but there are a lot of request type of quests that can become monotonous over time), there’s only so many people you can romance and the romancing is relatively easy with no effort required–just talk to them every day–and with a somewhat low play time in order to complete the main game, the price just isn’t worth it unless you really enjoy adorable farming sims that have insane customization qualities to it.
Residents are kind of bare-bones
They constantly say the same lines after a certain point of introduction, making them seem kind of bland and lacking. Not to mention, you can only “become familiar,” let’s say, with certain people. So taking Harvest Moon for example, talking to every person will at least give you some credit for something, even if it’s going into a certain part of their house they wouldn’t let you in otherwise.
In Fae Farm, not every character is worth speaking to, because nothing comes of it. Specifically the shopkeepers. They’re just there to sell you stuff, not to like you or anything.
Explanation to Positive Feedback
Adorable everything
One thing the game has going for it is the adorable graphics. From characters to animals, to even the icons of materials. They’re all really flippin’ cute.
Customization
There’s not much to do when it comes to customizing your character at the start of the screen, but you can still make them rather unique look-wise. But when it comes to customizing your farm with the different things you can build and the variety of crops and landscaping, your farm will definitely be your own piece of work and look vastly different from others due to the farm size being relatively on the larger scale.
Maybe you don’t have as much furniture and clothes and crops like Dreamlight Valley, but it’s a start in the right place.
Links Worth Checking Out
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Fae Farm Review
Although I’ll say this game has been a fun one to get lost in and play, there are so many little nit-picks of mine that I didn’t want to put into the negative section because it’s a newer game and maybe things will expand later on, but…I’m going to voice them here.
First, there’s a very limited supply of crops you can plant for specific seasons, and after they’re grown, they don’t really sell for much. The point of them is to make them into something else–primarily a different dish of food. But even those dishes aren’t really worth selling due to the price point being so low. Thus, you’re forced to pretty much only use them to restore your energy, if you’re using much of that throughout the day, or wait for someone else to want them.
Aside from that…you’re just going to be planting things and waiting for yourself to need them, or someone else to.
And that kind of sucks, since you’re limited to how much you can sell in a single day.
Second, a lot of the quests from either the request board or requests regarding what people want are just go out and gather this and bring it back to me. It…becomes a bit of a chore after a while. I wouldn’t even call them side quests, they’re fetch’em quests for when you have nothing better to do, and that kind of sucks, because I feel like you should always have something to do in a farming game.
Third, time doesn’t stop unless you put the game into pause mode.
Maybe I’m spoiled from my time playing Harvest Moon, but I really enjoyed the fact that the time stopped when you either went inside your own home or if you went into another house, and even your inventory! Which, by the way, if you go into your inventory when there are enemies around you, you’re going to end up being hit by them.
There’s probably more that I’m not thinking of right now, but on a better note, I will say the artwork is phenomenal. I love all the graphics that were made in this game, they’re basically all aesthetically pleasing to the eye. The characters are different, the enemies are pretty unique…but dear god do I hate that spinning wheel when it “accidentally” hits me.
I know this review probably doesn’t look like it favors the game, but Fae Farm is actually really good if you like customizing and collecting things for the Almanac and such. But there’s also a lot of stuff that’s there for nothing, until the time comes when you actually need to use it.
