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Stardew Valley is a peaceful and enjoyable farm simulator that offers endless possibilities. You can grow crops, raise animals, craft machines, make friends, and even start a family. With over 30 unique characters, seasonal festivals, and the ability to customize your character and house, you'll always have something to do. The game provides a warm-hearted throwback to simpler times and offers a satisfying level of detail to the town, characters, and soundtrack.
What we like:
Provides a soothing and relaxing gameplay experience
Has a wide variety of activities to engage in
Features well-written NPCs that players can form emotional connections with
Encourages community building and can bring people together.
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Step into Paleo Pines, where dinosaurs roam and adventure beckons! Befriend prehistoric pals, cultivate your farm with dino helpers, and unravel island mysteries. With a vibrant world and unique dino interactions, it's a farming fantasy where history meets harmony.
Slime Rancher is a delightful first-person farming game that takes players on an unforgettable journey exploring a distant ranch where they collect, breed and harvest slimes for cash. Players will get to explore the massive ranch looking for new areas and breeds of slime, as well as fruits, vegetables, and keys to unlock doors. There is also a charming story told throughout the game via notes left behind by the retired previous owner of the ranch as well as letters from someone back home.
Epic Chef is a third-person life sim game that takes you on a narrative-focused crafting adventure. Follow Zest, a guy who stows away aboard a ship to get to new lands and gets embroiled in events surrounding the Culinarim. Enjoy the humorous script, simple graphics with plenty of personality, and deep cooking minigame.
What we like:
Humorous script with laugh-out-loud jokes
Simple graphics with plenty of personality
Deep cooking minigame with elements of planning and depth
What could be improved:
Tedious gameplay with slow pacing
Grinding for element bonuses to level up for more synergies required
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Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town is a continuation of the beloved Story of Seasons franchise, a game series where you become the brand new arrival to your grandfather's dishevelled farm, and work to restore it to greatness while building up Olive Town. This charming and calming game provides escapism and relaxation as you explore resource gathering, farming, building, and social interaction.
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Monster Hunter Rise combines the best elements of past entries and the more recent Monster Hunter World, offering a fresh and exciting experience that will keep you coming back for more. With an engaging story, challenging combat, and a plethora of features, Rise has something for everyone.
What we like:
Open hunting grounds with no loading zones between sections
Rich story with fully voiced cutscenes
Switch Skill system to customize your playstyle
Tons of weapon balancing and updates
New Rampage Quests for intense battles against multiple monsters at once
What could be improved:
Separate quest lines for solo/multiplayer play
Visuals are not quite as detailed as those in World
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Immerse yourself in Roots of Pacha, a prehistoric farming and life simulator where you'll build community and explore a primitive world. Befriend animals, fish, and mine in mysterious caves, all while developing your village and unlocking your clan's spirituality. Engage in fun events, grow your economy, and enjoy hours of relaxing gameplay.
What we like:
Engaging community interaction
Delightful characters with varied dialogue
Innovative farming and taming mechanics
Regular updates and expansions
Balanced economy and good pacing of unlocking features
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Embark on a whimsical adventure in Kitaria Fables, an RPG filled with charming animal characters, engaging quests, and real-time combat. Tend to your farm, craft potent weapons, and uncover the mysteries threatening the land of Canodiera. Whether you're battling foes or building relationships with friendly locals, Kitaria Fables offers a delightful blend of action and relaxation.
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Manage your own farm in the tycoon game tailored specifically for Nintendo Switch!
From seeds to vegetables and processed products. There are animals, meat processing plants, farming machines, workers with different skill sets, warehouses with cooling, anti-pesticides, and many more. A lot of different strategies can be successfully executed to make the farm profitable. You can surely make a jack-of-all-trades farm to min-max the systems, but perhaps just a fully sustainable and independent apple juice company can drive the prices up and be more profitable? Maybe using only eco-friendly energy sources will pay off in the long run, especially with the government grant? Or you just *love* beef steaks and want to make the best quality filet mignon in the world? Any farm-related business idea seems possible in Farm Tycoon!
It’s the first game of its kind made with consoles in mind from the ground up. The whole user interface is tailored to sticks and buttons, without the usual hassle of virtual cursors present in the genre. Moreover, the 2XD Rendering technology, developed specifically for optimal Nintendo Switch experience, brings stunning visual effects while ensuring stable performance throughout the game.
Grow: Song of the Evertree is an awe-inducing experience firmly planted between an adventure game and a sweet casual farm game. The game is beautiful with opportunities to explore the world around you and keep it casual with the gameplay, whilst feeding you the story. You get to customize your character and go on a journey to save the Evertree and nurture the world back to health from the Withering. You even get your very own sweet dragon companion!
What we like:
Beautiful art style & music
Customizable character
Relaxed gameplay
Dragon companion
Non-binary characters supported
No punishment or rush for doing things wrong
What could be improved:
Slow going
Not strictly accessible in terms of customization options