Fae Farm’s Like Stardew Valley However With An RPG On Prime

I sit down at my Summer time Recreation Fest Fae Farm hands-on anticipating simply one other Stardew Valley clone, one other cozy recreation that can briefly seize the eye of Disney adults and youngsters. However inside minutes, I notice I’m very fallacious. Certain, Fae Farm has crops you may farm, and cutesy little NPCs you may romance, and a house you may enhance, all of the stuff you’d anticipate. However there’s extra happening beneath the hood.

My Fae Farm hands-on demo

It has dungeons, for one factor, crammed with assets you’ll have to craft the numerous obligatory objects to develop and enhance your own home, your pets’ stables, your potion stations, and your crops. You possibly can go into these dungeons together with your weapon swinging and bash the baddies till they provide you their assets, or you may be taught spells to solid at them, or you may brew a potion that can make you invisible and allow you to sneak previous to search out the treasures that lie previous them.

Your own home has a coziness system that gives buffs to your power, stamina, and mana, all of which you’ll have to discover Fae Farm’s world. There’s seasons and dynamic climate programs that may negatively have an effect on your stamina or power, however you may fight them by brewing a particular tea that can assist maintain you heat or cool in additional excessive temps.

Fae Farm permits you to maintain animals, as nicely, and collect assets from them whereas additionally constructing a bond between you. And the dozen or so NPCs on this planet will educate you methods to increase your talents, whether or not it’s constructing issues that assist you to cook dinner extra concerned meals, or educate you spells that allow you to water all of your crops in a single go, or ship you on quests that can get you cash and goodies galore.

After I ask Phoenix Labs PR Supervisor Andy Burt how he’d describe Fae Farm, since so many individuals will assume it’s only a farming sim, he tells me that it’s the magical parts that make this recreation so totally different, and the truth that there are such a lot of totally different approaches you may take to the sport that can dictate your expertise. If you wish to go whacking your manner via dungeons, you may, however if you wish to play it as a farming sim for 300 hours, you are able to do that, too.

Add a stunning character customization system that features they/them pronouns, numerous physique varieties and pores and skin tones, and cutesy magical parts, and Fae Farm is, to this point, my massive Summer time Recreation Fest shock.

Fae Farm is out later this yr for Nintendo Swap and PC.

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