The Witch of Fern Island

This game was a really cute concept and had a lot of potential but sadly it was left in an unfinished state. It is done enough to get a fair amount of enjoyment out of it, but there are not going to be any more updates on it. Last update was in November of 2024. It is abadonware by the devs, but not for the usual reason of cutting and running with the money. From what i can put together, Enjoy Studio S.A. has moved on to different games and has signed on with Bohemia Interactive (Dev and publisher of the ARMA series) to work with for their future games while Indie.io has kept the IP rights to this game. Indie.io is apublisher that likes to take large cuts of the sales for little effort put in, leaving the dev with very little in return for the work they put into making a game. By purchasing this game, i am pretty sure all the money just goes to a greedy publisher that preys on small devs that want to make good games. Please do not support this behavior. Check out Enjoy Studios' other games if you want to support the devs.

Why introduce stamina while gardening? So i garden for 3 min, Stamina depleted. In order to fill it you eat something or go to sleep. In order to cook food you need to harvest.....which uses Stamina, which you do not have, because you need to eat something. Which you can not cook because you can not harvest the ingredients, So the only way out right now in the beginning is go to sleep every 3 Minutes. This puts me off this game SOOO much ! So maybe some say, it gets better later on. Which does not help me. How you enter a game makes or breaks it for me. If i am already super annoyed be stamina usage now, wich depletes SOO quickly, I have this back yard which so so annoyingly overgrown and in order to clear only some of it i already had to go to sleep around 10 times. How long do i have to endure this before the game becomes....fun ? So in the beginning you harvest 2 min , sleep, harvest 2 min sleep and so on...... Did this not bother anyone else? Maybe its just my OCD which gets me annoyed by that overgrown backyard,,,,

I keep coming back to try this game as i do think it has potential however its just too confusing, theres no tracking for NPCS or resources which just for me personally makes it unplayable i spend 90% of the days trying to track NPCS hopefully if this gets fixed it seems like it would be good to play also the very glitchy i play alot of games like this with no problem so not sure why that is.

It looks cute and something I would love to play... The story is reasonable (even if picked off from Kiki's Delivery service), the scene and music are good. However... I can't play it for very long, because the camera is so jittery it's causing motion sickness. What I did play, I found irritating because dialogues were being interrupted by "tutorial" stuff which didn't really need to be so hand-holding. The stuff that DID need explaining I had to look up, which removes the game immersion (such as finding forageables) This could easily be fixed by highlighting items which need to be picked up. The worst part is that the game appears to be unfinished and is no longer under development.

I love this game! I revisit it over and over again and it gets better, smoother and more beautiful - really feel like a witch on my development into greatness

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