Besmirch

Just not even remotely close yet The bugs at the moment are so horrendous that I cannot even tell how much of the game is there yet. quest flags are all over the place, and it's super easy to do them out of order causing you, for instance, find a missing child that hasn't actually gone missing yet. Hard crashes are fairly rare, made up for plentiful in the many fun states in which the game can become softlocked, often softlocked in a way that cannot be fixed at all and requires you to start a full new save. No contingencies whatsoever are made for even slightly odd player behaviour. I can see a good game here but until the whole thing is at a point where I can play through it from beginning to end without needing to memorize the softlock triggers to avoid, I'm going to strongly reccomend you hold off on a purchase. Early access is good for games that still need a bit to finish cooking but this has just barely finished setting out the ingridients

stardew spooky valley

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

this game is an incredible take on the stardew valley formula, it's in very early access right now but the potential is huge!

I've always found farming sims like this to be stressful, in a "must optimize everything" kinda way. Nice to add "impending doom and terror" to the list of stress. Bought it super early, so I'll be waiting for future updates before fully diving in.

Moody cross between FAITH and Don't Starve. So far, so atmospheric