Everdream Valley

This is a cute game. But, I played through the main game and the DLC quests, ran around to see what else there was to do, and the game feels unfinished. There are several items to collect that have no purpose. Like the "highly valuable" goose feather that you can't make anything with, and it's not needed for a quest, so all you can do with it is sell it for change. There are plums, pears, and other fruit/food that have no recipes to use them in. The DLC cut scenes just leave you hanging without dialect or activity. You just transport to a place and basically sit there until you back out of it (with prompts asking if you really want to end the cutscene). The game feels like there were great things to come or great potential, and then it was abandoned before finishing. Plus, albums and collections can't be completed because either things were removed from the game or planned but never implemented into the game. So there are albums with a blank space for an item that can never be obtained. When I play a cozy game, I'm the type that likes to collect everything that the game offers, complete albums, quests, and make every craft/cooking recipe available. But this game just leaves me h…

Bit of a buggy mess but the core gameplay loop is alright. I had all sorts of performance issues with what should be just a casual game which soured my experience. Many of the quests require either a bunch of repeated grinding (duck quest 6 trips back and forth!), or are just flat out broken (owl quest). Not recommend for me just because Steam forces us into a binary yes/no, but it might scratch someone's farming itch.

Complete bug fest. Very first scene, the cat got stuck in the rock. I went to pet the cat then I got stuck in the rock. Had to restart to get out of the rock. Restarted and had to start again from the start. Then went to fix the chicken coop, fixed it and then it just disappeared from the screen. Refunded.

Walking simulator, with a fair few bugs. The core gameplay is plumped up with frustrating minigames. The dialogue (and other text) is quite poorly written and often has spelling mistakes and other inconsistencies.

Overall a fun game with a cute art style and quests. Controls can be clunky and a bit frustrating at times, especially the method of moving the character and animals around the map, but I haven't found any of it so annoying as to stop me having fun playing it. Also doesn't seem to be the best optimised, I've got a gaming laptop that can comfortably manage most games on the highest graphical settings but had to drop this game down to fairly low settings to get to the point where the laptop wasn't getting concerningly hot after about 30 minutes of playing.

Even tho there are some bugs which can be annoying, I really enjoy the game so far. It's cozy and chill.