The Witch of Fern Island

They tried to make a cute game I'll give you that, but npcs are robotic, dialogues are boring, the gameplay is clunky af. And the only resolution the game supports is 1280x720 not even 1920x1080. I don't even remember when I got the game, all I know is it's not recently, if it was I would have returned it. Cause it is also very much abandoned honestly after coming out of EA (the last update seems to be november 2024). I do not recommend it unfortunately. There are other games better than this out there.

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 love it it is very fun

intrigued

So far I'm loving this game! It's cute, cozy, magical with a talking cat and cool spells and items to learn and collect. I like that you can befriend and level up friendship with other characters as well and that unlocks further things. Same with learning or harvesting new items/materials. I will say unless you save up to buy 'stickers' from the plant store, it's a little hard to remember where certain plants grow but it's a good problem to have in that it's a fairly big map for a small, cozy game and I love that. I also love that there's a good story, there's a bit of mystery but also some fun quests to do. I will say answers are not always obvious. Things pop up once you've accomplished certain goals so it's a little hard to know what you're supposed to do to, for example, learn new recipes that you can't buy from the stores. But I'm figuring it out :) And I'm excited to keep playing!