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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: you’ve inherited a plot of rundown farm land within a village, and you need to craft and farm the land. Oh and meet the villagers, run tasks, and buy stuff from the shops.
Stardew what? No, no. This is Everafter Falls.
Stardew Crossing
You awake from a coma, or something, and have to reacquaint yourself with your village neighbours. Unlike Stardew Valley, the villagers are animals. Wait, that reminds me of another game. Ani… I don’t know. I can’t remember.
You have your little house, and your plot of land which is full of weeds, trees and rocks. You use your sword to swoosh the weeds away, and your hatchet and pickaxe to remove the trees, stumps and rocks. Yes, you even enter mines to fight nasties and get more goodies.
Once you’ve gathered some resources, you can start to craft items for your little farm. Of course, the villagers send you on quests which inevitably involve you running from one end of the village to the other. Then you have the museum and aquarium to stock.
There are only so many hours in a day though, so, after a certain time, you need to retreat to bed. This is your save point.
Animal Valley
It’s not all a carbon copy though. The graphics are not pixelated, which is nice, and you’re quickly given a pet which can do some of your farming work. Later, I read, you can get a drone to also do your bidding. Upgrades to your inventory is done through your character eating cards that they’re given. No, I don’t know why your character is eating cards. The game doesn’t seem to know either. Apparently some of them taste really bad.
Conclusions
Let’s go through some ups and downs (as of this writing, June 2024, where a patch is due any day now):
Ups: • Cheap. £15 is a nice price for a game with a big map and plenty of characters. • Has Linux support (as it’s made in Unity). • It is quite addictive. Waking up after a save I quite often did another day. Then another day. Then another… • The addition of the pet and drone is a nice upgrade. Not sure if they’re really needed though. We’ll see… • The dev is very active and releasing patches quite often with patch notes to view.
Downs: • No tutorial to speak of (coming soon I read somewhere). This was a big downer. No idea why it’s missing from the initial release. You really need a tutorial to show you what keys to press and how you craft and where your inventory is. You find things out only after you inevitably start chatting to villagers. • Fishing is/was weird. From the upcoming patch it can now be disabled. Again, having no tutorial meant you had no clue what to do when presented with the fishing screen.
In short: it’s a nice little game at a good price point. I prefer that it has animals to humans. Think of it as the illegitimate love-child from when Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley had some ‘Netflix and chill’ time.