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Steam: £12
Store page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2142790/Fields_of_Mistria/
You might have heard of this little game called ‘Stardew Valley’? Well, Fields of Mistria is, in the best way possible, a clone of Stardew Valley.
Storyline
The game starts with some cut scenes of anime style characters discussing how their town is in a state of disrepair due to an earthquake. You know, things like broken bridges and whatnot. If only they had someone to help them. You know the rest…
Starting
You turn up and are given a dilapidated farm. Exactly the same idea as Stardew Valley, you need to clear the weeds, sticks, trees and rocks. While also planting a basic farm. First order of the day is to meet all the villagers and be given your basic tools of the trade. The only thing that makes this different from Stardew Valley is that you have a choice of responses to questions. Does that make a difference to the story arc? I’ve no idea.
Controls
You move using traditional WASD with E (or right mouse button) to use or inspect something. M will bring up the map of the town. It’s a pretty big map. You have to repair the bridge and try to convince the ex-miner gaffer to get the mines reopened.
The diary in your house is where you save the game, and it’s back to this house you go after 2am or when you tire yourself out. The only penalty is that the next day you’ll have about 4 hours less as you’ll have ‘slept in’.
Your inventory is like a book with tabs. Or maybe a clipboard is a better analogy. Down the right side are tabs for your backpack (inventory of items), clothing, messages, relationships, animals, map, settings, and more. Along the top are tabs for pages within that right hand side tab. The one down side of the map is that it doesn’t identify the villagers. So you need to try and get used to their tiny mini portrait to see where they are. It’d be better if they were named when you hover over them.
Features
Everything you expect from Stardew Valley (and Animal Crossing) is in here; crafting, farming, quests, relationships, museum, fishing, bugs, festivals, etc etc.
There’s certainly no end of quests and fetch-this and make-this jobs to keep you running about the map and getting lost.
Conclusion
I’ve only played a couple of hours in Fields of Mistria, but I really like it. If you like Stardew Valley then you’ll like this as it’s pretty much Stardew with different graphics. I don’t mean that in a bad way, as it’s very well done. Having said that, it doesn’t really bring anything new to the table.
I’m giving it 4 out of 5 since it’s taking all its inspiration from Stardew. If it had new things to bring then I’d give it a full 5.