As a long-time Stardew Valley fan, I never thought I’d find a game that could capture my heart quite the same way. Fields of Mistria has done just that. I’m honestly blown away by how good this game is
note: just a random fan, have nothing to do with this game at all. It kinda saddens me that it hasn’t gotten as much attention though, there are so many mediocre games with soooo many reviews… this game is legit insane. it’s gorgeous!!
Another cozy game with a ugly bleached out pastel color theme. Thanks and I wish fun for everyone who plays it, but this is nothing for me.
While I respect your opinion, I feel that there’s probably a better way to say what you just did. It sounds unnecessarily aggressive and toxic. Just wanted to let you know
Im waiting for it to come out! Looks like a fun game.
Did you finally look through other games on Steam to find this one?
This has been on my wishlist for a while so I bought it last week. It’s been a magical experience tbh. Stardew kinda bored me and this one has a feel good feeling
Why does Hayden look like he wants to consume my magical items?
He wants to consume more than that 😉
There was a highly upvoted post on the cozygames subreddit which I’m paraphrasing from memory.
Every time a shares something in the Stardew Valley genre, there’s like a militant group of commenters who are outright hostile to that new game. And yes, I’m seeing that sprinkled in the comments on this post.
Like, imagine any other genre having to deal with people like that? “Oh that looks like it’s ripping off Doom how unoriginal looks boring just play Doom”.
Every time a shares something in the Stardew Valley genre, there’s like a militant group of commenters who are outright hostile to that new game. And yes, I’m seeing that sprinkled in the comments on this post.
Oh definitely. It’s really funny though because these keyboard warriors that keep criticizing any game that looks similar to Stardew Valley, doesn’t realize that Stardew Valley faced those exact same criticisms when people said that crazy ape, the developer of Stardew, basically ripped off harvest Moon. It was such a silly and absurd thing to say, but everyone started regurgitating it over and over again. Just because one game starts becoming successful people forget the other games that they were very similar to in the past
If people really wanted to go down the rabbit hole though, this all started when Farmville hit Facebook. That was the beginning of it all that I remember personally. Farmville made people lose their fucking minds. People were all over that shit, it was like cocaine. No one would shut up about it for years
But seriously, Stardew is just remade Harvest Moon or even maybe Animal Crossing. It’s not like it invented the genre.
Farmville was a shitty knockoff of harvest moon.
It was, but the important thing is that it was conveniently located inside of Facebook, and generic enough that it grabbed people’s attention, which is exactly what you need sometimes. When it’s too niche or specific, that’s when people lose interest. That’s why fields of mistria is not necessarily as popular. It’s a little bit more niche and specific, with magic and washed out color theme, pastel colors, appealing to the cozy gaming crowd. And that’s okay! Not every game needs to be so generic that it appeals to everyone
Pretty sure harvest moon predates Facebook by at least a decade
Watched the trailer, looks pretty good! Too bad it’s still in early access. There’s a TONS of farming/dating sim coming out and a lot of them looks…okay i think. Hope it get to 1.0.
This is by far the highest reviewed one I’ve seen lately. 8k reviews with 97% is insane. Some of the other early access games I’ve browsed look like abandon ware or something else
Played it and loved it. I know I should hold off and wait until it’s complete before I play again, bit it’s going to be tough not loading it up the second there’s another update.
Nothing about that screenshot is “the most impressive” anything tbh.
Well that’s definitely a pick-up line.
I’m not a stardew fan but “this game is legit insane” is not a phrase that would get me excited for any game.
Its in my wishlist! I’m waiting for it to release tho, I don’t really like playing early access games and risk getting tired of them before release.
Thanks for sharing, does it have coop?
Yes you can raise chickens
Lol this had me so confused at first hahaha
Game does not have co-op if anyone else was wondering 😅
Makes me sad to see it’s Windows only given it’s so graphically simple and low tech. Should be a shoe-in for a Mac and Linux version.
Yeah, it’ll probably be quite some time until they have a Linux version. But can’t you download some sort of emulation for Windows if you really wanted to try it? I don’t know how that works though I’ve never used Linux
Yes you can run windows games fairly easily on Mac and Linux these days but it’s never quite as good as a native build.
I have had proton stuff run better thsn native. But it was probably a shitty native build.
What do you mean? Native Linux isn’t that relevant these days. Most games run well through Proton, and some even better than on Windows. Judging by the protondb entry, you wouldn’t notice on Linux that this was a windows game: https://www.protondb.com/app/2142790
It’s not a high end game, so it should be fine to use emulation like proton and wine.
Obligatory, and please please take this as the most silly of jokes: pushes up glasses UUUMMMMM akchually WINE is a compatibility layer, not an emulator, its name literally stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator.
Again, it’s just kind of a running bit in the Wine community. The same thing is right at the top of the projects home page if my memory serves, and it is definitely easier to refer to it as an emulator. “Compatibility layer” just doesn’t have the same ring to it lol
Yeah, just hard to explain that to a layman, whereas “emulator” is a commonly known word. I get the difference, but most people don’t.
I don’t know how gaming on Mac works, but since I switched my home rig to Linux a couple of years ago, I have not once had a problem with installing a new game that doesn’t have native Linux support[1]. I wonder whether developers have learned that they can rely on Proton for their Linux support (for better or worse).
[1]: there was a point when Baldur’s Gate 3 stopped working after a big update, but I fixed it by switching to Proton-GE, a forked version of Proton. https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom
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Is it an issue for games with bios level anti cheat?
This game works flawlessly on the Steam Deck, which, in almost all cases, means it will work on Steam for Linux through Proton, which is an emulation layer built-in to Steam
Is the artist behind this a Stardew modder? The animals look a lot like Elle’s animals
