Beautiful Game, Starts slow but give it time!
UPDATE: After playing this game more and unlocking more bears, I’ve come to find that there is a lot more to this game than I originally thought. The quests get more involved and take more time to complete.
I think this game is so much fun and the art style is absolutely beautiful. I would have rated this a 5 star game but I docked 1 star because I think it needs a little bit more. The one thing I would want changed is to have more quests. There are main storyline quests but you only get so many a day and I usually finish them pretty quick. I would love some side quests to do in the meantime.
I think this game is so much fun and the art style is absolutely beautiful. I would have rated this a 5 star game but I docked 1 star because I think it needs a little bit more. The one thing I would want changed is to have more quests. There are main storyline quests but you only get so many a day and I usually finish them pretty quick. I would love some side quests to do in the meantime.
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Absolutely adore
I love this game! The graphics are so cute, and I love the way the character you play looks and how you can hug the bears(and seagull)!! My only complaint is that there are not enough quests, imo, in the day, I love all the quests that are given, and mind you I haven’t played for very long, two days, and I have just been burning through all the quests I’m given within an hour. Which kind of leaves me with nothing to do in game, yes I could fish for rarer fish, or hunt for seashells and decorate, but I like to decorate as I play, like figure out as I go, and yeah fishing is fun, but you can’t do that for hours and not get bored. But! I do understand why the creators wouldn’t put more quests in, it helps create the effect that you actually have to build a relationship with the creatures, which of course irl won’t happen overnight, and in a game shouldn’t either. So all in all, I absolutely adore this game!! :D
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Automation
This a message for The developers. I really love this game it beautiful, relaxing, and amazing, but there is something missing and that is in my opinion is automation. I think that having to do everything on my own is kind of boring especially fishing, I don’t like how I have to spend 30 min to an hour just catching fish I would really love to have the choice to craft some kind of trap or big net where I can just set it up and let it do the work for me. The crafting aspect of this game is everything so you might as well add some more options like crafting traps not just for fish but also for insects, and don’t take me wrong I like the idea of running around trying to catch insects but I think we should have the choice to either craft trap for them or just catch them ourselves. Also plus feature would be voice over for the bears that would be amazing it would make the experience that much better, and as you can tell I am lazy so most of the time I don’t even read what they are saying and just skip but if there was voice over I would listen to and enjoy even more. Thank you guys!
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A promising start, but slow
So far I have enjoyed the game. However, you should know that it apparently runs in real time. That means when you are done with tasks at noon on Saturday and you still want to level up, tough. You gotta wait until Sunday morning at least. I would rather see the game do like other games have done and have a shortened day/night cycle. When I’m further in the game and dealing with more spirits, the real-time mechanic might be something I really want. However, when you’re only dealing with 4 spirits, it makes for a very slow beginning and kind of asks a lot for the player to keep playing through this frustration. Especially since the loading screen mentions that some tasks may take days to complete and I’m just picturing that will go.
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BROKEN TOOLS—11 Relic Dust Needed to Repair but NONE Available
You spend very little time actually helping spirits. Ran out of relic dust to repair tools; Shovel, Pickaxe, & Machete cannot be repaired (11 Relic ASH Needed to Repair these TOOLS -plus- One Spirit Request requires 8 Relic ASH … Another Spirit Request Request Requires 1 Relic) … That’s 20 RARE Relics Needed to continue this game and the DOWSER Rod for LOCATING relics has NEVER WORKED even tho I’ve tried daily. I GIVE UP … with tools that CAN’T be repaired, it’s pretty useless trying to play this game and it would take a VERY LONG TIME to acquire 20 Relics (plus any additional/new ones that may be required each day). You may have to wait many many days/weeks for some of the items needed to help the spirits so you spend most of your time REPEATEDLY digging holes, pickaxing rocks, or chopping down shrubs (but with broken, unrepairable tools you cannot even do this).
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It’s okay
The game is a cute mix between Animal Crossing and Spiritfarer, but has a lot of flaws compared to those games. While the summer update fix a lot of my issues, it’s still not really doing it for me. I’m almost 100 days into the game and I’ve been trying to collect 150 hardwoods for a quest for a week so far. I’m only at 115 and I started off with 75 of them so it’ll probably be another week before I can finish that quest which is kind of crazy. I have plenty of fruit trees, bushes, etc but at this point I’m resorting to collecting 100 branches to make 10 softwood just to make one hardwood cuz I almost never get them out of my trees nor from the leaf piles that seem to pop up less and less each day. Also, the fact that the terrain changes sporadically makes it hard to decorate the island cuz the next day there might be trees blocking your decorations. I’m not sure why that’s a feature of the game cuz trees don’t just move in real life. I really want to like this game because the stories are cute and I LOVE the graphics, it just doesn’t feel complete.
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Cute and enjoyable. Hate the daily barricade.
I really like this game, I really do. Yea it has some annoyances, which they’ve slowly been fixing and I appreciate that immensely.
My biggest issue is that it’s an every day game and a LONG one at that…. It’s like if you wanted animal crossing to have something new every single day for 2+ months. I know I’m not particularly close to finishing the game, but I’m also on day 50 and I’m just kinda going crazy. I have ADHD and I tend to like to zone out on a game for hours and finish it so I can move on to other things. I wish these style games would include an end the day option rather than force you to time travel. I mean, why does it need to be on a daily schedule? I don’t really like having to log in every day for fractions of a story, I’d much rather be able to play over a few hours and through multiple days at a time and finish the story faster. I enjoy it, so I’ll keep playing, but logging in daily for the foreseeable future…. Ugh…. It just feels so daunting. I fear I’ll get over logging in every day and never finish the story.
My biggest issue is that it’s an every day game and a LONG one at that…. It’s like if you wanted animal crossing to have something new every single day for 2+ months. I know I’m not particularly close to finishing the game, but I’m also on day 50 and I’m just kinda going crazy. I have ADHD and I tend to like to zone out on a game for hours and finish it so I can move on to other things. I wish these style games would include an end the day option rather than force you to time travel. I mean, why does it need to be on a daily schedule? I don’t really like having to log in every day for fractions of a story, I’d much rather be able to play over a few hours and through multiple days at a time and finish the story faster. I enjoy it, so I’ll keep playing, but logging in daily for the foreseeable future…. Ugh…. It just feels so daunting. I fear I’ll get over logging in every day and never finish the story.
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Played 90+ days, just an amazing experience!
I’ve played this game since 3/19, when it first launched on AA and it has been a pure delight to play from the beginning! I didn’t think I would like life sim games until playing this one and I think it comes down to the meaningful story core of helping the spirit bears recover their memories of their lives so that they can find some closure and move on. The dev team is so committed to this game and they are always listening to the community. We’ve been treated to QOL update after update and recently got a huge content update. Love the hand-drawn art and the beautiful soundtrack. Keeping my AA subscription for this game for sure :) I personally have had no performance issues besides some minor lagging.
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Most chill game I own
I have over 90 days invested in this game. 😂 some days I play for hours. Some days maybe 30 mins. Each day is a fun new experience, timed quests (until end of day), spirit animals to be fed and petted, story quests trying to discover the story behind each bear, decorations and trees to be moved around, etc. The developers are amazing and are listening to feedback in the discord channels. Many concerns and frustrations from early days have been mitigated and solved by updates. The big summer update is releasing on June 23 and introduces a new part time character and some new interactions and mini games.
It is kinda like animal crossing but with less capitalism. 😁😍
It is kinda like animal crossing but with less capitalism. 😁😍
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New update fixes most issues I had
Thank you for the new update! The UI adjustments make it way easier to manage inventory, which was my main complaint (although even before the update, the issues weren’t bad enough to stop me from playing for 30 days in a row). It’s not perfect (Flamey storage still doesn’t auto-stack like items, for example), but it doesn’t stop enjoyment of the game. I’ve adjusted to only having 45-60 minutes of playable content a day, which was tough to get over- it’s so good I wanted to just play non-stop. But it’s become a morning ritual to log in and do a little questing, complete a collection, and do some fishing. It’s lovely!
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