Hausaria vs Duskroot

Hausaria is a small world of your own. You build a home, open your door, and life begins. Decorate your place from thousands of items and make it truly yours. Friends drop by, leave likes, and the most loved homes earn a spot on a leaderboard everyone can see. Just outside town, a wooden pier stretches into the sea. Captain Levent is waiting there. Grab a rod and lose track of time fishing — sell your catch and work your way up to better gear. Some fish come to you; others test your patience. On more energetic days, the football and basketball courts are open. You and your friends, on the same field, playing in real time. And then there are the people you share this world with: communities, conversations, home visits, and a cat or dog to keep you company. Hausaria is waiting. Come build your home first.

Your grandmother Wren left you her farm. She left the shop too, and the hole in the ground under the field, and not much of an explanation. Water both, she said. Duskroot is a cosy farming game with a mine underneath it. FARM BY DAY Clear the ground, till it, plant it, water it, and bring it in. What you grow is what you have to sell. RUN YOUR OWN SHOP Put a thing on a shelf and put a price on it. Villagers come in, look at what you are asking, and decide. Too dear and they wince. Too cheap and you have fed them for nothing. Nobody ever tells you what anything is worth. You work it out by selling. DELVE BY DUSK Take a pick and a sword down and see how far you get. A sword combo, a bow you hold to draw, slimes, skeletons and a couple of things that are worse. Fall down there, or stay past midnight, and half of what you are carrying stays behind. ONE TREE, TWO LIVES Farming, fighting, mining, fishing and haggling all feed one pool of stars, and one branching tree spends them. There is no class to pick at the start. What you spend it on is who you turn into. FREE, AND IT STAYS FREE There is no paywall anywhere in Duskroot. Two moments offer you a short advert in exchange for a favour: a hint at the shop, and a hand up when you fall in the mine. Both are optional, both are capped, and skipping them costs you nothing. If you would rather never see an advert, the Rootkeeper's Pact takes the adverts away and leaves the favours. There is also a pet to follow you around and a night bloom for the tree, if you want to say thanks. Both are just for looks. Grow it. Sell it. Go down and get more.