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!!

Edit: Concerned Ape must've seen my post, and now Stardew Valley has a midweek deal for -50% off LMFAO you cannot make this up

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[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

I probably would've already gotten it if wasn't early access, the possibility of having to restart a game that requires a lot of time commitment is a deal breaker for me, so I'd rather wait until it's finished. On another note, I'm kind of tired of so many Stardew Valley clones, I wish there were more games like Rune Factory instead with less farming and more RPG and dungeon crawling. I think the only one like that that comes to mind is Sun Haven(?) and that one has been in my backlog since forever now...

[–] Becoming@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

If you haven't yet, definitely check out Core Keeper!

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

That's like Rune Factory? I thought it was more like Minecraft/Terraria but top-down. It's been living in my Steam wishlist for a while too now, waiting for a decent discount.

[–] Randomguy@lemm.ee 5 points 4 weeks ago

No, it's indeed a top down terraria.

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[–] Buttflapper@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I totally understand this, and I used to feel the same way but then I realized that these creators probably need the support if they are going to go from early access to full release. It really helps, and it wasn't really that much, $14. I canceled World of Warcraft And Hulu for a month because there was nothing to watch there anyway. That was more than enough to buy it. But I don't blame you at all of you don't want to support early access games! I totally understand

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

You: has a very reasonable take

Lemmy: downvotes

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 weeks ago

I don't really mind early access, but it really depends on the game, stuff that is very pick-up and play like roguelikes and shooters is fine, but anything story based or long is a hard pass for me.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Sun haven was a pleasant experience. Rather than automating farming, I just cause earthquakes and rainstorms to plow and water respectively. My only complaint is my thumb hurting from constantly air dashing around.

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[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 42 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

There was a highly upvoted post on the cozygames subreddit which I'm paraphrasing from memory.

Every time someone 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".

[–] Buttflapper@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

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, was heavily inspired by* 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

[–] Bobmighty@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Farmville was a shitty knockoff of harvest moon.

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[–] Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 weeks ago

Pretty sure harvest moon predates Facebook by at least a decade

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[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 27 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Why does Hayden look like he wants to consume my magical items?

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[–] _Lory98_@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 24 points 4 weeks ago

Nothing about that screenshot is "the most impressive" anything tbh.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 17 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (9 children)

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.

Edit: yes I know proton exists, my point is that as an indie game it is likely built with something like Unity or Godot, and thus exporting a native Mac and Linux build is just a matter of turning on a couple check boxes.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 9 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Is it an issue for games with bios level anti cheat?

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[–] okamiueru@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] Carrot@lemmy.today 6 points 4 weeks ago

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

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[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 16 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Buttflapper@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] daddy32@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago

Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2142790/Fields_of_Mistria/

[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 16 points 4 weeks ago

I'm not a stardew fan but "this game is legit insane" is not a phrase that would get me excited for any game.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 14 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Are there any notable features that make it stand out from Stardew or others?

[–] wavebeam@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

The storyline is more mystical? There’s a larger focus on skills selections and cooking in this, and the relationships are more varied.

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[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing, does it have coop?

[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 76 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes you can raise chickens

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 48 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Lol this had me so confused at first hahaha

Game does not have co-op if anyone else was wondering 😅

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[–] sleepingoddish@lemmy.zip 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s on my wishlist too. I love the cow designs and how you can swim in some parts.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

You can swim? I love pixel games that let you swim!

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 11 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 weeks ago

Is the artist behind this a Stardew modder? The animals look a lot like Elle’s animals

[–] caut_R@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

I‘ve been playing it for like 12 hours so far, runs smooth on Deck, I’ve encountered no bugs so far, and I‘m not even in my first fall. If it didn‘t say early access, I wouldn‘t have been able to tell yet. I haven‘t regreted my purchase and it‘s honestly cheap even without a discount.

The camera scrolls so stupidly smooth it‘s a joy, played a bunch of pixel games lately and it‘s sadly not a given (Potion Permit and its random stutters and sudden CPU load increases).

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