I have been playing this game for quite a few months now and I absolutely love this game so much, it’s so cute and I love being able to mix and match aesthetics in this game….but tonight I noticed a few issues. One of which being when I opened my game, NONE of my crops/flowers were ready to harvest which is strange because normally on the first opening of the game all of them should be. Secondly I noticed the little fish that usually swim in the water were glitching and swimming in the street. I went to the App Store after closing and reloading the game to see if there was an update I missed but there wasn’t. So those two things make me feel like there is something glitchy going on. Also….. please create more land and house rooms. I have ran out of space to place/decorate things which makes me sad since that’s one of the main reasons why I enjoy this game. I don’t want to feel like I’ve “reached the end” and can no longer develop my farm, which will cause me to delete the game if I can’t design anymore. I don’t want to do that.

The art of the game is cute and the entire aesthetic is pleasant. However, the game’s potential to be very calming is undercut by the frustrating fact that it is difficult to play a game where just tapping on an object can do way too many things, and accidentally tapping on the wrong thing annoyingly diverts the game. It would be much better if there were, say, separate modes for different actions. For instance, if I wanted to move the plants on my farm around, I could press a button and enter a separate mode to do so, and then afterwards press that button again to exit the mode. That way, when I’m collecting the harvest from my plants, I don’t have to worry about accidentally moving them around. I also wouldn’t have to worry about the little pet standing too near an object or plant so that when I feed it, the game thinks I’m trying to move that object and the pet disappears.It’s also very frustrating that the game is set up mostly two-dimensionally and yet objects and plants can block one another! I want to be able to put rings of flowers around my trees, but I can’t because I won’t be able to harvest the flowers that I put behind the trees—not without the game thinking that I’m trying to move the trees around. Otherwise, the game is simple and fun. It just needs more work to make its interface more playable and less aggravating.

I really want to love this game but it feels incomplete. At first it feels like a cozy game in the vein of Harvest Moon or Stardew Valley. But after an hour or two it becomes clear that it’s more of an idle game with some elements that were originally pay to win. Plants take some unspecified amount of time to grow (15-20 minutes maybe?). There’s no way to speed them up and nothing to do while you wait except a mini game that can only played once an hour. All in all, this means there’s about 2-5 minutes of gameplay every 20 minutes. Which just makes it feel extremely shallow. In theory, you could spend that down time decorating. However, the decorating is currently bugged and won’t let you place items half the time and usually requires rebooting to fix it. There were one or two other bugs but this one sort of ruins the fun as collecting decorations is seemingly meant to be a big part of the fun. There’s also two types of currency. The one that’s needed to meet most objectives and refresh the minigame would presumably be premium currency if this wasn’t Apple Arcade. But as is, it’s just a currency that’s super slowly earned and makes the game more at a snail’s pace. More things to do, shorter cooldowns, easier earning of gems, and fixing the decorating bug (most would be fairly easy fixes) would make this a must own game. But right now it just feels like a half baked idea.

The game is cute but honestly kind of boring.. I’ve spent the last few days playing, I’m almost on level 7 and this is my input. First off the game is glitchy.. I’ve had a few times where I was decorating and it got stuck and wouldn’t let me put down my item or put it away so I had to close out the app and restart it. I’ve also had a couple times opening up my free presents and it never gave me anything- It skipped the opening and started the countdown for the next opening which is a bummer. The plants and animals are expensive and don’t give you much back in return, so they cost a lot then it takes a while to reciprocate the $$ and gems spent to purchase them, like over 500 coins for a tree just to have it give you ONE coin back when it’s time to harvest. Theres only one very boring mini game and honestly not much to interact with within the game, not to mention anytime you touch anything it automatically puts you in decorating mode which is incredibly annoying. I like games I can sit down and spend some time playing, with this one you open the game collect money from your produce and animals, feed your cat to collect your gems (which also costs in game $$) play the one mini game available, open your free presents then…… Wait. You get maybe 5 minutes of play time before you are out of things to do.