Just started playing "Grow: Song of the Evertree", which came out on all the major platforms a couple of days ago. It's what's generally known as a 'cozy game'... ie relaxing with no pressure, just a kind of pottering around, go at your own speed type game.
It's made by the same dev that made a game called "Yonder: The Cloudcatcher Chronicles" which was a very beautiful, open world RPG. This one, though it has a similar, and equally beautiful art style (and music), I wouldn't really call a sequel as they're different types of games... this is more potter around doing various odd jobs (gardening, fishing, bug-catching etc, pets, as well as building and managing a village and presumably relationships etc... more Stardew Valley type stuff) while exploring a very large and vibrant world.
At the end of the day though I tried it I didn't really get into Yonder because I'm not really into exploration games, however immersive and beautiful they may be... and that was the main focus of that game, but this new one, as I said, seems more like Stardew Valley, which is what I was looking for, though it's a tough act to follow... I sunk over 1000 hours into Stardew, and I'd say it's the best game I've ever played, but it came time to move on, and I have been trying to find its replacement for a while now (without much success... the market's now flooded with Stardew-esque clones, but I haven't found one yet with the X Factor for me... here's hoping this will be it) Granted this is not strictly a farming game like Stardew, but it still looks like it will still tick a lot of the same boxes, if not all of them.
It's made by the same dev that made a game called "Yonder: The Cloudcatcher Chronicles" which was a very beautiful, open world RPG. This one, though it has a similar, and equally beautiful art style (and music), I wouldn't really call a sequel as they're different types of games... this is more potter around doing various odd jobs (gardening, fishing, bug-catching etc, pets, as well as building and managing a village and presumably relationships etc... more Stardew Valley type stuff) while exploring a very large and vibrant world.
At the end of the day though I tried it I didn't really get into Yonder because I'm not really into exploration games, however immersive and beautiful they may be... and that was the main focus of that game, but this new one, as I said, seems more like Stardew Valley, which is what I was looking for, though it's a tough act to follow... I sunk over 1000 hours into Stardew, and I'd say it's the best game I've ever played, but it came time to move on, and I have been trying to find its replacement for a while now (without much success... the market's now flooded with Stardew-esque clones, but I haven't found one yet with the X Factor for me... here's hoping this will be it) Granted this is not strictly a farming game like Stardew, but it still looks like it will still tick a lot of the same boxes, if not all of them.