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How many stinkers did you play this year?
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You say that like it's something to be ashamed of. "Casual" is an underrated genre, because sometimes, it's nice to just take your time and enjoy the experience. Life has enough complexities that escaping to a world of simplicity and calm can be truly rewarding.
Oh, for sure. But so what if it's "not really serious?" Isn't that kind of the point of the Casual genre? Play the games you like; don't listen to a bunch of tryhard, self-important gatekeepers.
The beauty of it is gaming is all of those things! There's something for everyone, even down to revisiting old formats (see Moonring).
I think it's because Stardew has a lot of RPG elements. Developing relationships with the townspeople (romantic and friendship), figuring out the lore, etc. Lots of games that try to replicate Stardew do the farming / labor stuff and call it quits. I know there are probably some people that go into that game only doing farming, but most people I've met who are fans of it like the lore stuff.
If you don't want gaming to feel like work, maybe stop playing labor simulators. Like, isn't the point of those games to make you feel like your working whatever job they're "simulating"?
Clearly there are some games that do it better.
this is such a mood. i’m still waiting for the next stardew valley.
I am not an expert on SDV, but my wife plays basically every HM-like out there, and her take is that Barone focused so heavily on the 'economy' balance in SDV that all of the activities feel like they're worth doing, so it doesn't become "only farming", or "only adventuring", etc, like many others do. Even just picking up wild plants feels worth it when you drop them in the sale bin in the evening.
I think MTaP and to a lesser extent MTaS both really carried over a lot of the complexity from Planet Explorers, Pathea's first game they released internationally. It's a survival crafting game, with a LOT of complexity (e.g. manual, voxel-based weapon and vehicle designs). I don't think it worked well in combination with other systems like farming being very underdeveloped (in MTaP especially).
My Time at Portia and My Time at Sandrock (sequel). They're both on Switch.
Yeah, if you didn't enjoy MTaP I wouldn't recommend it. :)