For a long time Rune Factory 3 was my favorite until I played Rune Factory 4. There are multiple reasons, but here are my favorites:

It’s not very scientific. We know that the barge is a few hundred, if not over a thousand kilometres (miles for the Americans) off the coastline. I don’t know where all the satellites in orbit are, but I bet there not a lot of good civillian coverage out in the middle of nowhere.

SpaceX is more concerned about capturing the landing than streaming it. Previous videos can been seen in pretty high quality, but remember that this is a barge in the middle of the ocean. I doubt they are in optimal range of any satellites in the area, plus they are sending a lot of wireless communications between the…

More specifically HM: Friends of Mineral Town X HM: 64 X Terraria

It is in no way closer to Rune Factory than Harvest Moon. Rune Factory relies heavily on the combat and exploration parts of the game to progress character wise and story wise. Combat is a thing in Stardew Valley, but its feels Zelda like, and is not required at all to advance the story.

I don’t know what happens at these combines, but I really want to see something like this happen:

I’m angry that the top GiF isn’t synced with the bottom GiF for some reason.

I really, really want to be playing or watching someone play it right now, but I also want to go through it on my own and discover everything myself. I feel so conflicted.

“There is in fact a time-related bug (a self-check uses time functions to see if game wasn’t cracked by pirates) which was not fixed in time (because we have little to no communicating with Oovee). The bug was fixed a day ago and should be uploaded to Steam - I don’t know what actually prevents Oovee from going with…

Tl;dr - Pavel put a time bomb in the code so pirated versions of the game would crash eventually. He claims he had a fix and planned to update the game, but Oovee would’t respond to him. Oovee claims they found the bug a while ago, and are working with Pavel to deploy a fix.

Wait, you can root through neighbours garbage cans?!

Fishing is really hard, but also really fun! You’ll catch a lot of garbage until you get your first level or two in fishing, but even when you catch a fish it’s hard!

Most Harvest Moons don’t have overall time limits. Some have one of a year in which you must marry by, but only a few have ones on which the game ENDS at a certain date (A Wonderful Life, I’m looking at you!)

There is combat, but not in the way you think. In the mines, which you go into to find ores and gems, there are monsters that will attack you. You are given a sword by an old man in the cave (yes!), and can buy better swords and equipment, but it’s more in line with Zelda than RF in terms of combat. Other than the…

It’s less about the mechanics being similar, and more about the freedom to do what you want. Yes, there’s farming, yes there is combat, but relating the two would be wrong. I have said that the mechanics are like Friends of Mineral Town, and the story in line with HM 64, but it’s neither of those. Just because it…

This game is legit. I picked it up thinking it would be a nice HM clone. Then I started the game. I woke up in the house. I turned on the fireplace. Shocked. I picked up the cup on the table. Awe. Then I went outside.

The game is really about energy management early on. Do I spend all my energy farming to earn money and increase the farming stat, or do I have a small farm and devote the rest to crafting or fishing?

This one is tricky, as co-op is always a difficult feature to add. But if you trust the developer, buy now but wait until it’s added. You can support him and have the game in your steam library to remind you that it exists, rather than forgetting about it.

They’re like the power berries, they exist but are super rare. By the time you can get to them, you usually have a good set up going already.

It draws heavy on storytelling elements of HM 64. It’s a nice town and everyone is nice, but the town isn’t in it’s best shape, the community center is in disrepair, the fisherman is worried that when he retires, no one will take over his business, the major corperation is buying land ect. It’s a lot more grounded in…