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Fae Farm Summer Game Fest Impressions

by on June 10, 2023
Fae Farm screenshot of a girl with her cute bubbly dragon waving to some friends

I’m not ashamed to say that I love cute games. If it is colorful, bright, and not too hard, it’s right up my alley. I also get bored with simplistic games. In Fae Farm, I might have just found the cozy gaming love of my life. It is bright, colorful, mega customizable, and packed to the gills with content. You will likely dig this game if you like farming sims, dating games, dungeon crawlers, deep crafting, active combat, collectibles, and character customization options for hours.

For my hands-on time with Fae Farm, I sat down with a team member to lead me through a specific set of demo tasks meant to showcase the many unique and amazing ways to interact with the world. But instead of doing that, I went totally rogue. There were hidden collectibles and a double jump that let me glide short distances to reach them, and my fate was sealed. My lovely guide directed me towards different game features when my chaotic energy brought me close to them, so I still got to delve into dungeons, craft, farm, fish, interact with NPCs and meet my many romantic options (of multiple races and genders).

I also discovered areas to use a variety of magical attacks and found places to capture collectible creatures. Instead of containing my chaos, my guide cheered me on for finding the routes to hidden treasure and traversing the world in a manner that denied the existence of paths. She was thrilled to see someone playing in an unexpected style, because the game is designed to be played how you like, not how the plot wants you to. You can interact with Fae Farm any way you prefer and engage in any tasks that catch your interest.

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Fae Farm features plenty of traditional farming sim elements. You clear land to plant, water, harvest, and sell crops. There are even spells and skills to speed up the process and avoid the slog common to many farming sims, but I barely touched that stuff. I spent a ton of time looking at craftable items, finding where the ingredients were, and hunting them down. There is a quick travel option to navigate the world, and teleportation in dungeons to take you to the floor of your choice. Each floor lists items that can be found there and the drop rates to get them. I popped straight to the floor with the best chance of dropping the materials I needed. After a short but intense bout of combat with enemies that projected their attack ranges, giving me barely enough time to dodge out of the way and dive back in to strike, I mined the minerals I needed. I took them to one of the many available workstations to refine them into usable ingredients.

After crafting, I took the time to customize the colors of every part of my new clock and find just the right space to place it in my home. Each type of item I could craft added to one stat or another, so designing your home isn’t just for aesthetics; it has real advantages. If you are interested in aesthetics, though, the amount of customization available for your character is so deep that I had to drop it right away, lest I use my whole 30 minutes on perfecting her look.

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The world of Fae Farm is vast and has new tasks to try anywhere you go. My rambling was rewarded with a taste of the many flavors on offer, even if I barely scratched the surface in my playtime. Every cozy RPG I’ve played does one or two things very well. Fae Farm incorporated all those great things into one game that will keep many of us company during rainy days and relaxing afternoons.

As we posted earlier today, Fae Farm is coming to PC (Steam and Epic) and Nintendo Switch on September 8th, 2023. Learn more and pre-order through the Fae Farm official website.

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Monica Rose

Monica Rose

Monica grew up with three older brothers in the days where games only had 3 save slots. She always loved games, but didn't really get into them until Zelda: Twilight Princess came out on the Wii. Since then she has been making up for lost time by playing any game shiny enough to draw her eye, and reading about the ones that failed to catch her magpie gaze. Now she combines her love of reading and writing with her love of games by proofreading for RPGFan.

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