Sun Haven Reviews

Over 50 hours into my game and save file disappeared. This is a known issue surrounding updates in this game and apparently nothing is being done about it. Official discord server hasn't had any responses from developers or support staff to even mention theyre working on the issue

The game gets buggier the further in you get. Everything becomes a shallow grind beyond a certain point. Me and my friends had a great time for 40 hours and that should be a thumbs up...but the last twenty hours were so bad they ruined the game Also learnt after purchase that the dev studio has been undertaking unethical business practices as detailed in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouSWPM4jfUY

As much as I love the content this game provides, I cannot and will not be supporting this studio ever again after the recent information that has come out about it. As an artist I hope the dev feels ashamed by indoctrinating big company scams into what they claim is an "indie" and "small" company. Pay people properly and actually credit them for their work you pos. To the people who worked on this and have not had their time in the light due to never having their credit or proper pay, thank you so much for the content you have provided us. The coders, writers, animators, and artists all put so much soul into this. The game is riddled with bugs and other just frustrating things that make it somewhat hard to play sometimes from what I have heard, but I have not seen many. You should go check out other replies if you would like to see what could possibly happen to game saves and the like. From my understanding the dev is more focused on shilling out more content rather than fixing prior content, as seen from the switch release.

I have a lot of hours in Sun Haven; I played it A LOT and this was after it was officially released. I seriously and honestly had a lot of enjoyment in this game (AT FIRST), but I can't recommend it anymore. Things I've always liked: 1. Story starts off fun and interesting, and you feel like you're actually making a difference. At least at first. 2. The graphics are lovely and colorful 3. I've bought plenty of fun DLC (its only aesthetics, and if I like a game, I throw money at you if you let me!) 4. The NPCs are many and it feels like you're involved in a big town and there's stakes to fixing everything! The game starts off okay. It's fun and the story is interesting, the graphics are lovely and colorful, and I loved meeting and talking to the NPCs in town. And then you realize... 1. There's no cohesive story. You abandon towns just to move onto the next one. Oh, you go back, sure, to buy things, to attend festivals, You might as well add in polygamy officially to the game because the dateable NPCs don't have follow through. Once their stories are done, they're done.... but there's new romanceable npcs in the next town... (see what i'm getting at? the previous towns/NPCs feel abandoned) 2. No QoL improvements that we've been asking for. After all this time, they still haven't figured out how to let you change the floors in houses?! 3. Bugs. SO MANY BUGS 4. They seriously push the DLC hardcore, even in-game. Like there's a whole section in the actual game that simply links to the steam DLC pages when you interact with it. It's like in-app purchases. Despite spending up on DLC myself, even this makes me cringe. Return to being the labor of love you once were; don't be afraid to interact with your fanbase and try to fix the problems we have. We're still here, we still want to play and give positive feedback. I fear, though, that this game is in the final stages (extending the game to other platforms) before being abandoned.

I really had high hopes for this game, I've been playing since early 2023. But unfortunately, the company seems to have given up on releasing actual updates and instead focuses on pumping out 7-13 dollar completely-cosmetic DLCs.

i love this game, i have almost 200 hours in it, it may even be one of my top favorite farming sims. all that said, i can not and will not recommend a game that so clearly does not care. we, the players, do NOT want more DLC and more story. what we want is for the game to work and the artists to get paid fairly AND CREDITED. my advice? not that the money hungry people in charge care, scale it back. focus on quality over quantity - thats what makes the other farming sims good and actually worth the consumers time, pay everyone on your staff fairly - we know you can, and for gods sake credit them. its really not hard.

Devs have gone radio silent after rightful criticism of their shady business practices and messy game development. Can't support a game or studio that refuses to properly pay or credit their workers and prioritizes squeezing out every penny they can out of their game without fixing it.

I'll start with something simple here. I like this game. It's a fun game. Unfortunately, it's plagued with DLC for things that should, instead, be things you obtain by playing the game. I've seen some things about mistreatment of their employees and paying piss-poor wages, which are never acceptable. Now, I think the game had great potential. The combat is solid and fun, the way you can use magic to water your crops, or fight monsters, having multiple farms available to you and a multitude of tools to upgrade to? Great stuff. The romances are not bad, the characters are attractive and lively and enjoyable. It's got some good comedic bits here and there. But I cannot recommend it. With all the bugs running rampant and not being fixed, with all the DLC for things that should just be available to obtain in the game at NO cost to you, at least, not in real life cash, and the management banning people from Discord for pointing out problems with the game? Just get Stardew Valley. We paid for that game once and got countless updates for free. This game? You pay $24.99, and then they want you to shell another $195.74 out for a bunch of cosmetic junk, all so they can get more money and NOT pay their employees. All in all? Decent cozy game. But not worth getting.

I enjoyed playing Sun Haven but now I can't recommend it when the company behind the games is pumping out more and more paid DLC that we don't need; instead, they should be improving their communication and actually releasing bug fixes/polishing of the actual game to the players. Also pay and credit the goddamn artist for this game; they deserve it.

I cannot in good conscience recommend a game studio that underpays its teams so severely, all that dlc money could easily solved that problem but they chose not to. Game has turned into a buggy mess, you can't ask about that in the discord without getting banned. Fuck em