Sprout Valley Reviews

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Boring. No story.

The temptation of the cheap games during the winter sale led to me acquiring Sprout Valley. A game that I thought was a bargain turned out to be the dullest sim game that I’ve ever encountered. Words that I do not use often when encountering a bad game. Being a customer of simulation games means that I’m constantly playing them when the mood strikes me. The various issues I had while playing with them is either dull gameplay that suffers from grinding, limited character dialogue, unengaging gameplay and being unoriginal. Sprout Valley is just the worst life sim that has all of the issues that I’ve listed here. The only thing that it has done well in my opinion is the game displaying the kickstarter backers in a letter read by Nico. Having them displayed in a letter that Nico read and thanked via game dialogue is cute and clever. I suppose the graphics are good enough but still, good enough graphics and one clever idea do not absolve this game’s sins. Sins that most simulation games suffer from due to no one thinking to change the formula up. If you’re honestly serious about buying a game to while away the time then buy any other game. At least try to waste your time with decent entertainment. Being cheap doesn’t get you the time back. My suggestions to you would be to splurge and buy a better game like Before The Green Moon, Stardew Valley, or any other game but Sprout Valley. The worst suggestion that I have for someone looking for a bargain is to sail the high seas. Hear my words about Sprout Valley, o poor gamer of no money. “There are better uses of your time and cash than playing a cheap game that a dev shat out to make money. Play and buy better games that are fun, respect your time, worth your money, and support creative developers. In other words, be better than this old geezer.”

I want to recommend this game, I really do. You'd think with 32 hours in it, it would be a no brainer. It's a cute little farming sim, where you play as Nico, an anthropomorphic cat, who buys an island and moves to it to live a quiet life and fishing, gardening, and crafting. However, that's about it. You never directly meet the firs NPC you're introduced to, and there are two others, technically: the shopkeeper you can come across on other islands, who you never converse with, and Luna. The game has a short, singular, central quest, which requires you to progress your different skill trees to unlock seeds and crafting recipes to fill bundles. Once that quest is done, you have no other objectives given by the game, though you can continue to customize your island. It has a few forgivable bugs here and there. However, I'm very frustrated to find that you literally cannot 100% the game, as there Are no other villagers to meet, and you cannot unlock the achievement for completing the game. Maybe that's petty of me, but as someone who wanted to slam through another cozy title and set it down once I had Completed it, I don't know that I can forgive that when I haven't been able to find anything indicating when those achievements will be completable, if ever. tl;dr cute but there are other, similar titles with a bit more (re)playability, and no impossible-to-unlock achievements, if that's a bother for you.