Fae Farm Reviews

Love this game, loved playing it with my partner as a happy little after work game, now that they're taking away multiplayer, there's no point in us playing it, major regret with buying it :( Would like to know why Phoenix Labs couldn't have future proofed and made a lan functionality.

While the game itself is really good, I simply cannot recommend it due to the fact that it's filled to the brim with glitches and bugs. Some are minor, some are huge. Minor and medium issue examples: Enemies despawning, or glitching to a different location Enemies flying in the air. Rocks disappearing but still having a hit left. Items not being picked up despite being in range for a while. Almanac entries resetting in multiplayer every time you re-enter. Having to sit through cutscenes in the mine(s) every time you re-enter. Being stuck loading when going into the fae realm having to force shut the game down. Queued items in machines disappearing for some players. Queued items in machines turning into question marks. And finally a major issue: Wayshrines (teleport points) randomly locking and unlocking for random players working for random locations for players and so on. It's a huge mess and sadly ruins the game the further you progress as they become quite needed to play without having to spend eternity just running somewhere. And all of these are just examples of issues I've personally encountered TL:RD Way too many bugs and glitches ruins the game. Gets worse the longer you play

I get that this company got gutted out, that's really unfortunate but removing a game feature people paid for is an absolute joke! Literally only got this to play with my partner. You sold this as a multiplayer game and now you pull off a bait and switch... Lesson learnt, Phoenix Labs can't be trusted, will avoid any future games you develop or publish.

The only thing great about this game was the multiplayer and they took that a way.

It's really a shame that the narrative, NPCs, and quests are so dull because the gameplay is LIGHT YEARS beyond the competition. This may be the first farming sim that doesn't just copy Stardew verbatim and assume that that's good gameplay. There are an astounding number of quality of life choices. Movement and mining is actually fun. You can craft potions that impact the gameplay. Combat is slightly less than terrible which is really good for this genre. In terms of the actual gameplay loop, this game is incredible. But as others have said, the dialogue is nauseatingly boring. The characters might as well not even exist. The quests are utterly pointless and don't even reward you anything. A lot of them are literally just "go talk to that guy" and when you do it's like "woooohoooo quest completed! Great job!".... why? So if you can just ignore all the stuff that would give a game like this some amount of soul, the rest of it is really fun.

Sadly, on September 10, 2025 this game will become abandonware. Updates have already ceased, developers have been laid off and online co-op will be disabled. It could have been a nice, cozy game with some quirks to iron out. Unfortunately as of now I cannot recommend buying it anymore.

Who stealth bombs their multiplayer servers going down on the steam store page's description? If it's important make it more obvious. Private servers are not an impossible thing yet this was the option you guys chose. Stop Killing Games isn't getting popular for no reason. If it's expensive for developers to make a game playable after they abandon it, It's also expensive for players to be purchasing games to then discard them later unwillingly.

I bought this game to play with my fiancé. I have had it for about a month. We bought it during the steam summer sale. We were really enjoying it but they are dropping multiplayer entirely in less than a month. There was no mention of this when I bought the game. They advertised this as a multiplayer game, and it is why we bought it. As of today, all of their promotional material on the steam page still heavily focuses on multiplayer (trailers, gameplay footage, and images). They "stealthily" removed all mention of multiplayer from the page like they didn't lie to everyone that bought the game previously, and recently, as a multiplayer game. I would have given this game a thumbs up but I can't knowingly support this game after what Phoenix Labs is doing to their customers and supporters.

Incredibly fun game, my wife and I really enjoyed the game. Unfortunately I must now do my due diligence and protect others. This is not the first game Forte Labs has destroyed after their conquest of Phoenix Labs. First they completely stripped apart and ruined Dauntless, now they leave us with a single player game and no way to play with friends even by hosting a server on your own ports. I promise you if they could have stripped this game down to absolutely nothing, made you buy all of your farm and tool upgrades, buy every cosmetic, buy your faerie wings, all with real cash. They would have done it without any regret. I will now leave a small snippet from my scathing review on Dauntless to serve as a plea and a warning for anyone that comes after and finds this game, or any game owned by former Phoenix Labs before Forte Labs came and ruined it all. This has to stop, we can not continue to support this or we will continue to lose everything. "Please if you care even the tiniest bit about yourself and the gaming industry, do not buy this game and fall prey to it, please do not support Forte Labs acquisition of Dauntless, and please do not continue to support this predatory practice these companies are following that is quickly ruining the gaming industry as a whole."

Dropping multiplayer support. That was the only reason i got the game...