I totally understand this, and I used to feel the same way but then I realized that these creators probably need the support if they are going to go from early access to full release. It really helps, and it wasn't really that much, $14. I canceled World of Warcraft And Hulu for a month because there was nothing to watch there anyway. That was more than enough to buy it. But I don't blame you at all of you don't want to support early access games! I totally understand

If you haven't yet, definitely check out Core Keeper!

Every time a shares something in the Stardew Valley genre, there's like a militant group of commenters who are outright hostile to that new game. And yes, I'm seeing that sprinkled in the comments on this post.

Oh definitely. It's really funny though because these keyboard warriors that keep criticizing any game that looks similar to Stardew Valley, doesn't realize that Stardew Valley faced those exact same criticisms when people said that crazy ape, the developer of Stardew, was heavily inspired by* harvest Moon. It was such a silly and absurd thing to say, but everyone started regurgitating it over and over again. Just because one game starts becoming successful people forget the other games that they were very similar to in the past

If people really wanted to go down the rabbit hole though, this all started when Farmville hit Facebook. That was the beginning of it all that I remember personally. Farmville made people lose their fucking minds. People were all over that shit, it was like cocaine. No one would shut up about it for years

What do you mean? Native Linux isn't that relevant these days. Most games run well through Proton, and some even better than on Windows. Judging by the protondb entry, you wouldn't notice on Linux that this was a windows game: https://www.protondb.com/app/2142790

I don't know how gaming on Mac works, but since I switched my home rig to Linux a couple of years ago, I have not once had a problem with installing a new game that doesn't have native Linux support^[1]. I wonder whether developers have learned that they can rely on Proton for their Linux support (for better or worse).

[1]: there was a point when Baldur's Gate 3 stopped working after a big update, but I fixed it by switching to Proton-GE, a forked version of Proton. https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom

This is by far the highest reviewed one I've seen lately. 8k reviews with 97% is insane. Some of the other early access games I've browsed look like abandon ware or something else

Yes you can raise chickens

1. it's a different flavor. Stardew is more like a farming sim, and a lot more rugged and rural farming feeling. Mistria is more anime themed and cozy feel, definitely geared towards chicks or those who like pretty aesthetics and cozy vibes. I also really LOVE the color palette, everything is gorgeous

2. Magic. Love the magic

3. The romance options are just better. They're more authentic, they're special

4. Less nuance/annoying stuff that Stardew has you have to mod out, like friendship levels that decrease over time and become annoying as fuck tbh

5. Less hardcore. Some stardew-ers have minmax strategies for everything and it's hilarious. Exact locations to put items in order to min-max the absolute biggest harvests

I'm still learning but Mistra is soooooooooooo much more fun

The storyline is more mystical? There’s a larger focus on skills selections and cooking in this, and the relationships are more varied.

You can swim? I love pixel games that let you swim!

What a bizarrely restrictive set of criteria that focus on distribution logistics, rather than game.

Ah yes, closed source, such a dealbreaker, as if 99% of the other games weren't.

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against open source games, it's just not a viable monetization strategy for most projects, and people gotta eat. There's reason why most open source games are either passion projects or old games that have been open sourced simply as an act of kindness towards the community since they generate pretty much no revenue.

I do agree that being closed source is a detractor to the game, but Stardew is also closed source. The comment, to me, implied that Stardew is open source, lol. The point seems orthogonal to a comparison critique of the inspiration game. Unless we are implying that games should be open source, complete, and available through other platforms generally and critique games from that point of view. I'm curious if there is any games that exist that fit that description? A game that is a cozy, charming farm simulator, is open source (GPL V3 if I can have my way), is in a source forge that would put it in a more mature development state, and is available pre-compiled outside of steam? That would be a game to behold. Perhaps if the developers see this traction, they may choose to implement some of these ideas. I think the game looks cute. I'll have to take a look.

This is why people don't like Lemmy.