Thank you. Trying to get this from group buys :-)

as opposed to someone else money?
i always wondered where i can get the "someone else money" is there a place to sign up? ;)

anyway, i won it 5 months. it was probably worth it, compared to other games i haven't had for yet.
i probably wouldn't have touched without the hype, then again, "wasted" some time on it.

if you have 1800, skip it, and play something else. fancy of MP game of TL2?

It's "awesome" for the life sim design and freedom of approach. It's basically sandbox appeal, combined with time-sensitive tasks and the feeling of developing a story for the character [through task interaction and courting NPCs, having children with those NPCs, etc].

The gameplay doesn't really change, though typically these games really expand once you get to the RPG areas and similar, and feel the world opening up around you. That aside, they're still basically just elaborate time-management games, even though they precede (and perhaps were a foundation for the creation of) that genre.

For me it's the constant progression, and (surprising depth). Plant a few seeds, water them daily. In your free time you can go to the mines to fight and/or mine ores, run around to find forageable wild plants to sell, or you can go fishing. The town has 18 ? NPC who each has a distinct personality, and by talking to them, giving them gifts they like (and not forgetting their birthday) makes them friendlier to you to the point of knowing their life, problems, likes. Romance options also have various events with ocassionally choices that triggered by being in a certain location in a weather/time of a day (They are not mandatory/required, so it's really nice surprise when you go to the mines during rain because what to do, and you find one of them under a tree because they were there when the storm started). and during each season you can take part in various fastivals, sales or celebrations.
Btw maybe a little hint would have been good in the game: a lot of stuff gradually unlocks during the game. Community centre's bundles unlock after a few days, your little cave in the farm will be usable after a season (maybe), a new location will be unlocked because earthquake, you'll get key for the sewers after collecting enough stuff for the museum, new location after reaching the bottom of the mines, etc. I think the game's main goal is to spend 1/3 -1/2 of your day with tending the farm if you have crops (you can make sprinklers later and such to save time) and in the other part to socialize, dwelve into the mines or something like that.
At first I also felt like the game is farming for having more money for farming (like farmville...) but it turned out to be a really nice game. Work to make your farm an animal farm with a few barns and sell cheese, or winery with berries and grapes, or make special honey with your bees - or just fish for money and don't care about your farm, all of them is viable just to play. Achivement / 100%-wise the goal is to do everything: get and ship all crops, all fishes, get a family, upgrade your house, get back the whole museum's collection, and finish every quest for the adventurer's guild (mosly kill X hundred/thousand of an enemy) but in my opinion the game is more about dropping into a (mostly) nice counry-side town's life, and making something out of the situation. And while the game has an evaluation point (3rd years spring maybe), it's not the end of the game, and it can be initiated later as well, nothing is lost.
About Tiny's comment "it is not relaxing imo": days are a tad short, so it can be really a little annoying that one did less than wanted, but there's always another day. Or the game can be modded to have different length days, depending on one's likes :)

Hehe, YES! Someone caught my subtle slightly unintentional pun... :)

Certainly sounds better than being covered in weeds...

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