Info about Song Of The Prairie: Official game description: Song of The Prairie is a 3D farm game. The prairie town at the end of the continent blessed by the remaining grace of Goddess, which makes this land far away from strife and brings enrichment. Prairie town was a sanctuary, but forgotten by people during the age of peace. A hero who yearn for a rural life passed the employment of a farm host. How to build the town is depending on yourself. Game missions are non-linear, you don’t have to finish everything. You can experience the fun of exploration. Harvesting giant fruits and crops. Taking care fantastic animals and dating with someone you like. Just enjoy you rural life here! Experience the fun of plantation -------------------------------- For the better experience of plantation, we prepared multiple growing stages and performance effects for plants. When you are hoeing, seeding, watering, you can feel that everything is changing because of your participation. Vast land is provided to farm, you can plant any plant you like if you want. Enjoy the happiness of harvest ------------------------------ Prairie town is blessed by goddess, everything was full of life. Vegetables and fruits will be very giant when mature. Every harvest is a payback to your hardworking! Breed fantastic animals ----------------------- Animals in Prairie town are not just common livestock. Except producing, those cultivatable animals are full of fantastic powers. Those power could help us better gaming. Construct and manage your farm ------------------------------ There are all kinds of decors in big and small over a hundred in total, including: fences, street lamps, pavilions and so on. You can decorate your farm area with these content by your preference. At the same time, the functional buildings in the town could be upgraded or modified to make their functions more powerful. Getting and out of the house without loading -------------------------------------------- Say good bye to loading when you get in and out of the house, say good bye to the annoying waiting for loading. Let exploration easier, and let gameplay smoother. Custom ------ Player could change avatar’s outlook at any time. Also there are lots of outfits and accessories for player to choose. But how to acquire these things are depending on your exploration. Friendly neighborhood --------------------- Be forgotten Prairie town have 24 characters to deeply explore. Every character has a unique personality. Have their good feeling, open their heart, ask out to date, maybe one of them could company you in your life. Inner Space, get into their hearts ---------------------------------- Inner Space is a very uniqe idea in game. What's her/his favorate? What's her/his past? What does she/he think about future? You could find answers in Inner Space. And more content are waiting for your discovery ----------------------------------------------- Release date: 31 Jul, 2024 Categories: Farming Simulation, Life Simulation, Exploration, Animal Husbandry, NPC Relationships & Romance, Base Building, Resource Management, Character Customization - Hardware Profile: No data Feature extractions: - Community Price: No data - Playtime Metrics: No data - Time-to-fun: No data - Player Archetypes: No data Below are summaries of things people say about the game per category. Each point is assigned a weight that represents how often it is mentioned across all reviews. What players like: - Charming, cute, and cozy aesthetic (weight 0.73): The game features a cute and colorful aesthetic with appealing character designs, beautiful landscapes, and relaxing music, creating a cozy and enjoyable atmosphere. Many reviewers specifically used the word 'cute' to describe the game's various elements, from characters and animals to the overall art style. - Engaging, addictive, and rich content (weight 0.61): The game offers a wealth of content, engaging gameplay, and high replayability, keeping players hooked for hours. The game is also easy to pick up and play, with a smooth and intuitive interface, making it accessible to a wide range of players. - Satisfying and diverse farming experience (weight 0.49): The game provides a satisfying farming experience with diverse activities, a well-balanced economy, and rewarding progression. Players can manage their farm, interact with the town, and complete quests, with the ability to hire helpers to automate tasks. - Responsive developers, active updates (weight 0.4): The developers are dedicated to updating the game, fixing bugs, and responding to player feedback, resulting in a stable and enjoyable experience. Many reviewers noted the team's responsiveness and commitment to improving the game. - Engaging NPCs with unique personalities (weight 0.32): The game features well-developed NPCs with unique personalities, backstories, and routines, making the town feel alive and engaging. The 'Inner World' mechanic adds depth to character interactions, allowing players to uncover secrets and build relationships in creative ways. - Unique and enjoyable animal designs (weight 0.09): The reviewer enjoys the unique animal designs that are tweaked versions of real animals. There is a fun variety of animals, with opportunities to acquire them for free. - Interesting and innovative mining mechanics (weight 0.08): The game features interesting and innovative mining mechanics, offering a different experience from standard mining games. The mines are visually appealing and provide a constant supply of resources, encouraging exploration and progression. - Town upgrades and helper system (weight 0.08): Players can upgrade their houses and businesses, help villagers, and hire workers, adding depth and enjoyment to the gameplay. The town map is a seamless, open world with no loading screens when entering buildings. - Fun and interesting dating system (weight 0.08): The game offers a fun and interesting relationship system with a diverse group of bachelors/bachelorettes for dating. Players can go on dates at several locations and do activities to gain intimacy, unlocking actions like hand-holding and embracing. - Simple and enjoyable fishing mechanic (weight 0.07): The fishing mechanic is easy and enjoyable, without the need for specific lures, making it accessible and rewarding. The fishing system is well-done with many fish types, low difficulty, low stamina consumption, and good money rewards, making it a good way to earn money early on. - Satisfying resource gathering (weight 0.06): Gathering resources is satisfying due to visible progress on rocks, trees, and growing plants. The reviewer enjoys playing the game to relax and return to nature. - Relaxing farming/life-simulation game (weight 0.05): The reviewer enjoyed the game to some extent, as they like farming/life-simulation games such as Stardew Valley and the My Time series. The reviewer describes the game as relaxing. Common complaints: - Numerous game-breaking bugs and crashes (weight 0.92): The game is plagued with numerous bugs, glitches, and crashes, many of which are game-breaking and prevent progress. These issues range from disappearing quests and items to save file corruption and the inability to load the game. Many reviewers uninstalled the game due to the severity of these problems. - Clunky, unpolished, and poorly optimized (weight 0.66): The game feels unpolished and clunky, with poor optimization leading to lag and performance issues. Unskippable cutscenes and animations disrupt gameplay flow, while controls are often unresponsive and unintuitive. Many reviewers feel the game resembles an unfinished early access title. - Repetitive and uninspired gameplay (weight 0.53): The game lacks originality and innovation, relying heavily on repetitive farming mechanics. Farming is slow and tedious, and the game doesn't offer anything new compared to other farming simulators. Some reviewers found the gameplay loop boring after only one in-game day. - Lacks guidance and clear instructions (weight 0.26): The game lacks sufficient guidance and clear instructions, making it difficult for players to understand game mechanics and complete quests. Quest descriptions are often vague or incorrect, and there is a lack of in-game tutorials and hints. This forces players to rely on external resources and trial-and-error. - Unappealing and outdated character models (weight 0.23): Many reviewers find the NPC character models visually unappealing, outdated, and inconsistent in style. Animations are stiff and unnatural, and character designs lack detail and uniqueness. Some reviewers find the character designs to be 'cringe-worthy'. - Poorly balanced stamina system (weight 0.18): The stamina system is poorly balanced, with stamina depleting too quickly during basic activities. Upgraded tools consume excessive stamina, negating their benefits and forcing players to switch between different tools. This creates a frustrating and tedious gameplay experience. - Dialogue issues and inconsistencies (weight 0.11): The game suffers from various dialogue issues, including missing spaces between words, grammatical errors, and inconsistent voice acting. Some dialogue choices are awkward, and character speech animations are often out of sync with the audio. Some reviewers found the English language dialogue to be horrible. - Repetitive and tedious mine design (weight 0.1): The mine is repetitive and tedious, with limited resource variety and long loading times between floors. The mine's depth is unnecessary, as the resources found in the lower levels become irrelevant later in the game. The most reliable way to descend in the mine is by jumping, which costs health. - Buggy and limited character creation (weight 0.09): The character creation process is plagued with bugs and limited customization options. Some reviewers experienced issues with saving selections, changing colors, and controller input. The initial character creation process is confusing and difficult to complete. - Limited customization options (weight 0.08): The game offers limited customization options for the farm, house, and character. Players cannot move or destroy farm facilities once they are built, restricting farm layout flexibility. The map feels small and somewhat restrictive for a farming game. - Tedious early game progression (weight 0.07): The early game can be tedious due to limited funds and a lack of helpers. The main storyline lacks specific tasks, requiring players to figure things out independently. Some reviewers consider the game unfinished upon its 1.0 release, similar to Coral Island. Gameplay feedback: - Core farming sim mechanics present (weight 0.33): The game features core farming sim mechanics such as farming, fishing, mining, animal husbandry, and resource gathering. Players manage a farm, interact with NPCs, and complete quests to develop the town. Some reviewers felt the game relies too heavily on established genre tropes without adding unique elements. - Helpers automate farm tasks (weight 0.17): The game features helpers and farmhands that can be hired to automate tasks such as farming, animal care, and resource gathering. These helpers can be assigned to various buildings and roles, streamlining farm management and town development. - NPC relationships and 'mind space' (weight 0.11): The game features relationship-building mechanics with NPCs, including dating, gift-giving, and unique 'inner world' or 'mind space' interactions. A calendar tracks festivals and birthdays, while a bulletin board offers tasks to improve relationships. - Befriend and capture wild animals (weight 0.04): Players can befriend and capture wild animals instead of only buying them. Animals can be ridden and their affection level can be increased by feeding and petting them. - Mine exploration with limited combat (weight 0.04): The game includes a mine with multiple levels to explore, containing resources and a boss fight. Combat is minimal, with the mine primarily serving as a resource-gathering area. - 'Stealing' mechanic raises concerns (weight 0.03): The game incorporates a 'stealing' mechanic where players can take items or clothing from NPCs. This mechanic was viewed negatively by some reviewers, particularly concerning the game's potential audience. - Meaningful tool and house upgrades (weight 0.02): Players can upgrade their tools and house. Tool upgrades feel useful and impactful. - Unique hammer mining mechanic (weight 0.02): The game features a unique mining mechanic using a hammer instead of a pickaxe. Players can also drop to the next level for a health loss, making mining less tedious. - Repetitive gameplay after Year One (weight 0.02): After the first year, the gameplay becomes repetitive, with only a new monthly story mission each season. - Conflicting opinions on map size (weight 0.02): The map size is a point of contention, with some reviewers finding it a great size and others feeling it is a bit small. Performance notes: - Excessive loading times (weight 0.24): Players are experiencing long loading times when starting the game, loading saves, and transitioning between areas. This is a common complaint, with some players reporting loading times of several minutes. This can cause concern that the game has frozen. - Graphical issues and glitches (weight 0.2): Some players have reported graphical issues such as pixelated edges, strange white outlines, and incorrect texture loading. One player reported that vertical sync was off by default, which caused the opening sequence to be heavily glitched until it was turned on. - Runs smoothly for some players (weight 0.07): Some reviewers have reported that the game runs smoothly without bugs or lags, even on older PCs. Controller functionality is also working as expected. These reviews are in contrast to the majority, which report performance issues. - Convenient infinite backpack feature (weight 0.01): The game has an infinite backpack with automatic sorting and quick access to farm tools. This is a convenient feature that helps players manage their inventory more easily. - Warm, healing art style (weight 0.01): The game's art style leans towards a warm, healing aesthetic, which can affect shadow display. This is a subjective point, but it is worth noting that the art style can affect the overall look and feel of the game. Recommendations: - Unpolished; needs more development (weight 0.88): Multiple reviewers feel the game is unpolished and not ready for full release, especially on consoles. They suggest waiting for further optimization and bug fixes, indicating a need for more development time. Some reviewers mention the game feels like it's still in Early Access. - Mixed reviews due to issues (weight 0.85): Many reviewers recommend the game, while others advise caution or outright discourage purchase due to prevalent bugs, translation issues, and a feeling that the game was released prematurely. Some suggest waiting for patches or sales, indicating a conditional recommendation based on the game's state and price. A few reviewers mention review bombing to get the developers to fix bugs. - Requests for more content (weight 0.03): Reviewers suggest adding more content to the game, such as more tasks, improved hired help functionality, map expansions with functional buildings, and a greater variety of crops. These suggestions aim to enhance the gameplay experience and provide more long-term engagement. - Compared to Rune Factory (weight 0.03): Some reviewers draw comparisons to Rune Factory, noting similarities in gameplay and style, while others criticize the game as a poor imitation. This suggests that the game's success may depend on how well it executes familiar mechanics from other games in the genre. - Resource and save issues (weight 0.02): Some reviewers report that resource production feels artificially reduced, leading to boredom. Others mention save and tool loss issues, which can make the game unplayable. These issues directly impact player progression and enjoyment. Other player notes: - Early access, buggy, incomplete (weight 0.1): The game is in early access and feels incomplete, with numerous bugs causing anxiety for some players. However, developers are reportedly committed to fixing these issues, and reviewers are willing to re-evaluate their scores upon improvement. Some reviewers feel that version 1.0 resembles an early test version. - Appealing hero-to-peace plot (weight 0.03): The game features a retired hero working as a therapist in a rural town, while also engaging in activities like fishing, mining, and farming. The core concept of a hero transitioning to a peaceful life is appealing to reviewers. - Varied character relationships/encyclopedia (weight 0.03): The game features varied character relationships that are tracked in a character encyclopedia. Players can build friendships or romantic relationships with characters, and a map shows character locations. - Missing in-game encyclopedia (weight 0.02): The game lacks a way to review early-game tutorial information, making it difficult to remember mechanics. Reviewers suggest adding an encyclopedia-like feature to look up information. - Outfit variety, gifting available (weight 0.02): The game offers a variety of outfits that can be gifted to NPCs. Reviewers desire more outfits and the ability to give hats and same-sex clothing to townspeople. - Inventory/Quest planning mechanics (weight 0.02): The inventor character has a large inventory, useful for quests. The guild board shows quests for the following week, aiding item saving. - Binary gender, no same-sex marriage (weight 0.02): The game features binary gender options and lacks same-sex marriage due to censorship issues with the developers. This may be a point of contention for some players. - Translation has minor issues (weight 0.01): The English translation has minor issues but is generally understandable. This could impact the player's immersion and understanding of the story. Emotions: No emotions}