Everdream Valley - Casual Game Review

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Everdream Valley

It is a farming adventure game where you grow crops, raise animals, and explore the island. Developed by Mooneaters, and published by Untold Tales, and VARSAV Game Studios. This key was given to me by the developers through a program called Lurkit, so thank you so much for the key!

Background

Like most games, you get left somewhere by your parents. This time Mom drops you off to go help your aging grandparents. Their farm is in disrepair, and they just need some help as they can’t do as much as they used to be able to do. Their chickens need tending, the sheep are lost and the garden needs to be weeded and watered.

Tools  

There are a wide range of tools. Some you later have to unlock from quest progression. But there is a watering pail to water your plants, a ho to dig more places to plant crops. Shovel to dig out plants to move them, this includes putting a whole tree in your pocket but also digging up on rocks that x marks the spot for clothing and items. Pickaxe to mine rocks.  Buckets and jars to milk cows and goats, shears to well shear sheep and alpacas. Bee smokers to get honey without getting stung. Whistle to have your dog go a certain place, cat toy to get your cat to go somewhere and increase its affection. Tent to sleep anywhere. Sword to wack weeds and grass. Axes to chop trees. Basket to collect berries and crops faster. Camera to take pictures. Bug net to catch beetles and butterflies. Flute to have animals follow you. Hammer to build and fix things. Magnifying glass to rename/name animals. Saddle to ride horses.

Tasks

The first few tasks you have are to make boxes for the chickens to lay their eggs, and to go find and corral the sheep in a pen. This of course later includes getting more animals on the farm.

Map

Your map is a giant clouded area that you have to unlock. And find that some places can only be reached after repairing the bridges.

Help

Sometimes grandma and grandpa just have quests for you after completing another, other times going somewhere or seeing something can unlock them as well.

There is a seller where you can buy and sell things and animals, once you sell him something he’ll stock that item as well. I found it a little useful to sell him hay and grass so that I could get at least a little of it from him. Most items restoke after 3 days or is it 5 I can't remember.

More Gameplay

You can learn various items to build, which can be built on the workbench. Sometimes you need planks and will have to saw wood at the saw. The saw, cooking station, and getting things from animals like wool and milk all have mini-games to them. You can fast do the action for resources now, but if you do the mini-game you get more of the item than just one.

Eating food can increase your max stamina while getting hurt can decrease it. So stay away from geese and bees.

You can only raise your stamina 3 bars with fruit after that you need to eat cooked items to raise it further. Eating something will replenish your stamina as well.

You have to sleep a night or the wolves will come and get you. Pretty much you’ll wake up the next day without a dream. You have a dream each night. Sometimes they are quest dreams to progress you in the story most include a mini-game, other times you spin a wheel and do a mini-game. Complete those mini-games to get resources. For instance, if you win the horse min game you get hay bails and carrots, while doing the duck one you get more duck population.

Thoughts

Right now I’m working on collecting two of each animal like Noah's Ark as there are different variations you can get from the merchant.

Now there were a few things that ticked me off. The game likes to crash randomly. So I’m glad that it sometimes auto-saves. I feel it does it while jumping more than anything. It crashed as I jumped through the map once, and another time it crashed as I was trying to place something and I jumped over a fence. It’s crashed a few other times as well. The horses don’t jump, I was hoping to use the saddle and jump over the fence, but nope. The quest like to rotate on their own and be all the same color on the map, so you have to deselect them and reselect them so they are different color markers.  

I loved this game I played it until I finished the main storyline, there were also even more quests to do that the ending statistics said I hadn’t finished. Plus you can also set personal quests like I did with trying to get two of every animal. 


Want to check out my video review of the game? (I also cosplayed in it)



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