Oh you’ll learn quick enough that beneath the cozy shell lies madness.

Also, spring berries are sold at the egg festival on the 13th for 100G apiece. I like to plan for them. Without speed gro fertiliser you’re only getting two crops in before the end of the month, but they are still the most profitable spring crop. With the speed gro you can get from the spring crops bundle, you can get an extra crop if you turn in the bundle, plant, and fertilise the day of the festival.

If you’re not interested in optimising, just play and have fun. Outside of two cutscenes in the first year, you won’t miss anything. Everything is doable just as easily in year 20 as year 1.

But if you are interested in optimising…

1. Don’t let your farm get too big too quickly. You’ll spend all your time watering.
2. Fishing can be amazingly lucrative in the single player early game.
3. Mining should be your primary activity until your farm is automated.
4. Don’t donate your first dinosaur egg or your first prismatic shard. You’ll get more.
5. Basic sprinklers are a trap. Wait for quality.
6. Berries are great first year crops. Especially in 1.6 given the addition of a new way of processing them. But don’t forget to grow a bit of everything.
7. Resist the temptation to build a glorious hoard until the second year. Profits and bundles are the most important things in the first year.
8. But that being said, never sell resources. Don’t be afraid to buy them either (especially in the first year).
9. Check the travelling cart every Friday and Sunday. High value items are red cabbage, rabbit’s feet, and truffles. Getting these from the cart instead of producing them yourself will greatly aid in getting the bundles done earlier.
10. make sure to plant a pomegranate and apple tree as early as you can manage in summer. Plan for a pig before the second week of fall.
11. Fish are seasonal, and appear in different locations. However, outside of the legendary fish, none are unique to spring. This means you can delay worrying about fish bundles until summer. But you can’t miss any more seasonal fish after that.

Way ahead of you.

If you only play one JRPG in your life, make it Chrono Trigger.

If you do, don’t judge the franchise based on the first game. Silent Hill 2 is a very different game.

It was decent when it was released. It had some great ideas that were only really realised in the second game. I think playing through it these days would be a bit of a slog and I’m not sure I would recommend it for a modern audience. I might suggest starting with 2, and if you need to play more, then play the first and third games (in that order). Everything after can be safely skipped.

Your tastes are a little different than mine. It’s rare for me to play a CRPG. But on your current game list, Silent Hill 2 stood out to me. There’s a reason that the game is universally loved. I’m kind of waiting for the remake to do another playthrough, but it’s honestly a pretty short game. I might also suggest giving the PC version a go. Silent Hill Enhanced Edition is reportedly extremely good, although I haven’t played it myself.

Honestly, it’s not the taxes that kill me. It’s what they do with the money.

Still heavily involved with stardew valley 1.6. I’m not playing any multiplayer games, but I have been dabbling with a bit of suzerain. I’ve pissed off pretty much everyone who isn’t a radical leftist, and I suspect that I’m about to be ousted in a military coup soon. It’s fun.

Probably start writing something about how the game romanticises capitalism, then pop off to the pub or play another day and never finish writing it.

Yeah. It’s basically free DLC. It adds a lot of new mechanics and items, and some new in-game events. It’s changed the game quite a bit.

Denuvo is a hard pass for me. Which is truly a pity, as it was #1 on my wishlist for a very long time.

I’m playing a lot of Stardew Valley right now. It’s been a rough year, and the new patch is exactly the kind of thing I want in my life right now.

For the upcoming year, I’m very much looking forward to Frostpunk 2 (I played the beta last week, and it was great), and the upcoming Victoria 3 DLCs/patches.

Yeah, when I started playing, many hundreds of hours ago, I thought oxygen was going to be the focus of the game. Then I started to lose bases to the creeping heat death… Then material shortages… Now it’s basically a materials science sandbox, where I transfer heat around to do useful things. It’s a really unique game.

I’ve been playing Victoria 3 and a bit of Oxygen Not Included. I mostly play strategy and city builders these days. But I still have Zelda in my backlog (I’m about half done), as well as Assassin’s Creed: Mirage.

I guess my most recently completed game would be Dave the Diver, as most of what I play are infinite time sinks. It’s a fun game, and I loved the cast of characters. It was about the right length I think, and the game ended right when I was starting to get a little bored of it. I might pick it up again when the DLC is released though.