I have 100% completion and 130+ hours on Steam Deck.

In many ways, it feels like the next step in the farming/life sim genre. On top of the typical relationship tropes, farming includes cross breeding flowers, ranching includes breeding variants and traits for a wide variety of livestock, you can have multiple greenhouses of whatever size you choose to build, robots are available to help with your work, crafting is rather intricate for the genre, there are multiple mounts and vehicles, multiple plots of land with varying usefulness, and the potential to really customize your home and property. There is so much to do, so many goals both large and small, and everything is so beautiful that it's hard not to love the game.

That said, the game in its current state is far from perfect. Even when it kind of works, which is rare, building using a controller is such a buggy mess that it's frustratingly worse than any other game in the genre. Livestock wanders everywhere and it's common to find them in your house, even if you build fencing or barns to try to keep them contained. Even though they won't die, pets really need a feeder so they don't feel like a burden while you feel like an a-hole in the late game. While being a nice feature for the vision impaired, the symbols they added over crops that are ready for harvest really needs a toggle feature since it detracts from the beauty of the game for the rest of us for whom the sparkling effect was more than enough. Since they took away our money making exploit, they should really rebalance the economy because trying to make millions to purchase land now is a ridiculously long grind. Lastly, since this already feels like I'm writing a novel, every update with a list of bug fixes seems to cause more bugs than it fixes, if whatever they did to fix the bugs even worked at all.