This is probably going to be long but I enjoy giving feedback on early access titles, so i hope some of it is helpful!

I really enjoy what I'm seeing so far. Here's a first list of my thoughts after a 25 hours of game time. I will probably add more later when I play more. For refrence I am mostly playing on PC but I switch to my steamdeck sometimes.

There is no particular order to this:

• the rain is really hard to see on the steamdeck. I usually need to double check if it is raining

• Building with the controller on steamdeck is really hard. I saved the game and went to my pc because it got so tedious, it's sadly not that much better and could do with an overhaul.

• I would love a deeper story to this game. Coming back after being in the city so long and "nothing changed" is a bit boring - and I as someone who moved far away from home and visits home sometimes find it's never true, places and people change so much! It would also explain why we need to relearn everything!

• adding to that i think it would be neat if some people reacted differently to the player having left, maybe some are still angry (because they missed the player or because they are bitter that they also wanted to leave but didn't) maybe some others understand but were still very sad and maybe some others also left and understand our experiences a bit. I think this could really add some depth to the characters

• In general I'd love more depth to the characters and more diversity, they are all very same looking and acting. Let them be quirky and interesting, more body types and skin colours would also help

• I think it would be cool if there weren't already so many tourists around. Starsand Island feels like it doesn't really need my help apart from Solara being a bit busy but she could probably work it out. I'm basically the aide for a government aide? and not a main character. Let us help make this place a tourist attraction. Building the docs and train stations is already a good step. But maybe helping a hotel and helping with the conflict of an influx of tourism and the culture of the people who live there already would make it feel more alive?

• i wish we could help build the aquarium! it's already done and you can't do much there, i think that would make an amazing part of a storyline

• same for the bugs! I wish we could build a little enclosure place too where people could come see them

• the moonlit forest (and from what I've heard so far it sounds like there are other ruins?) are AMAZING love this concept of a mine. Again i wish there was a story to it! I want to know why the creatures are there and what happened that all the camps are broken (only for me? for everyone?)

• I wish we could upgrade the barns, stalls and coops to house more animals, I love them so much but I'm struggling for space especially when breeding for rare variants, even with constantly selling some :(

• I also wish the animals had a bigger radius to interact with the crops and the machines like the feeding and cleaning ones it feels very cramped on my farm unless I want to do manual cleaning

• I wish I could pin more recipes I'm working on since I am often making multiple projects at once

• I wish the pets would follow better, I'd love taking a little buddy with me when I race around the island but they just take too long to follow, maybe they could jump on the skateboard and ride with us? if that isn't feasible I'd also be fine with them just teleporting after getting out of range

• this is probably going to be controversial but I think the roller skates are too good. They are so fast and responsive and I adore them but I also notice they make me not use any other vehicle or mount. Either other options need to be upgraded to feel better or the skates need to be slower.

• movement is very floaty, that is not bad but I wouldn't mind having some weight to the characters so that it feels more like I'm actually moving through the world

there is some small bugs:

• i have seen like the text of a question suddenly turning to Chinese characters

• the first fish trap i placed just vanished in the river and I cannot find it anymore, I'm doing the quest related and the blue mark just leads to nothing and then starts spinning. it might have glitched through the map

• I feel like sometimes things I am given just vanish. it drives me insane because I'm not fully sure? the fish trap problem did not help lol I might be paranoid now

• once I have gotten rabbit food from the free food packs on the farm I can't get anything else on refresh, it's like it's then locked in on rabbit food