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So, I thought this game was going to be fine from the game page, maybe a bit standard but over all good. However, what I found was a very boring game. Two things of note, firstly I know this game is still in the process of being made but it has been out for I think around a year and a half, so I think it is fine to criticize it. Secondly, I did not beat the game and I will explain why.

                The game feels really empty I mean like there is so little to do in this game. There are a number of girls that you can buy things from and five NPCs that all have minimal dialogue. I talked and read everything the tutorial old guy had to say and still I felt like I had nothing to do in the game. I spent the first half hour of the game exploring the town and found very little with most buildings being locked. I also talked to every person I encountered multiple times during different times of day and different days of the week only to find the dialogue almost never changed (except the mom who would say something different about the dad being gone on the weekend). After that I found that the most efficient way to make money was to farm and found that because there was nothing to do in the town without money that just spamming sitting on the chair in the kitchen going to sleep and repeating was the best thing to do. I eventually had enough money to buy a pickaxe and spent time breaking rocks only to be reward with nothing but gravel after spending multiple days breaking rocks. After that I decided to stop playing. The farming isn’t fun but is the best way to get money at least from what I could find. Breaking rocks did little unless gravel could be sold somewhere that I couldn’t find. Lastly the characters were uninteresting, and their dialogue almost never changed.

                Now you could tell me that I was playing the game wrong which I may have but if I was it should be asked why was I playing the game wrong? If a game has a proper or best way to be played should the old man have told me clearly how to do so? It is the job of the game designer to make it clear to the player what they can do how to approach their tasks and how to best engage with the game. I read everything the old man had to say and the game was still a boring loop to get a little bit of money and talking to characters that always said the same thing. This game could be better, and I would love to check it out again in the future but it needs to make the game play fun and enjoyable before I can even stick around door the NSFW content. So, I would suggest adding a way to upgrade the farm and make framing as a process a more engaging task. Make breaking rocks more interesting with better and varied drops and if gravel can be sold make it clear where. Lastly and most importantly make the game feel alive. More NPCs that give tips and say something different throughout the day and the world they live in. Have every building have a purpose rather than just filler for the town. Make the girls that you get to seduce interesting rather than just a bar that fills up.

At the moment the game is a 1/5 for me but I think with time it could easily become a 3/5 or 4/5 but that all depends on how this game chooses to innovate. Good luck with making your game I hope it improves with time.

First of all, thank you for the deep and sincere criticism. It is through these opinions that we can work to improve the game.

I will try to comment and answer your criticisms and suggestions in the order you put them.

In terms of production time, the game was released approximately seven months ago, not a year and a half as you said. I know this is no excuse but it's our first game. We are learning a lot in the process and trying to improve the game with each update.

About the game being empty and there's still little to do, I really must agree with you. We are trying to add new mechanics with each update and balancing some mechanics from the last updates (like breaking stones, which was added in the last update and we already noticed that it is very unbalanced because gems are very rare).

Unfortunately, we have a very small team, and the tests end up being insufficient, so we're adjusting things between one version and another. For example, in this new version we are working on (0.5.0) we intend to include fishing mechanics, turning wooden logs into planks, and a combat system (because the character will be able to access the interior of the mines).

As for the superficial dialogue, you're right, we've already noticed that deficiency and we're working on trying to improve future dialogues as well as improve the old ones. But everything takes time and we are really with a very small team working in our spare time as the game is not our main job.

As for the city's buildings being mostly locked, this was a design decision, as we are developing the game with each new version, we chose to do this to avoid having to change the city map with each new update (the idea is that we also include new NPCs as we add content to the city in each new version, for example, in the next version you will be able to access the bar that is next to the docks, at the south part of the city)

The Gravel currently can be sold to some NPCs (Humberto and Eliana) but the price of it is very low.

I won't say you're playing it wrong. A game is to be played in the way that the player feels most comfortable and it must be pleasant and fun. I'm sorry you weren't able to enjoy the game at this point. I hope that in the future you will give us another chance and that you can enjoy the game.

By the way, as for the farm update, it's already on our roadmap. It won't be released in this next version yet, but most likely from version 0.6.0 onwards, you will be able to expand your farm with new crops and new buildings with new features.

Thank you very much for the criticisms and suggestions, as has been said, this is what makes us try to bring a new version that is better and better than the previous one.

Hey sorry for getting the date wrong for some reason I thought the game was published at the beginning of 2021 my apologizes. Don't take my criticism to harshly I know this is a growing game and I will definitely check back in the future after a few updates. Glad to hear the farming is going to be improved I think that will help the game greatly, keep working hard and I'm sure the game will become enjoyable.

thanks again, man! Hope to see you soon!