Garden Witch Life

Cute but very limited witchy farm game

My Score: 5/10

Game is certainly cute and I love the vibes and characters that live in this world, the only problem is that the world is very limited, even by most farm sim standards. There are only a handful of NPCs to talk to and buy things from and the story is also very short. The only way to level up your gear is to get them from the characters after raising their friendship level. Most life sim games have a friendship and gifting system, but most are something you can do at your own leisure, while in this game it is mandatory, basically blocking progress if you don’t want to gift NPCs repeatably.

The farming aspect is fine and until I played Tales of the Shire, the only farm sim I’ve played with different complimentary crop types that affect growth if you overlap the right or wrong type of plants. The crops age like you would expect, but they give you different produce depending on the which day you harvest, this means if you miss a day they go to seed and you have to start again, or if you pick the crops too early, you may miss out on something else.

As far as the economy of the game goes, it doesn’t. You can sell your crops, but they barely sell for anything, so you cannot grow and sell your way to upgrades like you can in almost every other farm sim I’ve played. Instead you have to put them in the community box and hope you sell in a random amount of days. The only quick way to make money in this game is to sell the weeds that grow everywhere on your farm as the start.

The cooking system is actually quite good, I like the chopping and dicing mini games and it is a shame that it takes so much work to grow the right type of crops, just to get enough ingredients to make a small amount of food for the NPCs.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1240450/Garden_Witch_Life/