About Horse Valley:
When I first saw this game I thought it might be kind of similar to the game ‘Rune Factory: Frontier’ which I had played on the Wii. I’ve eagerly awaited a port for PC but as of yet it currently can only be played on PC using an emulator. Stardew Valley gave off some very similar vibes though so I thought maybe it might be close enough to sort of fill that same gap. The game starts out simple enough, your grandfather left you a farm and you need to work to repair it and get it up and running again. You chop logs, break rocks, till soil, plant seeds and harvest your crops. There’s a lot of room to play around with your farm and where you want to place things. There’s also a foraging aspect which helps encourage exploration of your surroundings too. The game is more than just a farming sim though, it also has RPG elements and you can battle monsters in the mines that in turn drop loot you can use or sell. In addition to that it has some adventure game aspects such quests and some fairly light puzzles. You can date and marry certain people in the town and even have two kids. Later in the game you can even forge your own weapons and equipment and add specific power-ups to them. I grew up on pixel graphics so I found the graphics to be somewhat nostalgic feeling. The animations are fairly simple and the character sprites very 2D but the characters themselves, not so much.
