I have only recently got this game but I am so glad I did, and it has quickly become my favourite game! It's become one of my most enjoyable time sinks, from everything to the building, missions, and especially the characters. Looking at the previous negative comments mentioned, I personally have experienced very MINOR glitches/bugs, which were easily fixed with a restart of the game, so at most, an in-game day lost, which isn't the end of the world. The game offers auto-saving after every day, and the ability to save whenever you like, so if you are worried about potentially losing progress, just make sure you save more imo :D

I literally have nothing bad to say about this game, apart from the fact it makes me jealous that I don't know all of the characters in real life, and also live in Sandrock myself. I have also gone on to purchase the additional DLC which I must express isn't a requirement, as the game is absolutely perfect as it is, I just wanted the additional content/missions for the romanceable characters, and the ability to tame the monsters for additional pets :)

Pathea, I personally am so thankful I have stumbled across you and your games, and I cannot wait to see what MTA Evershine brings, because i'll be there at the front of the queue to purchase it when it's released - I am more angry that I haven't discovered the My Time series sooner! <333

If you like farming sims/slice of life/cozy games (Stardew, Coral Island etc.) you're going to love this. There's a ton of content here, and it's a really polished game in those genres. It focuses more on crafting machines and building, where you do commissions for the townfolks (there are around 50 unique NPCs).

There is also farming, fishing, relationships, gathering materials, fighting, dungeons, events and anything else you can imagine for a game like this. You could probably easily put in 200+ hours to see everything

There's also a very long storyline with a plenty of both cool and funny/heartwarming moments & cutscenes, it's nothing extraordinary, but it gives you nice goals to work towards to keep you engaged.

TLDR; As a single player game, this is probably an okay buy at 10-20 usd. As for a multiplayer/coop experience? It is a significantly gutted experience that was created after the single player experience. They really don't have intentions of improving this game as they're working on a new one now.

Oh boy, there's not enough space available for me here to begin to talk about how much worse the multiplayer is than the single player game experience. If you analyze from a game design/development perspective, it quickly becomes obvious they did not have the resources or did not want to dedicate the resources to transforming the lovely single player game into a coop/multiplayer game. The pacing and balance is so poor; even if we only compare it to the single player experience.

There is a tremendous amount of quality of life implementations that can incorporate if the devs have played any other game ever. But that takes time and effort.

So let's focus on the single player.

Pros: It's really nice, the town feels alive and the characters are colorful. It's a very easy and accessible game. There's lots of things to do.

Cons: There are lots of quality of life things they'll never implement. For instance, you have fridges in the game but you cannot store anything in them. Storage is tiny and cluttered (imagine dozens of tiny boxes scattered throughout an area).

The combat is silly and trivial. You progress in strength very fast, you can simply just beat up everything without ever grinding, and if you for some reason are bad at combat, you can just grind a smidge more.

There are longstanding bugs that break the game's TUTORIAL completely that I only learned about when I had to research it. The bug has been unresolved for over 2-3 years. That's insane. A ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tutorial bug.