gamerdad In my little farming universe it is mid-April, and having survived my first winter by doing soil cultivation contracts, chopping down trees, and speeding up time to 5x in the settings, summer is approaching quickly and with it new cycle of harvesting.

I am sure there is some play logic about it, but I do find it a bit interesting now that I am about sixty five hours (yeah really) into this first save that the game plops you down near the end of the year and just as you get into a groove for that first month or two of in-game time, whamo, you are dawdling through winter looking for ways to make money. I mean, for my own part I have been playing the game in just 2x speed with months set to two days—call it my 2x2 settings—so one day in game can take literally six to eight hours of real time to play through. Others definitely speed this along.

But, I mean, it’s a simulator and sometimes I will just sit here playing wondering what the point of the game is. Like, am I aiming for better equipment so that I can earn money faster to buy better equipment until I own everything and everyone in this small town—or am I just chilling out on a small farm?

Part of me kinda thinks that it might the latter.

That said, real time and no rush and just building what I can as the cash flow allows seems like the whole point. And I’m kinda ok with that too.