Fae Farm is a Farm Life Sim and Action RPG developed by Phoenix Labs. It was released on Nintendo Switch, Steam, and the Epic Games Store on the 8th of September 2023.
You play as a farmer who's just moved to the magical land of Azoria, where an empty farmstead is waiting for you. While getting to know the locals, you learn that much of the island is inaccessible due to the mischief of magical beings called sprites. Inbetween growing crops, raising livestock, and befriending people, you can venture into dungeons to uncover Azoria's mysteries.
This game contains examples of:
- Animate Inanimate Object: The enemies in this game, called jumbles, are objects that have been brought to life by magic.
- Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Half of the livestock species are mundane animals with funny names. Chickoos are chickens, mamoos are highland cattle, and woolyhorns are sheep.
- Cave Behind the Falls: Many waterfalls have small caves behind them that contain decor recipes.
- Constantly Lactating Cow: The cow-like mamoos can be milked daily, even when they don't have offspring.
- Creature-Breeding Mechanic: You can breed livestock by bringing them to certain NPCs. The offspring will always have higher maximum happiness than their parent, and you can buy items that have a chance to change their colour.
- Double Jump: Fairy wings don't allow you to fly, but they do allow you to double-jump by doing a twirl in mid-air.
- Fantastic Livestock: Animals you can keep on your farm include cottontails, which resemble rabbits or chinchillas and produce cotton; lunens, mammal/moth hybrids that produce silk; and sprigans, which look like anthropomorphic peas and produce magical leaves.
- An Interior Decorator Is You: Your farm includes a customisable house, and you gain more as you progress through the story. Certain furniture items are labelled as cozy, meaning they boost your health, stamina, or mana.
- Item Crafting: The player can gather raw materials from the overworld and dungeons, then use them to create automated crafting stations which turn these materials into usable items such as clothes, furniture, and food.
- In-Universe Game Clock: Each in-game minute is one real second long (or two seconds if you have the double-day length setting on), and each season contains 28 days.
- Obliviously Evil: The sprites don't realise that the natural disasters they cause for fun, such as whirlpools, are harming people until the player talks to them.
- Our Elves Are Different: Elves live in the Fae Realm. They have pointy ears and various unusual skin colours. Most of them have fairy wings, but humans (such as the player) can gain those as well.
- Power-Up Food: Certain meals will temporarily boost a skill when eaten.
- Romance Sidequest: There are six NPCs who the player can develop a romance with by giving them certain items. When your relationship gets high enough, you can go on dates, and after enough dates, you'll be able to marry them.
- Shop Fodder: Most of the items that can be crafted at the artisan table are worth a lot of money, but can't be used for anything.
- Shout-Out: The description for amber says, "Don't even think about using this to clone terrible lizards!" This is a reference to dinosaurs being cloned from mosquito blood preserved in amber in Jurassic Park.
- Springy Spores: There are mushrooms placed near cliffs that allow the player to jump to the top or across as shortcuts.
- Super Wool Growth: Cottontails produce cotton and wollyhorns need to be sheared every day.
- Technicolor Fire: The Fae Fire spell creates a trio of purple flames, and the Scorched Caverns are full of blue torches.
