This article celebrates Fields of Mistria as a standout farm simulator for 2024, highlighting its smooth gameplay, engaging story, and charming aesthetic.
Game of the Year Awards 2024, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We'll post new personal picks, alongside our main awards, throughout the rest of the month. If Moore's Law predicts that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double every two years then we should go ahead and coin Barone's law saying that the number of farm sim contenders will double every year.
As the farm sim contender count continues to rise, it gets harder and harder for me to separate wheat from chaff but each year there's always one really standout farmlife sim and in 2024 it was the early access for Fields of Mistria when I found out about its dual inspirations of '90s farm sims and magical girl anime. The townie-focused stories of romance and revitalization in farm sims are a perfect pairing with the trope-y character archetypes of pre-millenium anime. It begins as genre convention demands: Your customized farmer arrives in town to take over an old property that needs some serious TLC. You'll meet all the local townies like the grocery owner (Holt and Nora), carpenter (Ryis), blacksmith (March and Olric), and rancher (Hayden) all ready to help you upgrade your gear and property so you can dump all your profits right back into the local economy. After playing more of them than I care to count, I've found that so many farm sims start with a cool concept but fumble their fundamentals like overly long chopping animations or clunky menus. Mistria fires on all cylinders immediately. Tool interactions are snappy fast, the interface is visually appealing, and the story introduction doesn't drag on with too much dialogue. Moments into playing I realized just how much Mistria is a farm simmer's farm sim, incorporating all sorts of features that Stardew Valley players have long considered must-have mods like seeing NPC locations on their map or being able to jump over fences instead of walking around them
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