Followers of Disney Dreamlight Valley, Stardew Valley, and different farming life sims ought to put down their pickaxes and watering cans for a minute and check out the brand new trailer for Meetlight. The life sim (by way of GamesRadar (opens in new tab)) simply started a Kickstarter marketing campaign, and together with the anticipated actions like rising crops, crafting instruments, adorning your home, and flirting with the city cutie-pies, it additionally has aspirations of satisfying followers of fantasy RPGs like Breath of the Wild by offering a giant open world stuffed with secrets and techniques to discover.
You play as Anna, who “simply skilled a horrible tragedy” (cough) and is beginning a brand new life by taking up her grandpa’s forge and changing into a blacksmith. There’s much more to Meetlight than simply whanging away on an anvil, nevertheless. The trailer reveals farming greens and milking goats, chopping down timber and mining, taming wild animals and horseback using, tenting and spelunking, and even utilizing a Breath of the Wild-like glider for exploring the open world.
And there is a mystical fantasy realm hidden beneath the comfortable pure world. Because of the demise of Anna’s partner, you may “unlock the capability for clairvoyance, which you’ll progressively develop and excellent.” Utilizing this capacity will allow you to see a secret world of magical creatures like tiny pixies, huge dragons, and in a single case, an enormous troll carrying simply plaid underpants. Bizarre. It seems like you may befriend a few of these magical beings, and even put them to work in your farm—the trailer reveals a fairy delivering a bucket to a effectively outdoors Anna’s home.
One thing I discover personally interesting is the extra grounded and practical useful resource administration on show. Quite than piling up a whole bunch of items of wooden in a listing slot, we see Anna carrying a single log over her shoulder to create a stack of lumber on her porch. In one other a part of the trailer we see Anna mine a boulder in a cave, carry a hunk of ore to a mine cart, then experience the cart again to her residence, unload it, and carry the ore over to her blacksmith crafting station.
I dunno why, however carrying a single unit of one thing in my arms feels extra satisfying than loading up my Infinite Pants of Holding with a whole bunch of things. Then once more, if constructing my home requires dozens of journeys from the woods to the inspiration, one log at a time, I could wind up feeling in another way.
As I am scripting this, Meetlight is already near its Kickstarter aim of $23,357 (opens in new tab) (an oddly particular quantity) and with a month left within the marketing campaign I am assured it will hit that mark after which some. The discharge date on its Steam web page (opens in new tab) is listed as 2023.