STARSAND ISLAND

Slow down a little with a cosy, calming, familiar farming sim

- Mollie Taylor

One day the well of dead videogame granddads with overgrown plots of farmland will dry up, but today is not one of them. Starsand Island is full of those fuzzy cosy farming sim familiarities, but despite not doing much new I got myself through all ten days of an extended demo.

It reminds me a whole lot of the Rune Factory games - anime art out the wazoo and a charming Eastern vibe that makes me overlook all of the weirdness that seems to come from adding a third dimension to farming sims these days.