Beat CotM. Was a cool little retro thing. Pretty short overall as well.
It's really just window dressing for the upcoming release though.
Anyway, moved on to My Time In Portia.
It's an early access crafting/farming thing. I've heard people say it's Stardew Valley meets Breath of the Wild.
It's from the same publisher as the game Planet Explorers. If you haven't heard of that game, I'm not surprised. It's a small studio, not quite indie sized. PE had a lot of neat ideas and was a fairly interesting survival crafting thing. It wanted to be more ambitious than the budget allowed for I think.
This seems to have both expanded on a lot of the ideas there, and also scaled things down a little. The result is somewhat charming, but a bit weird due to some of the issues with it being early access and unfinished. There's missing audio in some of the cutscenes where there clearly should be audio, the residents behave a little weird sometimes, and there are areas where you can tell things are being worked on.
On the plus side, I've been down the early access hole with this dev company before, and the end results were mostly positive. Portia is an improvement over their previous work, and I can see there could be a gem under the unpolished stone of its current state.
Kind of reminds me of a mobile game in some ways. No microtransactions, just the way the crafting works. Also, the character designs remind me of mobile game characters. Large heads and cartoonish. The game has a sort of cartoon asthetic to it.
Lots to explore and do so far. You can farm, mine, explore dungeons, craft various things. You're not a farmer, but a sort of handyman in the game. You can farm, but the focus is on building things and doing maintenance work around town.
Crafting takes a long time as well. This isn't a game where you just dig stuff up and instantly smelt a hundred iron bars at a crafting station. You have to plan ahead and it takes a while for the crafting stations to create your metal bars. You set them and then run off and do other things for a while.
That said, it is fairly rewarding so far. Exploring has usually paid off, and you make steady and consistent progress towards building your little workshop and farm up. Resources are kind of a pain to obtain early on, but after a while you'll be swimming in them.
If you like Harvest Moon, Animal Crossing, or Stardew Valley, give this one a look. It's early access, but complete enough to be enjoyable. I'm looking forward to following development of this one, as while rough, I did enjoy their last effort in Planet Explorers, and this one is an improvement on that already.