Deiland

This game is charming. It has amazing graphics and artwork, whimsical music, and im a huge fan of crafting system, reminds me of older PC games like wandering willows. Another aspect i like is how people visit your planet, its pretty creative.
However:
The fishing game has one of the worst, most infuriating interfaces Ive ever seen for fishing. Im slightly dislexic and having to press a random key that only appears for one second and resets every time you miss it is torture and needlessly difficult. I cant catch a fish to save my life. It would be much better if you would make the fish catchable for one key per species, like "spacebar" for one and "e" for another.
Secondly i dont like how the camera works at a fixed angle, it would be cool if you could be able to change it to an overhead whenever you want, or even be able to zoom it in/out while still being in control of the character.
Finally, the battle system leaves much to be desired. Its a buttonmasher and theres no thought to it. It would be better if enemies had more attacks than just running up to you, because all you have to do win is just spam spacebar and the knockback from it stops the enemies from hitting you.
Other than these flaws, Deiland is an alright game, and im happy i got it for free, but please, i beg you, fix the fishing system.

Small note regarding the required 3rd-Party account :
Seeing that this was received poorly they decided to remove this and made an apology
👪Player Bases:
☑ Kids.
☑ Everyone.
☐ Mature.
☑ Casual Players.
☐ Pro players.
⛺Graphics:
☐ Potato.
☐ Bad.
☐ Average.
☑ Good.
👉 The visuals are pretty, it's colourful and the sky is also nice
      It also has a very nice artstyle
☐ Beautiful.
☐ Masterpiece.
🎮Gameplay:
☐ Terrible.
☐ Bad.
☑ Average.
👉 The farming part is enjoyable and simple, you can cultivate a handful of different crops, fish, plant trees, grow flowers and much more! Customize your planet with plants and structures you can build, unlock new features as you progress in the game and upgrade your tools.
Then you can trade with friendly npcs which will also give you tasks to do like preparing meals, brew potions, collect minerals etc.
The one big downside though is the combat system which I found very dull (except maybe for the boss fight), enemies will slowly come at you and you'll receive damage when they touch you, just like a Minecraft zombie. It was terribly easy, I didn't need to use any special potions except for the healing potion.
☐ Good.
☐ Fantastic.
💀Difficulty:
☑ Easy.
☐ Medium.
☐ Hard.
☐ Very Hard.
☐ Death March.
⌛Game length:
☐ Really Short. ( 0 - 3 hours)
☐ Short. ( 3 - 8 hours)
☑ Medium. ( 8 - 20 hours)
👉 ~15h to complete the story, finish every given tasks and a few extra hours to unlock the remaining achievements.
☐ Long. ( 20 - 40 hours)
☐ Very Long ( 40 - 60 hours)
☐ Extremely Long (60+ hours)
☐ Endless
📖Story:
☐ It Doesn't Have One.
☐ Horrible.
☐ Bad.
☑ Average.
👉 The characters are cute, the interaction you have with the npcs (and between them) are funny, sometimes a bit goofy which also adds to the fun.
      The overall story is also interesting, it's the type of fairy tale you would tell a kid before going to bed. But it feels unfinished, maybe there will be a sequel?
☐ Good.
☐ Fantastic.
🎬Cinematic/Art:
☑ It Doesn't Have.
🎵Music/Sound:
☐ Horrible.
☑ Bad.
👉 At first the soundtrack was okay but there are so few it becomes repetitive and boring. The sound effects where also really bad, the same npc and monster noises.
☐ Average.
☐ Good.
☐ Amazing.
💸Price:
☐ Full Price.
☑ Wait For Sale.
☐ Refund It If You Can.
☐ Don't Buy It.
☐ Free.
🚀Requirements:
☑ Minimum.
☐ Medium.
☐ Fast.
☐ Super Computer.
🐞Bugs:
☐ Game Itself Is One Big BUG.
☐ Game Breaking Bugs.
☑ Lots of bugs.
👉 Visitors won't land no matter where you place them : Fixed by restarting the game
      NPCs from Ankora won't interact with you : Fixed by returning to Deiland then going back to Ankora
      After trading with an NPC, they will keep saying that you still haven't done your last chore yet even though you did : You will have to wait for them to return
      Flower seeds aren't labeled correctly when trying to plant them, they are labeled correctly in the inventory though
👉 For the COOK|CHEF|MASTER CHEF|ALCHEMIST|MASTER ALCHEMIST| achievements you have to craft them one by one. If you craft 30 items at the same time, it will only count as 1 for the achievement.
      For the SHEPERD achievement, the game counts the number of transactions meaning that if you buy 4 sheep at once you won't unlock the achievement : fixed by selling and rebuying a Sheep.
☐ Few Bugs.
☐ Nothing.
📝Final:
☐ Terrible.
☐ Bad.
☐ Average.
☑ Good.
☐ Great.
☐ Fantastic.
🌐Others:
Multiplayer: ☐
Singleplayer: ☑
💯Final Score:
6.5/10

Deiland, a sandbox farm simulator in space, at least that's what i thought when i started the game.
Was i wrong? No.
Was i correct? Absolutely not.
Deiland has an enjoyable story, easy mechanics, fun characters and nice graphics. I've spent a whole day without getting bored. I'll say it already, it's not a game for impatient people, there is a bunch of waiting for different stuff like crops and merchants, but those things make you play the game for much longer.
It's easy to progress, and fun to stay in one point in the story doing random stuff like planting trees or fishing. There is always something to do. The only downside is the RNG on dropping one thing, because you can either get it at the start of the game or at the point where you cant progress without it and you waited for it for about an hour. But as i said, even doing random stuff without progressing in the story is fun so i didnt really notice that i waited so long.
So, Deiland is basically a sandbox rpg farm simulator in space with elements of typical mobile games (but made actually fun and with no ads)
Honestly i wish i knew about this game earlier, i would buy it without a second thought.

Very well made relaxing and easy to play game. Overall very pesant and I very much enjoy playing it. If you enjoy games like stardew valley or staxel this is probably for you.
Although there is one big minus on the Deiland horizon at the moment: The game is optimized for gamepad use, but there is not configuration options for your game pad and the game does not work propperly with every game pad. Also no keyboard configuration and though keyboard input does exist, the keys are not even displyed or explaind in any way.
For a PC game not to prvide any kind of input configuration is a very big fauxpas.

Fun, easy, time-consuming, cute game. Definitely not worth full price, but with a 90% discount or for free - it's a catch.
+ Loved the relaxing atmosphere and artwork.
+ Short grinding game for all the perfectionists out there.
+ Since I played with controller I didn't have any issues with controls.
- The Story (if there was one) is definitely a mess. It's a 5 minute story which you can predict from the start of the game.
- Some quests should have an explanation on how to complete them. I managed to do them by accident.
- Little more customisation on the planet would be pretty cool.
- Stuff dropped on ground (wood, berries, seeds, etc.) disappears in 2 seconds, just - annoying.
- Speaking of annoying things - chickens.
Overall, if you like perfecting games with a little grind - this one is short with relaxing atmosphere.
~17 hours well spent, but wouldn't play it again.

Hallo erstmal :)
zuallererst muss ich sagen das ich nicht zu vielen Spielen Reviews schreibe da es nicht viele gab die jetzt unbedingt supportet werden mussten bzw es nötig hatten. Aber bei diesem Spiel glaube ich das dies sehr wohl nötig sei und berechtigt! Denn ich habe mich wirklich in die kleine Welt von Deiland verliebt.
Hey there :)
First i have to say that i dont write many Reviews because i dont think that it was necessary but here is it different!!
I want to support this game and srsly, its long ago that a game made me think about it like that.
Because i rly fell in love with this little game.
Zu allererst eine kleine Einführung in die kleine Welt von Deiland.
Es ist ein ruhiges Spiel wo man mal abschalten kann. Einfach mal in deine eigene Welt von Deiland eintauchen und dort dich um Ernte kümmern, Handeln, Craften und auch ein bisschen Kämpfen. Neben all diesem läuft eine kleine aber feine Story über den Prinzen, Deiland und deren Besuchern.
First things first a little introduction to the little World of Deiland.
Its a calm Game where u can come down and enjoy the World of Deiland. U can take care of ur harvest, trade with visitors, craft and u get some fights too. Meanwhile u can see a little but cute Story about the Prince, Deiland and ur Visitors.
Dann kommen wir zu aller erst zu den Positiven Dingen von dem Spiel:
- Ich liebe den Grafikstil sehr :)
- Süße Story
- Man kann wirklich gut abschalten
- Die Charaktere sind alle sehr liebevoll gestaltet
- Schöne Musik
- Einfach weil das Spiel :D reicht das als Begründung?
First the good parts:
- I rly love the graphic Style
- cute Story
- u can calm down rly easily
- All characters are lovely
- nice music
- Just because. The game is reason enough c:
Leider gibt es auch dinge die ich noch als Negativ bewerten würde:
- Leider zu wenig Content (nach ca 10-15 Stunden bist du mit allem durch)
- Kleine Bugs (die mich aber an sich nicht gestört haben)
- Ich will meeeeeeehr conteeeeeeeent :D
- Ich wünschte es wäre alles etwas schwerer. Das die Crafting Items usw Teurer wären. Das hat man alles so schnell geschafft
- Bei manchen Quests, kommen NPC's manchmal mit Dingen an wo du wirklich keine Ahnung hast wo du das herkriegen sollst. Ein kleiner Tipp wäre doch hilfreich. (FROSCH -.-)
Now the "bad" Parts:
- Not enough Content (Only 10-15 hours)
- A Few bugs
- I waaaaaaant mooooooore conteeeent! :D
- I wish everything would be a little more harder. As Example that the crafting Items need more ingredients. It was to fast ^^
- There quests where u just dont know where to get it, or what to do. A little tip to that would be helpful. (THE FROG!-.-)
Also zum Fazit:
Dieses Spiel ist wunderbar auch mit seinen kleinen Bugs, wenn man mal bedenkt das das Spiel sowieso erst seit kurzem draußen ist kann man noch ein Auge zudrücken. Allerdings wünsche ich mir wirklich mehr Content da ich dieses Spiel sehr gerne spiele. Die Atmosphäre passt einfach und ich möchte einfach nur mehr davon :) mehr Quests, mehr Crafting Sachen, vielleicht Sachen die wirklich schwer sind zu bekommen. Einfach einen Grund geben es länger spielen zu können.
Ich würde mich wirklich auf zukünftige Updates freuen die mehr Content bringen und hoffe das dieses Spiel noch bekannter sein wird^^ denn genau sowas hat es wirklich verdient.
Ich lege jedem dieses Spiel am Herz der das liest :)
Danke für dieses wunderbare Spiel!
As result:
This Game is a wonderful peace of work even with this few bugs, but think of it that the game recently released so u can turn a blind eye. But i wish a lot more Content, because i rly love to play this game more. The atmosphare fits so good and i just want more of it! more Quests, more Crafting Items, Maybe Items which are harder to get. Just Reasons that i could play this game more.
I'd rly love to see updates who brings more content to the game and that the game become more popular. Because this game deserves it!
I recommend this game to everyone who reads this!
Thanks for this wonderful game.

Alright, Review time! Let me sum this up real nicely:
Quaint,
Short,
Delicious.
I knew from the first 10min of gameplay that I would be recommending this game on to the next gamer and that excitement wasn't dimmed until the very end of the game. (Sadly)
Now let me tell you what Deiland is about. Deiland is about a young man, a child, who lives alone on a planet. Here he takes care of the land, collect berries to survive, and enjoys the solitude. One day a pink haired woman lands on the planet, an officer of space apparently, and decides to give the little boy some tools to make his life easier.
And so the journey starts with the boy getting more and more adept at farming and collecting and crafting while other space travelers pops on by and gives advice, quests, and friendship.
Now, the good:
+ Graphics are nice and consistent.
+ Unique viewpoint of living on a small planet you can see the curve of
+ Simple, and familiar, farming, ore and wood gathering.
+ Meteors land on the planet bringing seed from other planets
+ The beginning of an interesting story
And the bad?
- It's short,
at 8 hours I was DONE with the game, but I stubbornly wanted more achievement and finish of a sidequest or two. The problem with this is that out of the 6 NPCs that visits the planet, only two of them are people I can call. Meaning I had to twiddle my thumbs and wait around for them to come visit my planet before I could pick up the next quest in the line.
- Story feels incomplete
I mentioned at the beginning.. that it had an interesting story. the BEGINNING of one. I was very disappointed at the end because it didn't feel complete. The story is about a boy, and there are obvious signs that says "obviously he's a prince" (obviously inspired by the classic story "The little prince"). And across the story this becomes clear, we get proof, he finds out himself, etc, etc. And then there is the mystery: A dark voice he sometimes hears in his dreams. A cloaked person stealing old charts and books and *gasp* attacking people. But...
in the end you don't defeat "the big bad", you defeat a lieutenant of some sort and you never even SEE the big bad. You discover the heart of the planet but nothing happens with it. It's like the game is incomplete. It's like it's half-made and waiting for the second half.
A plus is that you get to SPACE TRAVEL to other planets, get materials there and do more quests. BUT! IT IS ONLY ONE PLANET!! It's absurb.
and the news lists "new planet coming soon" so I was like. Yeah. Sure. great. it's a newbie game and updates coming soon..
Not true. It's a WHOLE NEW GAME!
One can speculate about this. Deiland was made by a devteam of three people, and they've expanded. Summers in Mara is a game much like this one, with farming and crafting, and upgrading your land. And it's set in THE SAME UNIVERSE!
Meaning we might see some characters from Deiland there,
Meaning the "Big bad" we got introduced to in Deiland could ALSO be in Mara, and that is why it wasn't defeated in this game.
Should you play this game? It's roughly 10 bucks for me, and I played for 11 hours. To me, thats money worth. I've eaten 6 dollar icecream under an hour yfeel me?
From the screenshots this was a tiny planet, I wasn't EXPECTING there to be a story. I wasn't expecting there to be characters I liked, even with the limited dialog they gave us.
I had fun, and first 6 hours flew by with me barely moving from the PC.
I'm really looking forward to the next game, a bigger better version of this. I'm looking forward to getting to know this devteam and what they'll do.
So, you in the mood for a short little crafting/farming game?
Get Deiland, fall inlove, and.. maybe check out the kickstarter for the next game?