Palia

Not for introverts but extroverts will enjoy. I've played this game almost 100 hours now and while I did enjoy playing it I probably won't play for much longer. Once I got to Exquisite Level Tools it got unplayable for me personally. I am extremely introverted and I like solo playing games. I don't like talking in game chat and will do everything I can to avoid it so once you reach the stage where you need an insane amount of Flow Wood Planks then I can't really enjoy playing anymore. I don't want to have to constantly call out for help to grind flow trees that are uncuttable without a group to make cute furniture. Clothes cost ~$30 or more a set, pets are something like $15 and you can't get them any other way but through the premium shop. Crops take at least 3 hours of real time to grow with watering in between and if they aren't watered their growth pauses so no planting and logging back in later to collect. Takes an hour to process a single crop to increase it's value and you're limited to 9 plots of soil (9 plots w/ 9 spaces so 81 crops total) so you can't really grind crops for money quickly. There is also no way to trade other players or give things away to another person. You can make a request for an item you've already obtained but not one you haven't gotten yourself before and you can't ask a specific person to fill the request. Overall it's cute and a fun game to kill some time but I don't want to be forced to interact with people just to continue playing.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☑ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
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☐ 5
☐ 6
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☐ 10

I have been playing this game since June 2023. (not on steam)
It has come a long way in that time, I do enjoy this game but as much as I want to say everyone should play this game, you should know a couple things.
Once you finish the quests/friendships/relationships/collected everything there is nothing to do except redecorate your 5 plots over and over again and try beat the tower... that pretty much it.
There isn't enough things to spend your renown on, so once you've bought everything, and you hit your cap of 1,000. The rest is just wasted (so you wont want to progress)
there is a gold cap of 300,000 and a storage cap of 10,000 items. - With this, once you hit either or both caps, you wont want to play as everything after that is wasted.

This is a good game. It really is. But my god, they try SO hard to stop you progressing too quickly.
- 9 Farm Land, even though I can buy 5 housing plots and have to share the 9 farm land over 5 plots? Give me 9 per plot... or just unlimited...
- The storage and gold caps are purely there to stop you from hoarding too much gold or items so when they do put out an update you're held back a bit. (Which is dumb)
- no trading between players, only gift requests (and players can only request what they've already collected/unlocked) (Also, you can't gift star quality items)
- Honestly. Think Clash of Clans, but 3rd person and on PC. You'll be waiting hours for things to smelt, pickle, grow, and build... as well as waiting 24 hours to gift people or NPC's, an hour to use the black market.
Oh and if you happen to be running round mining, you best hope you're close enough to the person in front, or all the ores you want will vanish before you get a chance to mine them, and you'll be waiting for those to re-spawn.
- There are many other complaints, but you're best off looking at the Palia Discord for the most up to date issues.

TLDR.
Yes, its worth playing.
You will spent a lot of time waiting in this game.
You're forced to play slowly.

(Excuse the “time logged”, as I usually play on my switch and not steam, but wanted to give a review!
---{Graphics}---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑️ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{Gameplay}---
☐ Very good
☑️ Good
☐ It‘s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{Audio}---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑️ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{Audience}---
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☐ Adults
☑️ All
---{PC Requirements}---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑️ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{Difficulity}---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{Grind}---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isnt necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You‘ll need a second life for grinding
---{Story}---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑️ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It‘ll replace your life
---{Game Time}---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond
---{Price}---
☑ It’s free!
☐ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{Bugs}---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☑️ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ Cyberpunk 2077
---{?/10}---
☐1
☐2
☐3
☐4
☐5
☐6
☑7
☐8
☐9
☐10

I decided to do my review to explain in as much detail as possible what game Palia is.
I've been playing this game since long before it was put here on Steam.
I'm sorry to see so many negative reviews, especially made by players who have played for a few minutes or a few hours or simply don't know how to do/craft some things and therefore decide to put negative reviews.
Palia has a well-organized wiki where you will find everything you need or don't understand during the gameplay.
I won't talk about any bugs and glitches that the game has at the moment since I personally have never had any major problems.
For whoever wrote that this game is a survival game, no, that's not true.
This is not a survival game, you only have to eat so you can have energy to continue gathering, crafting or working, you don't have to sleep, you have no health bar, there are no enemies and there is no combat.
You cannot die. You can stay away from home even during the night.
The only combat there is when you go hunting animals with your bow.
I personally really like the audio (especially the sounds of nature, the sounds of the animations, etc.) and the graphics.
The animations when cooking and crafting are very nice (obviously this is quite subjective).
I've read reviews where people say you have to spend $50 for a skin, that's not entirely true.
With €8.50 you can buy 850 Palia coins with which you can buy a skin and you will also receive 1 pet.
The only thing you can buy with coins are skins.
It's not a game where there are rankings or you have to feel forced or in a hurry to do/get everything right away.
You can play at your own pace whether it's a few/many hours a day or during the week.
There are many things you can do: skilling your skills (8 skills in total at the moment), you can dedicate yourself to quests, friendship/romance relationships with NPCs, explore Kilima Valley and Bahari Bay, build and decorate your plot and your house.
The skills are: cooking, hunting, foraging, furniture making, bug catching, gardening, mining and fishing.
You can choose the way you want to play, whether to play with your friends and/or random people you meet in the game or do things on your own with your own pace and commitment.
I recommend this game to all people who love this genre.
If you are a new player or are about to try the game you can send me a friend request and ask me for the info you need.

Palia is very relaxing and adorable. I really enjoy it! It has an odd time machine installed because many hours mysteriously go by. . .

I have been playing since Open Beta started last August, longer than I have been playing on Steam. There are things that I learned recently that I wish I had known from the beginning.
1. Female Frame Avatars have a built-in disadvantage while hunting, fishing, and other activities. This is cruel and unfair, I hope it changes.
2. Most rare fish/bugs are locked until you reach a higher level in those skills, at least level 25! Some won't unlock til level 50!!!
3. Fishing is setup like real fishing. When you hear the chime, start to pull the fish in, if it starts to fight, stop. Then pull it in a lil more, stop again. Do this until you can pull it in all the way.
4. Sushi, Fisherman's Brew, Fishstew offer some fishing boosts, so will hook boosters; but they won't be as effective until you reach higher levels in fishing.
5 If you see dark green vines growing on a rock or wooden structure, it's most likely hiding a hidden room.
6. Look under bridges and in boat wrecks for treasure chests.
7. Temple of the Gales & Temple of the Roots were designed by Satan, don't ragequit if you can't finish them. Find a friend, someone you trust with your life, let them finish it for you. That way you can still get the rewards.
8. If you are a troll, an insufferable twat, or Elon Musk, you should romance Kenyatta or Tomala, they are both pure evil.
9. Any time you get invited to the mayor's house for a party, talk to all the guests first, before completing the quest, once it's over you'll be booted out and you'll miss out on some juicy lore.
10. If you find a strange shiny rock near ruins, keep it, never delete it. It will be useful later :)
11. If you find a grove of Flow Trees before anyone else, or Palium ore, don't be a dick, share the news in chat. Give map coordinates, location, set off a flare. For the grove, wait at least til 3am to chop. Set off a honey lure to keep people busy so they don't chop early.
12. If someone is being a Troll Jackhole, you can report them directly from chat and block them.
13. Party up! Fill your Focus! Both will boost skill gain by a lot!
14. Yes I know the pets are cute and the premium outfits look amazing, but they really add nothing to the game except elitism and lag. Do not feel pressured to buy any. Currently if you were to buy every outfit, pet & tool skin, it would be over $2,000.00 USD!
15. OH When you get Renown use it to boost Focus first, by going to the Phoenix Shrine (the big bird where you first spawned) and the Dragon Shrine (follow Chayne). Both max out at 1,000 points. After that you can use Renown to buy plots of land, and building supplies from City Hall.
16. The houses are just vanity projects, don't feel pressured to build a large one, we don't need to eat, sleep or poo. And there is no weather.
17. When crafting furniture, craft every individual item in a set first, before crafting duplicates. You will level up soooo fast!
18. Cake Parties are for A-Type Micro-Manager Extroverts. If you are a Neurodivergent, Introverted, Weirdo, they will send you into a panic attack. Do it once for the quest, then never again.
19. Build a big kitchen house, with 4 each of: chopping & mixing stations, stoves & baker's ovens. Invite chill friends over to cook together, as lot as each person does one task, you should all get a copy of the food. You can stack tasks too, like 2 people can both chop onions.
20. There are Eshe-Holes in the game who want it to be a Fortnite nightmare of PVP warfare. DO NOT ENCOURAGE THIS. Palia is cozy, chill, wonderful.
21. Muujins suck. Don't all charge at the Disco Deer, be smart, take your positions and shoot 2 Dispell and 1 Slow Down Arrows at it. Save goes for Greg and the Silver Chapaas! Be patient when hunting Elder and Magic animals, they love to run and teleport, be ready to run run run!