Harvestella is Square Enix’s chill life simulation recreation about farming and crystals. It was introduced again in June, however a trunk of latest particulars was launched at the moment together with a prolonged video demonstration in the midst of Nintendo’s Treehouse livestream at Gamescom. Watch it beneath, if solely to learn the pleasant vegetable names.

The video is break up into chapters, and the Harvestella showcase begins across the 49m 20s mark.

Harvestella’s world is saved secure by 4 big crystals, and its protagonist is an amnesiac discovered sleeping in a area. So far, so trope-y, however the story will get a little bit extra attention-grabbing on account of Omens. Omens are armored figures believed to be accountable for the Quietus, a season that retains getting longer throughout which the townspeople’s crops all die, and certainly one of them crashes to earth inside a comet firstly of the sport.

Part of the sport is clearly about uncovering the mysteries of the Omen and saving the world of Harvestella, however the true, ahem, meat of it’s farming interspersed with fight, Stardew Valley-stlye. Combat is formed by a Jobs system, which defines the weapons and talents you need to use, and contains Fighter, Mage, Shadow Walker and Sky Lancer jobs. Over on the Harvestella web site at the moment, Square Enix additionally launched the Assault Savant job, which mixes “science and martial arts”, apparently.

Farming, in the meantime, seems such as you’d count on: plant seeds, water seeds, wait, and harvest. I do like the plush illustrations of the completely different greens you may develop, nevertheless, and the just-a-little-wrong names for the greens. Some are slight twists on the true factor, comparable to “lantern pumpkins” and “rainbow beans”, however others are simply enjoyable to say, like “carrops” and “cucumbles.”

You can, after all, additionally rear cattle with equally lovable names, comparable to cluffowls and woolums. You’ll discover these on show within the video or publish linked above.

Harvestella will launch on November 4th on Steam.

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