Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles is a lovely but short little adventure game, with RPG, adventure, and sandbox elements. I love the creative aspects of the game and its environments. The scenery, foliage, and wildlife are a treat to look at, and the colorful and interesting visual style of the game is pleasant. The sound design and music are lovely and fitting to the game. Lots of the sounds in the game left me pleasantly surprised by their realism, such as the rustling of buckles when your character walks, and the realistic sounds of the thunder booming.

The gameplay is relaxing and pleasant and offers a decent variety of side-quests and outside opportunities such as collecting collectible cats and increasing your crafting skills. ^^

Overall, it is a delightful little game. I wish it were longer, though, and that the stone bridge building was much better balanced, as it is very expensive and time-consuming to collect the resources for them.

Pros:
+Wonderfully realistic and pleasant sound design.
+Tranquil soundtrack.
+Lovely visual art style and scenery.
+Nice variation of environment types/biomes.
+Beautiful wildlife and foliage.
+Enjoyable and tranquil gameplay.
+Collectibles to add reply value and more gameplay opportunities.
+The sprite designs are cute and charming and have a nice little variety of appearances and personalities.

Cons:
-The game is very short.
-Building stone bridges is a very expensive venture. (required to reach some collectibles, like cats.)
-Some side quests are fetch-quest-like or slightly grindy.

An open world adventure with farm plots. There's less emphasis on the farming aspect and more focus on exploring, which I did enjoy. You can set up farms on specific plots of land to ranch animals for their produce. You'll need a garden box to grow trees and plants.

The animals are cute and provide crafting materials. But that's about it. You can ask an animal in your farm to follow you, however they don't benefit from it. You cannot mount the larger animals to ride; it's a shame because you do a ton of walking in this game.

Speaking of walking....it's a lot. There is an item you can craft to fast travel to any farm you own in any of the 8 biomes. You'll have to craft one anytime you want to travel. There are also stones you can visit to fast travel but you need to be at that location. Plus the FT points aren't at any town. It's not convenient.

The barter system was fun. Some sellers will change their inventory when the day cycles. You don't have to worry about money, just trade items you no longer want.

It was fun enough to earn all achievements. The wandering back and forth put a damper on my attention span. The game really leans into the slow-moving rancher lifestyle.

A vast and beautiful landscape with not a whole lot to do in it. The plot did its job to keep me on the right track, but when I would stray from that to explore a cool looking location, I'd never come with anything more interesting than some hair dye or a neat hat. A bit more gameplay variety besides scrounging would have done a lot for this game. The quest structure was a little confused. I'd get a quest to acquire a fish found only in certain bodies of water, or I could get it from some schmuck in exchange for a few rocks. I could tend to one of several farms for some more trading material, but it seemed a bit pointless when the most worthwhile thing to trade for was cosmetics, which did look great and did a fine job covering the frankly goofy looking character model. Every time I discovered something new it did feel momentous, but it didn't last beyond the second it happened, and that wonder grew more dim as it went on. This game is good to scratch that specific itch of just wandering around with little care, but personal that doesn't have a lot of staying power.