My family never had a lot of money so when I was a kid I would see games like yu-gi-oh and club penguin's card jitsu and I remember wanting to play them so badly that I ended up making a ripoff that combined both games rules. The cards were done on a paper sheet with different drawings, effects and crazy unbalanced stuff.
I played with those with my friends at school and we would make up new rules each session and have card ideas and stuff like that.

Sketch Crawler kind of gave me that feeling and nostalgia again of designing my own cards, even if here I'm just doing the drawing.
It has a lot of things to polish, and the gameplay can be a bit confusing at times on what's the best thing to do, but the game is just so charming I'm just looking forwards to the future and how it evolves.

My family never had a lot of money so when I was a kid I would see games like yu-gi-oh and club penguin's card jitsu and I remember wanting to play them so badly that I ended up making a ripoff that combined both games rules. The cards were done on a paper sheet with different drawings, effects and crazy unbalanced stuff.
I played with those with my friends at school and we would make up new rules each session and have card ideas and stuff like that.

Sketch Crawler kind of gave me that feeling and nostalgia again of designing my own cards, even if here I'm just doing the drawing.
It has a lot of things to polish, and the gameplay can be a bit confusing at times on what's the best thing to do, but the game is just so charming I'm just looking forwards to the future and how it evolves.

Many times have I picked up this game, always unable to finish it. There was something about it that just didn't hook me, not to mention the stress and FoMO even with mods like lookup anything.
I have tried with cheat mods, porn mods, expansions; nothing made it an enjoyable experience.

Was it because the game was boring? was it because I didn't like it?
No, because I lacked dedicated [people] to play with.
It wasn't until I literally got married IRL and I was looking for games to play with my wife that we really got hooked.
I taught her the ropes, and since I never actually finished a year, we quickly got to the max amount of progress I ever got and I was.. really enjoying it!

Being able to be with someone you enjoy being with really makes any experience better, but Stardew Valley has so much stuff to do
back when I first got this game in like.. 2018 or so? the goal was the community center and that's it but now there's like more quests and secrets and masteries and events and it all just clicks so incredibly well. The endgame of this game is truly where the fun is at and that's just incredible to me, that a game [i]actively get's better[/i] at the endgame. That's just an incredibly rare sight in general and I feel like that is because Stardew Valley rewards the player's experience. Time is limited, so you slowly but surely learn how to optimize that more and more until you're at a point where either you want the day to end already or you are doing some extra stuff for hours, days or even weeks ahead.

Stardew Valley has the ability to be as complex as you want but also as casual as you want aswell and I feel like that's just really great.