Is Fields of Mistria A Stardew Valley Knockoff?

Fields of Mistria is a brand new farming/life-Sim RPG game where magic, romance, and adventure await! The game is currently in on Steam for Early Access as of August 5, 2024 for $13.99 USD. (a great price!)

So, today, come with me while we play through the first season in Mistria, give first impressions, and see if people's claims of Fields of Mistria looking like a "knockoff" of Stardew Valley is at all accurate...(it's not)

If you want to see a full year in Fields of Mistria, definitely let me know in the comments!

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:35 Advice & Game Intro
09:31 Week One!
26:48 Spring Overview
31:05 Final Thoughts

[feralcitrus]

It's definitely not a SDV knockoff, it reminds me so much of early harvest moon and even a little of old LOZ games! FOM is definitely a love letter to the farming sim genre <3

[thesmallteaspoon]

I would love a “first year in Mistria!” That sounds like so much fun—especially because I’m thinking about getting it too now that my fav Stardew creator has vetted it ;)

[darkangel]

Interesting that the stone dragon is a romance-able character. At least, it has a heart by the name

[riannahpena]

Please remember to talk to Caldarus. He is lovely to talk to! Not to mention, you can get many benefits and perks to spend your essence (the purple thing underneath your tessere count) on to improve your skills in all aspects of the game. Even the dragon statue in the mines does the same for mine-related stuff.

[stylishquesadila]

Big tip for the rain stuff is to go into the accessibility menu and set weather paricle effects to low/none. I had to do that cause on my laptop the rain's normal animation was actually making my game lag 😭

[TheDataWizard]

I love how you can pick your birthday. Nice video!

[HammyAndSammy]

I can't help but notice Caldarus having a heart icon instead of circle, I love the dog has their own avatar sprite
This game looks fun can't wait for it to be released

Thank you for showing the game, I prefer this showing us the experience

[MaxLSilver]

Oh my goodness, all the creators as Mistria characters is amazing.

[trianthania]

OH MY US AS CHARACTERSJLSGWOOQJJFJRM YOU DID SUCH A GOOD JOB JUNIMO WOWOOWAH

[IntergalacticDustBunny]

I think my thing is I'm getting a little burnt out on the "Sleepy town is just sitting around waiting for you to save it" trope. I'd love to see some more games with unique stories, like maybe you try to open a store in a bustling city, or a sci-fi themed game where you start a colony on another planet with NPCs.

I'm also pretty burned out on the romance mechanics in many of these games: Give Gifts>Get Hearts>Watch Cut Scenes>Repeat. My Time At Portia had a neat mechanic where you went on dates, and how you handled the dates affected the relationship. Then you had a rivals mechanic in one of the harvest moon games, where if you didn't confess to someone by a certain amount of time they'd get with someone else. Story of Seasons had a "reverse confession" mechanic where a character might ask you out first, and they also might propose to you. I'd love to see more unique mechanics to NPC interaction/romance in these sorts of games.

[JoyceW-Art]

The editing of this video is so good! I love all the extra pixel art you've made to explain your points in this video

[jfygt]

This game definitely has potential. But I will wait for it go out of early access before touching it, as I feel there are still a lot missing aspects on the game. Also hoping modding will be a thing for it as well

[KingFool]

I LOVE THE WAY YOU SETUP THE CHARACTER ART AND TEXT!!❤

[sorinsnow]

One piece of advice i can give, your friend was right about the exploitability of buying flour for bread, with just 2 cheap cooking skill perks it starts taking no time and turning a small profit with a low chance of refunded ingredients, then it became my nightly routine to blow everything on flour before bed to ship bread, and by summer 15th year 1 i had already maxed the town rank early access cap at 50 (of what seems to be intended to reach 100 or 120? Based on the stylization) and over 50k gold to throw around like nobodies business

[ExtremeEnthusiast]

So it's a game with fire emblem designed characters pokemon designed world and stardew plot. Honestly im interested.

[LumiPooks]

I am so excited to continue my playthrough of this game! It's definitely a nod to classic farming sims, while maintaining it's own charm.

[LilyEvans]

Omg who designed the character drawings of the different creators? They’re so cool

[Zeldastardew]

Junimo B makes great content, and makes it very entertaining. 😮🎉

[LoveFromIzumi]

I love Fields of Mistria and I'm so glad you played it and made this extremely well done first impression video! If you play more, I would love to watch a video about it!

My advice about FoM to everyone is to take it at a more relaxed pace than stardew. Time is faster but you walk faster but the map is larger to travel across - hence the days feel shorter. In some ways, it reminds me of older animal crossing games where you're discouraged from running and rushing around because it fades your grass. The game encourages you to slow down. You won't be able to do everything in one day in FoM so it feels best to relax and pick one or two things to focus on... also you can get perks to craft armor which increases your speed and also drinking coffee increases your speed too. What can I say, I want to relax but part of me also really wants to minmax!

[jieunsung]

I still can't believe that we can date the dragon (maybe not updated in the game yet, but based on the heart symbol, I guess the dragon is dateable) but not Olric