Felt the need to write a review due the review bombing Palia is receiving. I started playing Palia since the first days of Beta, at my pace and without ever feeling the urge to log in and do contents because they were exclusive time-gated events (do you hear me, Genshin Impact?). I truly love Palia, it's a small colorful and relaxed world where I can play my own story and de-stress from real life chores. If you love games like Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley, here you'll probably find a home.
The characters are nice and some of them really funny (Badruu and his agricultural jokes always spread hapPEAness), the farming is satisfying and each type of crop give specific bonus to others around them, so you can enjoy min-maxing your garden plot), each step of cooking is made of minigames and you can build your dream house with a lot of furniture choices.
The game IS STILL IN BETA, but it has improved a lot from day 1, and today's patch is a proof. The devs bring new patches at their own pace, and yes, they usually break things, sometimes big (last time they temporary extincted muujins), sometimes small. But again, this is a beta f2p game, and it somewhat encourage you to take it easy and enjoy the game at its pace and its flaws.
Palia is totally f2p, you pay for outfits which don't give you benefits, and yeah they cost really too much.
Just try it, don't stop at the reviews.

Felt the need to write a review due the review bombing Palia is receiving. I started playing Palia since the first days of Beta, at my pace and without ever feeling the urge to log in and do contents because they were exclusive time-gated events (do you hear me, Genshin Impact?). I truly love Palia, it's a small colorful and relaxed world where I can play my own story and de-stress from real life chores. If you love games like Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley, here you'll probably find a home. The characters are nice and some of them really funny (Badruu and his agricultural jokes always spread hapPEAness), the farming is satisfying and each type of crop give specific bonus to others around them, so you can enjoy min-maxing your garden plot), each step of cooking is made of minigames and you can build your dream house with a lot of furniture choices. The game IS STILL IN BETA, but it has improved a lot from day 1, and today's patch is a proof. The devs bring new patches at their own pace, and yes, they usually break things, sometimes big (last time they temporary extincted muujins), sometimes small. But again, this is a beta f2p game, and it somewhat encourage you to take it easy and enjoy the game at its pace and its flaws. Palia is totally f2p, you pay for outfits which don't give you benefits, and yeah they cost really too much. Just try it, don't stop at the reviews.