YOU KNOW THERE IS A GAME OUT THERE IN THE Taimanin Asagi UNIVERSE THAT DID THIS DEBT MECHANIC BUT IT WAS AWFUL AND YOU HAD TO PAY ACTUAL MONEY TO GET OUT OF DEBT THAT WAS FREE CAW CAW.

IT'S DOLLAR TREE CHINESE STARDEW VALLEY CAW CAW

Cute little stardew type game. Demo is 2 in-game weeks. Needs QoL improvements and balance changes. For example, the lady who fixes your tools will steal your sticks if you don't have money for the repair. Heavily focusing on one skill such as lumbering will easily get you net positive each day. The lady who gives seeds needs the cost of crop to seed conversion to be fixed, I didn't try a lot of them, but one of them costed exactly the same as just buying a seed from her, but additionally takes the crop from you, meaning an overall 2.6x cost from simply buying a new seed from her. Leveling is likely far too easy for the real game. I reached max level in lumber and about half max in everything else. The same button should not be used for action, interaction, gifting, and pressing buttons in menus, or at least when they happen should be separated. For example, I would almost always accidentally waste energy when closing a menu or throw the fishing line (and terribly) when accepting that I caught a fish. I also accidentally gifted a ton of things, one of them being a whole furnace haha. Basically no reason to build anything in the demo as most things are either not very useful or take a lot of specific resources to build that would be better off sold. Map needs work, it is roughly useless as it is. It looks alright, but it fails on functionality. The "gain" system needs work. It appeared nonfunctional when I looked at it. I didn't try to buy anything but on all levels all three options of bonuses were the same thing. Having resources respawn every week also needs some QoL changes. There should be some easy and cheap ways for players to prevent specific spaces from being filled with resources. While the weekly schedule provides some benefits, making every open space a place for a full grown tree to spawn is a bit annoying. Selecting and deselecting a tool should be modified. The selection covers the durability of the tools and make using the controls a bit weird when you don't want to accidentally do something. The quests need to be balanced some. The rewards don't make any sense for some of them. For example, the harvesting quest rewards 500g, but simply selling those same potatoes would yield 2490g, nearly 5x as much. I expect at the current sell prices of everything and the principal debt and interest rate, most people would be able to pay off the full debt in around 100 days. This makes it a relatively short game. Increasing the principle and lowering the interest rate could greatly extend the game time, but you could also just add in a lot of post-debt gameplay goals. I would be careful when adjusting the debt and interest as making it too unmanageable will kill player motivation. Some of the language didn't translate to English. I think the base game is very solid. It is rough around the edges and needs depth added to it, but it is a very good start!