The game can be quite relaxing and fun in small doses, but there's just too much grind and repetition to ever feel like you're progressing. Once you've done the first chapter, the quests dry up and it's just a matter of grinding for money so you can pay off the uncle and buy the furniture factory.

To be able to afford the furniture factory, you'd have to make over 120 trips with a full load of dry planks. Just the driving alone would take 10 hours, not counting the time it takes to cut and transport the logs, dry the planks etc. It would probably add up to several hundred hours just to complete this partial goal in the game, and by that time you'll have clear-cut every forest in the game world. This is why according to Steam Achievements, only 11% of players have bought the furniture factory, 15% have paid of the uncle and only 4% have gotten married in the game (and who knows how many of those gave up and used cheats). Even Elden Ring has a higher completion rate.

The game can be quite relaxing and fun in small doses, but there's just too much grind and repetition to ever feel like you're progressing. Once you've done the first chapter, the quests dry up and it's just a matter of grinding for money so you can pay off the uncle and buy the furniture factory. To be able to afford the furniture factory, you'd have to make over 120 trips with a full load of dry planks. Just the driving alone would take 10 hours, not counting the time it takes to cut and transport the logs, dry the planks etc. It would probably add up to several hundred hours just to complete this partial goal in the game, and by that time you'll have clear-cut every forest in the game world. This is why according to Steam Achievements, only 11% of players have bought the furniture factory, 15% have paid of the uncle and only 4% have gotten married in the game (and who knows how many of those gave up and used cheats). Even Elden Ring has a higher completion rate.