The game that Stardew Valley blatantly copied - Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town.
It was made for the GBA, so has straightforward and precise controls, with none of the irritating camera or targeting complications that come with making the game 3D.
There are other later games in the Harvest Moon franchise with better graphics, but like Stardew Valley with a gamepad, they tend to have irritatingly imprecise controls. Friends of Mineral Town, with its isometric 2D, doesn’t have that problem.
There’s a modern remake called Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town. It’s isometric and cross-platform so I’m hoping the controller support would be decent.
Eastward has been on my wishlist for ever. Not really a building sim, and not sure about controller support. But the pixel art might draw you in like Stardew did
In my experience, most games that offer support for both are better with KB/M.
The KB/M vs Controller betterness ratio of a particular game tends to also scale up with the amount of controls required to play the game.
If you want a game that feels almost as good on the controller, find a simpler game with fewer controls.
As far as game recommendations: the wife and I have more hours into Stardew Valley than I’ll publicly admit, and other games we enjoy that work well with controllers are Luma Island, Dinkum, and Plate Up.
A side note: If you’re chasing the magic that is Stardew Valley, you aren’t going to find it elsewhere. Be open to a different kind of magic in these other games and you won’t be disappointed that it doesn’t hit like Stardew.
Little Rocket Lab has similar vibes, though it’s not a farming game. It’s an automation game with conveyer belts. Controller experience is good IMO (never played with keyboard and mouse).
My wife played that game for longer than I’ve played most games, and she only ever played it with a controller. She also liked Littlewood, Disney Dreamlight Valley, and Cozy Grove; she only ever used a controller for them.
Yeah I tried playing it on console but it was pretty garbage compared to kbm. There’s a reason I’ve got about 30 minutes on console and 700 hours on kbm.
I also feel Stardew works insanely better on KBM. Terraria too. I WANT to use controller and sit back and be comfy, but I just feel like I’m fiddling more and not as relaxed as point and click.
I never tried with KB/M so I can’t say. But I never really felt it was deficient. Selecting stuff from the menus certainly would have been faster with a mouse, but it was perfectly tolerable. If anything, like animal crossing, it adds to the slow play.
Give Spiritfarer a shot, full controller support and even a bit of harvest, fishing, and adventure to boot. 30 hours easy if you take your time, more if you want. Super chill game.
They do in the show once (Team Rocket) in a throwaway scene that implies pokeballs are fairly uncomfortable and also that humans are too powerful to be contained within ordinary pokeballs.
It’s been a minute but i think i know what might be bugging you about the controls. If it’s the having to move and look with the same control, check the settings. There might be a way to adjust it.
As for other options…
-The Farming Simulator games are great for controller.
Story of Seasons is on sale on Steam right now.
Out of Ore
Mini Metro
Jalopy
Shipbreaker
the My Time At … series
No Mans Sky
Never Alone
Hokko Life
Staxel
Rebel Galaxy
Olli Olli
Arctico
Looking on steam cross-referencing ‘casual’ and ‘good for steam deck’ is probably a good way to find some more.
Why? They did what every player has been wanting since MW2019 with the matchmaking, disbanding lobbies, and aim assist. That alone made the beta WAY more fun than ANY CoD game I’ve played since Cold War.
is this a bit or are you really this cringy? the game isn’t even out for a month, dipshit. and it’s gonna be the same overmonetized overmarketed bullshit we’ve been getting for years, with a placebo matchmaking change on top. simmer down.
Bro’s really self-reporting. The change for me was instant, I was actually getting a VTOL Warship almost every game, and NONE of my matches were “You are the carry, here’s 5 kids who never touched a controller while the enemy team has average players that curbstomp your short bus teammates”. Nor was I getting multiple bad matches in a row after a string of good matches. If you thought literally nothing changed then I’m sorry but you’re just actual fucking trash and were being protected by the matchmaking.
If I was getting paid by Activision I wouldn’t be doing this on Lemmy of all places lmao, and I wouldn’t like to take money from them anyway cause they’d probably force me to not talk shit about the game. But I genuinely think just the matchmaking change completely transformed the game. Before the open playlist came out, I was not hyped for it at all, but after that it actually made me look forward to the game. But if you think it’s literally the same matchmaking… Then I don’t know how to tell you you’re just not that guy.
not that guy who pays $70 a year to play the same game over and over again?
you’ve literally only played the open beta. it will take maybe two weeks for anyone who’s not sweaty as fuck to abandon the sweaty as fuck playlist lmao.
‘i can’t be a marketing goon, i’m on an unpopular platform’ durrr as if that’s not how this shit started on reddit too. if it walks like a stooge and quacks like a stooge i’m gonna call it out as a stooge, or why would you be simping for an UNRELEASED GAME?
Well, for one, the playlist is becoming the default matchmaking for all modes, so I suppose you’d not have fun regardless with your massive skill issue. Also, I don’t buy CoD every year, sometimes I skip them, and I didn’t even buy BO6 because I had PC Game Pass with Microsoft Rewards… until Microsoft ruined both, that is. And third, do you also make fun of Counter-Strike players for essentially playing the same game, on the exact same maps, for 26 fucking years? I do know CS2 is free but the fact of the matter is that it’s the same exact game at its core since 1.6.
counterstrike doesn’t sell a new copy every year with the same gameplay but more in-game ads lol. everything i’ve seen shows it’s gotten 10x worse since mw2019 and that was enough to make me sick. you cannot respect yourself and play a premium priced game that is so blatant about milking you it shows you commercials in between maps.
you keep trying to talk shit about how good i am at a game i don’t play and i’ll keep laughing at the middle school tier negging. you’re so awesome though, well done!
I’m not doing research for you, boy. If you took any time to actually look up you’d know that most of the bad shit that happens is exaggerated or was removed later. And also, if you think you’re having any effect here, consider the following: I’m 31 and I don’t care.
you’re 31 and you think “you suck at cod” is a sick burn lmao
i literally watched my friend get a battle pass ad and a bo7 ad in between streaming rounds of zombies on bo6 that she had to sit through - unless she clicked buy now! so unless actimicrovisionsoft had a come to jesus moment in the last 2 weeks don’t you fucking try to act like it’s not currently a shitshow and on a downward trend.
yep keep digging your heels in and carrying water for the trillion dollar corporation that will surely beat the shill allegations 👍
Palia. It’s free on Xbox and PlayStation. Has in game purchases but I’ve never bought one. My fiancee started playing it recently and ask me to play. You can grow a farm, it’s 3D, get a glider, run around and do missions. (MMO) Play with others and get bonuses in XP. I’m only about 3 hrs gameplay so far. It’s cross platform because she plays Xbox, so if that helps… idk
Edit: also fishing, chopping wood, story lines idk. It’s worth checking out if you have time/access.
Edit 2: my fiance wanted me to say they have a Halloween event going on right now, and they have gatherings/events to encourage people to meet each other and team up and help each other grow
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