More toward western style, can even same-sex marriage.
It's more similar to traditional HM, and nearly every villager still have their own heart event.
However if you expect something like RF, then you might not enjoy it.

BUT, if you enjoyed traditional HM series (HM SNES until HM FoMT), then you should try out this game.
This game is pretty solid. You have a big freaking huge farm, and it's entirely up to you to how your farm layout looks like.
You can even set where to put the barn!

If you don't like farming, you can go hunting in dungeon, similar to RF (no main storyline though).
Still don't like? Go fishing.

In this game, you have 5 skills that can level up: farming, mining, foraging, fishing, and combat.
You can choose whenever you prefer. Of course it is possible to max all of them (and it's not really that hard).

TL;DR:
This game is HM (SNES) with steroid + Starbound/Terraria/Minecraft (a bit of sandbox aspect) + old school 2D dungeon (like zelda) + Animal Crossing.

Sounds alright, if you don't mind to farm, save some money for summer, and then fall.
Via farming, these two seasons can easily make you earn until 6 digits.
Hints: berries.
But of course you need proper tools for that (upgraded water can, fertilizer, quality sprinkler if can) to minimize your time spend on watering them.

Haha, right, instead of normal 30 days, developer make it 4 weeks (4 x 7 = 28 days).
Still your earning is fine, should be able to earn quite a lot in summer.

Rune Factory series.

Level 80.
My suggestion, don't go through every level in detail.
Once you found the stair to next level, take it (unless that level really has something you never seen before).
There will be elevator checkpoint for every 5 level, so it's not hard to revisit those level.
It would be better to advance faster.

1.05 is out of beta now, the zoom feature is gooding yo

So...while the game is really nice, I still wish some aspect of this game can be more towards my liking.
For that, I created (to be more accurate, derived and modified from this, but I've modified so much that now it's nearly all different) this small tool:

Feature:
- Make music loop (possibly a bug)
- Modify run speed, time progress speed
- Min/Max zoom value (you can actually modify the save file to do this, but this tool just allow you to adjust it in game UI)
- Toolbar offset up-down (zoom out too much somehow blocked part of toolbar)

Download (source available as well if you're scare if this little exe will make your device explode): https://bitbucket.org/bergstein/stardew_inj...torEx_105_2.zip
Usage: unzip it to game directory, adjust settings in Stardew_Injector.exe.config (open it via notepad will do), and run Stardew_Injector.exe.
Note: Most possibly won't work with other mod. Also only tested with GoG 1.0.5, but it should work on any version > 1.0.3

This post has been edited by bergstein: Mar 15 2016, 02:02 AM

I keep them so later I can gift them to villagers.
Sometimes I sell them when I'm too lazy to put them into chest.

This post has been edited by bergstein: Mar 18 2016, 04:07 PM

Definitely. Every villager has their own best, good, normal, bad and worst gifts.
Every level increase/decrease the heart meter differently.
It's even more noticeable when you gift them the best gift on their birthday, it really boost a lot.

Leah. Full-stop.

I don't think it would be stolen, but do note that if item blocking the NPC walk path, NPC will force walk through it and destroy it.

Sadly no.
Well in reality it's kind of impossible to move building as well, but rebuilding at full cost is really harsh.
Maybe can suggest developer to add in option to rebuild with reusing the material of old building with some extra cost.

Try open craft menu and craft some chest.
Energy wise, forage in spring and fall is a pretty good source.