Across the Valley is a hand-drawn style farming simulator from small indie developer FusionPlay. Each in-game day lasts him 15 minutes, and as a farm worker role, he must fit as many missions off the task board as possible before dark. Daily tasks around the farm include planting, watering, weeding and harvesting crops. Feed, water and caress livestock. And, of course, shovel animal poop.
Taking care of crops is the most interactive activity. Seeds should be evenly spread across each plot within a plot and cover as much coverage as possible to ensure maximum yield. You need to earn a reward. Your harvest can be used to feed your livestock or sold to farmers market carts for a profit. Farm animals (sheep, pigs, cows, chickens) also need to be visited daily to replenish water and feeders, pet them, and tend the barn. Everything you do is pretty easy, but it feels more like a list of chores than a game and gets very repetitive. Other than a daily routine and a few very short mini-games for shearing sheep and milking cows, there’s little to do.
Bugs don’t make it any more fun as you have to reset your position each time you teleport around the farm. At one point, I was even among the sheep! It has become a tedious task.
Across the Valley has a nice hand-drawn art style and some good simplistic gameplay ideas, but the execution is unsatisfactory.Due to a wide variety of bugs, repetitive gameplay, and lack of content, this farm has no push squares again Red tractor approval.
