One day the well of dead videogame granddads with overgrown plots of farmland will dry up, but today is not that day. Starsand Island is full of those fuzzy cosy farming sim familiarities,. Despite it doing almost nothing new, I "one more'd" myself through all 10 days of its extended press demo anyway.
Starsand Island reminds me a whole lot of the Rune Factory games—janky 3D animations galore, anime art out the wazoo but with a charming Eastern vibe that makes me overlook the weirdness that seems to inevitably come from adding a third dimension to farming sims these days.
