It took me about two minutes in Fae Farm to blow through my entire mana bar. I wasn't dozens of floors deep into a dungeon mining for resources, though Fae Farm has those. I was just standing in the center of a patch of crops, imbuing my watering can with an invigorating dose of the ol' presto alakazam to water everything around me in a generous square instead of one solitary cabbage at a time. Every farm life game eventually gives you ways to more efficiently take care of your crops, but Fae Farm is the first I've seen to literally magic away some of the tedium of the early farm grind.
Magic is Fae Farm's big thing, a whole new resource layered on top of your usual stamina meter. From a 30 minute demo I played on a Steam Deck at Summer Game Fest on Friday, this is definitely a maximalist farm life sim, packed with features upon features upon options upon appendixes upon quality of life touches:
