As it is in Groundhog Day, so it is being a farmlife sim fan. In many lifetimes I have woken up as the inheritor of an overgrown property, been given a watering can, hoe, and five carrot seeds, and been the new-in-town novelty to a bunch of rural neighbours. Everholm isn't different there, but it does come with its own extra layer of surrealism. Because everyone in Everholm already knows your name.
This new farm sim that launched this week actually begins just before you wake up in your new fixer-upper. Protagonist Lilly wanders through a nightmarish landscape searching for her sister Melanie, steps through a portal, and wakes up in a town where a bunch of people she's never met all seem to know her already. It's as if she's been living here for years and she's the weird one for forgetting everyone's name.
