At first glance, Aska looks promising, with great graphics that pull you into its world. However, beneath the surface, the gameplay quickly becomes bogged down with excessive chores and micromanagement. The pacing is frustratingly fast, making every task feel drawn out and tedious. While the game encourages reliance on villagers to help manage the workload, their AI leaves much to be desired. The cook is too clueless to collect fish from the fisherman, who, in turn, can't make their own bait from their catch. Farmers don’t even water their crops without constant babysitting.

Instead of creating an enjoyable management system, Aska becomes a stressful grind, feeling more like a second job than a fun game. Unfortunately, the game's potential is buried under its excessive tedium.

Don't waste your time. The AI villagers are stupid and will not feed themselves despite food being readily available all over town, among other AI related issues. They need to work out the AI bugs before this game is playable long term. Yes yes I know I have a lot of hours--these issues aren't really noticeable until you have a large village, which is why I say "don't waste your time": the endgame is nothing but micromanagement frustration as you desperately try to keep your 50 villagers from killing themselves.

game seems ok other than harvesting takes way too long and has 9 keybinds to harvest. press E hold E hold R, press R, hold T, LMB and they all do the same function but you have to use each one at different times.

The worst thing is, if you die, you drop all your ♥♥♥♥ on the ground. no corpse, no marker, nothing to help you find it... and then if you don't make it back in TWO MINUTES... IT GETS DELETED! And, to add insult to injury, you lose 30% of your skill progression!!!

♥♥♥♥ that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

oh... and you have to constantly spam Z to see anything cuz there's so much damned flora everywhere you can't see anything on the ground and your "search area" ability lasts only like 5 seconds.

Absolute trash.