You’ll notice that the plot section is fairly short, and I’d guess that’s by design. You spend the rest of the game searching for him, growing crops, decorating your house, appointing your farm, and completing general tasks for the characters in game. You rush to the farm only to discover that it’s been damaged by a storm, and your grandfather is missing. As an adult, you receive a letter that invites you to come and take over his farm. The game begins with you learning the basics of farming from your grandfather, and then, there’s a significant time jump.

The game offers the same gentle feel that ACNH does, but there’s just more going on and more that you can do with Big Farm Story that makes it a great game to play when you need to take a breather from the stress of an ongoing pandemic but want a little bit of brain stimulation. Big Farm Story, as the title implies, does involve a story that you follow and in so doing open up access to different characters, a market, and more.

Big Farm Story feels very much like what that game could have been had Nintendo opted to expand its horizons, pun solidly intended. Like many folks during the pandemic, I picked up Animal Crossing: New Horizons and loved it.

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