One day a brother and sister were messing around in an attic and opened a door to another world.  Upon entering, your sibling changes into a cat, and you as the other sibling must farm and make friends, and tame animals to change your brother or sister back in this farming sim for Switch.

When you start, you choose to be the boy or girl and the other will be the cat.  You view the action in a top down perspective with retro 2D graphics.  You’ll do typical farming sim stuff like plant crops and water them, talk to your neighbors, and take on quests.  There is an emphasis on taming animals, so you must pet and feed them several days for that to happen.  I liked the retro styled graphics but the controls and interface were clunky and goals and objectives were a bit unclear.  The map is also a pixelated blob and I just lost interest after a while.  There’s plenty of better and more engaging farming sims out there than this.

Kid Factor:

Nothing violent or objectionable here.  Reading skill is a must and parental supervision is recommended for the in-game purchases.  Ashwood Valley is rated E for Everyone.

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