The good
- can be relaxing

The bad
- graphics is pixelized on close up camera shots
- too much of game is filled with doing nothing and waiting
- not possible to remove trees from orchard or kick sheep from the deck
- you don't grow potatoes from seeds...
- action animations are too long
- sometimes Stella runs faster than the camera, and she's off screen
- really repetitive gameplay
- stories of souls are really shallow and feels rushed towards the end
- even when spirit story is interesting it's extremely watered down by constant need to go-to-this-island-to-mine-ore, go-to-another-island-to-buy-seeds, trace-back-to-this-island-to-cut-down-some-tree. Huge meh

Conclusion:
If you like farming sims akin to Stardew Valley this will be up your alley. If you don't want repetitive gameplay and game filled with mostly nothing but upgrading your boat - stay away. Only that Stardew Valley is IMO way better game.

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Story:

We are the Spiritfarer tasked with helping spirits to go on the other side. Problem is their stories are uninteresting and too short to get emotionally invested, not to mention later on they feel extremely rushed and empty. Like "story" where we literally only go to 3 places and beat well known mini-game with a high score. There is "plot twist" at the end which is predictable and lame. Nothing that would not be done in games 10x already. I think this game would be way better if they would focus on few spirits and their personalities, than on dozen snippets. There are some side quests with non-boat NPCs that are bit charming, but boils down to be simple fetch quests.

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Gameplay:

💸 Microtranzactions	None	🏆 Achievements	Some are grindy
📊 Performance	No issues	💾 Save system	Check points at the start of each day and during exploration

🌍 Map	There is navigation map on the ship that allows us to go between locations. It is easy to use and well detailed, lists all necessary details about locations. The only problem is it takes too long to start the map and then this delay between picking location and game actually allowing us to walk freely on the ship. It may be 1 - 2s for start / stop use the map but when game is about moving around - it makes it annoying. There is no minimap on the islands which is fine but it's annoying when we move around caves to mine for resources.
🎮 Controls	Standard platforming mix. Jump / double jump / dash / glide. There is ability to zip line on metal lines. There is no problem with collision and jumping parts are well designed. Only that dash ability sends us not straight forward but on the arch like cannonball. Which requires some getting used to.
📇 Inventory	Like in many other games - looks cute but screen is too small. With so many items inside it takes too long to scroll up and down to look for item we need. And this game is dream of OCD collectors. Fish, fruits, vegetables, meat, ores, timber, random junk etc. Cook book is way too long with no way to filter anything (by ingredients for example, even when it feels like basic feature to have in such long list).
🕵️‍♀️ Abilities	There are no abilities per se in this game. But apart from moving around we can: 1) fishing 2) talk to spirits and NPCs 3) farm. Which is not a lot. Especially fishing and farming is extremely tedious as we don't unlock anything that would help us. No rod that would cut time of fishing, no watering stations to cut down on running around manually watering plants, no automation of crafting which forces us to repeat the same boring extra simple mini game over and over again. It's not possible to skip all this crafting as it's required to progress the story. Spirits will not leave the boat unless we max out their houses, as it triggers story events.
🤖 Companion and enemy AI	No enemies. We have a cat (it can be playable character in co-op) but in SP it's dumb. Have problem with path finding (devs made a workaround of this so when cat gets stuck somewhere it "puffs up" like puff fish and fly back towards us...). But it is cute kitty that plays with yarn so kids would like it. I didn't as it doesn't bring anything to the game.

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Technicalities:

Graphic - ⭐️⭐☆ - It is well made but textures are of bad quality when camera zooms in
Music - ⭐️⭐☆ - There is no voice acting, ghosts have only 2 or 3 sims-like lines that they repeat. Music is relaxing but forgettable
Bugs - ⭐️⭐⭐ - The only one I saw was when camera can't catch up with how fast we are moving