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Research Story

94% positive of 310 Steam reviews

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Released
2025
Steam Deck
Verified
Platforms
Steam

Made by Petal Cat Games. Published by Petal Cat Games, Electronic Sheep Games.

About the game

Set out to discover and record plants and creatures for the Violet Archive. Grow crops, tame animals, and build the perfect farm! Forge friendships along the way as you begin your life as a researcher!

Tagged by players

  • Farming Sim
  • Agriculture
  • Creature Collector
  • Life Sim
  • Building
  • Collectathon
  • Base Building
  • Cozy
  • Sandbox
  • Crafting
  • Character Customization
  • RPG

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What players say

  • Recommended
    Been playing this before, but recently returned and started over. Currently nearing the end of my first summer and I fell in love with it again! There's some stuff that's harder to manage for me - I find creating fertilizer tedious and switching between animal feed bowl recipes is a nuisance - but in general if this game is being approached in a more chill mindset, you'll have a way better time with it than trying…

    45 h played when written. 2 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    This game has so much content. And all of it is quite good. Despite the smaller map it has so much variety and so much to do. Alternating researching animals, plants and fish, the plants requiring more time, the animals needing to explore and look for them or their behaviours, the fish requiring certain bait. It's such a fun game. The world feels lived in, with the NPCs completing their own research and various NPCs…

    24 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    I bought this when it was in EA, but found it to bee a bit unbaked so I held off on it until full release and I'm honestly shocked how little has changed. So many QoL stuff and just common-sense conveniences that you take for granted. Like shops have opening hours, but only one shop has a sign saying what they are. Adding to that the extremely limited inventory with no way to cycle hotbars so you need to go drag &…

    55 h played when written. 8 found it helpful.

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