In an adorable fantasy world, we will build our home and livelihood with magic.
During these strange and sad days, finding a virtual refuge in a warm and friendly environment is one of the most popular digital hobbies. The highly anticipated Animal Crossing: New Horizons has become one of the most popular titles during this quarantine, with a freedom of creation and a system of progress that captivates the player for hours, in addition to offering him a colorful, kind and happy universe. The success of social simulators is not trivial; Stardew Valley, created entirely by Eric Barone, offered us a rural society in a beautiful title that conveyed a strong criticism of corporatism. Along the same lines, the Vethergen studio has taken note for its debut feature Serin Fate, funded by KickStarter and published Crytivo for Windows PC. At FreeGameTips we have had access to the early access of this title of agriculture and witchcraft, where magic will be the key to create our place in a supernatural world.
A mysterious stone has mutated the known world, awakening latent magic and promoting the birth of magical beings who seek their place in the world. We have become a witch, and witches have a lot to do in a world of magic. Thus, we must learn to master our talent to cultivate our home and make a place for ourselves in the witch's guild.
The key to magic is magic
Serin Fate is currently in its alpha phase, with which we have agreed to an incomplete game and with aspects that may vary during future phases of development, but which is very promising. In a happy fantasy world, our witch lives in a tree house and nature provides her with all the essentials to live, which she will elaborate on a work table thanks to the recipes learned. However, magic will be the tool to prosper.
Thus, we will learn spells with which we will cut down trees, cut rocks, capture creatures, etc. Each spell is made up of a sequence of runes that we will write down in our grimoire and that we will reproduce to carry out one of the tasks, with the advantage that we can create a very comfortable chain to collect resources. Thus, we can cast the felling spell towards several trees, which is much more comfortable than going manually one by one. Magic not only ends in our actions; During our sleeping hours (we continue with the traditional day and night schedules) we can project ourselves astrally, although this phase needs more content. There are also activities that can only be done at night, such as accessing certain establishments.
In addition, there is no witch without her relative, and we will have various chimeras that will accompany us during our journey. These creatures, which evoke the Pokémon, will face our enemies and have their own training and progress; They will level up and learn new skills. On the other hand, the combat system has not fully convinced us as it is somewhat orthopedic; When we see an enemy on screen, we will have to press the ability of our familiar at the bottom of the screen, while we move to make sure that the monsters are in the attack range of our chimera. If we fall in combat, we will suffer some losses from our inventory / learning, as announced on our death screen, and we will retrieve our character at the last resting place.
Adventurous witches
Our life does not end on our plot, but it offers us a vast world where we will live an adventure with the depth of an RPG. In our town, we will meet the witches' guild and our fellow sorcerers, with whom we will forge a friendship as we complete missions for them. Thus, as we explore the world, we will advance our learning with new spells and mastery of new chimeras.
Like traditional social simulators, we will build a welcoming home thanks to our arcane wisdom: making our food and clothing, as well as new facilities to educate our chimeras. In the village, we will be able to sell our goods and obtain others, and receive rewards for the missions we embark on. And yet, in Serin Fate, he misses a small guide with which not to feel overwhelmed or lost before the magnitude of an open world. The smith Ruby sends us messages with tasks to learn the basic functions, but the search for certain materials will be very subject to trial and error. Also, there are very little intuitive minigames, like fishing. At the moment, we will only find the game in English, although the possibility of localizing it to other languages remains open.
On the other hand, at an artistic level Serin Fate meets the unwritten norms that a social simulator must be, above all, adorable. Its pixel aesthetic draws a supernatural universe and brimming with color, in which it shows us fantasy from its most suitable side for the family audience without giving up the imagination. Witches have, instead of a mouth, a bird's beak – except for our protagonist – but the lavishness of their clothing and their funny pointy hats takes them away from the stereotype of villains. Also, we will meet other fantastic races, such as goblins that insist on being good people, cat-men and other characters that await on the various scenes of Serin Fate.
Today it is a title in the process of cooking, but Serin Fate is guessed as a fun title and one that we can spend hours on. As we cultivate the land with our spells, we will remember the most tender of fantasy, where witches, instead of fairy tale villains, become wise and hard-working ladies who put their magic at the service of a better world.
