• Playtime: 2h45m (demo), 6h50m (easiest difficulty, 15 ingame days)

• Played: 2025 (Nov)

• Expectation: Mixed.

Intro

Grimshire is a farm life survival game. You grind resources not just to build up your farm but also to keep villagers alive. Sort of. Also, everyone is an animal.

The Good

• Cartoon humanoid animals are a nice change of pace.
• Some plants can grow their own seeds (takes an extra day).
• Bushes and trees grow up to 3 fruits (so you can harvest one or two days later).
• Mines stay the same until you decide to collapse them (to reroll them).
• Character creation including starting skills and different species.
• Actually interesting skills and traits.
• Villagers contribute to community projects.
• Nice atmosphere.
• Good interface.
• Save & Quit option in menu.

The Bad

• Still no normal save option.
• Mandatory bedtime or suffer a 50% stamina penalty.
• Asshole villagers barely contribute food.
• They also don't give their only farmer the best tools for free.
• Your farm gets filled with a ton of ugly drying racks.
• Awful fishing minigame that i still don't entirely get.
• Bearly any dialogue.
• I didn't see any combat or hunting.

The Ugly

• Mandatory food grind. You can't just do ignore a festival or get a shit score from your dead grandpa, you have to grind.
• The village doesn't arm itself, build defences or even install quarantine protocols despite a zombie apocalypse.
• Aside from some starting tools you basically get no help despite being the only farmer.
• Did i mention you're just a random survivor from the capital and a stranger with no farming experience?
• Lacks the meaningful interactions and farm prettification that makes farm life sims charming.

Conclusion

At some point one of these idiotic leeches actually says "i don't think you should sell food to earn money". Most of them just walk around doing nothing all day. Honestly, if the gameplay was actually interesting in any way i would restart the game, sell all my excess food and just let them all starve to death. That's what you get for asking exorbitant prices, withholding irrigation tech and living it up while i'm working my rabbit ass off.