Experience a life unique to the Japanese countryside in a world decorated with beautiful pixel art! All the charm of the countryside that Japanese people feel "nostalgic" about is packed in! Japanese Rural Life Adventure release decided!

“Japanese Rural Life Adventure” is a game where you can enjoy such a peaceful time that you end up thinking “Is it really okay to be this laid-back in a game?”. The stage is the Japanese countryside depicted with beautiful pixel art. The protagonist who migrated from the city starts a new life based in an old folk house. However, a comfortable house is not prepared from the beginning. It starts from mowing overgrown weeds, wiping the floor clean, and re-pasting old shoji screens. You might think “I'm working quite a lot right after moving”, but precisely because of this extra effort, affection for the old folk house that gradually becomes your own place deepens as well. Tidying up the garden, growing crops in the field, and enriching life while collecting necessary materials. It is a game where you can enjoy that process itself.

Once getting used to life in the countryside, what is waiting next is the fun of self-sufficiency. Beginning with rice, up to things familiar on the Japanese dining table such as salt, soy sauce, and miso, in this world you prepare them with your own hands. You get spontaneously surprised thinking “Do I even make miso?”, but that very thing is the charm unique to this work. Because using the kitchen or sunken hearth of the old folk house, you can simulate cooking and making seasonings, when food is completed there is a sense of accomplishment more than a mere item. Because starting from gathering ingredients it takes time and effort, but precisely because of that the completed moment is joyful. While thinking “What shall I make for today's meal?”, even your real stomach seems likely to rumble. Rather than pursuing convenience, the part changing even inconvenience into play would be the interesting part of this work.

What is particularly impressive in “Japanese Rural Life Adventure” is the Japanese-like expression of the four seasons. When spring comes, enjoying cherry blossom viewing, and in hot summer, eating shaved ice and going to summer festivals. In autumn, savoring roasted sweet potatoes or visiting graves during the equinoctial week, and when winter comes, welcoming the end of the year along with the New Year's Eve bells. And in the New Year, visiting a shrine for Hatsumode. Spending a year in the game itself becomes a fun thinking “What will be waiting in the next season?”. Play enjoyments in nature such as fishing and insect collecting are also prepared, and while gazing at expressions of the countryside changing depending on seasons and time zones, you can build up your own every day. Rather than giving gorgeous stimuli one after another, it is a work letting you carefully feel the joy of shifting seasons.

Of course, it is not just staying inside the old folk house alone to live. Various villagers live in the migration destination, and through repeated interactions the story and action range expand. Reinforcing an old waterwheel, or helping reopen a closed candy shop, requested contents are truly countryside-like, making you naturally concerned about the village thinking “What should I help with next time?”. If solving troubles or deepening friendships with residents, you might be able to obtain special items useful for living. In the morning an old lady selling daily necessities visits, and in the afternoon an old man buying items you hold comes, so you adjust life while purchasing necessary items and selling collected goods. Such connections with people give moderate changes to quiet countryside life.

Hearing it's a slow life game, some people might feel “Won't there be nothing to do soon?”. However, in this work, diverse play such as cultivation of plants, collection and production of materials, fishing, bug catching, cooking, and requests from residents are packed. By advancing numerous missions, you come to be able to go to new places, and things you can do gradually increase. Because a volume exceeding 100 hours of total play time is assumed, rather than clearing all at once in a short period, it is a type of game where you want to spend time little by little thinking “Today let's do farm work” or “Tomorrow maybe I'll try fishing”.

The charm of “Japanese Rural Life Adventure” is not only simply reproducing traditional Japan. Cleaning, growing crops, making meals, fishing fish, helping villagers, enjoying seasonal events. In making activities that seem likely to be casually overlooked in reality one by one into “play”, there lies the interest. Flashy battles or missions to save the world are not necessary either. You just have to spend a day at your own pace while thinking “What shall I do today?”. After finishing playing, it mysteriously makes you think “Maybe I'll return to that old folk house again” -- it is a slow life game packing such nostalgia and warmth into a small pixel world.