Before We Leave vs Harvest Moon: Light of Hope
Before We Leave
Before We Leave is a strategic city-builder that sees the descendants of the survivors emerge from safety to reclaim the world, like their predecessors, after years of huddling in underground bunkers no thanks to a galactic disaster. In this game, you’ll need to manage your colony of Peeps by making sure their needs are being met and producing enough resources for them to explore the planet and exploit the resources present.Besides exploring and keeping your Peeps happy, the gameplay also consists of optimizing production lines, unlocking new technologies and upgrades, and trying to offset challenges that will buffet your production systems, sometimes reducing productivity to almost zero. Eventually, as you progress, you can even colonize other planets!
All in all, Before You Leave is simply a brilliant and strategic village builder that is a whole lot deeper than it looks. You can spend hours building and rebuilding your villages just so you can hit that sweet spot of being completely optimized, and then to do it all over again once you’ve unlocked something new.
Harvest Moon: Light of Hope
Harvest Moon: Light of Hope has you landing in a near deserted village after a terrible monsoon, injured and lost you are thrust into a tough situation. But there is hope, you are healed and then able to start to rebuild and eventually repopulate the village. First you have to get the lighthouse fixed so no more ships have any accidents in the area. This begins a fun game that has a really cute anime style and blends a host of simulation aspects into a seamless package.Here you will need to build up a farm and crops to feed you and the other townsfolk, mutate your plants to make new ones and discover new recipes. Find a variety of items and then use them to make new buildings or improve the damaged ones. This game is really cute and it has a lot of really nice features that make it very fun to play.