No Longer Home vs Verdant Skies
No Longer Home
No Longer Home is a visual novel with some elements from point-and-click adventures. In this game you play as alternately as Bo and Ao, two young LGBTQ persons, who are feeling lost, frustrated with circumstances beyond their control, and worried about their life after completing their university studies. Explore their cozy apartment home, interact with the many characters, and help them learn how to say goodbye to No. 29, the place they have both been living in and have had great memories of.Verdant Skies
Verdant Skies is an indie farm simulation/RPG combined with a pretty unique art style and visual novel-like dialogue choices. In this game, you play as the latest pioneer who was sent from Earth to a habitable alien planet whose main job is to set up and manage the farms at the colony, but of course, you are often asked to help out other characters with their tasks. You can also interact with the characters to increase your relationship level and eventually unlock new options such as being able to date them and start a family.Verdant Skies also features a straightforward gathering and crafting where every almost every action you take in this game will cost you time and/or energy. There's no need to restore the time you lost, but energy can be easily restored by consuming food. As a game that's very similar to Harvest Moon in essence, the game's farming aspect can be impressively in-depth, allowing you to splice the genes of your crops and your livestock to produce much more superior versions.
Verdant Skies is definitely the sort of game you'd want to check out if you've loved playing games like Harvest Moon, Staxel and even My Time at Portia. The game isn't too expensive either, considering the hours you can get out of it.