Fields of Mistria enters Steam Early Access today

NPC Studio has released their retro anime-inspired life-sim RPG Fields of Mistria on Steam via Early Access today. The development studio has mentioned in a blog post that the Early Access content contains around 35-40+ hours of gameplay. They intend for the Early Access period for Fields of Mistra to last a year as they add new content and continually make tweaks to the title based on player feedback.

Back in May, NPC Studio detailed what players can expect in Early Access on day 1.

Now, let’s talk about what you can expect in Mistria during Early Access:

Gameplay

• Play through the four seasons with unique weather, crops, forage, fish, insects, and more!
• Raise a variety of adorable animals, and even breed them to discover rare color variants.
• Give your animals toys to play with, and even dress them up with their own cosmetics!
• Crafting, Cooking, and Blacksmithing are available with over 600 items to craft!
• Complete over 50 museum sets through fishing, bug catching, farming, mining, and archaeology!
• Explore the depths below Mistria (down to level 60 with more to come) with engaging combat and surprises in store.
• Upgrade your home (with more upgrades to come) and customize it with over 200 available items.
• Unlock Powerful Magic Spells to aid you in your experience.
• Check out our website for the full list!

Villagers

• Meet and befriend 30+ characters, including 10 marriage candidates and 2 special candidates.
• Raise marriage candidate hearts up to 4 hearts and unlock their unique 2 and 4 heart events. Additional heart level progression and events will be added up to 10 hearts via planned updates.
• Get to know the villagers’ dynamic daily routines that change based on seasons, weather, and special events.
• Villagers have unique seasonal outfits and special beach outfits for the romanceables.
• Villagers have a variety of beautiful and expressive animated portraits.

Story

• Rebuild and revitalize Mistria through a series of main story quests, with future content planned.
• Raise Mistria’s renown and Star Rank from a lowly Wood Star rank up through Sapphire Star rank (with more ranks on the way via planned updates).
• Begin to unravel the mysteries of the town’s past and the return of magic power to the land.
• Enjoy 5,000+ lines of unique character dialogue and dozens of cutscenes.
• Complete dozens of hand-written requests available daily at the town’s request board, with more on the way.

The first major update for Fields of Mistria in Early Access is coming Q4 2024. It’ll add new enemies and new cosmetic drops from monsters. Plus, the heart progression cap for NPCs will be raised from 4 to 6; dateable NPCs will have a new event that triggers when players get their relationship to 6 Hearts. Skill levels will be able to go up to level 45 and more.

Other content coming to the game has been detailed for its Roadmap in the future, as well.

Watch the Early Access Launch Trailer for Fields of Mistria down below.