Summer in Mara on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Take care of your own island and sail with your boat in this cozy farming adventure! Relax and unwind exploring a tropical archipelago or harvesting your own crops while helping others. Discover the story of Summer in Mara, with farming, crafting and exploring mechanics.

Summer in Mara is a life sim, relaxing and farming sim game developed and published by Chibig.
Released on June 16th 2020 is available only on Windows in 7 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Portuguese - Brazil.

It has received 1,923 reviews of which 1,454 were positive and 469 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.3 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Summer in Mara into these genres:

Life Sim Relaxing Farming Sim Cozy Exploration Wholesome Emotional Surreal Visual Novel Hand-drawn Cute Agriculture Crafting Nature Sandbox Female Protagonist Casual Adventure Fantasy Anime

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7
Processor: Intel Celeron G1820 / AMD Athlon II X3 455
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 430/ AMD Radeon R5 240
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 2 GB available space

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March 2025

This is a truly lovely and family-friendly game. It deals (gently) with themes of environmentalism, death/loss/memory, neighbors and community, and more. The gameplay loop never grew tedious to me, although at times figuring out what I needed to do next from cryptic quest log text ("Something interesting will happen soon! - meant I had to sail to a specific map spot, as one example) required me to check a guide online. It is only loosely a farming/lifestyle simulator--more emphasis on finding and delivering certain items in the later parts of the game over the farming elements. So don't come here looking for a Story of the Seasons clone, but don't be driven away by assuming the farming will be cumbersome! The game is beautiful and bright, and the characters have more personality in them than many AAA rpgs. I have a lot more quest content ahead of me and I'm at 13 hours played. I imagine without checking guides too often that I'll get at least 20 hours to complete the story and maybe most of the sidequests, but beyond that there are also collectibles to find. I think Chibig tells great small(er) stories. I'm glad I bought this game and will probably pick up Mika at some point as a result of my positive experience with this one.

Feb. 2025

A fun little farming sim adventure game. Does feel like most of the focus is on the story and questing element, but you have to do a little farming, mining and foraging to get by. I like Koa a lot as a protag as she kind of grows as a person as you progress the story. There's a ton of quests to do so the game is gonna take a while to get through especially if you do all the quests. There's a few minor things I'm not a big fan of, but those are mostly QOL things like not being able to buy or sell in bulk. It's got most of the modern QOL stuff though. Anyway, I'd say the game is an 8/10 for me.

Dec. 2024

Be prepared to suffer some serious hand cramps as you hold down SHIFT to sprint everywhere doing endless fetch quests! Cute, great story, a tug on the heartstrings. So much running though... -_- It pays to have at least 5 of anything in your inventory just in case someone asks for something. Once you have some cash you can fast travel. A bit buggy as hell, but if you exit and re-enter the game, or just finish off the main quests then it seems to sort itself out. Pro-tips: * You need money, and it can be hard to come by. Buy cotton seeds from Caleb. Then make wooden boat models to sell back to him. It's a lucrative money making scheme. You're going to need money! * You have max of 99 items in a stack, so don't bother harvesting anything that'll take you over. Sell the excess or make things to sell. * Don't try to find all the mail crabs, there is a bug, and two of them cannot be found - ever. Just don't even bother. * Once you can get pigs, get cheap carrot seeds from Caleb (along with your cotton seeds) and feed your pigs. 4 pigs fed = truffles. Sell truffles to pirates for mega bucks! * During some events your fast travel won't work anymore, it's not a bug, it's a "feature"... * Go back to the lighthouse after the end game, there is one more quest!

Sept. 2024

Fully completed the achievements on this game. Would I recommend this game? Yes, but not to everyone. It's ok as an indie title and was clearly an early title for the dev. Wouldn't buy it unless it was on sale for more than 50% off. All in All score: 6.5/10 Read on for longer review. Gameplay: 7/10 It has some fun elements but the game loop is a little... boring. Travel to get quests, travel home, get items, travel to complete quest. The only reason you do anything is to complete the quests. Many of the islands in the game are for merely collecting resources a couple times and then never needed again. There's very little reason to go to them after the initial visit and you collect the single unique resource and then bring it back to grow on your island. They're also pretty bland for the most part. maybe there's an npc or an empty house, but not a lot going on. The only reason i wouldn't lower this score is because building things on your island and seeing your island grow was mildly fun, despite the appearance of freedom to design your island being fairly limited (because that's a big part of farming/life sims). pretty much placement of trees and a few objects was the only way to customize your island. There were a few bugs here and there but nothing terrible. Story and Characters: 4/10 The story is only mildly interesting, Moana has to go and find the 4 hearts of Tafiti so the spirit thing can somehow (this part wasn't very clear) stop the colonizers from sucking the planet dry of resources. Don't worry we don't suck the planet dry... 'cause respawn and what not. The characters were mostly bland and mostly forgettable or a** holes. Here's looking at you Edegar the Edger and the b****y sisters. A big part of life sims is having interesting, and at least some likable, characters. art: 8/10 Art was one of the aspects that drew me to this game. Art was nice and i liked the bright colors of Mara, it reminded me of Wind Waker, and the animation was my favorite part, which there was some so ill give them that.

June 2024

~*~2024 is the Year of the Backlog!~*~ The vibes are immaculate. It gets a good rating just for capturing the "beach town of weirdos" feeling perfectly. Lots of nice characters to interact with. The rest of it is kind of a really barebones farming sim. Its still a lot of fun to play and everything flows together well enough. But there's kind of a nagging feeling that everything could have been deeper. Its a great setting, and it would have been amazing if it was fleshed out even more. Still, if you like summertime beachside vibes, farming, and weird talking fish and cats, its worth picking up on sale.

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19.99€

7.3

1,454

469

Online players

Developer

Chibig

Publisher

Chibig

Release 16 Jun 2020

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