Avoid SunHaven on the Nintendo Switch

TLDR: Pixel Sprout released SunHaven as an unplayable buggy mess on the Nintendo Switch and won't respond to players concerns. Avoid purchasing.

I've been following this game for awhile and felt it was worth warning others due to it's popularity in cozy gaming spaces.

First released in Early Access, many promises were made re. full release, Nintendo release, controller support, amongst many others. It was funded close to 200% (88 thousand VS the 40 ish they asked for).

It came out of Early Access with the story incomplete, the game riddled with bugs, no proper controller support. During this time they released $100's of cosmetics ($253CAD to be exact) and SunDown Survivors (think Vampire survivors) which they've abandoned.

They have failed to produce game credits, rely on the community for translations leaving them a mess and no acknowledgement, and frequently delete comments throughout their Discord + Kickstarter that question their decisions/the mess they have left things. Additional information about people who worked on the game and lack of pay

It (finally?) released on the Switch on November 29th an unplayable buggy mess for a group of regions and they went forward with releasing it other regions on December 17th despite these issues. They blamed Nintendo for almost a year for why the game wasn't released because they needed to get it just right and wanted to make sure it was perfect, yet it was released in this state. The controls on the Steam Deck are finicky and thats with the ability to remap to other buttons, I can only imagine how bad it is on the Switch.

Comments and posts are riddled on their subreddit, Discord, Steam Community Forums...about these issues, people requesting refunds and complete silence from the developer team. They even fired their Community Manager who was the only one communicating between the team + the player base.

Highly recommend avoiding it on the Switch and honestly wouldn't give them any more money on PC considering that version also has it's share of issues and the lack of transparency from the team.