I've just begun my playthrough, the game seems to be decent so far, but I'm a bit miffed that the description didn't mention anything about a day/night cycle (though I should have been aware of the fact that some sort of timer must be implemented with regards to farming etc.). Normally, I don't play JRPGs that feature time pressure elements of this kind (and I consider day/night cycles the worst kind), but I'm inclined to make an exception this time. Are some NPCs/buildings and such in villages only accessible at certain times (I would actually prefer it if the timer only affected the regeneration of farming spots etc.)? Having to visit each location at each possible time is exactly what I'm not motivated to do, especially if it doesn't make any difference.

It's rather annoying that the "dash" (sprint) function is disabled on some (small) maps. While I prefer always being able to "dash", even never being able to "dash" would certainly be better than a constantly changing walking rhythm.

The save menu makes a rather jumbled impression, the entries are way too close to each other, as if they were overlapping.

I started my playthrough with a difficulty setting of 200%, but as expected, that wasn't very enjoyable (maybe it gets better later when the player can utilize more party members and more/better skills). Consequently, I dialed it down to 50%, and the difference is noticeable.

That's enough whining for now. I really like the bestiary, by the way, especially this sort in which drops are only shown after having obtained them once, so I'm off to filling the bestiary now. I really hope, though, that all potential drops of one-time-only encounters are 100% guaranteed. Having to repeat one-time-only encounters to obtain their drops is frustrating enough by itself, but it's even worse if these drops are necessary for a "perfect" bestiary.

Hello Euphoniac!

First of all I'd like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for purchasing and playing Rift Walker! I am very excited to have feedback and if you need to give me more feel free to post it on this website or you can contact me on Discord at ZCSully#9186!

The Day and Night cycle is purely cosmetic although the harvestable plants in the forests can be harvested 1 time per day cycle! The farming plants take about 2 minutes to grow in the first tier of plant and scale up by probably a minute or 2 between each tier of plants (seperated tiers by continents)
There is another way to get seeds as well which is more grindable and not time based, the enemies are "Wind Spriggan, Frost Tree Knight, Dune Shroom, Flaming Serpent, Glass Flower" Seperated by continent. The rate is 1/30 for the seed rucksack but I may actually add purchasable rucksacks through the dungeon shop with Win Tokens!
The rocks that you can mine starting at Copper should respawn every 60 seconds or so, these also scale up minutely throughout the game depending on the rock!

I should look into the dashing feature, I think I allowed it in most maps except some interiors and the starting caves just to make the start a little bit slower, perhaps I should put in a running shoes type of thing so it's enabled everywhere except the start!

For the save menu I will try to figure out how to make it look cleaner, currently I just use a Yanfly plugin for RPG Maker that made the menu for me but I think it is customizeable!

The difficulty is kind of confusing as the scaling formula is a bit weird but I dialed the Health down massively as a few updates prior everything was a giant health sponge, although some of the bosses can be quite short but most of them are alright in terms of fight length, some are very long still which I am still playing around with!

Thank you I just put that in the one of the latest updates! The Quest bosses are not farmable but they DO have 100% drops! :) The dungeon bosses are farmable and each unique is about a 1/25 drop! the minibosses I think are 2/50 for the unique and they also can drop Augmentations of their type (I.E. Wind Construct can drop Wind Augment)

The 1 thing with the bestiary is enemies will repeat because I scale some differently (i.e. dungeons) so there may be some repeats I was thinking I can just hide the ones that are encountered after the first version though.

For the Save Menu are you talking about the books on the left? What about the format on the right? I just wanted to show basically the farming level and the mining skill, because the rest of the variables aren't really a level based variable and it will only show about 3 it seems! I'm gonna look into the Books overlapping as that is quite annoying, thank you!