Milly's Meadow is a desktop companion piece where you observe a character tending her meadow with minimal interaction—more akin to classic screensavers than traditional games. While the aesthetic aim is cozy and low-pressure, the customization options and unlockable content are sparse, making it feel more like a decorative background than a game with meaningful progression or engagement.
About this game
A relaxing idle game that lives on your desktop. Watch Milly tend to her meadow with cozy naps, leaf raking, and quiet activities. Interaction is minimal, with no tasks and no pressure. Customise her world and enjoy calming ambience while you work or unwind.
What players are saying
▼ Not recommended2 hrs
Not quite a game, as you can't really interact with anything on it - Its more like those PC on-screen toys that were everywhere 25 years ago, but this one doesn't destroy your machine with viruses.
Not really worth it for the current price, but if it had more customisation/gift drops (update please!) and more stuff to interact with, it would be alright.
For a game where the goal is to do nothing, you'd expect a bigger focus on customization options. Instead.. you get three things to unlock of each item. You have three different trees that almost look identical. Three different rocks. Three different colors on the grass. Not to mention the various options doesn't look like they'd mix well together. You get two hats and I think 4 different clothing options. Which annoys me because one of the hat options is a fairly cute bow. Which doesn't match any of the outfits. It's the same with the mushroom, the only one of the customization options I liked. Each was colorful and unique. Maybe that's my problem, I unlocked a mushroom first and it looked so good I was excited to unlock more things to fit that mushroom. Just to be disappointed at almost getting re-colors for the other options (and none which fit my mushroom)
The lofi music is nice but there is only a few songs on repeat without the ability to add your own (like some other similar games allows us)
I did like the option to choose how many butterflies was in my meadow. But I wish they'd do the same thing for mushrooms and how big of a field/water hole you have.
If this was early access, I could maybe forgive it. But full launch? For the same price, you can get far better idle games.
Milly is very cute, but unfortunately that is all the positive I can say about it.
It's basically a reskin of Ropuka's Idle Island without any of the content that game has. There's a total of 2 (!) hats and 5 outfits in this game to unlock and a handful of customization options for the background (3 grass colours, 3 different trees, 4 different pebbles - which you'll barely notice).
Just like in Ropuka, there's no active gameplay in this, other than unlocking the very few customization options. You watch Milly gather grass and then use grass coins to buy upgrades. But Ropuka has some actual upgrades that matter. You upgrade his stamina, speed, grass value etc to speed up progress, and there's dozens of customization options to unlock, not just a total of 7 outfit options! It took me 350 hours to complete Ropuka's Idle Island, it took me exactly 5 hours to complete this (and that's only because there's one achievement for playing 5 hours, I unlocked everything after about 4 1/2 hours). These two games cost the same when not on sale btw. And yeah, since this game is VERY CLEARLY a reskin of Ropuka, I will compare it to that.
So while this is very cute, the complete lack of content means I cannot recommend this at all.
Hi all! Hope you're having a great time with Milly! Today is a small hotfix that hopes to fix some issues regarding the 1 hour and 5 hour achievements. I have modified how the achievements are calculated which may get around the issue of them not working for some of you. Missing 1 Hr and 5 Hr Achievements? Let's fix it!If you are still missing those achievements but are confident you've played over the timeframe, please do the following:Fix 1 - Latest UpdateDownload the latest update, then open the game and let it run for 5 minutesFix 2 - Fresh OpenIf no achievement appears, close and reopen the game and let it run for 5 minutes one more timeFix 3 - Save FileIf the achievement still hasn't kicked in then we need to check your save fileQUIT THE GAME before the next part WARNING: The next part involves opening your save file - so be careful not to change and save it unless absolutely intentional.Open the Windows Start menu and in the search bar, paste this in and press enter%APPDATA%\\Godot\\app_userdata\\Milly's Meadow\\savesOpen "save_slot_1.tres" in a text editor or notepad (double click it or Open With)Halfway down the list you should see "player_total_playtime = ...." (seconds)3600 is 1 hour and 18000 is 5 hours - if you haven't got the achievement and your playtime is over that, then leave a comment as this is still a bug and I will need to find another way to fix it. Of course, if your playtime is lower and you just really want the achievements, change it to 18000, save it, then reopen the game and wait a few minutes for the achievement(s) to trigger. If they don't please leave a comment because this is still a bug. Thank you all for playing and really hope this solves the issue for you!- Diesel
Thanks to those who submitted bug reports - I was finally able to fix the Wave 5 Times achievement so it should work as expected now. I have also removed the 999 cap on earning Leaf Coins and added a Hide Leaf Coins UI so you can hide the amount in the Meadow Bar if you so choose. Happy New Year! - Diesel
Hi! Thank you for the great feedback and enjoying Milly's Meadow. Added Hide/Mute CoinsTo keep the immersion, you can now hide and mute coins when playing. You will still receive coins in the backend, but you won't see/hear them at the end of every activity.Fixed Wave AchievementsIn some cases the Wave achievement wasn't registering so I've adjusted how this triggers, so it should work. If you've had this bug, open the game again and it should reward you if you have more than one wave. If for some reason it doesn't, wave again, then restart the game.
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