'Cozy game with consequences' Echoes of the Plum Grove is constantly threatening me with death, taxes, and mean neighbors

Echoes of the Plum Grove may be an adorable-looking farm sim, but it's not so much like Stardew Valley as it is like the weird community simulations in Fable and Kynseed. Its two-person development team calls it a "cozy game with consequences," and, sure enough, the only things certain in Honeywood are death and taxes.

Plum Grove does all the usual farm sim stuff: You've come into possession of a small house on an overgrown plot of land where you'll plant seasonal crops or raise livestock...