Path Of Exile's next expansion takes a leaf from Stardew Valley and makes loot-farming literal

3 years 11 months ago

Gardening seems a lot more dangerous than Alan Titchmarsh let on.

On June 19th, the next quarterly update for Path Of Exile – the free-to-play action RPG – will give players the chance to trade blood-soaked knives for green fingers. It’s called Harvest, and it tasks you with managing a garden. Of course, your glowing nocturnal plants will blossom into monsters needing slaying, but this should provide some downtime between dungeon crawls in a game that has grown faster and more aggressive with every update. How does your garden grow? See my thoughts after a chat with Grinding Gear head Chris Wilson, plus the trailer below.

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Dominic Tarason