Spring has sprung, and with it has come a new crop of cozy farming sim games. This season's latest offering, Sun Haven, follows in the footsteps of titles like the Rune Factory series and Harvestella, mixing down-to-earth life simulation with a high fantasy setting.
The game has the expected suite of features: a farming system, combat, a host of romance-able and incidental NPCs, and of course, the ability for the player to build and customize their own farm and home.
There has been a hiccup that new players are consistently running into when customizing their living space, however. They're not sure how to rotate furniture.
How to Rotate Furniture in Sun Haven
There's good news, and there's bad news. The good news is that rotating objects in Sun Haven is relatively simple. Right before the player puts down a piece of furniture, they can rotate it by pressing "R."
If they have already placed an item and want to re-orient it, players have to hit it with their pickaxe to put it back in their inventory. From there, they can place it again, this time in the right direction.
The bad news is that this is not a universal feature. Only some furniture, like chairs, can be rotated, while others, like the player's starting bed and carpet, can't. They have to experiment with each type of item to see what the game allows them to spin.
It's understandable why the game is like this. Sun Haven has sprite-based art, and rotating objects means drawing new sprites for each angle. It's small, but that kind of work can quickly add up, especially for a small team already putting out high-detail sprites and animation.
Still, considering that this feature is available in other sprite-based games, players can hope that Pixel Sprout Games updates this in a future patch. Still, it's a minor feature that doesn't spoil the whole experience, and Sun Haven offers plenty of other things to do in the meantime.
Sun Haven is available now for PC, with a planned Switch Port whose release date is TBA.