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Farm Life Sim
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The Farm Life Sim genre is a Sub-Genre of Life Simulation Games and Roleplaying Games focusing on life as a small-town farmer. They're not realistic farm sims like Farming Simulator, but instead use a lot of Artistic License while focusing on the general life of the main character. The games take place in a beautiful arcadia. They're usually set in either a Retro Universe or a Period Piece (which means the protagonist will do a lot of hands-on farming with minimal machinery). The player is usually a City Mouse who decides to leave the hustle and bustle of urban life for a relaxing life as a farmer. Near their farm is a small town full of quirky individuals, including several potential Love Interests that can be married if the player wishes. A good set of supporting characters is vital to this genre; the games can't work on farming alone, there needs to be a cast of interesting NPCs to befriend and interact with. There's also usually a Magic Realism element to the town. This genre dates back to 1996's Harvest Moon. Released late in the Super Nintendo Entertainment System's lifespan, Harvest Moon was a niche but quirky game about the life of a young man who moves out to live in Flowerbud Village. The game was successful enough to get handheld sequels and eventually a true sequel in Harvest Moon 64, which takes place two generations in the future and expands upon everything in the original. The popularity of the games led to the successful Story of Seasons series (originally localized as Harvest Moon until a change in English translators in the 2010s). Despite its success, Story of Seasons had little in terms of rivals. The closest were games like Animal Crossing from 2001 onwards, or Farmville and Farming Simulator after 2009, which weren't quite in the same genre. 2016's Stardew Valley propelled the genre into the mainstream gaming landscape. It was essentially Story of Seasons with some added changes which appealed to both veteran Story of Seasons fans and newcomers. Originally released on PC, it became a Sleeper Hit which led to various ports. Many other developers took note of the game's popularity and were inspired to make similar titles. Related to Simulation Game, Raising Sim, Immersive Sim, and Dating Sim. |
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Littlewood calls itself a "peaceful RPG". It's a fantasy-based farm sim and town-building game. The protagonist is an amnesiac former hero who has defeated the evil Dark Wizard. You settle down and try to convince townsfolk to stay in your town, all while trying to recover your memories. | |
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Story of Seasons, which was formerly known as Harvest Moon in English and changed names in 2014, is the Trope Codifier and Trope Maker. You start as a young person who moves to a small town, where you start your own farm, meet various people, and usually have the option to settle down with someone and have kids. The games have varying degrees of Magical Realism involving the local Harvest Sprites and Crystal Dragon Jesus deity, the Harvest Goddess. The series is also an Unbuilt Trope to a degree, as the series creator never intended for it to be a "farm sim", but about life as a farmer in a small town and the characters they interacted with there, using farming as a backdrop more than the focus. This is why Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life (the creator's favorite game in the series) and Harvest Moon: Save The Homeland are so bare-bones when it comes to farming and ranching. Over the years, Executive Meddling led to more focus on the farming side, which caused the series creator to quit the series in the mid-2000s. | |
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Animal Crossing has always been similar to a farm life sim, but Animal Crossing: New Horizons adds onto the similarities due to the deserted island theme: the player can now grow their own vegetables, craft tools, and till the land. | |
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Stardew Valley is the Genre Popularizer. Until this game, only the original Story of Seasons and Shepherd's Crossing existed, but the popularity of Stardew Valley led to a slew of clones. The game started out as a Story of Seasons Fan Game before becoming a Spiritual Successor. The game includes elements that differentiate it from its inspiration, such as Gay Options and modding (thanks to it originally being a PC title). Stardew Valley is inspired by the original few Story of Seasons titles, which is why it contains mature topics like alcoholism and depression. | |
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Harvest Moon (Natsume) is a series of games started in 2014 by Natsume, who from 1996 until 2014 localized and distributed Marvelous’s Bokuj� Monogatari series outside of Japan under the name Harvest Moon. When Marvelous decided to break with Natsume and hand off translation and Western distribution of the series to XSEED Games, Natsume was left with the Harvest Moon brand name, and decided to make use of it by making their own games "inspired" by the long-running series they formerly translated. Meanwhile, the Bokuj� Monogatari series continues to be made by Marvelous, and new entries are now published by XSEED in the West under the new name Story of Seasons. Like the series that "inspired" them, the Natsume-created games also focus on farming and romance, with some differences here and there (for example, character affection is shown by “Notes� instead of Hearts). | |
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Roots of Pacha is a farm life sim set in a Stone Age-inspired world. Seeds are typically gathered by exploring outside the village while wild animals are tamed into livestock by playing the flute for them. Since money hasn't been invented yet, selling your products and resources is called "contributing" instead. | |
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Kitaria Fables advertises itself as an Action RPG, but one of its main features is developing and maintaining Thunderbunn Farm, from which you grow and harvest ingredients for cooking as well as crafting upgrades for your adventures. | |
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The Viva Piñata series is about turning a ruined wasteland into a beautiful garden that can be customized to your own will. But what makes this game truly stand out is the brightly-colored, animal piñatas that are actually living creatures. You can attract them to come visit your garden, and they might stay as "residents" if certain requirements are met. For each resident piñata, they have a "candiosity" meter. With it maximized, they can be sent to Piñata Central to be whisked off to parties, and then... *ahem* get bashed to pieces as any real piñata would. (Don't worry, they enjoy getting bashed ...well, most of them do.) Then eventually, they return to the garden seemingly unscathed. | |
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Shepherd's Crossing is a rare pre-Stardew Valley example. What differentiates it from Harvest Moon was focusing more on animal husbandry and economics, and also having somewhat of a more mature and cynical tone. For instance, this is one of the few games in the genre where you can actually slaughter your livestock for meat. | |
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Agricola is a board game for up to 5 players, in which the objective is to grow a farm and make it prosper. | |
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Verdant Skies is a sci-fi twist on the genre. It takes place on an alien world named Viridis Primus. The protagonist is a part of a colony and the goal is to ensure the survival of the colony. Along the way you can farm, fish, cook, befriend fellow colonists, and marry other colonists. | |
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My Time at Portia takes heavy inspiration from Rune Factory, and to a lesser extent, Story of Seasons. It's more focused on Item Crafting as the player is a craftsman and trader, not a farmer (though crop harvesting and livestock raising exists). | |
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Ooblets combines this with the Mons Series, and allows you to grow your own Mons. | |
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World's Dawn is a colorful sim that's set in a quiet seaside village named Sugar Blossom Village. You're a farmer who harvests crops, tends livestock, discovers magical secrets, builds friendships, and more. | |
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Stardew Valley, tabletop adaptation of the videogame listed below. | |
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Wylde Flowers is a farming sim game where you just so happen to also be a witch. | |
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Stranded Sails: Explorers of the Cursed Islands has an emphasis on farming and exploration, but it does have NPC characters to interact with as well. | |
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Little Dragons Café has traits of this genre. It's by the same creator of Story of Seasons and has similar gameplay mechanics. You take care of a dragon instead of farm animals. The player also fishes, hunts, and gardens to obtain ingredients for their cafe. The main crux of the game is the story and your relationship with the other characters who visit the cafe. | |
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Gleaner Heights is a Darker and Edgier take on the genre that is heavily inspired by Twin Peaks. The protagonist moves to the Stepford Suburbia that is Gleaner Heights to become a farmer. There, they discover that the town is a Dysfunction Junction full of infidelity, murder, Domestic Abuse, and occult activity. | |
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Rune Factory is a Story of Seasons spinoff that became so popular it became its own series. It features similar gameplay to the original series, except that it uses a fantasy setting instead of a modern Retro Universe one. There's also combat due to the added RPG elements. | |
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Sun Haven is a Farming Sim with a greater emphasis on RPG elements like skill trees and combat than most other farming games, but it still features a wide variety of farming sim style gameplay, for instance, growing crops, animal husbandry and fishing. | |
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Wild Season is about a job-hunting city kid who takes up an ad for a farm. You end up in Bedford Valley, however everyone is unpleasant and uninviting. The plot revolves around befriending them and finding out why they want you out of town. | |
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Cloud Meadow is a H-Game farming simulator crossed with an RPG, as instead of raising normal livestock on their farm, the player is rehabilitating (and romancing) humanoid monsters encountered in dungeons. | |
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Harvest Town is an Android Game created by QY Games, and published by Avid.ly. Typical to its genre, the game allows players to plant crops, raise animals, forage, mine, fish, and interact with villagers. It does have an unusual premise in that the protagonist isn't a City Mouse newcomer moving into an abandoned farm. Instead, they are a Harvest Town native who had left the village for the metropolis decades ago, and had become old and regretful in their old age. While reminiscing the past, they inexplicably underwent a Mental Time Travel to the moment before their departure, whereupon they cancel their plans to leave, and are determined to rebuild the farm that they have neglected. | |
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Harvestella is an Action RPG crossed with a Farm Life Sim. | |
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Paleo Pines takes place in a world of Domesticated Dinosaurs. While you can grow crops, your farm is called a ranch, and a big part of the game is befriending new creatures and riding them. | |
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Rimworld has some elements of this genre, particularly if you add some of the game mods designed to expand on the existing mechanics like Fertile Fields or the Vegetable Garden Project. The overall tone is rather less Arcadian the other examples on this page, however. Especially if you don't plant enough crops before winter. | |
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Coral Island is a game set on a tropical, southeast-Asian inspired island. As well as the farming, ranching, and social mechanics common to the genre, the player can also collect resources in a cave on the island and go diving in the island's coral reefs to clean up trash. | |
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