Harvest Moon 64
Harvest Moon 64 is a Single-player Farming Simulation developed Victor Interactive Software and published by Natsume. It is the third installment in the series of Story of Season. The game takes place in the wonderful world and casts the player in the role of the protagonist. The ultimate task of the player is to maintain and restore the farm left by his grandfather. In the beginning, the player has a set of tools to use to accomplish his goals. There are a variety of levels, in which the player needs to restore his farm, take care of exotic animals, build houses, and expand his farm further and further. Harvest crops and sell them in the market at a good price. Produce different useful products and earn money by selling them. The game features two pets such as a dog and a horse. As the game proceed, other features will be unlocked. The major features in the game let the player marry and have a cute child. The game becomes tough, as the player advanced. With prominent features, enhanced mechanics, excellent gameplay, and brilliant soundtracks, Harvest Moon 64 is the best game to play and enjoy.
#1 Harvest Moon 3D: A New Beginning
This amazing free to play life simulation and farming game developed by Marvelous AQL is probably the best addition to the series of Harvest Moon 3D that allows you to revive and rebuild an abandoned village named as Echo. Harvest Moon 3D: A New Beginning sets you into the character of a young farmer who inherits an old farm from his father in Echo Village. You travel back to your village where Mr. Dunhill meets you and gives you a tutorial of how you should rebuild your farm and start a business. You can start building your village by constructing different buildings like workshops, houses, markets etc. to accommodate the villagers and to give them jobs to earn their living. You’ll also have to decorate the old buildings, raise animals, grow crops in the fields and make products to sell them in the markets to earn experience points and money that will help you buy upgrades. Harvest Moon 3D: A New Beginning also allows you to travel to the nearing settlements and sell your goods, buy stuff from there and develop your own village. In the end you’ll be able to achieve your goals of changing an abandoned village into a fully flourished settlement that depends on its own resources. Harvest Moon 3D: A New Beginning is a great simulation to enjoy and allows you to experience a real life like events and happenings. Do try it out.
#2 Rune Factory 4
Rune Factory 4 is a brilliant Life Simulation and RPG video game that lets you be a young Air Ship Captain whose ship gets invaded by the pirates and he gets thrown out of his ship. The player lands in the city of Selphia and upon the request of the prince, starts working as the manager of the affairs. Your task is to get into the character of the Air Ship captain, start your daily tasks of managing the Selphia’s affairs, Construct new buildings, tourist attractions etc. and investigate about a strange force rising up into the dungeons. You must also defeat all the humans who have recently turned into the vicious monsters because of the force in the dungeons. Complete all the tasks and earn rewards that you can use to enjoy the game and take it to further awesome levels. Rune Factory 4 is an amazingly addictive game to play and enjoy.
#3 Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Animal Crossing: New Leaf, a sequel to the series Animal Crossing is a community simulation and strategy game developed and published by Nintendo EAD Group. In the game player lives in a world with a lot of Anthropomorphic Animals (Human-like Animals). The player manages the daily life events and happenings of the animals and his life in an open world environment. Collecting items, planting the plants, socializing with other characters etc. are the things a player goes through every day while living in a rural village. The game features an extensive use of system clock and game systems to simulate real life like passage of time. Animal Crossing: New Leaf provides with a great experience of simulation gaming. The newest addition to the series “Animal Crossing” is “Animal Crossing: New Leaf” and a spin-off named “Animal Crossing: Plaza”. Animal Crossing: New Leaf is available to play on Nintendo 64, GameCube, Nintendo DS, Wii, Nintendo 3DS and Wii U.
#4 Harvest Moon
Harvest Moon is a popular Farming Simulation that offers RPG, Dating, and Social elements developed by Amccus and published by Natsume and Nintendo. The game became a huge success after its initial release and broke many records. The Story of Harvest Moon revolves around a young boy responsible for managing and maintaining his long-lost father’s farm and restoring it to its original condition.
Furthermore, the game gives the option to divide the daily tasks into different times. The required tasks are farming, raising the livestock, fishing, and romancing around. Harvest Moon allows the players to not forget about social and marital affairs.
The players can date, romance, marry many Non-player Characters, have families, raise children, and enjoy every bit of their virtual life. The game’s social element allows the players to manage or attend special events such as the side quests, enjoy conversations with people, enjoy Harvest Festival, Egg Festival, New Year’s Day, Winter Solstice, dance with girls, and go on dates, and other such events.
#5 Rune Factory
Rune Factory is an Action-RPG and RPG Simulation Series by Neverland Co., Ltd. It offers playability on multiple platforms such as Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Wii and PlayStation 3. Throughout the series, Rune Factory offers a lot of Common gameplay Elements and offers a harvest Moon inspired gameplay and mechanics. The games in the series allows the players to grow crops with the help of upgradable farming equipment, capture, befriend and train monsters in dungeons, etc. The monsters in the game are tama-able, so when they are fully tamed and trained, they can assist the players in battles, in gods producing and in tending the crops as well. Rune Factory offers an Action-RPG based combat system in the series and allows the players to enjoy epic arena-based PvP combats. Like the harvest moon series, Rune Factory lets the players have a limited stamina, and gain more stamina with the help of Rune points. With every task done, the player loses Stamina and to gain more stamina, the players can use the Rune made by Crops and Potions. The games in the series allow the players to sell the crops and earn gold, mine for resources such as Metal and minerals, go on fishing, and collect food from the befriended monsters. Sell the goods or use them, it totally depends on the choices of the players. Furthermore, Rune Factory offers a non-typical open-ended gameplay throughout the series, linear storylines, loads of dungeons to explore and capture monsters, and it allows the players to have relations with the villagers by talking to them or by giving them presents and stuff. With a great Harvest Moon like experience, great mechanics and an astoundingly addictive gameplay, Rune Factory is a fun Action-RPG Simulation Series to enjoy.
#6 Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley
Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley is a vibrant new Life and Farming Simulation and RPG game that offers a gameplay inspired by the big names such as hay Day, FarmVille etc. The game takes you to an amazing virtual world filled with individuals like yourself and a lot of anthropomorphic animals. Your tasks are to build and decorate your home, interact with other online players, make new friends, pet the animals, take care of them and enjoy your stay into the most beautiful settlement ever. You can also get married, have children buy pets and help the villagers with their daily life tasks. Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley is a wonderful game to play and enjoy.
#7 Harvest Moon: Light of Hope
Harvest Moon: Light of Hope is a marvelous installment in the series of Harvest Moon and offers Action, and Farming Simulation developed and published by Natsume for Nintendo platform. It has a stunning gameplay, in which the player takes on the role of the protagonist who must explore the land to rebuild it. The game starts, as the player are searching for a fresh start and his ship is hit by a monsoon and goes down to a tiny harbor land. The primary objective of the player is to manipulate the world, find items, and grow various crops to survive longer. In the game, the player needs to face off brutal enemies to rescue the lighthouse and expand his farm, tending livestock, and more. Collect items to repair damage machinery, build houses, make new friends and start his family. The game offers the similar gameplay to its predecessor. There are a variety of levels and each level needs a completion of certain objectives. Harvest Moon: Light of Hope is the wonderful game as compared to other Farming Simulations.