Harvest Moon: Light of Hope Special Edition
Harvest Moon: Light of Hope Special Edition is a Farming, Simulation, RPG, Casual, and Multiplayer video game developed by Natsume Inc. for various platforms. During the gameplay, the player has to rebuild the town to rescue the lighthouse. One day, while on a journey, the player’s ship strikes with the monsoon, and the character finds himself in a barreled town.
The player can grow crops, tend livestock, and gather materials to make a developed town with the latest and advanced technology. The game allows the player to interact with the NPCs to make them friends and making progress by taking help from them. Side quests allow the player to get to advance through the game and unlock the different equipment.
As the player makes progress through the game, more areas will get lock-free, and the player will come to face plenty of challenges. In the multiplayer mode, the player can play with online players to reestablish the harbor town where all the players can share resources altogether. The core features of the game are Farming Simulator, Multiplayer Mode, Role-playing Gameplay, and NPC Communication.
#1 Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming
Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming revolves around the Puzzle and Farming gameplay created by Platinum-Egg, Inc. and published by Natsume. The game introduces up to 12 playable characters, and each character has its unique abilities. To get into the beautiful environment, the player must choose his favorite character and effort to solve the puzzle and save the farm from devastation. The player needs to match at least three similar crops to smash and score the points to unlock further levels. There are several levels present, and the player needs to accomplish each one to progress the story. During the gameplay, the ultimate task is to gather as many vegetables as possible while scoring the points. The game features dozens of ways to play and puts you in the experience of survival, score attack, crop quota, and more. In Multiplayer mode, the player challenges his fellows over the local network to play against him. With impressive gameplay, superb mechanics and smooth controls, Harvest Moon: Frantic Farming is the wonderful game to play.
#2 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.
#3 Magician’s Quest: Mysterious Times
Magician’s Quest: Mysterious Times is a cool Fantasy-based Adventure and Life Simulation video game. The game allows you to be a Magic Student, who studies in a top class magic school. Your tasks are to learn different magical spells, tricks, interact with other magic students, make new friends and enjoy your life to the fullest. Magician’s Quest: Mysterious Times offers wonderful character selection and customization options along with a lot of amazing and fun filled quests/adventures etc. This cool game allows you to have multiple boyfriends or girlfriends, lets you learn and play different musical instruments, and allows you to have anthropomorphic animals as your pets. With a brilliant and engaging game-play, beautiful visuals, sounds etc. this game will definitely entertain you good.
#4 Rune Factory 3: A Fantasy Harvest Moon
Rune Factory 3: A Fantasy Harvest Moon mixes the Role-playing, Farming, Exploration, and Simulation elements developed by Neverland Co. and published by Marvelous Entertainment. Single-player and Multiplayer both modes are available in the game, and it serves as the 4th title in the series of Rune Factory video game and the 3rd installment available to play on DS. The story of the game starts with an exciting character named as Micah, who has lost his memory, living in a small town. The protagonist likes a girl called as Shara and is tasked with growing and raising the farm of the town. The player assumes the role of the protagonist and his ultimate task is to start a small farm and expand it further and further to become the master. The player needs to sow seeds in the empty lands, and grow different crops for profit and gather resources to survive. During the gameplay, the player will explore dungeons, grow crops and fight monsters to progress through the game. With the exciting story, fantastic graphics, and superb controls, Rune Factory 3: A Fantasy Harvest Moon is the best game to play.
#5 Harvest Moon DS
Harvest Moon DS is a Role-playing and Farming Simulation developed by Marvelous Interactive and published by Raising Star Games for Nintendo platform. The story centers on a man who lives with his fellow named Takakura on a beautiful farm in Forget ME Not Valley. It offers an exciting story, in which the witch princess sends the Harvest Goddess mistakenly in another world. After that, she sends the Harvest Sprites to rescue her. Now it’s up to you to save the Harvest Goddess and bring her back from another world. You can take on the role of the farmer and your primary aim is to earn money by growing and harvesting crops. The game offers the similar gameplay to its previous entries. You starts off from an empty land and needs to sow seeds in the land to grow trees, vegetables, fruits and more. You have planted each crop during a certain season and using crafting elements, you can create lots of farming tools and other equipment. The game looks easy but hard to master. With prominent features, addictive gameplay, and superb visuals, Harvest Moon DS is the best game to play and enjoy.