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.
#1 Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny
Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny is a Role-playing and Single-player Simulation created by Neverland and published by Marvelous Entertainment. The plot focuses on both a male and a female character named as Aden and Sonja, as they travel the seas, on the massive dragon named Ymir. The game lets the player select either a male or a female character to jump into the world where the player can raise the beast on the sunken islands and ships from the sea. During the game, the player is capable of farming, battling against enemies using the real-time battle system and create a relationship. The game is played from a third-person viewpoint, and the player can encounter several people like Violet, Odette, Lily, James, Bismark, and more. The ultimate task of the player is to navigate the world, interact with non-player characters and complete quests for them to earn points which can be used to unlock further feature. With addictive gameplay, brilliant graphics, and superb mechanics, Rune Factory: Tides of Destin is the best game to play.
#2 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.
#3 Farming Simulator 17
Farming Simulator 17 is a mix of Open World, Driving, Management, Economy and Farming Simulation elements developed by Giant Software and published by Focus Home Interactive. The game has both Single and Multiplayer modes and revolves around the female protagonist. It lets you immerse yourself in a massive environment equipped with new content such as vehicles, animals, brilliant mechanics and crops. Navigate the environment consists of hundreds of arcs to grow different crops. There are up to 250 farming vehicles available from more than seventy-five manufacturers including Massey Ferguson, Challenger, etc. You can grow many types of crops such as soybeans, sunflowers, etc. and can take care of your livestock such as chickens, sheep, and cows. Accomplish a set of objectives by growing different crops and selling them at the nice project to earn money. Expand your farm further and further and get the experience of a farmer life. Purchase new vehicles, land, and animals to expand your business. With enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay, and wonderful graphics detailed, Farming Simulator 17 is the best game to play and enjoy.
#4 Harvest Moon: Back to Nature
Harvest Moon: Back to Nature mixes the Role-playing and Life Simulation elements developed by Victor Interactive Software and published by Natsume. The game has Single-player mode only and introduces a young boy protagonist as a playable character. It is the fabulous title in the series of Harvest Moon and offers a thrilling gameplay based on building, farming, and exploration like its predecessor. The story revolves around the protagonist, who went to the farm of his grandfather for the summer. The boy starts to explore the town and countryside because his grandfather is too busy with his farm. During exploration, the boy encounters a little girl and his grandfather’s puppy and become very close friends. He promises the girl to come back again ever soon, upon returning to his home. After the death of the grandfather, the boy visits the town to restore the farm. The player assumes the role of the protagonist and his prominent task is to restore the farm to stay the town. With exciting graphics, prominent features, smooth controls, and different sound effects, Harvest Moon: Back to Nature is the best game to play and enjoy.