Rune Factory: Frontier
Rune Factory: Frontier is a Role-playing and Single-player Simulation developed by Neverland and published by Xseed Games. It serves as the third installment in the series of Rune Factory game. The story follows the protagonist named as Ranguna, who are struggling to find his missing sister named as Mist, who is shifted to another town because a stranger is calling in her dreams. The protagonist moves into the strange city, living in the home next to her. In the game, the player must grow his beautiful farm while uncovering the story of the land. The game features four different seasons, three of which the player can produce different crops such as tomatoes, strawberries, pineapples, and more. During the gameplay, you can also grow other crops like flowers, which can be sold to earn gold (the currency of the game). After earning enough points, the player needs to uncover the truth about her sister and reveal about the happen which happens to her life. The player manipulates the land from a third-person perspective and can fight against enemies using multiple weapons. With lots of cool features, brilliant mechanics, and excellent controls, Rune Factory: Frontier is the best game to play.
#1 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.
#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 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.
#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 Fantasy Life
Fantasy Life is a wonderful Virtual World video game for all the Life Simulation and community based game enthusiasts out there. This cool game is packed with a huge amount of characters, customization and class options, beautiful visuals, a huge open world, a lot of quests to go on and enjoy. Fantasy Life is set in the beautifully created world of Reveria and lets you explore, be any one (Alchemist, Carpenter, Blacksmith, Hunter, Magician, miner, Paladin etc.) and get connected to your character relevant field, build, craft, mine or do whatever you want. “Fantasy Life” is all about your personal experiences in a virtual world and it allows you to spend your time into some of the best productive and creative activities along with your online friends and enjoy your life.
#6 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.
#7 Harvest Moon: Skytree Village
Harvest Moon: Skytree Village is a Role-playing, Exploration, Farming and Single-player video game created and published by Natsume. The game takes place in the beautiful village and lets you play either as a boy or a girl. In the game, the primary objective is to restore the land and rescue the village. According to the story, many people lived in Skytree Village, and the environment and land was green and lush. The power of goddess began to wane, and the village became dry and parched. Now, it’s up to you to revive the seven skytree to restore the village and bring the life back to demolished land. During the gameplay, the player can explore the environment, interact with non-player characters and can fulfill the requirements of each level to progress through story. The game introduces a brand new animal known as the Poitou Donkey. You can turn your land any way you like. Harvest Moon: Skytree Village includes prominent features such as New animals, Tutorials, Farming Mechanics, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.
#8 Story of Seasons
Story of Seasons is a Role-playing, and Single-player Farming Simulation developed and published by Marvelous AQL. The game offers the similar gameplay to its predecessor and puts the player in charge of a farmer. At the beginning of the game, the player can select top lay a boy or a girl farmer and can choose between two difficulties, but this can’t be changed once the player made a choice. There are dozens of fun-filled activities to do, like raising livestock and producing crops. The game offers new characters, including tony lord and the witch. According to the storyline, the player is bored with his regular life and receives an announcing the need for brilliant farmers in the Oaktree town. The player decides to moves to the small but beautiful village. In the village, there are four farmers, who will teach the player how to run the new farm. The ultimate task of the player is to unlock seven vendors by completing the certain tasks and turn the simple village into an international trade city. Using customization, the player can control his hairstyle, skin colour, eyes, clothing outfits, and more accessories. Try it out, and you’ll like it.