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.
#1 Wandering Willows
Wandering Willows is an Action-Adventure and RPG video game by PlayFirst, the creator of all-time hits Diner Dash and Wedding Dash video games. The game takes the players on an incredible journey of a whimsical world full of beautiful Wildlife, enchanting Quests and loads of other wonders. The game allows the players to befriend and pet over forty different species of wildlife animals, groom and train them and complete enchanting Quests together. Wandering Willows allows the players to explore a beautiful game world, interact with Gruff pirates and Spaceship Commanders, grow and manage gardens, harvest crops, and bake items, create all the beautifully styled clothes and find huge caches of treasures. Another great feature of the game is that it lets you search for rare Eggs when found, let them hatch and enjoy raising new pets and enjoy your life in Wandering Willows. With all the pleasant and beautiful environment, Wandering Willows lets the players enjoy an addictive gameplay, nice graphics, and all the adventures altogether.
#2 Stardew Valley
Stardew Valley is a role-playing farming simulation developed by Sickhead Games. The game allows the players to control a virtual character who inherits land and a house from his grandfather. It tasks the player to clear up the plot, throw away the boulders, cut down the bushes and unwanted trees, and rebuild the farm from scratch. The secondary task of the game is to grow crops, raise livestock and generate revenue by selling the products.
Once there is enough money in hand, buy more land and expand the farm, construct new buildings and facilities. The NPCs in the game are there as well, and the game’s social element allows the players to interact, engage in relationships, raise families, help them in farm-related matters, and get help from them. It offers a procedurally generated game world, beautiful 3D graphics, cool mechanics, and a great backstory that keeps players engaged till the end.
#3 Castaway Paradise
Castaway Paradise allows you to have an amazing Viva Piñata like gaming experience while living on a beautiful Tropical Island. You are able to help the residents of the island in fishing, crafting, building and exploring the island, gathering resources, etc. After the character selection and customization, you’ll have to get yourself engaged into the most epic, productive and creative activities like helping the people around you with their quests, and managing the resources, constructing buildings, planting trees etc. Castaway Paradise let’s you experience a game-play that actually make you enjoy fishing, farming, running markets, making houses etc. and of course interacting with other online players across the globe. Castaway Paradise is a wonderful virtual world game and life simulation to enjoy.
#4 Wild Season
Wild Season is a Japanese Role-playing, Visual Novel, Romance and Single-player Simulation developed and published by Quickfire Games. The game combines the Farming, Adventure, and Role-playing elements and offers a brilliant gameplay, in which you receive a call from a real estate agent selling a farm in the south and you have enough money to purchase the farm outright. You as the protagonist makes a decision to leave the city in hopes of starting your farming career. Soon, you stuck in a storm, your car has been sold, and you found yourself in a foreign town with some strange people you have ever seen. You must explore the world from an isometric perspective, interact with non-player characters, grow different crops to earn money, and effort to unearth the secrets of the foreign town. There are a variety of quests and each quest contain a variety of tasks that you must complete at any cost to move on to the next level. The game rewards you with experience points and you can use these points to unlock additional content. Try it out, and you’ll love the compelling gameplay.