Should I play stuff like Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley?

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

The idea of a farming simulator sounds boring imo

 

[fake-kun]

Don't force yourself through the games you know you won't like.

 

[Strategist's icon Strategist Strategist]

Do you like games like the Sims, where you are building a family and giving them professions? That is somewhat similar to Harvest Moon. Or simulation games in general with no combat? If you don't, chances are you won't like these games.

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

Do you like games like the Sims, where you are building a family and giving them professions? That is somewhat similar to Harvest Moon. Or simulation games in general with no combat? If you don't, chances are you won't like these games.

I played the Sims 3 as a kid

 

[TentaclesMod]

It's... more fun than you think. I guess it's more about the whole living in a small town and having your own farm and befriending the inhabitants. If you like something like Animal Crossing is very possible that you actually will like these kind of games.

But is up to you anyway.

Also, I could recommend Rune Factory which adds action rpg with item crafting to the harvest moon formula, specially the third that has a pretty small farm and honestly it's your main way of money making only early on. Later on you use it more for the runes and the ingredients for cooking, and if you train monsters to water, you essentially only plant and harvest and spend most of your time in the dungeons or the town.

But at the end of the day the best way to see these games is as cozy life simulators. If you like that go for it, if you don't, better to not bother.

 

[PSVitaForever]

I thought the same, then I tried "Trio of Towns Story of Seasons" for 3ds because I was attracted by the cute graphics. I admit I stopped playing after a while, because it was becoming complicated (a lot of stuff to build for completing the various requests), but I enjoyed my time with it. I never played other sims after that, though: the only one I played before was "Animal Crossing" for ds, I played it for one year almost every day.

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

It's... more fun than you think. I guess it's more about the whole living in a small town and having your own farm and befriending the inhabitants. If you like something like Animal Crossing is very possible that you actually will like these kind of games.

Animal crossing is boring

 

[Cu-Neo]

If you want something similar but with story and action, play Rune factory. But if not don't bother ?.

 

[tropicalavera]

Animal crossing is boring

This is the third time you've posted this exact message in the last 30 minutes or so...

...who hurt you???

was it the mole??

 

[MasterEn]

I played the Sims 3 as a kid

that doesn't answer the question.
if you want to chill and relax, then harvest moon and stardew valley would be right for you to play. if you want a story and active game mechanics, then rune factory would be more suitable.

 

[Deleted member 25310]

You can always play Rune Factory if base farming seems dumb. Rune Factory has a more in depth combat system than Stardew Valley, thats for sure.

 

[tenkai star]

Farming simulator is a farming simulator. Stardew and harvest moon are more narrative driven games with some light rpg progression mechanics and farming sim mechanics to fill it out.

It’s relaxing, and you can always stop when you feel like you’ve gotten enough out of it and still feel like you had a good experience. Worth a shot

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

You can always play Rune Factory if base farming seems dumb. Rune Factory has a more in depth combat system than Stardew Valley, thats for sure.

Stardew Valley has combat?

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

Animal crossing is boring

That's a first I've ever seen someone say about Animal Crossing, but I guess I can see why you said it since maybe you've played the games and done everything in the games, like paid off your house mortgage to Tom Nook, got all of the villagers that you wanted and so on. I specially know what that's like since I've been playing New Horizons since 2020 and there's honestly not much else to do in the game unless I want to fully remodel my town.

 

[MasterEn]

That's a first I've ever seen someone say about Animal Crossing, but I guess I can see why you said it since maybe you've played the games and done everything in the games, like paid off your house mortgage to Tom Nook, got all of the villagers that you wanted and so on. I specially know what that's like since I've been playing New Horizons since 2020 and there's honestly not much else to do in the game unless I want to fully remodel my town.

animal crossing is more of a game to play with friends and families. if you play by yourself, your goals are more limited to catch all of the bugs and fish, collect all paintings and fossils, ay off the debt, and do a bit of decorating on the island and house.
play with others and you can run around, fall into pit traps, have fishing and bug catching contest when you want to, chill and hang, make pixel art and memes. you get more out of it with others.

 

[ATenderLad]

Stardew Valley has combat?

A large portion of the game is battling monsters in the mines while you look for minerals and resources, yeah.

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

animal crossing is more of a game to play with friends and families. if you play by yourself, your goals are more limited to catch all of the bugs and fish, collect all paintings and fossils, ay off the debt, and do a bit of decorating on the island and house.
play with others and you can run around, fall into pit traps, have fishing and bug catching contest when you want to, chill and hang, make pixel art and memes. you get more out of it with others.

True but a lot of people that you may play with might suddenly not play the game anymore.

 

[MasterEn]

True but a lot of people that you may play with might suddenly not play the game anymore.

yeah, that happens too.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

They can be quite relaxing, which is something we need more of in general these days. So yeah... I'd say pick up Stardew Valley and go nuts!

 

[Zooey]

Stardew Valley - its a farming game but there's more action stuff to do in it. I think this one has the broadest appeal, and is probably the first one id play. Rune Factory also is another, "play this if you want there to be action."
Harvest Moon - can be cool to progress in, building up your farm, but a big part of it is the relationships, and attending the events and festivals. So if youre not interested in the characters then this might not be very fun.
Animal Crossing - not the kind of game that you sit down and play 5+ hours straight of. Its more of a, hop on, play for an hour, hop off. When you hop back on it the next day you'll have stuff to do again. Its also alot better with other people. Its a very slow game that is meant to be taken in small doses.

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

yeah, that happens too.

Sure does.

 

[Azura]

Rune Factory

 

[Bakuma1997]

I Doubt so, i find it boring since unlike City Simulators you are punished for being yourself and NUKING EVERYTHING *Demon*

In all seriousness, I played some Life and City sims, and it's kind of slow compared to say... Mysims or Theme Park (And some REALLY OBSCURE J2me games) but if you get the grasp it's kinda addictive, but i won't force you to play them, on the contrary you need more focus and attention than most simulators especially if we talk about Stardew Valley, best summarized here

As usually i say, whatever floats your goat

 

[Tbest25]

Animal crossing is boring

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Rune Factory also is another, "play this if you want there to be action."

I tried it before but the anime plot made me lose interest. It was the whole "you're the chosen one" cliché, and the main character is treated like loyalty. I find this concept really silly, but that's just one game of the series, maybe the rest is different.
Still, Stardew Valley is the goat.

 

[MasterEn]

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I tried it before but the anime plot made me lose interest. It was the whole "you're the chosen one" cliché, and the main character is treated like loyalty. I find this concept really silly, but that's just one game of the series, maybe the rest is different.
Still, Stardew Valley is the goat.

no, it's kind of there in every game, from the 2 that i played. i haven't tried every game out yet; but it wouldn't surprise me if it was true. eventually we will get a game that strikes some sort of good balance of main character is important but isn't a mary sue like protag who everyone is lusting after.