Farm Folks
This game published by Crytivo
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After washing ashore on Softshoal Island, you are given a chance at a new life. A plot of land awaits your green thumb to transform it into a booming farm, and a new world beckons you to explore its secrets.
Farm Folks offers a delightful mix of RPG and farming mechanics, giving you the freedom to get lost in the world while you build a farm from the ground up. There are many friends to be made, many crops and animals to tend, and a whole island to discover. What are you waiting for?
As you begin to nurture your plot, uncover great mysteries, and meet the citizens of the island, you’ll experience the everlasting magnificence of your new home first-hand–all while you rekindle the memories from your past that caused you to embark on this grand, exciting adventure in the first place. You never would have guessed that finding your purpose in life was just a shipwreck away…
In Farm Folks, live your life as you see fit–there are so many experiences to be had! Working the land and rearing animals is a bunch of fun, but there is so much more on offer here. Let’s run through what you can expect:
It wouldn’t be much of a farming simulator without farming, would it? Farm Folks features the time-tested farming mechanic in which players can purchase or forage seeds and begin to grow their farm into a bountiful and rewarding resource.
Once the soil is tilled and the seeds are nestled firmly into the ground, it’s time for some TLC–Tender Loving Care. You’ll water your plants daily, either by hand or through other means, until each crop has reached its maturation and it’s ready for harvest. Harvesting your hard-earned bounty can reward you in many ways, but if you’re focusing on that bottom line, then it’s time to put some coin in your purse.
After loading your haul onto your trusty mount, you’ll head into town and sell your goods to the island’s exporters. As your purse grows fatter and fatter, the farming process can be enhanced and streamlined until you’re running the island’s most booming farm.
Soon you’ll be wondering if it’s time to invest in one of those fancy mainland automobiles….or maybe someone who can help out around the farm…
Softshoal Island’s farmland is so very fertile because of the island’s local animal population and the generations they’ve spent grazing every acre of the luscious landscape. Today, farmers can continue to reap the rewards of Softshoal’s four-legged (and two-legged!) friends by giving them homes on your property.
The local forester is also a great carpenter, and he’ll make any kind of coop or stable that’s available–for a price, of course. Once the structure is built, you’ll need to stop by the nearby animal breeder to purchase some healthy livestock! Before you know it, you’ll be in the ranching business. Milk, eggs, and wool, oh my!
Nurture and care is key to making sure your livestock is producing worthwhile products. The happier your animal companions are, the higher the quality of their yield! Make sure you’ve got your brushes and special feed handy!
Sometimes reward is found outside the fences of your farm. You’ll need to explore the wonderful and diverse settings of Softshoal to find the valuable items that can’t be found on a shelf in the local general store. These resources include minerals and materials for upgrading your tools–usually mined from Softshoal’s extensive cave system, or fish and other precious sea life that can be fished from the island’s various rivers, lakes and coastlines.
Your progression is enhanced by what you find in the wilds of Softshoal, and sometimes searching for something trivial can lead to a grand adventure you never saw coming. Get out there and see what you can find–don’t forget your pickaxe and fishing rod!
Softshoal’s local community is a character-rich roster of living and breathing souls, all of which are just waiting to share their story with you. From those that live in the island’s coastal town, Port Meridia, to those found out in the wilds, Farm Folks features a diverse, well-thought cast of over thirty characters.
You’ll meet them, find ways to further your relationships with them, and soon you’ll know each one by name. These citizens offer quests a-plenty, and spout dialogue that’ll keep you coming back for more. High relationships come with high rewards, but don’t think everybody in Softshoal is going to be easy to please…
The seeds you sow in the community will quickly begin to bear fruit. However, you better be careful not to grow weeds! Build your relationships with townsfolk by giving them gifts, attending special events, performing quests, and remembering their birthdays. Earn enough favor and maybe the townsfolk will begin giving you gifts in kind. Some nuts are harder to crack than others, but with some finesse, they just might come around. You never know - you might even find love out there.
There’s beauty and intrigue found in every corner of Softshoal. It’s a compelling place that calls the player ever further into the mysterious woods, down into the dangerous caves. As you explore, you’ll see things that you’ll never forget and you’ll experience adventures worth re-telling.
And where better to relay your stories of heroism than back in Port Meridia? This fair-sized town has plenty of places to kick back and enjoy a day away from the farm, but it’s also home to the many festivals that you don’t want to miss!
Every season brings with it a great calendar of holidays that are perfect cause for celebration. You’ll find the townsfolk have a festival for nearly every one of those occasions. Make sure you’re there!
Your character is a reflection of your personality (we assume that deep inside, everyone is an attractive, island-dwelling farmer). As such, they can be customized in any way you desire, including your gender. After creating a glorious persona, we know there will be fashionistas who want to take it a step further. Want to give them a more epic hairstyle or outfit? Visit the barber or tailor! You will soon become a shining star in the farming community.
And so much more!
Farm Folks is whatever you make of it. It’s an adventure driven entirely by you. There is so much more to discover and so much more fun to be had when you get creative. Live this pleasant life to the best of your abilities and become the greatest farmer that Softshoal has ever seen!
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Ranch Simulator
Love the game, very chill. Would recommend this game who wants to build their own ranching world.
– Real player with 105.6 hrs in game
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Chicken Farm Simulator? Or Wood Cutting simulator? Its not bad if you like raising chickens for 12 hours straight and cutting wood for pennies just to buy another chicken…
edit: played longer. Now its pigs and coolers. lol.
– Real player with 48.0 hrs in game
Moonhaven
Moonhaven is an open-ended, survival, life sim RPG! Explore a seemingly deserted and definitely haunted island!
You awake on the beach of a deserted island. Hungry and alone, armed with only your wits, you set out to survive and build a life for yourself. Can you make it through the night, solve the mystery of the haunted isle and make a home for yourself? It will not be easy. The once vibrant, nearby town of Moonhaven lies in ruins and now is home only to the ghosts of the past! With some dedication, you may just be the one to help the spirits that haunt Moonhaven find peace and restore the island to its former glory!
Features
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Turn the wilderness on the island into a bustling farm! Grow crops, raise animals, craft new items, and more! Build your dream farm anywhere you want in the island’s wilderness.
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Survive the cold nights! Grow, gather, hunt and fish for the food you need to survive!
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Up to 4 Players! Invite 1-3 players to join you on the island online! Players can work together to build their farms, share resources and rebuild the nearby town of Moonhaven!
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Level up your skills! Everything you do gains you experience and levels. Each level you get a new skill point you can spend on unlocking new cooking and crafting recipes, unlock new areas to explore, and improve your farming, crafting, hunting, fishing and fighting abilities.
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Explore a vast, mysterious island! You’ll encounter a variety of animals and even some monsters. Find powerful weapons, raw materials for crafting and mysteries to be uncovered.
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Restore Moonhaven to its former glory! The town lies in ruins, haunted by ghosts from the past. Help the spirits that haunt Moonhaven find peace and restore the island to its former glory by repairing and rebuilding the town!
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Go fishing! Take the afternoon off and go fishing. The island’s lakes and the ocean are teeming with many varieties of fish. Craft bait, bobbers and traps to help you become an angling master!
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Cook delicious foods and craft everything you need! Cook dozens of different recipes to help sustain you and provide you with beneficial benefits. Craft tools, weapons, building materials and other useful items to help you build your farm and survive on the island!
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Customize your character! Change your character’s appearance to including hair, clothes and more!
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Build your base! Build your own farm house, barn and more! Choose from a variety of different building materials to craft your dream home! Build fences, traps to keep out predators during the night and protect your crops.
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Blacksmith
Great game in theory, but in reality it’s a buggy mess. The game crashes repeatedly (in fact it crashes so hard it takes Steam with it) and there’s no way to save your progress other than sleeping, which advances to the next day, obviously. Thankfully when you sleep it’s an autosave, so while you’ll lose progress when the game inevitably crashes every hour or two IRL it’s not too much progress. I’d still call this a game-breaking bug though and the developer doesn’t care at all. I went on the forums to report the bug, found a thread where the developer had responded basically saying “oh sorry about that, just use a different PC” and posted in there asking why it was happening and saying that I DON’T HAVE ANOTHER PC because I’m not made of money and the developer responded by regurgitating the same “fix”: “just use a different PC” that I don’t have, which I DID mention.
– Real player with 15.7 hrs in game
I like to play my games on easy mode… I’ll leave you stewing with that for now.
Jumping into it - the first thing to say is that it was addictive. The pull of the game has caught me a few times. Every time I’ve invested a half hour into the game I’ve found myself lost in it for 2-4 times that.
There is nothing wrong with the desire to play more. In normal cases wanting more is a good sign that the game has you riveted. But being at the edge of your seat is not the whole story here.
I like the story of the game to flow nicely so that my experience is filled and void of any boring bits. The experience does not need to be dependent on words to be properly conveyed. Discovering game mechanics, honing the efficiency of a system, or solving a string of puzzles can all be - what I see - as story. And here is where I see two stories clashing.
– Real player with 12.1 hrs in game
FreeHolder
Really good game and addicting, it has great potential and is a great blend of surviving, strategy and RPG.
Unfortunately it’s too bugged at the alpha state. Check it later.
Updated at Jan 20th:
The devs are not responsive to our feedbacks, and keep playing other games and ignoring us. Change to not recommended for now, and may possibly edit some time.
Updated at May 27th:
The dev brothers decided to set aside some time to develop it. At Alpha 3 hotfix 9 it’s highly playable now, also they are planning to deploy Unity 5 in the Alpha 4 to avoid massive bugs. I’m also doing some Chinese localization voluntarily, which they MAY adapt it one day.
– Real player with 87.8 hrs in game
At it’s core, FreeHolder is a cheap-ish variation (maybe even clone) of a game from Clarus Victoria . It plays very similarily to Predynastic Egypt except latter actually has decent quality and way more content. And it had a full release just few months after this game came to EA.
Freeholder is just painful. It gives you VERY limited options. You have, like, 7-9 action points per turn. Most actions are absolutely random and it is not uncommon to have three in a row to fail completely. If those actions are food gathering you most likely are screwed, since you CANNOT STORE FOOD AS IT SPOILS AT LUDICROUS RATE. And then you start anew. And you reload since MOST OF THE TOWN QUESTS ARE SUPPLYING LUDICROUS AMOUNTS OF FOOD WHICH SPOILS AT LUDICROUS RATE AND YOU CAN MOVE ONLY 5 UNITS PER TURN. And you do all of this with horrible, half-completed UI in a game full of bugs. It goes like this - even if you are doing fine at the beginning, starting disadvantages like this start snowballing and wreck you late in game. EVEN if you are doing well, and usually you aren’t. I played for, like, 15 hours and during this time I survived more than a year only once…
– Real player with 28.5 hrs in game
Hippoboar Rancher ~かばいの牧場物語~
Super cute farming simulator game with a little bit of magic sprinkled in~! It’s not super complicated- you build buildings, raise animals, grow crops, talk to towns folk, maybe complete a quest or two every now and then. Still, the game manages to be very fun, with a hilarious and lovable cast of characters~! I especially like some of the subtle callbacks to other OTUSUN Club games thrown into the script~ I’ve only been playing a couple of hours but I’m excited to see what else the game has in store for me~! ^_^
– Real player with 5.6 hrs in game
BugOut
FAIR WARNING!
Please keep in mind it’s an Early Access version of the game. If you search for an full-of-feature, near final version, I would highly recommend to wait until the game was in an further development stage. There could be bugs, crashes (I have never one single crash!), lack of content and items and things like that ! So please, push the Buy button only if you want to support the game, the idea and the developers, not to expect an highly final gameplay experience!
Last but not least: Sorry for my bad english, it’s not my native language! I try to improve, but it will take time to be good :D !
– Real player with 99.5 hrs in game
After waiting a year and through many broken promises for an update this game has taken a huge step back. Literally everything about this game is worse now. Definitely not worth buying in this state.
Update June 26, 2020: After giving this game one last chance with “Major Update Version 1.0” it’s abundantly clear it will likely never reach any potential it may once have had. To say it’s broken would be an understatement. Progression is virtually impossible. Stone cannot be gathered or mined in any way. No quests other than the first quest of meet the campers will complete. Trading does not work. The flashlight is a small circle of light always focused on the ground in front of the player’s feet so the light doesn’t follow where you are looking. There’s nothing aside from twine or rope to craft, build, or do as the most fundamental aspects of the game are non-functioning and as such you cannot acquire the necessary resources through any means whether that be gathering, trading, or completing quests. And this is after nearly three years since game release.
– Real player with 97.6 hrs in game
Kynseed
It’s good so far.
Updated for ‘Hag & Slash’ Update
Fair Warning:: There are dark themes, and some mature references in this game.
Pros:
Extremely Ambitious game:
Kynseed is a LIFE SIM, not just a farming sim. the goal of this game is to give the player options to specialize in any available niches of the character’s life if the player wants to, with each being in-depth in their own stepping stones. This includes farming, business owning, combat, domestic life, animal breeding, crafting, player-character/spouse/worker/offspring skill and stat improving for even better experiences in those areas, etc. They’re implementing a lot of in-depth and unique features for each (check their roadmap in the official site, and the Discord.)
– Real player with 170.5 hrs in game
I’ve put a lot of hours into this game (especially for being an early access title), so it’s pretty apparent that I would recommend it.
I’ve read through some negative reviews and I can see where they’re coming from with some things, but I think it’s entirely accurate to say that Kynseed is worth the price. If you’re wondering whether you can get $10 worth of content, I’d say yes! The game’s value will increase with time, so I think it’s worthwhile to get it while it is so cheap- and you’ll have the added advantage of already having progressed through some major early events and having hoarded resources.
– Real player with 111.5 hrs in game
Gooberries
If you’re looking for a cute farm sim, with a unique concept, this is it! At first blush it seems quite simple, but after an hour or so, you start to see more complexity and the pace picks up. The goobers are very cute and, as you play through, you’ll discover the humour of the dev shining through in some very entertaining ways.
I only played a few hours because of time constraints, but I’ll be back into it. Its very fun, and I enjoyed playing it a lot!
– Real player with 4.1 hrs in game
It’s a farming simulator in early access, so of course there are some things being ironed out. Luckily the dev is really cool and willing to hear out when players are having issues. I will say there’s not much of an endgame really, i.e. there’s a point where you can easily hit the peak of the gameplay and you won’t find much content left. The dev does post frequent updates about adding content. It just takes time since he’s a solo dev. All things considered, it’s a cute little game that I’m sure I can enjoy playing with my son. He really likes the characters, especially the Goobers.
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
The Kingdom of Gardenia
This game is fast becoming my oppertunity for escapism every eveningafter my little one goes to bed! there are mysteries and puzzles to solve like the caves and the meadow along with gardening and landscaping similar to Garden Inc and Ranch Rush. I love all the different characters in the game and trying to figure out their likes and dislikes too alongside an intriguing story line in the game. I really enjoyed how to make different foods with different ingredients and the variety of plants and trees are so colourful and bright. I was really impressed in how fluid the main character moves around the various screens and interacts with different objects easily with really easy controls to use in the game. overall a really great game!
– Real player with 62.0 hrs in game
This game is so cute! It took me a little while to figure out what to do but once the visitors started arriving I really got into it. I enjoyed talking to them, plantign flowers and trees for them and cooking their favourite food, would definitely recommend to people who enjoy games like Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley.
– Real player with 25.3 hrs in game