Best Farming Sim Story Rich Games on PC

Adios

Target Audience: Subtle Story Lovers who want something down to Earth.

Summary:

Adios is one of those games where you wish that there was a bit more of a budget for the game to work with, because you know that there’s a solid foundation at the surface here, but it can only get so far with what it has to work with. The game’s biggest selling point is its story, which isn’t bombastic or over the top like you may think with the game’s store page and the crime aspects related to it, but is a character study of how one man deals with life pushing at him from every angle, and how he responds to trauma. It’s emotional in the right ways, and some stellar voice acting from our two main leads helps propel the game forward and make you look into every conversation and its subtext. Subtlety isn’t exactly a common skill in writing like this but the game pulls it off wonderfully, and it’s a game that you’ll sit and think about for hours after you play about what you’d do in the situation, and the themes surronding it.

– Real player with 16.8 hrs in game

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Adios

A really interesting concept that almost delivers, but ultimately is let down by the lack of vocabulary choices, a clunky interface, and a questionable turn of events.

Story 📕

You’re a pig farmer in Kansas. For the last fifteen years you have helped feed chopped up body parts to your pigs for the Mob.

Today, you have decided to quit. You are no longer comfortable with letting the mob use your pigs as a way of disposing of victims.

– Real player with 7.2 hrs in game

Adios on Steam

Verdant Skies

I don’t know how to put my feelings into words right now. I found this verdant little gem by chance as I browsed YouTube. One immediate bonus I noticed was that it looked like games I love such as Stardew Valley while containing its own unique flair. I’ve adored laid-back little games like this since I was a teenager and got hooked on Harvest Moon: Magical Melody. Beyond the initial premise, one thing reeled me in, making me seriously consider purchasing the game. Rosie. My first reaction was “Wow, a blind mechanical engineer? AWESOME!!!” Finally, a character in a video game of my preferred genre that I can relate to! That’s not because she’s a mechanical engineer, but because she’s blind. Although not completely blind, I do have a moderate visual impairment which can make some games a bit tricky. This ties into the second reason I purchased this game. Everything looked so big and vibrant, easy to do and easy to find. It’s for this reason that I purchased this as my end-of-semester present rather than Kynseed, (though I intend to buy that later). Naturally, I was nervous sinking $20 into a game I’d found on YouTube of all places. However, I am happy to inform whoever is reading this that this game does NOT disappoint!

– Real player with 65.5 hrs in game

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Really, really wish Steam would allow “Neutral” or “Informational” reviews.

Verdant Skies is a really interesting game that’s actually not that good but I put 30 hours into it anyway for a few reasons. The gameplay is really pretty shitty but it has some wonderful ideas and mechanisms and perhaps most importantly for my typical reader, it’s really committed to making a farm sim that goes above and beyond in terms of race and gender. If those things are important to you this is definitely worth checking out, but if you need high polish and deep gameplay first and foremost it’s probably not for you.

– Real player with 31.3 hrs in game

Verdant Skies on Steam

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin

Came here as a gamer… left as a professional rice farmer degree

The realistic, in depth elements of rice farming combined with honing fighting skills plus surprising character revelations and development make Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin a magnificent game. Beside its beautiful story‚ Sakuna’s personal growth is a pleasure to watch. Her reason for living is tested to the limit. The balanced emphasis on farming and fighting provides a great variety of tasks to undertake, providing dozens of hours of fun.

– Real player with 114.1 hrs in game

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I’ll leave a TLDR at the bottom.

I was hesitant yet curious coming into Sakuna. A game that’s half side-scroller beat’m up, and half in-depth rice farming is something unique and interesting to me.

We are introduced to Sakuna, a daughter of harvest goddesss Toyohana and war god Takeribi. Sakuna is a goddess who resides in the capital indulging herself on all sorts of expensive luxuries until one day she meets a certain group of humans and gets involved in an unfortunate event that has her and the group exiled to an isle of demons called Hinoe. It is on this isle that Sakuna will grow rice, hunt demons, and come to learn more about the humans that were exiled along with her.

– Real player with 83.4 hrs in game

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin on Steam

Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game

Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game is a historically-grounded fantasy homesteading game about finding your way after loss. Accompany the Callahan Siblings, Shane and Áine, as they learn to cope in the wake of the complete upset of their lives - journey through magic, intrigue and small-town politics to resolve the sudden appearance of dangerous, magical beasts.

Release plan : Beta test early development [✓] – 2-3 hour demo of game so far [✓] – Interactions on feedback from the demo [] – Early Access version [] – Full Game []

Farm, Forage, & Hunt to Survive

Living in the desert isn’t easy, but the magical abilities that force the protagonists to isolate themselves also helps them make the most of the environment. Farm, forage, and hunt to scrape by in the sparse desert of Eastern Oregon.

Unravel a Mystery

Guide Shane and Áine through the twists and turns of their search for answers about the monster attacks that threaten their fragile livelihood. Where will this undertaking lead these unlikely adventurers?

Forge Relationships

Survival isn’t just about finding food and shelter. It’s also about making life worth living. The support and attention of loved ones, romantic and otherwise, will bolster your spirit and give you strength.

Fight & Prevail

A homesteader isn’t usually well-equipped for armed struggle, but desperate times call for desperate measures. Stand shoulder-to-shoulder with your sibling to defend your homestead against magical monsters.

Cook & Craft

Frontier cuisine is more about filling bellies than making an impression - scrape together what you can to conquer scarcity. Overcome challenges with tools and handicrafts that you create.

Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game on Steam

Song Of The Prairie / 牧野之歌

“Song of Prairie” is a farm simulation game. Farms, stories, exploration, and DIY are all things you can experience on this free and magical land.

There won’t be any restrictions on your behaviors in this land. What kind of life you experience depends entirely on you. Take action, this land is waiting for your exploration and construction.

Be the mayor!

By chance, you came to this town and unexpectedly became the mayor of it. As the new mayor, will you start a new life on this land, playing as a respectable mayor, or becoming an indifferent mayor? It will all depend on you, remember that it will all be your story.

Free pastoral life

There is a lot of content on this magical land waiting for you, clear streams, gorgeous wild flowers, interesting life and magical cows and sheep strolling comfortably on the grass.

Here you can enjoy a simple life of farming, clearing land, breeding animals, and fishing. You can also vigorously construct the town, recruit more people to join the town, build buildings and decorate the town. You can also experience the bonds with the residents, solve their troubles, listen to their past, and even establish an extraordinary relationship with the residents. And the exploration of unknown areas…

No matter what kind of life you choose, please enjoy the surprises this land brings to you!

●Free cultivation.You can grow more than 40 kinds of fruits and vegetables in different seasons freely. The growth rate of the plants depends on how good you take care of the plants. The plants that are carefully cultivated will grow faster, and the rain will also boost the growth of the plants.

●Fun and magical animals.Many magical animals live on this land, such as cows who grow stripes of the fruits after eating them, and even produce milk with certain fruit flavor. Moreover, riding animals that are close to you can also unlock interesting abilities of animals to help us on cultivation.

●DIY fun.You can customize the look of your character, match your favorite clothes at will, freely choose and change your favorite profession, and create a unique character.

●Construction and destruction.Lay out public facilities, change architectural styles, build farms, and destroy scene content. Experience the development of the town and feel the joy of infrastructure construction.

●Love and marriage. Try to make friends with the residents of the town. Each resident has different personalities and skills. You can get to know some of them better by dating, unlocking personal stories, or through heart-to-heart communication. When the residents have enough affection for you, they may fall in love with you or even get married, and the other half can accompany us to work together and interact with.

Song Of The Prairie / 牧野之歌 on Steam

Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands

(Summary at the end of this review for easier, faster reading)

UPDATED FOR THE COMPLETION UPDATE (Dec. 2020)

Having had fond memories of The Sims: Castaway in my childhood, I was quite ecstatic when I found a game that sounded similar. There are a great deal of differences between the aforementioned Sims spin-off and this indie game, and it more easily compares to Yonder: the Cloudcatcher Chronicles in regards to progression. Instead of simply relying on the tired “get better tool to get next material” method of game progression, you get access to new locations by acquiring new tools (an axe to cut down bushes that block your path, a raft to row to different islands, etc.) or by learning new crafting recipes (like ladders, and bridges) to cross previously impassible obstacles.

– Real player with 106.9 hrs in game

Update October 2020 - I quit playing this game because the fishing became VERY UNPLEASANT. The fishing was fairly fun before the 2nd update. Now it is a CHORE and this added difficulty adds nothing to the game. Many food buffs rely on the fish that are now so difficult to catch that it actually spoils the game. Several players have commented on this only to fall on deaf ears. Too bad…. there are many other aspects of the game that are enjoyable.

Here is a January update since the fixes in December. Note I did not start a new game but continued with the added update.

– Real player with 58.9 hrs in game

Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands on Steam

Epic Chef

The key to comedy is timing. The simple nature of the game mechanics allows the humor to just keep rolling. Is this some new avante garde game? No.

It is fun. Pure and simple fun. Stop worrying about how hard or easy the game is and let it take you on a ride worth the price. If you only care about being some hoity toity gamer critic? Move on.

The cooking is more of a puzzle with ingredients than a mechanic. It sets the canvas for a fun story with characters you will remember and not have to wiki when you need to find them.

– Real player with 126.8 hrs in game

Absolutely fantastic! The humour and story telling is amazing. I was afraid, that it was targeting a young audience, but this isn’t the case. Witty characters, great punchlines.

It is also more in depth than I thought. Not mentioning spoilers, there is a lot more going on, than just building your farm and the cooking competitions.

If you look for a great story game, combined with some farming, resource gathering and cooking, you are going to love this game! I would not recommend it, for people who don’t care about a story and are looking more for a cooking simulator.

– Real player with 89.3 hrs in game

Epic Chef on Steam

Harvest Island

You play as Will, a kid that lives on a remote island with his father and sister. You give your harvest offerings to the gods by milking cows, petting goats, shearing sheep, and planting crops. The island is big and you’ll be able to traverse to new and unknown areas, discover wild animals that’ll hide in the thickets of trees, and explore the deep, dark, depths of the island’s caves. But you can’t wander off too far from your home. It’s safer to stay in the comfort of your farm.

Collect coconuts, seaweed, horseshoe crabs, and other peculiar stuff. Offer your gatherings to the gods.
There are tons of different types of fish that you can catch all over the island. Each fish has their own behavior and habitat. Depending on the conditions, fishing during the day, night, or far off into the corner of the island, will catch you different types of fish.
Craft various tools from your workbench to help you further explore the island. Create useful items like a ladder, axe, and a fishing pole.
The gods are always asking you for offerings. Be sure to give them what they want.
As time progresses, the forest, caves, and seashores changes. You can see the sunset and sunrise while the landscape changes. Or watch the fireflies come out.
Enjoy sunny or rainy weather. Experience animals hiding from the rain. Sometimes you’ll get a sprinkle, and other times it’ll pour down hard.
There are many wild animals on the island. You can befriend them, pet them, or even feed them. Sometimes they will give you items they find in the wild or show an undiscovered passage for you to explore.
Tides fluctuate as time progresses, changing the island’s landscape. New paths open and allow you to explore the island further than before.

Harvest Island on Steam

Big Farm Story

I’ve never left a review for a game, but i felt i should leave one for this game. Firstly, I actually enjoyed this game. With that being said, i do think it has a lot of room for improvement. The biggest issue being the cost of crops vs what they can actually be sold for. I found that 90% of crops could only be sold for maybe 5-7 coins more than what it cost to grow them. And even certain crops say they make more when sold in the market, the difference is maybe 3-5 coins more than if they were just sold normally. This is also a common problem with other profitable items. There’s hardly any real balance, which makes it hard to make any real money even after grinding this game to a pulp in 60 hours after it’s release. The second issue i found with it, is the lack of actual story line. It’s a very slow progression to get anywhere, and then when I got to Chapter 6 I found myself saying “That’s it?” There’s not much to the characters either besides doing quests for them and earning friendship tokens, which just made it… boring. In terms of uniqueness, it is a very basic, linear story. Not really much to it. The MMO aspect was different though, but also random? I enjoy the idea of it, but in actuality the only real play ability with other players is visiting their house, and planting Friendship hummus to get more friendship tokens. Besides that I found it to be almost pointless and more of an inconvenience when trying to interact with quests in the town center. With all that being said, something about this game kept wanting to play more. It is similar to Stardew Valley and Harvest Moon, so it is an overall very mellow and easy game to play. I found it to be very stress relieving because it is so easy to play and get along with. I also believe this is developers first PC game after focusing on more phone games, so it definitely has the phone game feel. Which all the more stresses the fact it has lots of room to improve. I would absolutely come back to check it out after some larger updates in the future, but as of right now I feel I’ve finished everything that is worth accomplishing in the game. I’m excited to see where this game ends up in the future.

– Real player with 59.0 hrs in game

Big Farm Story is a cute farming game still under development so I’ll be a little bit patient with the current game’s flaws. The story starts off like most of the farming games, you receive a letter from your grandfather asking you to take over the farm because he has something else he needs to check on. Once you arrived at the farm, you find it in a bad state after the recent storm, but your neighbor’s son Benny offered to help you. Your mission now is to find out where your grandfather is.

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– Real player with 16.2 hrs in game

Big Farm Story on Steam

Everafter Falls

If you like what you see, please consider backing the project on Kickstarter

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You wake up on Everafter Falls and discover that your life on Earth was just a simulation. Rediscover the peaceful existence you once had here.

Experience this adventure alone or with someone else through split screen co-op.

A host of quests to complete, help sort out extremely important matters.

With a unique card progression system, gain new abilities and upgrades by acquiring and eating Cards (of course, common knowledge dictates the only way to absorb powers from cards is through consumption of said card).