Best Farming Sim Visual Novel Games on PC

Summer in Mara

Being up front the game has a lot of issues. It won’t teach you basic mechanics and it is very easy to get frustrated with quests due to a lack of information. There are some side quests that you are given that you cannot complete because you don’t have access to certain items yet. However the game never mentions that you will later get access to those certain things if you progress the main quest which has led to me looking everywhere for certain things only to learn that I have to progress the main story to gain access to them. While this isn’t outright a bad thing, I personally think it is poor game design to tell your players to get a certain item, while they don’t have access to that item yet.

– Real player with 52.9 hrs in game

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Little Koa is growing up on a small island in the middle of Mara. She is alone now, tending to her island but dreaming about exploring the whole world and becoming a pirate one day! When she finds a strange little creature on the beach her days of loneliness are over. With her new friend, Napopo, she set sails to the vast Mara seas. Koa will then meet different kinds of people with their own dreams, problems or old pains and although she is only a kid, she will do everything in her power to help them.

– Real player with 46.8 hrs in game

Summer in Mara on Steam

Dong-Jin Rice-hime（東津萌米）

Great game and free!!!!

– Real player with 12.6 hrs in game

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That dub is killing me. nice try TaiWan

– Real player with 11.6 hrs in game

Dong-Jin Rice-hime（東津萌米） on Steam

Wild Season

Played the game enough to get to the end of the first episode, the devs have their priorities way out of order, coupled with the fact that they clearly bit off more than they could chew, and you have Wild Season. The game we’ve all been waiting for. I found myself waking up, watering plants, then going to sleep until the next day, rinse and repeat. There’s really nothing else to it than that, sure you can go mining (the levels on the mine repeat themselves occasionally, including all the crap you left on the floor) but you cant use the ores to make anything like in HM games, you just sell them for next to nothing, better off spending money farming. Animals are broken, you can buy a chicken, and yes it will eventually lay eggs after it’s happy, but you can’t incubate the eggs, they disappear the next day, so if you want multiple chickens you have to keep buying more, which is against the point to begin with, you would never see your money back from that.

– Real player with 37.0 hrs in game

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| Disclaimer: A key was provided for me to beta test the game and write an honest review |

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I would like to apologize for my previous review, to those who aren’t satisfied with it and to those who doesn’t agree to what I wrote. After spending more time with this game, and figuring out a few stuffs, including how the save system works I’ve decided to revise my review, and hopefully this will correct my previous mistakes.

Plot – The story starts slow, it does take time before you see how it unfolds. The first part is quite too long for an introduction, you’ll be reading many dialogue lines before you could get your hands on the game and start playing. You can see notification on the right that you have completed a quest, but there is no actual UI that shows what your quest was or what your current one is. But there is a journal that shows your progress instead. So far as I’ve noticed, there is an event or happening at least once each day. So other than taking care of your farm, you’ll have something to look forward to the next day.

– Real player with 6.2 hrs in game

Wild Season on Steam

青之镇物语

Very hard game in the beginning but very fun. Need an update cuz I cant play the second part of the game.

This is a game a would pay 10-15$ for and I bought it for 0.79$

– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game

青之镇物语 on Steam

Space to Grow

Honestly I felt the game went for quantity over quality with the concepts and characters. I’d pay 4.99 on this, but I regret spending 9.99. The initial game “Our Personal Space” was very adorable and I thought about the game well after I stopped playing, which is why I caved and bought this. It’s obvious a lot of effort and care was put into this game, but i think if it would of taken longer and the team gave more time to the development, it would of been a much more well rounded, in-depth game.

– Real player with 41.8 hrs in game

Overview

Full disclosure: I am married to one of this game’s developers! That said, here is my honest review.

I feel that this game fills a really excellent niche that I haven’t seen much elsewhere. It delivers a mix of visual novel, simulation, and choose-your-own-adventure elements, and provides a fun what-if romp filled with parenting decisions, space colonization struggles, farm management tradeoffs. I’ll go over some of the main elements below.

Overall

We’ll start with the overview, then get into the details further on down.

– Real player with 41.8 hrs in game

Space to Grow on Steam

Flower Shop: Summer In Fairbrook

I have to be fair about this game. So I try to play it simple. It is a dating sim or visual novel, whatever term you prefer. It isn’t exactly bad - but it also isn’t quite good either.

The story in short, you and your girlfriend break up at the start of a three month semester break. Your father is upset about you being a slothful , negligent and superficial way of life (what also was the reason your girlfriend was using to coerce you). So he puts you into his car and drives you to your uncle, who is a rural farmer. You have to cope with this, and your uncle … you might fight against those things and befriend other girls, or you see that your dad, uncle and girlfriend might be right and develop some reason.

– Real player with 16.8 hrs in game

My rating: 3 / 10

This game has cute anime graphics, not so bad narrations for a visual novel (but also lack of voice acting), additional bonus in a form of “economic” mini game, and 5 different endings. But that’s unfortunately all that’s good there.

First issue is that the game is very short - you just need a few hours to finish with all the possible endings and all achievements to collect (which are only 5) - after that the game loses any replayability value.

Secondary, the whole relations system that is used for different endings is a little “unnatural”. There are two relationship counters: personal relations (changing based on your dialog choces, and your “characteristics” in areas connected with specific female characters you meet, you raise by just spending time with any specific person. You can max-up all the personal relations quickly, but to get to any relationship ending you need to balance some strange “interconnections” between characters, that depend on some simple numeric thresholds to be reached for the “pair” of characters, after which the ending starts and you cannot stop nor change it in any way (besides loading earlier saves - my advice: save at least once every game week!)

– Real player with 8.3 hrs in game

Flower Shop: Summer In Fairbrook on Steam

Flower Shop: Winter In Fairbrook

As a fan of Visual Novels, I for one, was ecstatic when I got the chance to play this particular VN. It’s one I’ve sort of been lusting after for a couple of years now, so you can bet that as soon as I got the opporitunity to play the full thing, I took it.

This VN is sort of like a typical stat-building YN; you might have to try to guess who which stat is for, but if you spend enough time with each of the guys, you’ll be able to tell based on their personalities. And not only that, you need to help Susana, the owner of the flower shop that you’re helping out, with the flowers. Every morning you tend to them, and it’s up to you, the player, to decide which strategy to use.

– Real player with 24.6 hrs in game

Much like Summer in Fairbrook, I bought this game on sale, and yet still find it difficult to recommend to anyone, other than those firmly commited to the genre.

And much like it’s predecessor, Winter in Fairbrook leaves much to be desired.

To say the game is bad would be like saying a small piece of chocolate cake is bad (assuming that you enjoy chocolate cake). It’s still cake, it’s still good, but it is grossly unsatisfying.

The writing leaves much to be desired. Very much like Steve in the previous game, Natalie is a vapid, ignorant, immature, petulant, and lazy girl, who is instructed by her parents to find a job over the holidays, in the hopes of teaching her some discipline (They had already cancelled her cellphone due to bad grades, and are now threatening to take her new car away). Luckily, her room-mate just happens to be Clara from the previous game, and she sets Natalie up with Susana to work in the flower shop.

– Real player with 12.1 hrs in game

Flower Shop: Winter In Fairbrook on Steam

Witchy Life Story

Witchy Life Story is a humorous witch life simulator, where you play as a young witch who’s gotten into trouble one too many times. As a result, your grandmother has given you one final task to prove yourself: Go to the village of Flora, and ensure their harvest festival is a success. If you fail, no more training for you!

Tend your garden and craft spells to help the local villagers with their festival. Maybe you’ll even figure out your life, and meet someone special too! Or….. not. Growing up is hard, OK?!

Design your witch. You have numerous outfits, hairstyles, accessories, etc., to choose for your very own troublesome witch.
Shape your personality. Make questionable life choices through dialog options and your actions.
Craft spells and perform magical feats. You’ll craft 30 different spells and perform tarot readings, guided meditations, and more… Sort of.
Tend your garden. Water, weed, and harvest three garden beds containing ten different varieties of flowers and herbs.
Befriend the villagers. Get to know each of the six eccentric villagers of Flora and help them fulfill their festival duties!
Get a date. Some singles are looking for a date to the festival too. Maybe one of them will catch your eye??