Any games like Harvest Moon for PC?

[Juxtavarious]

Generational farm based RPG with neighboring town elements. I tried just searching for' farm' but anything I found didn't look more sophisticated than Farm Ville. Is there anything close to Harvest Moon for a PC?

[Start_Running]

Uhm.. not really. CLosest thing I can think of is Don't Starve...

[Juxtavarious]

Only thing I can find is Stardew Valley and that thing has been dead in the water for about two years or so now. The dev got distracted becuase 'his girlfriend bought an android tablet.' I'm not sure how that eats two years of your time but it did apparently and the project might as well be dead. I'm really hoping someone will develop a project like that. Harvest Moon was amazing, too bad its sequels got progressively worse.

[Scorcher24]

Yeah, Stardew Valley.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=93285018

Otherwise grab a copy of Back To Nature at a used Games Store for Playstation and play it on PC :). Best Harvest Moon IMHO.

edit: Stardew is not Dead @Juxtavarious. It is in developement. The website has regular updates.

[Juxtavarious]

It was greenlit over two years ago and the dev admits to barely working on it at all in the forums. I tend to have less faith in games being updated or fixed if and when they actually come out when the developer can't even maintain focus during the development process.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by Juxtavarious:

It was greenlit over two years ago and the dev admits to barely working on it at all in the forums. I tend to have less faith in games being updated or fixed if and when they actually come out when the developer can't even maintain focus during the development process. :greenwizard:

Be fair now.. game dev takes a lot of time and believe it or not, most indie devs actually have part or full time jobs aside from deving. Not to mention personal lives and all the complications that come with those, (injury, sickness, Family matters, ).

[Juxtavarious]

Originally posted by Start_Running:

Originally posted by Juxtavarious:

It was greenlit over two years ago and the dev admits to barely working on it at all in the forums. I tend to have less faith in games being updated or fixed if and when they actually come out when the developer can't even maintain focus during the development process.

Be fair now.. game dev takes a lot of time and believe it or not, most indie devs actually have part or full time jobs aside from deving. Not to mention personal lives and all the complications that come with those, (injury, sickness, Family matters, ).

He admitted to getting distracted by other projects, specifically writing Android apps. That's all well and good, but it doesn't make me want to buy their products if I can't guarantee that they will have any actual focus or attention to it after I've bought it. That's the main reason I stopped buying anything from EA among other developers from lack of attention to projects they already had in favor of constantly putting out more projects that they had little to no intention of supporting either.

I get that development can take years with a full team, proper resources, and all the necessary funds and indie companies tend to not have that, but it becomes harder ro believe that the project will ever actually be finished if it is openly ignored for long stretches of time.

[Gardenette]

You could wait for Wild Season to come out on steam. It's on greenlight and is scheduled to be released this coming fall. That's what I'm waiting for.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

These suggestions may be a bit farther from Harvest Moon, but there's the item shop sim Recettear (which just has the management part without the farming) and Terraria (where you can do farming, though exploration is a bigger part of the game).

[midna]

Yeah, Garvest Boon - you can download it for free for a short period of time here www.mariadele.se/garvest-boon

[Juxtavarious]

Thanks for the tip, but that's just a rip off of the Harvest Moon game for the SNES. The assets and style are lifted directly from it.

[Tom]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sbalani/wild-season-inspired-by-harvest-moon
this looks better imo

[Juxtavarious]

Well, at least that one is supposed to be due out next month. Thanks for the note, I definitely want to check that one out.

[junior.nc1]

SeedScape: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=340877105

[[Squirrel]]

Originally posted by Quint Fin E Ld Si:

These suggestions may be a bit farther from Harvest Moon, but there's the item shop sim Recettear (which just has the management part without the farming) and Terraria (where you can do farming, though exploration is a bigger part of the game).

A lot of Reddit users recommand Recettear but I never tried personally. A couple talked about World's Dawn too.

From my own experience (I didn't play a lot of farming game beside HM) Don't Starve will give you a very similar feeling. It's like a Harvest Moon, but you start from nothing. There's no market but there's a lot more action (you have to fight creatures to survive).

[Scarlette]

Originally posted by junior.nc1:

SeedScape

Originally posted by [Squirrel:

OvErLoRd]From my own experience (I didn't play a lot of farming game beside HM) Don't Starve will give you a very similar feeling. It's like a Harvest Moon, but you start from nothing. There's no market but there's a lot more action (you have to fight creatures to survive).

thanks !!