Captain your very own greenhouse starship in Kohlrabi Starship by developer Whimsical Wolff Games. Begin your space-based journey on a mysterious planet where you’re searching for rare plants and animals that are close to extinction. Bring what you find back to your home planet in an effort to restore the ecosystems there. Turning the vast deserts of home into thriving, lush biomes won’t be easy, of course. You’ll also need to work on repairing the starship, gather resources other than plants and animals, make money, and forge friendships with other people you encounter!
As you explore the stars, choose which plants and animals to bring onto the ship. Carefully introduce the plants to different environments to see which one suits it best. Breed the endangered animals you capture to impact the ecosystems you’re trying to restore. You can even terraform the desert to turn it back into a green paradise. Plus, you can breed the perfect pet to follow you around. Want a cute little kitty with pink fur? You can do that!
Of course, you’re not alone in Kohlrabi Starship. Take time out of your busy exploration schedule to meet a cast of diverse characters. Help them out with some tasks and forge friendships with them. You may even find love in one of them! And you get to decorate your starship to suit your tastes. Collect and build furniture, change the flooring, and place useful pieces of technology to help your mission of restoring your planet. Whatever you do, you’re bound to have an excellent space travel adventure!
Kohlrabi Starship is coming to Steam some time soon. Add it to your Wishlist to receive notification of its release.
Little-Known Galaxy is another cute space-based exploration game with fun farming!
Set out on a grand adventure solo or with up to three other players in Luma Island by developer Feel Free Games. In this beautiful farm sim, start from humble beginnings living in a caravan and work towards building your very own homestead. Create your dream farm with a beautiful home and flourishing crop plots to grow all kinds of plants. Grow crops like pumpkins and wheat, among other varieties. There are even fluffy bunnies to raise! Of course crafting is a staple of the game, too. Then, utilize the sawmill, the kiln, and the ore smelter to turn resources into usable items. Even work to master one of seven different professions in Luma Island. Each one has a progression path and tools that you can upgrade to further progress your chosen job path!
Luma Island is currently listed on Steam, where you can Wishlist it. The game is expected to release some time this year, though!
Lightyear Frontier is another gorgeous co-op farming sim you should try!
Southfield, by Radical Forge, is a light-hearted farming sim with cartoony art and silly physics. The game takes place on the island of Southfield, which is no ordinary place. You’ll grow a variety of cartoony crops that have some chaotic effects. Customize and decorate your homestead to suit your tastes. Even automate your farm production for the best results!
You’ll need to learn to expect the unexpected, because the crops in Southfield don’t grow like you’re used to! They might bounce around, explode, play a tune, or even change their shape. Some might even float or shine a bright light, too. You can also combine crops to discover new outcomes, too. Complete quests by turning in crops and fill in your almanac with information you discover as your experiment with them!
Free up some of your time by automating your farm. Use trampolines, air cannons, and other toys and machines to create a production line. Then, go exploring and experience the fun physics of Southfield. Bounce around on mushrooms or flop around for some added fun. Just be sure to dust off your building skills and protect your crops. Night time brings Ruffians, who like to steal your hard work. Of course, you can also build your dream home, too. Build a simple wood farmhouse or go big with a stone castle. The sky is literally the limit!
This funny sandbox farm sim is listed on Steam where you can add it to your Wishlist. Although, Southfield currently has no release date available.
Slow Living with Princess, developed by Kadokawa and Tsukurite, is a beautiful anime-inspired farming sim. You play as Gideon Ragnason, an adventurer banished from his adventuring party, led by his sister Ruti, for not being strong enough to help defeat the Demon Lord. Afterward, Gideon changed his name to Red and has settled in the frontier land of Zoltan to start his own apothecary and live a more quiet life. Your job is to lead a fulfilling life and make the apothecary profitable!
Explore the area to collect materials. Gather items, go fishing, and defeat monsters. You even grow your own crops on farm plots on your homestead. Then, use all the items you’ve grown or gathered to cook delicious recipes and mix up potent medicines. Sell the food and medicines in your apothecary to earn a profit. Taking on tasks from the locals will raise your adventurer rank and award you with special rewards. And of course, take time out of your busy schedule to build your relationships with your sister and a former princess. Deepening your bond with them may prove fruitful for your future!
You can find Slow Living with Princess on Steam now!
Final Profit: A Shop RPG is an intriguing and unique shop sim you should take a look at!
Daomei Village by developer Gameparic is a charming pixel art farming and life sim with a more low-key color palette perfect for the setting. After committing a crime, you have been ordered by the emperor to restore Daomei Village. It was once a lovely little place that has now fallen into disrepair. Of course, nothing comes free! The emperor still demands you pay taxes, and the tax collector will be sure to come collecting. So, turn your farmland into a profitable space in order to generate the income needed to pay your taxes.
Start your new life with some really simple tools, 100 yuan, and a few seeds. Turn your new, run down farm into an income generator through hard work and care. Cultivate your fields to grow crops to sell. Grow different vegetables and flowers depending on the season. Take care of different types of animals, too. Each species requires their own dedicated spaces, so you’ll need to build pens that suit each one! You even get to breed the animals to help generate more income. As you get richer, you can implement automation to make your farming process even smoother!
Steeped in Chinese folklore and architecture, Daomei Village is a beautifully designed game that immerses you in Chinese culture and demonology. You even get to see glimpses of previous dynasties as you explore the game. As you explore the village, get to know your neighbors. Each one is there because they’ve committed some type of crime. Get to know them and help them with tasks to earn their trust and learn what their crimes are.
As you work hard to rebuild the village and increase the happiness of the villagers, you’ll be able to set out on adventures with the blessing of the emperor. These excursions take place in enemy lands occupied by the imperial army. There, you’ll face different challenges and combat situations, but you’ll also be greatly rewarded with new technology, seeds, and materials to further improve the village. The harder the challenge, the greater the reward!
You can find Daomei Village listed on Steam, where you can add it to your Wishlist. There’s also a demo available for you to try. The game is set to release later this year!
Tales of Seikyuu is a another wonderful farm sim that sets you in a more unusual setting!
Sunrise’s Order by Misstic Studio is a super cozy and adorable farming sim that pulls inspiration from great games like Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley. You landed yourself in some hot water with your job after losing track of time and binging a brand new farming sim game. The game was just way too fun and you lost track of time! You decide in the moment you’re ready for a change of pace, anyway, and would love to live out the farming life in real life. So, you sell your things and buy an island to start your new dream!
While an exciting new adventure to face, buying an uninhabited island and taking up farming doesn’t come without its challenges. With some cheeky humor and hard work, you can turn your island into a paradise, though. You’ll have to rely on a delivery service to get your seeds and tools! In Sunrise’s Order, you’ll utilize the extremely useful Animazon for all your needs.
Buy starter tools, start farming with seeds you order, and unlock more items for farming, decor, and crafting as you progress through the game. Animazon will be an unimaginable help for turning your simple home into a flourishing farmstead! The builder app on your computer will let you expand your farm, too, but clearing out and claiming new parcels of land across the cozy, quiet island.
Your main source of income will be from fulfilling customer orders. Of course, you can sell the items you gather or the fish up, but you’ll make more of a profit completing orders. Use the wood, stone, ore, crops, and whatever else you can grow or find to craft items that customers need. Set up different workstations to craft items a variety of things. Catch fish and grill them up.
Grow food crops and flowers. Or even craft decorative items to beautify your home with or to sell. Fulfilling customer orders will help you unlock even more workstations to upgrade your crafting skills and abilities, too. So, the more orders you fulfill, the more money you make, and the more you progress!
Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of Sunrise’s Order is that there’s a dedicated skill tree and development progression. As you complete chores around the island, you’ll earn experience points that level up individual things (ex: each crop has levels; foraging, fishing, and wood cutting do too). Leveling up these things levels up your farm.
You earn a skill point each time the farm gains a level, and you can spend that skill point on useful things like more stamina, receiving more wood when you chop trees, and lowering the amount of stamina used during an activity. The development progression lets you unlock a bigger house, animals, and much more. It all gives the game a great sense of direction without strong-arming you into specific cutscenes or storylines.
You can find Sunrise’s Order on Steam now! There’s even a demo to try out first, but if you really like farming without the pressure of being social, this game is perfect for you!
Begin your new life as Chief Farmer in Sky Harvest by Hamzah Kirmani. Your grandfather once held that title, and excelled at the job. Now it’s your turn to honor his legacy. Play as Zach or Zoya and work hard to transform the floating sky island from an overgrown mess into a lush farm full of produce. However, farming isn’t all you’ll do!
Sky Harvest is an open-world adventure game that takes place in the whimsical town of Magica. There, you’ll rebuild your floating sky island farm, but you’ll run your own little bistro. Cook tasty dishes for your customers, or even just for the love of cooking. Forge friendships with the locals to unlock unique perks. Plus, complete quests or go fishing! You can even equip your trusty jetpack to explore the far reaches of Magica to uncover secrets and simply explore.
Sky Harvest is set to release on Steam sometime in 2025. There is currently a demo available, and you can add it to your Wishlist now!
Don’t forget to check out Tales of Seikyu, too!
Ready to set out on an exciting fantasy farming adventure full of yokai? Tales of Seikyu lets you do exactly that! Seikyu, an enchanting land, is a haven for the legendary creatures known as yokai. You and your friend Kon arrive in this lovely new place where you buy a farm, looking to settle down into a new life. You not only run your farm, but restore the local countryside inn to its former glory as you get to know fun new characters and explore a magical world!
Tales of Seikyu will have you engaging with 30 unique characters. Each one has an interesting and unique story of their own for you to get to know. Foster friendships with each one of them, and even build a budding romance with someone. On your farm, cultivate seasonal crops, restore old buildings, and raise different animals. You can also decorate your home with furniture and fun decor. Or, set out on an adventure through the world where you’ll encounter fun puzzles and find masks that give you different abilities!
Tales of Seikyu will release some time this year. You can find it listed on Steam where you can add it to your Wishlist.
Cozy Crest is another unique farming sim that focuses on elemental magic.