Get ready for Harvest Life where your relative hasn’t croaked, unlike in mostly all the other farming sim games out there, and Gramps is handing the farm over to you in person. He even stays in the game as the quest giver, giving you task after task after task…
Okay Gramps, calm it down with the chores.
Is Harvest Life worthy of me?
- Gramps isn’t dead–he’s alive and giving you quests
- Multiple farm areas to use for crops, livestock, and more
- Intermittent game crashes
- Time never stops
- Harder to gain money than other farming games
This game feels…incomplete.
You can do everything that most other farming games offer you. You’ve got chickens to take care of as well as cows, and that’s all, but they’re a handful as it is, because they constantly need fodder and water.
The water is obviously filled up from the stream around you. But the fodder is obtained by maintaining electricity which generates the fodder maker, which needs either carrots or beets to make the animal’s food.
A bit complicated.
You can rebuild the area of your farm–and other farming areas as well, by going to a desk and purchasing different things for your field. This includes grass, livestock, fences and their gates, some buildings and even plot land.
That’s right. There’s no hoe in this game but you and the person you might want to charm?
I never got around to that, but I wouldn’t know how to gift someone something–or even if you do that in Harvest Life–because your inventory is basically yours.
No more making friends with the townsfolk by bribing them with gifts.
Speaking of townsfolk, people will come through your farm every now again and “purchase” things from your store that you can put in, like produce you grow, milk from the cows, eggs from the chickens, and lumber from trees you cut down. This means that you won’t be getting paid for your goods at the end of the day, and you have to be in the main outside screen area your farm is in to get said money.
Money is, let’s say, a slow trickle in Harvest Life compared to other farming games. But if you want a little more, you can go into the wilderness and find some chests with gold in them.
But you have to battle wolves and a possible bear.
They don’t drop anything.
And time pretty much never stops. But you can also sleep whenever to regain your stamina.
It’s just a jumble of a farming game that didn’t seem to put a lot of effort into some areas and they wanted your life to be a little more difficult than others. Especially with all those annoying game crashes I get.
FAQ
When was the release date of Harvest Life?
Nov. 10, 2017, via the developer bumblebee and publisher familyplay.
5 Games like Harvest Life
- Fantasy Farming – Orange Season (PC)
- Littlewood (PC) (Switch)
- Stranded Sails – Explorers of the Cursed Islands (PC) (PS4/PS5) (Switch) (Xbox One)
- Two Leaves and a Bud (PC)
- Verdant Skies (PC)
How did we find this product?
Bought and played it on Steam.
