#farm life simulation

[videogamepolls]

Requested by @sealedverses

[panthea-owns-my-soul]

Fun question to all my farming sim lovers out there: if the opportunity should arise that a small team and I (by that I meam my engineer brother and me) were to make one, what do you think of this concept?

Your regular old farming sim, the beloved mini games (except fishing. Fuck fishing), romance options, developing the land, etc etc. BUT! Creepier. Yes, you must save the town! But not from a Corp. Or simple odds, such as your usual game, but from something far more nefarious.

A monster? A killer? Or something far more surprising? Who knows! We're just spitballing the story right now and wanted to see if it was even worth the effort/something that would be in demand.

[videogames-i-wish-were-real]

Videogames I wish were real #2

A farming game but it all takes place underwater. You play as a merfolk person. You cultivate corals and algae and some sort of underwater fruits and veggies. Your cattle are oysters and jellyfish. Your mount is a seahorse. Instead of the usual mining mechanic being descending into a mine, in this game you ascend through the mine. The higher you go the more monsters you find. Sometimes you'll also find land animals, and, if you're very very lucky, even humans! Your charming lil aquatic town is near an ocean trench. A very deep and very dark ocean trench. You descend there sometimes too. The deeper you go, the rarer the creatures are. They always fetch some nice prices back in town, because very few people dare to venture into the deep darkness, and the archeologists in the museum always pay well for some of the unique specimens. There's a reverse fishing mechanic. You tie something buoyant to your pole and let it flow to the surface. The things you fish in the surface range from surface trinkets to materials or trash. There's a tunnel that leads to an underground cave with air and good soil where you cultivate some surface fungi and plants that don't need sun. Pretty early in the game a human cruise ship sinks. You're the only one that dares to go near. While the exterior chambers are submerged, there's plenty of inner rooms where there's still air, and that's where you find a human hermit. Upon befriending them you learn they stole and sank the ship on purpose. The hermit is self sufficient, and you trade stuff sometimes. They don't speak of whatever happened to the surface people. You've been told there's no danger of the tragedy spreading to your people, so you don't ask. You tend to your farm and your animals and befriend and romance npcs and keep living your best life in your lil underwater town.

Similar videogames that actually exist: Stardew Valley, Coral Island, My Time at Portia/Sandrock, Story of Seasons, Harvest Moon... and any other farming sim you can think off, basically

[zimthandmade]

I hope you guys can handle some more sketches for this farm simulator idea of mine because I gots lots. It’s all just unorderly but I gotta share this with you guys now. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this. Maybe you have some more ideas for what you’d like to see?

[dorkofspace]

A liminal space/Backrooms game except there’s no horror and it’s more like a life sim. Just exploring randomly, finding items, making a little base on whichever “level” you want. Meeting entities but they’re just chilling/you can make friends with them. Give a flower crown to the stick guy, have a tea party with Mr. Kitty.

[clini-calia]

Super excited for the remake of my most favorite farming sim of all time.

[drowning-in-tall-grass]

[gamergirl929]

So, am I at the point in my life where a long lost relative contacts me and let's me know that I’ve been left an entire farm in the countryside somewhere yet?

[retronation]

Xie Wentian- Immortal Life

[authorpocketcow]

the Story of Seasons reboot of A Wonderful Life is going to take all of my time and energy

I can't believe I get to have they/them pronouns AND a wife now

[kirstenly]

Have any of my beautiful followers played that xianxia farming simulator yet? It's called Immortal Life, and I've been enjoying growing crops and getting to know my fellow cultivators while solving little problems for everyone. It's very peaceful!

[lightlykos]

maybe if you looked into the kinda eyes of the a wonderful life cow you won't be so cranky ever think of that?

[videogames-i-wish-were-real]

Videogames I wish were real #37

A cozy and laid back MMO game where instead of the usual battle classes, the classes are all about crafting, gathering or selling products or services. All the combat classes that would normally be available to players (paladins, archers, wizards, etc) are only available to npcs.

You can choose a crafting related occupation, such as the artisan class, and then pick a certain subclass and become a blacksmith or a tailor, or the catering class and become a baker or a chef or open a small café. In order to avoid unfair competition, when setting the price of a product there would a be a minimum and maximum price range for every product. You can also open a shop to sell your wares directly to customers, as well as hire npcs to help you gather resources or to manage the shop while you are away/not playing, although you will need to pay them a fair wage and they'll get a day off a week.

If you'd rather go for a gathering class you can become a miner, woodcutter, farmer, angler, etc, and sell your produce to shops and merchants. Since some of those occupations would require you to abandon the city to gather materials, if you intend to go to a dangerous area you can hire adventurer npcs to act as your guards, or if you want to venture into an unknown area, you could spend money in a map, or pay a cartographer to chart a map for you.

And if you wish for a more adventurous occupation that allows you to travel through the world, you could always pick jobs such as mail carrier, merchant, archeologist, cartographer, etc.

Besides hiring npcs to help you run your store or act as bodyguards when you explore dangerous parts, you can also befriend and even romance and marry them, and if you cultivate a strong enough platonic or romantic relationship with an npc, they might offer you discounts, sell you rare items, gift you stuff or even offer to help you for free.

Player level is tied to the occupation of a character, if you switch to a different job you've never tried before you'll start at level 1. Whenever you get bored of a certain life, you can just switch to a different one or create another character.

Similar games that actually exist: Fantasy Life and Fantasy Life i: The Girl who Steals Time (suggested by @fantasy-life-fan), Palia

[cattailsgame]

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[capsulecomputers]

Cornucopia - Gameplay

After being defrosted from a giant block of ice, we begin revitalizing a farm where we quickly learn of the farm's unique soil system, meet some of the town, including a talking bulldog and a magician, and even take part in a festival in the Early Access version of Cornucopia.

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Cornucopia is a charming 2.5D pixel art farm sim RPG with an innovative soil/compost system, animal auctions, and pet companions. Craft, explore, fish, cook, fight, decorate, find love, befriend 50+ NPCs, buy properties, and discover the secrets of the Cornucopia. Your choices shape your adventure!

Cornucopia Developer: Subconscious Games Publisher: Subconscious Games Platform: Windows Release Date: 31st July, 2023 Price: $19.99 USD

Available here - https://www.playcornucopia.com/

[sourfruitpatisserie]

Kinda wish there were more slice of life games that take place in cities as opposed to escaping from them. Maybe i’m biased as someone born in a rural town, but there really isn’t much to do in a lot of them and I think that’s why a lot of SoL farming sim type games end up defaulting to similar events that happen in the towns. I think the themes of exploration, settling down, and meeting new people could be explored just as well, if not better, in a more urban setting. Like imagine: you move to a new city, settle into your new space, and then get to explore the new city and all the people there, which there would be a lot of. Find new stores and shops you like, meet your neighbors, maybe start a garden, learn new recipes or recreate ones you try,decorate your apartment, maybe even open your own store to give it the kinda goal progression a farm usually provide in these kinds of games. There’s such a great opportunity to include all these different cultures and identities and stories that usually only show up in more open world games as opposed to SoL games. Idk, just spitballing ig??