The Ushi No Tane websites specialize in information, FAQs, and guides about the Nintendo console versions of the Harvest Moon, Story of Seasons, and Legend of the River King video games. These game genres are created and published in Japan by Marvelous (JP). In other regions, you'll find Natsume, XSeed Games/Marvelous (USA), Marvelous (EU), and Rising Star involved in the series' release.
The latest version of the mainstream farming series that have been released in various regions of the world are:
- Japan: Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar (August 2025)
- North America: Harvest Moon: Home Sweet Home Special Edition (October 2025) and Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar (August 2025)
- Europe: Harvest Moon: Home Sweet Home Special Edition (October 2025) and Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar (August 2025)
The latest version of River King, in all regions of the world, is River King: Mystic Valley (JP 2007, NA 2008, EU 2009).
Since 2000, Ushi no Tane has been run by a grouchy old lady who happens to be fond of video game agriculture along with two feline helpers: Intern Captain Bootu and Intern Hondo Mewnaka. The website is not officially affiliated, sponsored, endorsed, or employed by the developers of Harvest Moon, Story of Seasons, or River King. This is simply a fan site.
Latest Farming Video Game News
HM: EOT Candidate Reveal #1, Marv Publisher Sale on Steam, Indie Updates, and New Survival Farm'n Game | Posted at 03:52 PM 04 September 2026
Happy Farm'n Friday! Summer turned off like a switch here. Last week we were in the high 80s, and this week the rain has arrived along with lower temperatures in the 60s. Through the regular grumblings of how dark it is at 8:00 pm nowadays, Mr.Fogu continues to remind me that it needs to be dark for Christmas lights. Yea yea, okay. The new icicle lights arrived this week, which means testing and programming.
I also started playing Farlands this week, moving on from Moonlight Peaks. This galactic farming game only has 3 seasons per year, so the time goes by pretty fast. Besides the weird crops and tentacle chickens, there's a threat from a mega-corporation that is trying to take over all the wayward planets in the galaxy.
One challenge with this game is the resources needed to fuel the spaceship. It takes time and fuel to travel to the different planets, some with loads of ore, one with a small town, and another where alien-animal barns can be bought. Sometimes I get stuck on a far-away planet for a few days, but it's all good; the crops seem to be just fine when I get back to my farm world.
So far, it's a fun farming game, though it is a struggle for money!
EoT Introductions
Natsume has started officially introducing the marriage candidates for the upcoming farming game, Harvest Moon: Echoes of Teradea, scheduled to be released on PC, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 1 and 2, and XBox X|S on October 15.
We now know a bit about Hank from snowy Quarrytop and Mara from tropical Tidewind. It's nice to see we have an older-looking marriage candidate in Hank, though he isn't you-know-who. Mara looks like she's a bundle of spunk!
Marv Publisher Sale
There are lots of good games on sale during Marvelous' publisher sale going on now until September 14 on Steam. Great for a long weekend of gaming!
- Deadcraft = 70% off
- Moonlight Peaks = 15% off
- Rune Factory 3 Special = 78% off
- Rune Factory 4 Special = 70% off
- Rune Factory 5 = 65% off
- Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma = 45% off
- Sakuna: of Rice and Ruin = 50% off
- Story of Seasons: A Wonderful LIfe = 50% off
- Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town = 75% off
- Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar = 30% off
- Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town = 65% off
You can check out all the games, including non-farming, on the sale page:
Indie Updates
The release window for the narrative-based farming game Delphinium has widened from Quarter 1 2027 to the "first half" of 2027. Developer Cinnadev is still implementing the chapter system in the game, with Chapter 1 almost complete and Chapter 4's story written. Once released, the farming game about the stragglers of a failed revolution rebuilding their lives will be available on Steam and Xbox via publisher Serenity Forge.
The publisher working on the home console versions of Ova Magica, Top Hat Studios, revealed that the console launch date for the blobby farming game will not be September 8. While the PlayStation 5 and Xbox versions are ready to go, they are having challenges with the Switch 1 edition caused by a memory leak. Had the Switch 1 version not been a promised reward during the initial 2021 Kickstarter campaign, Top Hat would have simply moved on to the Switch 2 edition, which is functionally fine.
Top Hat decided to postpone all console releases while they work through the issues with the Switch 1 version, as the majority of home console backers were Switch 1; the Switch 2 wasn't available as an option back then. The publisher decided it would not be fair to the Switch 1 backers to release the other console ports.
The PC version is still available on Steam:
New Farm'n - Mayday: The Survival Island
Though not completely all farm'n, three-person indie development studio Pequi Studios revealed the release date for their survival game at PAX West today. Mayday: The Survival Island is a single-player game where farmers craft, forage, farm, fish, fight, and more to discover the purpose of their arrival on a desolate island, along with a way to escape the archipelago.
Each of the 24 islands in this top-down pixel open-world game is hand-crafted by the team and not procedurally or AI-generated. The islands are planned with resource distribution designed to give an element of randomness. Explore the lands to find treasure and unlock totems to discover fragments of a lost civilization that might hold the answer. Sounds like fun!
A free demo is available on Steam, with a scheduled November 2 release date.
Until next time
-Cher
(Enjoy your Labor Day weekend!)
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