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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:

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


Light of Hope SE and TGL Funding | Posted at 04:24 PM 09 February 2018
Happy Farm'n Friday! The broccoli, spinach, and marigold seeds are now happily germinating under their new grow light, all tucked in and ready to sprout. Mr. Fogu has the house automation system turning on the grow light for 12 hours each day, and the auto-watering system is in place, so I'd expect that we'll have better success with this setup. So far there's been one marigold seed that has emerged, with a second marigold beginning to pop up. Nothing on the broccoli and spinach though.

Light of Hope Ps4/Switch Details

This week, Natsume and Producer Taka announced that the Playstation 4 and Nintendo Switch versions of Harvest Moon: Light of Hope will be released on a to-be-determined date in May in North America, while Rising Star Games will be handling the release in Europe, Australia, and the Middle East. The special edition for the home consoles will cost $39.99 and be available in both digital and physical editions. It hasn't been revealed yet what makes this so "special" though. Maybe P.Taka has finally ceded to my relentless nagging for Doc to be a marriage candidate?! Ha, yea probably not... Looking at the special edition logo, there's a distinct purple crystal in the lower-right corner that is not on the normal Light of Hope logo. Inside the crystal are two little guys, each having one blue eye and one purple eye. We'll have to wait and see what these two jeweled kiddies are bringing to the console version of the game.

The Good Life Tries Again

Back in September there was a crowdfunding campaign for Japanese video game director Swery's latest vision, called The Good Life. In this game you would play as Naomi, a reporter heavily in debt who is sent by her newspaper to check out the village of Rainy Woods. Naomi ends up in the middle of a murder mystery in the old English farming village, exploring its secrets in both human and mysterious cat form, while taking on part-time jobs to pay off her debt such as sheep sheering and delivering milk. The funding campaign did not meet its $1.5 million goal to move the game forward into development, but Swery said that wasn't going to be the end of his idea. Starting on March 26, there will be a second attempt at crowdfunding his game, this time through Kickstarter instead of fig.io. Let's hope there'll be more backers to support this who-done-it mystery game with farm'n feels. Until next time! - Cher (Almost time to put in a preorder for this year's Christmas light strings! Awesomeness!)
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