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: A Wonderful Life (January 2023)
• North America: Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos (September 2023) and Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life (June 2023)
• Europe: Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos (October 2023) and Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life (June 2023)

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

Loh Co-op play, EU CE, and The Good Life Attempt #2 | Posted at 02:41 PM 30 March 2018Happy Farm'n Friday! This weekend the snap pea seedlings are going outside along with their marigold bodyguards. It's still undetermined if the stinky yellow-flowering plants actually deter those darn tree rats. Historically those furry-tailed pests always dig up my peas or chew through the vines (arg!). Also will need to put the first five tomato plants into larger pots, as their red Solo party cups are becoming too small. The tomatoes will be planted in their felt bags and placed outside permanently in May; it's still too cold here, but at least it is SPRINGTIME!

Light of Hope DLC and Co-op

This week Natsume revealed that the console versions of Harvest Moon: Light of Hope will have co-operative play where you can have another player help you with your farm as Soleil the gem sprite. A short video of the protagonist and Soleil was uploaded to Youtube: In the video you can see the two players working together to care for crops and animals. You can also see the Farming Friend crop bubble appearing for both players, along with a new animal stat bubble that has been added to the console version of LoH that tells you the animal name (since every cow looks like every other cow) as well as the animals' friendship note level. Natsume also revealed that four download content bundles will be available in the future for the console versions of LoH. The DLC is obtained by purchasing a Season Pass. Details about price and the content of the DLC will be revealed later. Maybe the silver-maned man will finally be patched in as a marriage candidate? (Pweeeeese! The Docettes would appreciate it!)

Europe's Light of Hope CE

Rising Star Games, the publisher of the EU version of Harvest Moon: Light of Hope, revealed that they too are releasing a collectors edition of the Ps4/Switch game. The EU farmers who purchase the collector's edition of LoH will receive 1) a physical copy of the game, 2) a 6-piece metal pin badge set, 3) a ceramic mug, 4) a canvas tote bag, 5) the four future DLC (i.e., the season pass), and 6) a barn-shaped box. Both NA and EU versions of the CE come with the game, though the NA version has a CD soundtrack, a hard-cover journal, and the mini chocolate cow plushie. The NA set also has a different style of badge pins. If they're similar to the pins released for the Harvest Moon: Skytree Village collector's edition, the NA pins will have metal backs with the animal graphic printed on it, then covered with a clear enamel coating. The EU LoH CE pins promoted by RSG appear to be cast metal. The EU Collectors Edition will be available at Amazon UK, Argos, and GAME retail stores, though it doesn't appear to be available for pre-order at the moment. It is currently available at ShopTo's online website for a retail price of £64.99 (about $91 USD). Over on NIS America's website, the pre-order stock for the NA CE has 50% remaining. The NA CE does not include the recently announced season pass.

• Harvest Moon Light of Hope Special Edition (Nintendo Switch)
• Harvest Moon Light of Hope Special Edition by Natsume (Playstation 4)

The Good Life Tries Again

A while ago there was a crowdfunding campaign for The Good Life, a "daily-life simulator" game where you play the role as reporter Naomi, stuck in a rural English countryside town to take on part-time jobs to pay off a debt, while at the same time trying to figure out why the villagers turn into cats. There's a murder in there too, but that's just more of the story. Cats and farming! Sheep sheering! Mining! Woo! The original funding campaign hosted at FIG last September did not reach its goal. After a bit of tweaking the game's funding campaign has been relaunched on Kickstarter. This time SWERY's funding goal is $640,000, which is about how much was pledged by backers for the unsucessful FIG campaign last year. This time the game does have official partner funding via Sony Music's indie game label, UNTIES, so the Kickstarter represents about 40% of the funding needed to produce the game. So far the game has reached about 30% of its funding goal in only its first week. There's 35 days left to jump in on supporting this animal-themed mystery game for PC/Steam or Ps4:

• The Good Life by White Owls Inc. - Kickstarter

Until next time! - Cher (Planted purple carrot seeds almost two weeks ago and nothing has sprouted yet, darn it...) Feedback: Add

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