Games that concentrate on FARMING

All other video games not related to the main farming series - Pokemon, Stardew Valley, My Time at Portia, and other indie-developed games.
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I have been thinking about making this thread for months. Months, guys. But it only seemed to matter to ME, and I'm tired, so...I never got around to it. But I got a message recently asking about this, and it gave me a little boot in the patootie.

So here is my question. This is a farming-game forum, and there are LOTS of farming games, now. Surely amongst the whole lot of us, we've played almost all of them. SO...

Which of those games actually concentrate on FARMING?

Of course, I only care about crops, not about animal farming, but yes, either counts. What games exist that make the farming actually IMPORTANT to the game? Which games have farming that has the best/most interesting farming mechanics? (RF4, for example, has a cool soil-raising quality you have to pay attention to, to get the best crops. Harvest Moon has mutations. Trio of Towns, SoS and ANB all made farming essential to restoring your chosen town to prosperity.)

But in the glut of indie farming games, farming has become cheap. It's thrown in as an unimportant side chore that you can do if you want to. It rarely has any depth, and is almost never important to your progression in the game. (Looking at you, Fae Farm. Take 'farm' out of your title, you fraud!)

Which games defy that ugly trend? Have any of you played games where the farming felt genuinely IMPORTANT? Or where the farming mechanics were especially unusual or fun or unique?
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Shepherd's Crossing 2.

If you don't farm, you wont survive, and you'll get a bad ending. Furthermore, if you want to get married, you have to really dedicate yourself to sheep husbandry. If playing as a boy, you'll need to present the girl you wish to marry with a certain amount of sheep (and they're expensive to buy and finicky to breed). If playing as a girl, you'll need to present wool blankets instead, which take a lot of processing time to make between all the farming.

Also, the farming itself is very free range, lots of freedom. Plus there's also the option to butcher your livestock which is not super common in 'cozy' farming games. All in all, it's my pick for this thread.
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Thanks Bluie.

Wow, the forum sure is dead. I'd think it was just that no one could think of games that qualify for this thread, but the backlog thread hasn't seen a single post in nearly a week, now, so it really is the entire forum that's dead atm.

Though I also think that no one can think of all that many so-called farming games that really put the emphasis on farming.

I'd nominate Farm Together, but it's very different from a regular farming sim in that there's NO social aspect. It's pure cute farming that's mostly about figuring out profit and organization and leveling up your crops and farm so that you earn more, filling product requests, etc. I LOVE Farm Together. Farm Together 2 is in development right now, as well...it's in early access with a loose aim at a 1.0 release in spring.
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Harvest moon home sweet home has a happiness system. The happy your field is how healthy it is.

Also oops I didn’t check the dates
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Don't worry about it, Shan. Anything still on the first page of a forum is fair game.

These days, only posts on threads resurrected from years ago get shuttered. I once reported a post on a thread that was fourteen freakin' years old. How do they even find them?? It's always confusing when those pop up. Like...where did this thread even come from? It had to have been buried under hundreds of pages worth of posts.

It's so pointless to reply to a thread THAT old. None of the participants in the conversation have been on Fogu in years.
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