- #1 Sun Haven
97% matchVery Positive80% of 25,583 reviews2023
Dev: Pixel Sprout Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 31.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Build your farm and relationships with townsfolk, or forge ahead on a quest of magic, monsters, and dragons. Level up through a skill tree in 8 person multiplayer, or adventure solo!
Why similar: Farming Sim 29.9%, Life Sim 14%, Agriculture 13.1% ★, Multiplayer 7.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It closely follows Stardew Valley’s blend of farming, romance, fishing, mining, crafting, quests, and pixel-art town life, while adding fantasy races and magic.
- #2 Fields of Mistria
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 35,587 reviews2026
Dev: NPC Studio
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.1 hrsMean: 33.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Start your new life! Build the farm of your dreams as you discover a world brimming with possibilities. Magic, romance, and adventure all await you in this nostalgic farming / life sim RPG!
Why similar: Farming Sim 29.3%, Life Sim 14.2%, Agriculture 13.6% ★, Dating Sim 6.4%, Pixel Graphics 6%
Why You'll Like It: This charming pixel-art farm sim pairs crops, animals, romance, mining, and town restoration with a particularly strong retro-Stardew feel.
- #3 Coral Island
96% matchVery Positive89% of 27,716 reviews2023
Dev: Stairway GamesPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 56.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Coral Island is a vibrant, laid-back farm sim reimagined with multiplayer! Experience enchanting island life at your own pace: farm with friends, nurture animals, build relationships, hang out with a diverse cast of characters, and dive into the magical Merfolk Kingdom.
Why similar: Farming Sim 30%, Life Sim 15.4%, Agriculture 13.5% ★, Relaxing 5.6%, Dating Sim 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: A modern farm-life sim with extensive crops, relationships, festivals, diving, mining, and community restoration set on a tropical island.
- #4 Roots of Pacha
95% matchVery Positive94% of 4,567 reviews2023
Dev: Soda Den
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.
Why similar: Farming Sim 25.6%, Agriculture 14.7% ★, Life Sim 13.8%, Crafting 6.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: It recreates the relationship-focused seasonal farming loop in a Stone Age setting where inventions and village growth replace conventional technology.
- #5 My Time at Portia
94% matchVery Positive91% of 44,320 reviews2019
Dev: Pathea GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 36.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!
Why similar: Farming Sim 29.1%, Life Sim 17.8%, Agriculture 14% ★, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: This colorful life sim offers a similarly comforting town routine built around crafting, resource gathering, social bonds, festivals, and light exploration.
- #6 STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of Mineral Town
94% matchVery Positive93% of 5,781 reviews2020
Dev: Marvelous Inc.Pub: XSEED Games
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Experience the joys of life on the farm in this reimagining of a timeless STORY OF SEASONS classic!
Why similar: Farming Sim 49.5%, Life Sim 9.9%, Dating Sim 8.4%, Agriculture 8.3% ★, RPG 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: This polished remake of a foundational farm sim centers on crops, livestock, festivals, friendship, and marriage in a compact, cozy village.
- #7 My Time at Sandrock
93% matchVery Positive88% of 29,103 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 39.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
Why similar: Farming Sim 28.5%, Life Sim 21.2%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Crafting 8.1%, Building 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It replaces the farm focus with workshop building but delivers the same rewarding routine of crafting, befriending townsfolk, gathering, and restoring a community.
- #8 Dinkum
91% matchVery Positive92% of 29,165 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 29.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.
Why similar: Agriculture 23% ★, Farming Sim 22.1%, Life Sim 12.8%, Crafting 6.2%, Fishing 6.1% ★
Why You'll Like It: It turns the cozy farm-and-town-building loop into a more open-ended Australian-outback sandbox with fishing, collecting, construction, and multiplayer.
- #9 Rune Factory 4 Special
92% matchVery Positive88% of 2,366 reviews2021
Dev: Marvelous Inc.Pub: XSEED Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 21.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Journey to the vibrant world of Rune Factory and experience the legendary fantasy farming adventure like never before!
Why similar: Farming Sim 61.1%, RPG 12.8%, Fishing 11% ★, Crafting 9.1%, Dating Sim 3.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is an excellent choice for players who want Stardew-style farming and dating alongside deeper dungeon exploration, loot, monsters, and action RPG combat.
- #10 Everafter Falls
91% matchVery Positive84% of 739 reviews2024
Dev: SquareHuskyPub: Akupara Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Rediscover the simple life. Farm, fish, forge and fight to restore the peace in an all-new farming adventure. Features split-screen coop, a helpful pet, automated drones, resourceful pixies, a card-eating progression system, and dangerous dungeons to delve into!
Why similar: Farming Sim 38.5%, Life Sim 20.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Fishing 9.5% ★, RPG 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its pixel-art farming, fishing, bug catching, relationship building, and exploration make it one of the clearest modern Stardew-like experiences.
- #11 STORY OF SEASONS: Grand Bazaar
89% matchVery Positive94% of 4,088 reviews2025
Dev: Marvelous Inc.Pub: XSEED Games
Windows
Median: 18.5 hrsMean: 49.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Searching for a peaceful farm life, a fresh mountain breeze, and your own market stall? Look no further than the friendly community of Zephyr Town! Here you’ll grow crops and raise animals, get to know the locals, and sell your wares at the town's bazaar to restore it to its former glory.
Why similar: Farming Sim 26.6%, Agriculture 19.5% ★, Life Sim 15.1%, Crafting 7.8%, Sandbox 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: This farming life sim emphasizes growing crops, raising animals, socializing with residents, and selling goods through an engaging weekly market system.
- #12 Littlewood
90% matchVery Positive93% of 6,833 reviews2020
Dev: Sean YoungPub: SmashGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.
Why similar: Farming Sim 17.6%, Agriculture 17.4% ★, Life Sim 15.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%, Crafting 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: After saving the world, you build and customize a peaceful village through farming, gathering, friendship, and extremely relaxed day-to-day progression.
- #13 Palia
88% matchVery Positive86% of 44,545 reviews2024
Dev: Singularity 6 Corporation
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 26.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Discover a welcoming world in Palia, a free-to-play fantasy life sim adventure where you can craft, explore, and create the life and home of your dreams. With nearly endless ways to make Palia your home, you’ll find relaxation and joy in every corner of this vibrant, heartwarming world.
Why similar: Farming Sim 30.9%, Life Sim 20.3%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play online life sim focused on gathering, farming, decorating, cooking, friendship, and cooperative activities in a welcoming shared world.
- #14 Kynseed
89% matchVery Positive83% of 3,904 reviews2022
Dev: PixelCount Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Embark on a lifetime of adventure in a beautiful world of creativity and intrigue. Raise a family, customise your farm, run a business, craft items, and battle some marvellously malevolent monsters.
Why similar: Farming Sim 32.7%, Life Sim 17.9%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 8.6%, Relaxing 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers farming, shopkeeping, crafting, exploration, and family life in a whimsical world where generations of your character can continue the adventure.
- #15 Fae Farm
87% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,598 reviews2023
Dev: Phoenix LabsPub: Gambit Digital
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Escape to the magical life of your dreams in Fae Farm, a farm sim RPG for 1-4 players. Craft, cultivate, and decorate to grow your homestead, and use spells to explore the enchanted island of Azoria!
Why similar: Farming Sim 50.8%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Relaxing 11%, RPG 10.1%, Crafting 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: It combines approachable farming, home decoration, magical exploration, relationship progression, and optional co-op in a bright fantasy world.
- #16 Wylde Flowers
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,773 reviews2022
Dev: Studio Drydock Pty Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 79.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Join Tara on a heartfelt journey to become a witch in Wylde Flowers. Farm by day, and cast spells by night as you craft your cottagecore life and bond with your coven. Come to know and love the fully voice acted characters of Fairhaven, as you unravel a local mystery.
Why similar: Farming Sim 40.5%, Life Sim 22.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Relaxing 8.8%, Dating Sim 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its fully voiced story, warm community, gardening, fishing, crafting, romance, and gentle magical twist make it ideal for players who value Stardew’s characters.
- #17 Travellers Rest
85% matchVery Positive88% of 18,257 reviews2020
Dev: Isolated Games
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 20.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Craft, farm, build and cook! In Travellers Rest you will have to use all the available tools to become the best tavern keeper in the realm. Create unique dishes and drinks to please your customers as you discover the world and its colorful characters.
Why similar: Farming Sim 37.8%, Life Sim 26.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%, Crafting 8.1%, Building 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Managing a medieval tavern provides a satisfying alternative to farming, with cooking, brewing, decorating, gathering, and gradually expanding a cozy business.
- #18 Staxel
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 4,839 reviews2019
Dev: PlukitPub: Balor Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Grow your farm, meet the villagers, and join your friends online in building your world.
Why similar: Farming Sim 31.1%, Agriculture 20.6% ★, Sandbox 7.4%, Relaxing 6.5%, Multiplayer 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its blocky sandbox world supports farming, building, fishing, quests, and village life, especially for players who want more freeform construction.
- #19 Moonstone Island
84% matchVery Positive84% of 5,087 reviews2023
Dev: Studio SupersoftPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Moonstone Island is a creature-collecting life-sim set in an open world with 100 islands to explore. Make friends, brew potions, collect Spirits, and test your strength in card-based encounters to complete your Alchemy training!
Why similar: Farming Sim 22.8%, Agriculture 17.3% ★, Life Sim 13.2%, Fishing 6.9% ★, Sandbox 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: It combines crop growing, potion crafting, villager relationships, and home building with creature collecting and card-based exploration across floating islands.
- #20 Garden Paws
84% matchVery Positive90% of 2,498 reviews2018
Dev: Bitten Toast Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
You have inherited your grandparents farm as they set off to travel the world. Work with Frank at the local construction shop to finish off the final touches on your new home. Aid Frank and Mayor Wilson in building up the town so it may reach it's full potential.
Why similar: Farming Sim 25.7%, Agriculture 22.3% ★, Crafting 8.4%, Sandbox 8.1%, Building 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: This cute shopkeeping and farming game lets you gather resources, grow crops, care for animals, decorate a property, and help develop a town.
- #21 Ooblets
83% matchVery Positive91% of 1,557 reviews2023
Dev: Glumberland
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Ooblets is a relaxing and offbeat farming, town life, and creature collection game. Manage your farm, grow and train your ooblets, explore strange lands, and have dance-offs!
Why similar: Farming Sim 37.7%, Agriculture 24.9% ★, Crafting 10.2%, Relaxing 8.5%, RPG 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its cheerful town life mixes planting unusual crops, decorating, friendships, and creature collecting with lighthearted dance battles rather than combat.
- #22 Farm Together 2
81% matchVery Positive94% of 5,477 reviews2025
Dev: Milkstone Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 27.7 hrsMean: 139.2 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Grow your own farm all by yourself, or cooperate with your friends in the long awaited sequel to the cozy, relaxing farming experience!
Why similar: Farming Sim 30.4%, Agriculture 22.9% ★, Life Sim 16.5%, Fishing 9.1% ★, Sandbox 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is a streamlined, low-pressure farming experience centered on planting, harvesting, decorating, and cooperative progression without demanding schedules.
- #23 Graveyard Keeper
82% matchVery Positive85% of 56,175 reviews2018
Dev: Lazy Bear GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 27.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.
Why similar: Crafting 20.4%, Agriculture 19.5% ★, Pixel Graphics 18%, Sandbox 12.1%, RPG 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers Stardew-like gathering, crafting, farming, fishing, and town interactions, but with a darker and more management-heavy graveyard premise.
- #24 Immortal Life
82% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,370 reviews2024
Dev: YiFang StudioPub: 2P Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Embark on a magical journey in this captivating life simulation game. Escape to a welcoming valley, farm with spells, and master skills like fishing, crafting, and cooking. Engage in epic battles, strengthen the bonds with your companions, and build your dream home to achieve Immortal Life!
Why similar: Farming Sim 28.4%, Agriculture 19.8% ★, Life Sim 15.9%, Fishing 9% ★, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A Chinese fantasy farming sim with planting, cooking, crafting, relationship building, and cultivation-themed exploration gives the familiar loop a distinctive setting.
- #25 Luma Island
80% matchVery Positive84% of 12,744 reviews2024
Dev: Feel Free Games
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready to explore, farm, fish, mine, craft, and raise magical Lumas as you solve puzzles and embark on quests across Luma Island. Play solo, or team up with friends in 1-4 player online co-op. Choose relaxing Cozy, challenging Adventure, or epic Hero mode to match your mood and playstyle.
Why similar: Farming Sim 32.7%, Life Sim 14%, Crafting 9.9%, Relaxing 8.2%, Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This cooperative adventure emphasizes gathering, farming, crafting, exploration, and building a homestead across colorful islands.
- #26 One Lonely Outpost
81% matchMixed58% of 662 reviews2025
Dev: indie.io
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
An alien world sometimes needs a farmer’s touch to bring it to life. In this sci-fi, colonization-life sim, terraform a barren world: turn wastelands into verdant landscapes while exploring, farming, building, and unlocking all the mysteries of this strange new planet.
Why similar: Farming Sim 27.3%, Agriculture 17.3% ★, Life Sim 14.2%, Sandbox 6.9%, Crafting 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: It adapts the familiar farming, community-building, mining, and relationship loop to a lonely alien planet with a sci-fi colony theme.
- #27 Echoes of the Plum Grove
79% matchVery Positive88% of 3,146 reviews2024
Dev: Unwound GamesPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A new life awaits in Honeywood! Build a thriving community that will last generations in this cozy farm simulator. Farm, socialize, make friends, cook, craft, forage and uncover the secrets of the island! If someone doesn’t want to be friends? There are always other means.
Why similar: Farming Sim 43.3%, Life Sim 23.5%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 8.5%, Simulation 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: A hand-drawn farm sim with planting, relationships, crafting, exploration, and generational characters, adding survival stakes to the cozy formula.
- #28 Disney Dreamlight Valley
79% matchVery Positive92% of 24,933 reviews2023
Dev: Gameloft
Windows
Median: 32.4 hrsMean: 118.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Relax in a cozy world filled with the magic of Disney and Pixar! Discover rich stories and build the perfect Valley alongside more than 50 heroes and villains in this life-sim adventure game.
Why similar: Farming Sim 30.1%, Life Sim 23.5%, Relaxing 10.9%, Fishing 9.7% ★, Sandbox 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its real-time life sim loop of gardening, cooking, fishing, decorating, questing, and building friendships offers a polished cozy alternative with Disney characters.
- #29 HARVESTELLA
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,552 reviews2022
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 26.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
HARVESTELLA, an all-new life-simulation RPG from SQUARE ENIX! Lead a life of self-sufficiency with your vibrant house as a base and cooperate with allies to overcome various threats.
Why similar: Farming Sim 32.1%, Agriculture 23.3% ★, Life Sim 15.9%, Sandbox 8.1%, Building 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: This story-driven RPG combines crop tending, cooking, fishing, crafting, and a changing seasonal calendar with much more substantial combat and narrative.
- #30 Cornucopia®
77% matchVery Positive88% of 664 reviews2023
Dev: David DolynnyPub: Subconscious Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A cozy 2.5D farm-life RPG that runs deep. Grow living soil into legendary harvests, romance 34+ villagers, breed magical animals, cook, fish, and dive the dungeons below for loot. No forced bedtime, no stress, just your dream farm at your own pace.
Why similar: Farming Sim 24.8%, Agriculture 16.1% ★, Life Sim 13%, Crafting 6.1%, Relaxing 5.1%
- #31 Rune Factory 5
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,130 reviews2022
Dev: Marvelous Inc.Pub: XSEED Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 24.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
As the newest ranger of a peacekeeping organization known as SEED, protect your community by rounding up rowdy monsters and going on special missions. Cultivate your farm and friendships alike while unravelling rune-related mysteries!
Why similar: Farming Sim 56.8%, RPG 11.7%, Fishing 9.6% ★, Crafting 8%, Simulation 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: It expands the farm-life and romance formula into a 3D world with real-time combat, monster taming, seasonal crops, and town quests.
- #32 Farlands
75% matchVery Positive90% of 1,750 reviews2026
Dev: JanduSoft
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Congratulations, you’ve bought your own planet! An agrarian rock at the edge of the galaxy that, for some reason, was practically being given away for free. So the time has come to leave your hectic, stressful life in an overcrowded metropolis for a more rural and rewarding life.
Why similar: Farming Sim 24.9%, Agriculture 18.9% ★, Life Sim 13.9%, Fishing 8% ★, Crafting 7.7%
- #33 Sky Harvest
76% matchVery Positive85% of 106 reviews2026
Dev: Armored CatPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Armed with hand-me-down tools and some cash, you begin your new life as THE Chief Farmer, a position your grandfather once excelled in. Can you honor his legacy and transform the overgrown, untamed and desolate floating island into a flourishing farm abundant with produce?
Why similar: Farming Sim 24.1%, Agriculture 16.4% ★, Life Sim 13.6%, Fishing 7.1% ★, Crafting 6.6%
- #34 Farm Together
77% matchVery Positive94% of 22,123 reviews2018
Dev: Milkstone Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.1 hrsMean: 143.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Grow your own farm all by yourself, or cooperate with your friends in this unique, relaxing farming experience!
Why similar: Agriculture 32.5% ★, Farming Sim 27.4%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Relaxing 7.6%, Building 6.5%
- #35 Clanfolk
75% matchVery Positive92% of 4,069 reviews2022
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.Pub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
Why similar: Farming Sim 22.4%, Agriculture 16% ★, Life Sim 12.9%, Crafting 6.5%, Sandbox 5.7%
- #36 Seeds of Calamity
73% matchVery Positive81% of 362 reviews2026
Dev: Laborious Lark StudiosPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
Take part in healing after the Great Calamity. Tend your farm, complete quests for the villagers, and explore dungeons filled with challenge and treasure in this cozy, solo-developed farming sim. Build a new life in a recovering world with your fluffy Spellbook Companion.
Why similar: Farming Sim 27.1%, Agriculture 18.2% ★, Life Sim 15.2%, Crafting 6.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%
- #37 Forager
74% matchVery Positive89% of 44,137 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Farming Sim 30.6%, Crafting 13.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%, Agriculture 10.1% ★, Sandbox 8%
- #38 DAVE THE DIVER
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 162,908 reviews2023
Dev: MINTROCKET
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.5 hrsMean: 27.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
DAVE THE DIVER is a casual, singleplayer adventure RPG featuring deep-sea exploration and fishing during the day and sushi restaurant management at night. Join Dave and his quirky friends as they seek to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Blue Hole.
Why similar: Farming Sim 27.2%, Agriculture 14.6% ★, Fishing 12.3% ★, Pixel Graphics 12.2%, Relaxing 9.8%
- #39 Firefly Village
72% matchVery Positive87% of 131 reviews2025
Dev: Josh Koenig GamesPub: indie.io
Windows · Linux
The Firefly Village awaits! A bite-sized, streamlined farming sim that focuses on moments that matter, without wasting a single second of your time. Build a homestead, raise crops, tend to livestock, make friends, and enjoy a pocket of paradise where farming is a delight and friends plentiful.
Why similar: Farming Sim 30.6%, Agriculture 18.6% ★, Life Sim 15.7%, Fishing 7.5% ★, RPG 6.8%
- #40 Harvest Life
76% matchMixed51% of 270 reviews2017
Dev: bumblebeePub: familyplay
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Show your mettle as both an aspiring organic farmer and a part-time adventurer. And then you might be in for a romantic happy ending.
Why similar: Farming Sim 53.7%, Agriculture 16.1% ★, Crafting 7.8%, Simulation 6.7%, Fishing 4% ★
- #41 Sprout Valley
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 131 reviews2023
Dev: Vadzim LiakhovichPub: RedDeer.Games
Windows
Sprout Valley is farming simulator game where you can step back from the busy life and grow the garden of your dreams. Captivating story, hand-crafted experience, cute graphics and many more!
Why similar: Farming Sim 37.5%, Life Sim 20.9%, RPG 8%, Crafting 7.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%
- #42 Ninano: Dream Ranch
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 50 reviews2024
Dev: NABI
Windows
Welcome to the Ranch, where you can raise animals! Diverse locals such as Elves, Demons, Vampires, and others await you. Collaborate with them to build new facilities and invite new neighbors to make the Village vibrant. Enjoy activities like fishing, cooking, gathering, dating, and mini-games!
Why similar: Farming Sim 33%, Life Sim 18.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%, Relaxing 7%, Sandbox 6.4%
- #43 My Heaven's Dale
70% matchVery Positive96% of 71 reviews2026
Dev: DreamingCat
Windows
Sent by the Moon Goddess, you arrive in Heaven’s Dale to run a carpenter workshop and uncover its former owner’s fate. Mysterious ghosts drift through everywhere! Live a cozy life planting, fishing, mining, and caring for animals while restoring the town at your own pace.
Why similar: Farming Sim 30.2%, Life Sim 17.1%, Agriculture 15.8% ★, Crafting 8.7%, Relaxing 7.4%
- #44 Peaceful Days
70% matchVery Positive87% of 282 reviews2025
Dev: Nhat Nguyen
Windows · Linux
Take over a cozy local farm in the charming seaside town of Aurora, meet friendly locals, reveal the secrets and enjoy your new peaceful life!
Why similar: Farming Sim 37.2%, Agriculture 22.1% ★, RPG 14.8%, Simulation 9.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%
- #45 Grimshire
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 3,460 reviews2025
Dev: Acute Owl Studio
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
A deadly plague threatens the village of Grimshire. Manage your farmland, forage the bounty of the wilds, prevent your harvest from rotting away and keep the root cellar full. Can you help bring the community together and survive?
Why similar: Farming Sim 37.4%, Agriculture 17.8% ★, Life Sim 13%, Pixel Graphics 9%, RPG 4.5%
- #46 Circadian City
74% matchMixed58% of 171 reviews2020
Dev: Nowhere StudiosPub: Way Down Deep
Windows · Mac
A life sim game where you play both in the Realworld and the Dreamworld. Your personality is your skill tree.
Why similar: Farming Sim 23.4%, Agriculture 17.3% ★, Life Sim 15%, Crafting 6.2%, Pixel Graphics 6%
- #47 Garden Buddies
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 96 reviews2023
Dev: JamPicsPub: RedDeer.Games
Windows
Unleash your inner gardener and immerse yourself in the serene world of Garden Buddies, cultivating a vibrant flower garden alongside your new friend Mutsy. Discover an enchanting and fulfilling experience to release your stress.
Why similar: Farming Sim 27.1%, Agriculture 19.1% ★, Life Sim 15.4%, Crafting 7.2%, Relaxing 6.6%
- #48 Hillshade Farm
69% matchMixed68% of 79 reviews2026
Dev: NORTHSTAR Games
Windows
You’ve got land, time, and a whole lot to figure out. Start small, work hard, earn what you need, and build the kind of farm you’d never want to leave.
Why similar: Farming Sim 30.9%, Life Sim 17.5%, Agriculture 16.1% ★, Crafting 7.9%, Relaxing 6.6%
- #49 The Islander
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 428 reviews2018
Dev: Boxhead Bros.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The Islander is a fast building/farming game set somewhere in an exotic Polynesia. Plant crops, bushes and trees, build livestock pens, but don’t forget to make it look classy by adding various decorations.
Why similar: Farming Sim 43.6%, Agriculture 14.2% ★, Pixel Graphics 6.4%, Building 5.4%, Sandbox 5.4%
- #50 Starsand Island
67% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,727 reviews2026
Dev: Seed Sparkle Lab
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 23.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Tired of the city grind? Escape to Starsand Island and embrace the simple joys of country life! Live alongside capybaras, cats, and dogs, reel in a big catch, and explore the enchanting Moonlit Forest. Leave the hustle behind and experience the charm of this seaside paradise.
Why similar: Farming Sim 34.4%, Life Sim 20.2%, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 8.4%, Building 7.8%
- #51 Farmer's Dynasty - Final Harvest Edition
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,320 reviews2019
Dev: UMEO StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Live – Build – Farm: Enjoy a unique mix of farming, constructing and life simulation that takes you to the countryside and holds plenty of challenging gameplay in stock!
Why similar: Farming Sim 33.8%, Agriculture 20% ★, Life Sim 18.6%, RPG 5.3%, Simulation 4.8%
- #52 Farmer's Life
68% matchVery Positive89% of 2,791 reviews2023
Dev: FreeMind S.A.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
🌾Unleash the Farmer within. 🚜 Dive into the rustic charm of rural living in "Farmer's Life", where you'll experience the joy and challenges of life on a vibrant farmstead. Plant, grow, and embrace a country living in a vast open world. You choose from diverse mechanics and endless possibilities.
Why similar: Farming Sim 27.3%, Agriculture 20.7% ★, Life Sim 14.5%, Sandbox 7.2%, Crafting 6.7%
- #53 Project Real
69% matchVery Positive85% of 66 reviews2024
Dev: HKGamesStudioPub: GoGo Games Interactive
Windows
The Real Project is a game where you shape your virtual life. Choose professions, build authentic relationships and explore a wide, vibrant world full of fascinating NPCs. Face challenges, explore stunning landscapes. Live a complete virtual life, full of unique adventures.
Why similar: Farming Sim 25%, Life Sim 14.9%, Agriculture 12% ★, Sandbox 7.3%, Dating Sim 6.2%
- #54 Hokko Life
70% matchMixed66% of 2,673 reviews2022
Dev: Wonderscope GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Hop off the train and into your new life in the village of Hokko! Take over the old workshop and get creative; use crafted materials and design everything in town! With complete creative freedom, what type of town will you build?
Why similar: Farming Sim 27.9%, Agriculture 17.7% ★, Life Sim 16.5%, Fishing 8% ★, Crafting 6%
- #55 Little Witch in the Woods
66% matchVery Positive89% of 13,210 reviews2025
Dev: SUNNY SIDE UP
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Little Witch in the Woods tells the story of Ellie, an apprentice witch. Explore the mystical forest, help the charming residents, and experience the daily life of the witch.
Why similar: Farming Sim 29.6%, Life Sim 21%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Crafting 8.3%, Relaxing 7.7%
- #56 Shinehill
66% matchVery Positive95% of 283 reviews2026
Dev: Peach Bite
Windows
Yet again they dumped the toughest job on you. Now you are on Shinehill Island, where you suddenly replaced one of the new residents. Explore the world, meet charming townspeople, do farming, fishing, cooking and try not to reveal yourself.
Why similar: Farming Sim 30.5%, Life Sim 19.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%, Fishing 8.5% ★, Dating Sim 8.4%
- #57 Research Story
67% matchVery Positive95% of 344 reviews2025
Dev: Petal Cat Games
Windows
Set out to discover and record plants and creatures for the Violet Archive. Grow crops, tame animals, and build the perfect farm! Forge friendships along the way as you begin your life as a researcher!
Why similar: Farming Sim 27%, Agriculture 18.4% ★, Life Sim 14.6%, Building 5.4%, Pixel Graphics 5.3%
- #58 Cute Farmer Life
68% matchVery Positive98% of 157 reviews2023
Dev: SE32
Windows · Mac · Linux
Cute Farmer Life is a small indie farm game. Grow, craft and collect resources in a game designed to relax and enjoy the moment. Discover the secrets of the small town you have moved to.
Why similar: Farming Sim 33.2%, Agriculture 22.7% ★, Crafting 8.6%, Fishing 8.1% ★, Pixel Graphics 7.5%
- #59 Orange Season
68% matchMixed59% of 403 reviews2024
Dev: Innerfire StudiosPub: SOEDESCO
Windows · Linux
Make your farmer’s dream come true in Orange Season. With your parent’s help, you’ve finally saved enough money to buy a plot of land in the charming farmer’s village of Orange Town. Build a thriving farm as you grow crops, raise animals, fish, and mine materials to establish your farm in town.
Why similar: Farming Sim 23.7%, Agriculture 22.8% ★, Fishing 10.3% ★, Dating Sim 7.8%, RPG 6.1%
- #60 Japanese Rural Life Adventure
66% matchVery Positive80% of 251 reviews2026
Dev: G-MODE
Windows
Japanese Rural Life Adventure is a relaxing slow-life simulation where you can experience the charm of traditional Japanese countryside living, all in a beautifully crafted pixel-art world.
Why similar: Farming Sim 36.3%, Life Sim 24.8%, Agriculture 18.5% ★, Pixel Graphics 8%, Simulation 5.1%