5 Games Like Harvest Moon if You’re Like for Something Similar

Rune Factory

Games Like Harvest Moon

Another spin-off of sorts of Harvest Moon, Rune Factory is a farming sim game with a twist. Instead of raising livestock, you’ll need to go out and battle monsters and bring them onto your farm, Pokemon style. In the most recent entry on the 3DS, Rune Factory 4, these companions can either be used in battle, or sent to your farm to either assist you, or produce items.

Like other games like Harvest Moon, Rune Factory features mechanics such as farming, romancing, cooking etc. That said, if exploring, fighting, and having slightly more pronounced combat is appealing to you (plus a radically different setting/story) then the Rune Factory series might be for you.