Top Cozy Farming Games Like Stardew Valley
Stardew Valley has long been the top choice for cozy farming games—and for good reason. But if you're craving something new, there are other great farming games that offer farming, fishing, cooking, crafting, and animal care with that same cozy vibe. Check out these top alternatives for a fresh farming experience!
Fields of Mistria
Developer Image: NPC Studio
Available on: PC
Cost: €13.79 (Early Access)
Farm, grow crops, fish, mine and craft as you romance up to 12 villagers and make your home in Mistria. Level up 9 different skill types, raise animals and even breed rare colour varients. Unlock magic to help you with your adventuring and farming, and craft your won furniture with up to 600 items to craft. It is still in early access but there’s already so much content, with new updates upcoming.
Fae Farm
Developer Image: Phoenix Labs
Available on: Steam, Nintendo Switch
Cost: €39.99 base game, €59.99 Deluxe Edition
Create your own magical home in the enchanting world of Azoria. In Fae Farm, you can customise your own character with unlockable styles as well as unlockable decorations for your home and farm giving you the opportunity to make it your own unique cozy place. Collect and raise baby animals in a variety of different colours and hunt for critters that will drop rare ingredients for your potions. Use your spells and potions to forage in caves and battle jumbles, mischevious spirits endangering the peace of Azoria. You can even play and build your farm with up to 3 online players online or via local wireless.
My Time in Portia
Developer Image: Pathea Games
Available on: Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation
Cost: €29.99 Base Game €42.50 Deluxe Edition
Restore your father’s workshop and start a new life in Portia, a town packed with friendly inhabitants with lots of requests! Chat, befriend, give gifts and complete tasks with your neighbours and you may even spark a romance! Restore the workshop to it’s former glory by growing crops, raising animals and completing commissions. The farm has some alternatives to other farming simulations including planting boxes and semi-automatic irrigation systems to improve your farm efficiency. Gather resources from the ancient ruins and dungeons while battling monsters and bosses. And the best bit? You can ride your own llama around the town.
Coral Island
Developer Image: Stairway Games
Available on: Steam, Xbox, Playstation
Cost: €29.99 or FREE on Xbox GamePass
Leave the big city life of Pokyo for Coral Island, and help reinvigorate the nearby town and it’s coral reefs in this re-imagining of farming simulator games. With a large variety of outfits, body types and accessories you’re free to express your own individuality as you search for your special someone amongst 25 available singles within over 70 interactable characters from all walks of life. Build a home, farm and life together, or spend your days diving in the coral reef, mining gemstones and filling up your museum and restoring heritage sites. Coral Island has a wealth of activities from farming, raising animals, crafting, fishing, mining, collecting, befriending, romancing, so many possibilities!
Sun Haven
Developer Image: Pixel Sprout Studios
Available on: Steam
Cost: €20.99 Base Game or €35.99 Deluxe Edition
You arrive at Sun Haven with just a few coins and some rusty tools and discover the town has been struck by dark magic! Create your own unique character with thousands of clothing options as well as a variety of magical races and starting professions to choose from. Build a farm in three different cities, and manage your skills progression through a customisable skill tree. With over 40 different crafting stations, grow your skills and customise your self, farm and home with everything from baking to smithing to jewellery making. Befriend and romance up to 15 singles around the town, and attend festivals and celebrate with the townsfolk. Raise mystical animals, unlock dozens of mine floors and complete your museum by donating hundreds of items.
Sprout Valley
Developer Image: Vadzim Liakhovich
Available on: PC, Nintendo Switch
Cost: €14.79
Play as cute cat Nico on your own little island farm, where you can grow crops and harvest trees to sell to buy more resources. Travel across islands to meet new characters and the island levels are all procedurely generated so you’ll get different looking islands each time! The farm has different weathers and events themed around them, and you can craft with the items you find to decorate your island.
Story of Seasons - Pioneers of Olive Town
Developer Image: Marvelous Inc
Available on: Steam, Nintendo Switch, Playstation
Cost: €39.99 Base Game €54.99 Deluxe Edition
A peaceful community awaits in Olive Town as you continue your grandfather’s legacy as you take over the running of his farm. In this new addition to the Story of Season series, plant crops, tend to animals and cultivate your farm from the ground up. Join in on over 200 unique festivals and events in your new community, and you may even find love along the way. And while you explore your farm land, you may come across some earth sprites that can lead you to mysterious new lands!
