If you're familiar with the Pillow Fort, you know how much we adore our Farming Sims. As the years continue to pass, we see new takes on one of the most loved Genres and it's always a pleasure to see how each Game Developer puts their own unique spin on it. With hundreds of games coming out, here are a few of the best and brightest in the bunch from Steam Next Fest, 2023 in terms of Farming Sims.
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These games are not ranked in any specific order. They're only numbered to stay organized.
If any links are broken or wrong, or you're a developer that has an updated link, please just leave a comment below and we'll fix it!
Just because we're not planning on reviewing a game does not dictate it as bad or good. We only have so much time to review games so we prioritize ones we personally want to play over others. Our tastes may differ, but that doesn't mean a game isn't quality.
1. Paleo Pines
🏷️ Genre: Farming Sim, Dinosaurs, Exploration, Indie, 3D
📅 Release Date: September 26th, 2023
🗒️ Description: Welcome to Paleo Pines, a charming island known for its friendly dinosaurs, quirky townsfolk, and mysterious past. Befriend dinos and enlist their help to fix up your ranch and farm crops to create your cozy dino sanctuary! Then set out with your companion, Lucky, to uncover the island’s secrets.
📝 Reviewing?: Yes
2. Garlant: My Story
🏷️ Genre: RPG, Farming Sim, Life Sim, Casual, Idler
📅 Release Date: Unannounced
🗒️ Description: I am a Falconeye who just graduated from the academy. In pursuit of challenges, I came to the distant border of the kingdom: Garlant in the Doe region. Here I will start a new chapter of my life, and it's going to be an amazing adventure story!
📝 Reviewing?: Possibly
3. Sunrise's Order
🏷️ Genre: Farming Sim, Agriculture, Building, Life Sim, 2D
📅 Release Date: Unannounced
🗒️ Description: Sunrise's Order is a farm simulation game in which the player finds himself alone on his island to become an accomplished small farmer. He must use a delivery service called Animazon to support himself and grow his reputation.
📝 Reviewing?: Yes
4. Everafter Falls
🏷️ Genre: Simulation, Story Rich, Farming Sim, Life Sim
📅 Release Date: Unannounced
🗒️ Description: Rediscover the simple life. Farm, fish, forge and fight to restore the peace in an all-new farming adventure. Features split-screen coop, a pet with useful skills, automated drones, resource-harvesting pixies, a card-eating progression system, and dangerous dungeons to explore!
📝 Reviewing?: Possibly
5. One Lonely Outpost
🏷️ Genre: Farming Sim, Colony Sim, Indie
📅 Release Date: June 26th, 2023
🗒️ Description: 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.
🎮 Discord
📝 Reviewing?: Possibly
6. Gaucho and the Grassland
🏷️ Genre: Farming Sim, Casual, Agriculture, Relaxing
📅 Release Date: Unannounced
🗒️ Description: Your farm, your way, anytime! Gaucho It's farm sim with more focus in animal breeding and elements of adventure in a mystic enviroment to create a farm that brings harmony between human and mystic creatures to convive eacher other in the same place.
🎮 Discord
📝 Reviewing?: Unlikely
7. Wildmender
🏷️ Genre: 3D, Simulation, Survival, Adventure
📅 Release Date: 2023
🗒️ Description: A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?
🎮 Discord
📝 Reviewing?: Possibly
8. Cattails: Wildwood Story
🏷️ Genre: Life Sim, Farming Sim, Cats, Wholesome, RPG
📅 Release Date: Q4 2023
🗒️ Description: Become a cat! In this cozy life sim RPG, you'll lead your col/ //nbony into the mysterious Wildwood. Hunt prey, harvest herbs, collect magical treasures, & defend your new home from intruders. Build a thriving town to recruit new cats. Get to know the residents, fall in love, & raise a litter of kittens!
🎮 Website
📝 Reviewing?: Yes
9. The Witch's Cauldron
🏷️ Genre: Casual, Simulation, Farming Sim, Side Scroller
📅 Release Date: Q4 2023
🗒️ Description: The Witch's Cauldron is a narrative roguelike game about being a medieval witch. Grab your cauldron and get brewing. Love, curses, laughter, wisdom for sale! Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. At least before the inquisitors come around.
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🎮 Discord
📝 Reviewing?: Possibly
10. Return from Core
🏷️ Genre: Crafting, Early Access, Sandbox, Adventure, 2D, RPG
📅 Release Date: Unannounced
🗒️ Description: Survival sandbox adventure game! Dig for materials to craft new gear and defend your camp against the creatures and perils of the Core. If you recover the technology lost after the catastrophe, maybe one day you can return to the surface!
🎮 Discord
📝 Reviewing?: Possibly
11. The Last Alchemist
🏷️ Genre: Simulation, Fantasy, Relaxing, Crafting, 3D
📅 Release Date: Unannounced
🗒️ Description: Master the wonders of alchemy! Solve alchemical puzzles by transforming and combining Essences. Craft items, tools and machines. Explore the enchanting world, gather peculiar resources, and befriend the Agari, adorable mushroom folk who will help you find the cure for your mysterious disease.
📝 Reviewing?: Yes
12. Moonstone Island
🏷️ Genre: Open World, Simulation, Relaxing, Agriculture, Deck Builder
📅 Release Date: 2023
🗒️ Description: 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!
🎮 Discord
📝 Reviewing?: Possibly
That's all folks!
That's it for the best Farming / Life Sims of the Steam Next Fest 2023 event. Click HERE to be taken back to the Master List article... but before you go, make sure to drop a like below if you're a big fan of the genre, and leave a comment telling us what games you're looking forward to most!
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