Best Story of Seasons and Harvest Moon Games

The Story of Seasons series, formerly known as Harvest Moon in the West, offered players the chance to farm, marry, and make money to their hearts’ content since the monumental first game in 1996. Here are some of the best Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons games.

All Bokujou no Monogatari Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons Games

Harvest Moon was the original English localized name for the Bokujo Monogatari series of farming sim games. Here are all of the true Bokujou Monogatari games, as well as ones localized under the Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons names.

• Harvest Moon: SNES, Wii/Wii U Virtual Console, Nintendo Switch Online
• Harvest Moon GB/GBC: Game Boy, 3DS Virtual Console
• Harvest Mon 64: Nintendo 64, Wii/Wii U Virtual Console
• Harvest Moon 2 GBC: Game Boy Color, 3DS Virtual Console
• Back to Nature: PlayStation 1, PS3, PSP, PS4, PS5
• Harvest Moon 3 GBC: Game Boy Color, 3DS Virtual Console
• Save the Homeland: PS2, PS3, PS4
• Friends of Mineral Town: Game Boy Advance, Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC
• A Wonderful Life: GameCube, PS2, PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X/S, PC
• More Friends of Mineral Town: GBA
• Another Wonderful Life: GameCube
• Magical Melody: GameCube, Wii
• Harvest Moon DS: Nintendo DS
• Boy & Girl: PSP, Vita
• DS Cute: Nintendo DS
• Island of Happiness: Nintendo DS
• Tree of Tranquility: Nintendo Wii
• Sunshine Islands: Nintendo DS
• Animal Parade: Nintendo Wii
• Grand Bazaar: Nintendo DS
• Hero of Leaf Valley: PSP, Vita
• The Tale of Two Towns: Nintendo DS, 3DS
• A New Beginning: Nintendo 3DS
• Story of Seasons: Nintendo 3DS
• Trio of Towns: Nintendo 3DS
• Doraemon Story of Seasons: Nintendo Switch, PS4, PC
• Pioneers of Olive Town: Nintendo Switch, PS4, PC
• Friends of the Great Kingdom: Nintendo Switch, PS5, PC

Best Harvest Moon Game for Romance: A Wonderful Life

If you like the marriage aspect of this series and want nothing more than to flirt with some attractive bachelors or bachelorettes, A Wonderful Life is the game for you. It has a heavy focus on marriage and life together after the fact. It may not have the most marriage partners, but it offers the strongest marriage life with kids in the series.

Best Game for Farming: Friends of Mineral Town

Friends of Mineral Town feels like the most complete and purest game in the series. It has every aspect done well, but especially in the farming department. More Friends of Mineral Town has excellent controls and a vast variety of crops to gather. And if you like farm animals, there are plenty of those, too.

Most Underrated Game: Save the Homeland

Save the Homeland is by far the one game in the franchise that doesn’t get enough credit, but has some of the most unique content in the series. It focuses on a whopping nine different endings and it has an excellent New Game Plus feature for players to experience all of them.