Harvest Life

Farming, fishing and adventure are all poor. A degraded copy of other farming games.

This game is not what it's advertised. Every game mechanic is very basic, the controls are clunky, it doesn't even feel like an early access, more like an alpha play test. Don't waste your money on this one, there are plenty way better farming games.

Harvest Life, developed by bumblebee and published by familyplay, is an indie farming simulation that attempts to capture the comforting rhythms of rural life while layering in light adventure and social elements. At first glance, it presents itself as a warm, family-friendly experience where players step into the role of a farmer rebuilding and managing an organic farm. The game clearly draws inspiration from classic farming sims, promising crop cultivation, animal husbandry, village interaction, and exploration beyond the fields. While the foundation is familiar and inviting, the overall experience reveals a title that is earnest in its intentions but uneven in execution. The core of Harvest Life revolves around managing daily farm activities. Players plant and harvest crops, tend to animals such as cows, pigs, chickens, and bees, and sell their produce through a small shop that attracts visiting villagers. Each in-game day follows a predictable routine of watering plants, feeding livestock, collecting products, and planning the next steps for expansion. Earnings are reinvested into the farm, unlocking new tools, buildings, and areas. This steady loop provides a sense of structu…

Neutral. This is a mostly watered down version of Stardew valley with weird mini-games. The negatives and positives are kind of a small balance. They give you a chest right off the bat, but inventory is only 3 spaces. You don't have to worry about tools, but you also don't really know what tools you have, it's just the A button every time. There's only one generic fish and the fishing mini-game is just like Stardew's. Hunger is annoyingly fast. You can only get preset characters and the game is really buggy with controller support. I still need keyboard for certain spots. Still, it is fun. Get while uber cheap or free, or just go play a better farming sim. The fact that development is paused is sad. This has potential, it just isn't really finished and doesn't have it's own identity like Coral Island or Stardew Valley does.

Abandonware, barely functioning, made by someone who had no coding skills but desperately wanted to make a rip off of Stardew Valley. It is outrageous that this "game" sells for the same price as Stardew Valley as it's laughably bad and boring. Don't waste your money even if they offer it on steep discount. It's so bad you will feel ripped off even if it's few cents. Such a common theme among dirty devs these days: make barely functioning game, sell for a price of solid indie, run away and immediately start to promote your next game, asking people to buy it as well. this developers goes on my ban list due their lies, lack of professionalism and awful coding skills. I've no time to waste on games that bad.

Actually the game is fun, and after very first launch I played for 3h. But there are a few Buts: • another crazy gaming fishing, but not as Hell-ish as in some other games. Also that successful "Yeah!" is worse than fishing itself! • building is absolutely horrible. If you don't know how it works you can waste by accident all your coins! Also there's no moving. • Poor game's settings. • No proper map. Even some games with generated maps have maps! • Crazy control. • No character's clothing, and customizing. • Sometimes pieces of the field disappear. • Poor inventory of only 4 slots! • Have to wait while the character is sleeping. No chance to skip it. • Annoying stones and mushrooms which aren't even usable. • When animals aren't in the stable they can go anywhere, even somewhere where you can't sell them. • Very often animals stay on same spot what doesn't allow to milk cows!!!