Top 5 Best Harvest Moon Games: Worth Playing in 2024? My Picks!

Aaa i’m so happy someone finally mentioned Grand Bazaar! It’s my first (and only, so far) HM game and so rarely talked about it’s criminal. I’ve been on the fence about getting Sunshine islands for yrs now, idk how good it is.

Just a tip, if you’re thinking of recording more gameplay footage on the DS I’ve heard you can get someone to do a capture card installation on the 3DS. There’s more info online about it on forums. It’s kinda complicated and apparently a little costly, but beats having to hold a separate camera in front to film while playing!

My top 3 are-
1. A wonderful life
2. Magical melody
3. Animal parade
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Have you played any of the Rune Factory game develop by Marvelous. It’s just like Harvest moon/story of seasons games but has fighting in it(not to hard similar to stardew valley fighting) Instead of buy farm animals you can tame monsters to collect milk, eggs, etc. But you can also have your tame monsters water and harvest your crops. Or they can follow you and help fight. I love these games maybe a bit more than I did harvest moon games.

Ooo I love Neil too!! When I saw he was in the expansion pack/pass for sos:pioneers of Olive town, I got married to him so fast. Thanks for the video!! 🥰

awe you are so cute and seem so sweet! this was a great video, glad to know other people love this series too.

magical melody gives me so much nostalgia awe, that was my childhood <3

My little brother has only played a few of my Harvest Moon games, but A New Beginning is his favorite. We lost this cartridge a while ago and he was UPSET (even though it’s my game 😂). Now I can tell him that he’s a man or fine taste!

My favorite was Grand Bazaar, my childhood favorite was Magical Melody, and I’m really fond of Animal Parade and Tale of Two Towns

amazing video !! <3

My first Harvest Moon game was Friends of Mineral Town in the 2000s. I really enjoyed the relaxing and cozy aesthetic of that game on the game boy as a child. I may consider purchasing Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town so I can re-live that fun experience on the switch. Watching the gameplay in the original Friends of Mineral Town really took me back.

Oh, I’ve also played A New Beginning soooooo much! One of my favorites as well. The only thing is that everything is kind of slow.
I consider the first Story of Seasons my favorite! to be an improved version of ANB. You should try playing it some more =]

It makes me so happy to find people still talking about Harvest Moon in 2024, I grew up playing these games and we share some of the same favorites! Animal Parade and HM DS Cute are my absolute favorites and I know you're a real one when you threw in Grand Bazaar...I feel like that one is so underrated. I put so many hours into all these games, and I'm hoping that you sharing your love for these games will encourage others to pick them up ! 💕💕

Harvest moon it's a wonderful life brings back many good blockbuster memories.

Did you ever play the Doraemon story of seasons?

even though it's a spin off, my introduction to harvest moon was via innocent life, with friends of mineral town being my first proper hm game! i'd have to say trio of towns is my all time favorite, with so many others dear to my heart, like fomt and tale of two towns especially! i remember the day i bought tale of two towns, i brought my dsi with me and played it on the way home, i was so in love with it immediately!

Animal Parade, Ds Cute, A New Beginning and Trio of Towns are my FAVORITE hm/sos games of all time!!!! Currently playing all of them actually lol. I’m gonna marry the wizard in AP, Ludus (my ultimate pookie bear) in ToT, probably Kai for hm cute, and I’m still undecided for anb! I wish you could be gay in anb because I woulda snatched Yuri right up but alas 🥲💔

Ahhh I just stumbled upon your channel and girl you are so cute, the pink headband and sweater look so great on you!! ❤
Glad to see someone else appreciate Magical Melody. That game is so incredibly special to me because it was my first Harvest Moon game period, completely changed the trajectory of my gaming life as a little girl. Now I've almost completed my goal of owning every single English X-Seed title in the series, including the spinoffs. ^_^

You put grand Bazaar and Tale of Two Towns in your top 5 so you have great taste. Will try a new beginning if i get the chance to thanks for the recommendation

I actually can not stand Stardew Valley. I do not see many similarities to the old Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons games. It was not fun when I tried to play it and I immediately got a refund. My favorites are the SNES version, Tree of Tranquility/Animal Parade (they are so similar that they are equal in enjoyment), I also enjoyed the first Story of Seasons game after the drop of Natsume.

got my first harvest moon gba game.any tipd

Nice and yes absolutely nobody likes the chibi style lul

Solid list! I played a lot of HM 3D and the first SoS, loved them for a while but always wanted more oomph in the characters and system.

Just picked SoS: Trio of Towns and its like THE culmination of everything I wanted. Beautiful graphics, dynamic farm system, incredible bachelors, tons of charm from the characters, just peak peak peak.

I know people like to get cozy and chill with these games, but if you’re like me and LIVE for the hustle and bustle, please pick up ToT 😮‍💨🙏

I love the Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons games. I wish I still had every one of them that I played.

Oh no, I love Three Towns. My absolute boo is on there! I love Ford so much! Socially awkward doctor with glasses is my main goober! I love how there’s missions and a story of trying to prove to your dad that you can make it happen! I only wish I had know Ford was the one for me while I was still working through the story. If I replay this, I’m marrying him as soon as possible. I do wish they had different parent characters to match your character as my character was in the darkest skin tone. Family of blonde, blue eyed peeps and theres me…i was adopted?

Maybe I need to try New Beginning again. I married the older guy. I didnt get the appeal of Neil at the time. I didnt understand tsundere. Now I do! My first tsundere was Raven in RF 3 and she is love. She is love!❤️

My first HM game of as Grand Bizarre! I was clueless and when I got married and the credits rolled, i thought I finished the game. I was so confused. I pulled it out and sold it! I have since repurchased it and it is so cute!

Thank youuu. I'm sad I missed out on these games as a kid but glad I can squeeze them into my adult life now ^w^

Omg giiirl YOU ARE SO CUTE AND SWEET you are giving me diabetes trough the screen and im all the way over here in Sweden hahah 😂❤ thank you for this video, good info and easy to follow and understand 😄

Theyre all so lovely but it sucks being gay and not being able to marry anyone that I'm interested in lol

I grabbed Harvest Moon: Back to Nature on a whim back in 2001. Looked cute and fun and not something I had played. Absolutely adored it and was absolutely bummed to get married in game and have the bugged disc that gave a black screen and no way to progress. Never posted it to Natsume for a replacement. I agree with the point you made on how the relationship candidates can look a little too chibi and childish. When I was a teen it was not so bad, now I am 40 and it is the reason I play Stardew instead as it appears more adult.

Anyway, lovely video :)

animal parade is probably my favorite i feel a little it's where the series peaked since shortly after it was the split so i don't think we got console HMs after? i could be wrong. i love the details and world of harmonica town, i love how much there is to do, i love that you can get the other town folks married and they have their own kids, i love the huge variety of marriage candidates and animal colors and. idk i could go on, i literally only have my wii to play animal parade these days lol

also i feel like the only person that originally got wonderful life for PS2 XD i never even knew it was for gamecube til i started watching videos like this one lmao. i can see why some might think wonderful life is boring or small, and it could be nostalgia but it's such a good game ;o; i love that it doesn't feel like you get eternity to just farm and then pitter out there is a very real concrete ending to your beautiful little farm life

probably my loss, i really could never get into the DS HMs, i just never got comfy with the styles or feel of the DS for HMs, def preference for the console ones.

A wonderful life is my favorite! Played it so many times just to find new cutscenes 😂

Bet the bitch isnt even a gamer. Cheap excuse to get views

I'm glad my algo is giving me harvest moon content now lol. I remember playing Harvest Moon AWL all summer one year when I was like, 6 or 7. It was always such a nostalgic game for me, even before I could really experience nostalgia. I kinda always got this wistfulness while playing, and to this day some soundtracks or scenes bring me right back hahaha.

I just found your channel, I love it🥰

my favorites are tale of two towns and animal parade!!

Thanks, installing right now.

THANK YOU SO MUCH for showing how amazing Grand Bazaar is!!! <3

I grew up playing harvest moon and still love it! My first harvest moon game was Harvest moon 64!

My first harvest moon was A wonderful life. It's very sentimental to me because of HOW i got it. I even still have my original copy and my original memory card. I got it from blockbuster for a week, and at the end i was SO sad to give it up. I kept wanting to delete my save because i thought i was never going to get it again. That christmas when my dad was overseas and i was at my grandparents, i got it! He'd had it delivered at some point. During that borrowed week, i couldnt find the feed deposite/withdraw box and my cow died 😅. I was so shocked and upset, but i knew it was my fault. The game doesnt tell you where it is, and i didnt know i could go that far left.

Also, about the special edition version of it, DONT PLAY IT 😂. Sure it has some quality of life improvements, but it also has movement and visual glitches that ruin the experience.
In both that one and the SoS Remake, i hate that you can marry Lumina. I get that shes 18 in both of these versions, but in the gamecube version she is 14. Its gross.

I dont think you forget which town you are from. Its a bit weird to think of it that way, being that NO ONE KNOWS YOU 😅. Pretty sure you were wanting to move to one of them.

Animal Parade is goated for having good rival marriage, 2 kids, rival kid events, family events, and even NG+ events

Oh, and Luna <3

I recently bought the 3ds version of tale of two towns is there a difference between the ds and 3ds games?

Finally! An amaaaazing thorough yt video about non-common must-try HM series 💓💓 love ur vibe. Keep making videos 😍😍

Love this video to pieces! <3 Ahhh I wanted to marry Neil in New Beginning but I remember as a kid I gave up because the requirments were too hard D': but I did start replaying as an A-dult lolll. But however now Fields of Mistria is my obsession. I laughed SO hard at seeing the Neil insta pics lmaooo. Harvest Moon was my childhood as a kid and I loved the romance part of it - I wish more people knew about the series D:

Assuming you didn't earn an extra 3500 subscribers in four days, congrats on reaching 5K last year!

One I loved as a kid, and doesn't get enough mention, is Save the Homeland.

It wasn't a great game, but it had such a unique chill vibe to it. And it was the only Harvest Moon game that I played where you can do part-time jobs on a day to day basis.