Games Like Harvest Moon & Rune Factory on Wii, DS, PS3, GameCube, and Modern Platforms

Wii

• Animal Crossing: City Folk
• Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility
• Rune Factory Frontier
• MySims / MySims Kingdom
• The Sims 3 (Wii version)

Nintendo DS

• Harvest Moon: A New Beginning
• Rune Factory 3
• Animal Crossing: Wild World
• MySims Kingdom
• Nintendogs + Cats

PS3

• Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny
• LittleBigPlanet (creative sandbox)
• The Sims 3

GameCube

• Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life
• Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life
• Animal Crossing (original)

Modern Must-Plays (Multi-Platform)

• Story of Seasons series (true Harvest Moon successors)
• Stardew Valley (PC, consoles, mobile) – The gold standard for farming/life sims.

Search “farming sim,” “life sim,” or “town builder” for more.