A few days ago, video game developer Natsume announced to release a new Harvest Moon title called Harvest Moon: One World at the end of this year. Without a doubt, this game will be the 28th title of the series, or nowadays known as Story of Seasons.

Released for the first time in 1999, Harvest Moon is one of the pioneers of farming simulations that recently popular again. But from 27 titles released, have you wondered which one is the best of all?

To answer your curiosity, Dunia Games has collected five best Harvest Moon games from 27 titles ever made. Let’s take a look at the answers below.

5. Harvest Moon: Animal Parade

Harvest Moon: Animal Parade was released for Nintendo Wii in 2009. Almost all features and the characters were adapted from Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility but as seen on the title, this game heavily featured on the animals. Aside from featuring many animals, this game also offers you to ride all of them.

Aside from farming, in this game, you are also forced to return various animal populations that have left Castanet island. The inclusion of circus feature also makes the game fresher and more interesting.

4. Harvest Moon 64

Harvest Moon 64 is the first title of the entire series released on Nintendo 64 in 1999. This game offers a classic story about an abandoned farm that you have to restore. While restoring the farm, you can also explore the town, improving your house’s quality, and marrying an NPC.

Even though the soundtracks are repetitive and have numerous glitches on the graphics, this game managed to hook players to spend their time playing the game. With its popularity, this game later spawned on various modern consoles.

3. Harvest Moon: Back to Nature

Harvest Moon: Back to Nature on PlayStation is the first Harvest Moon game released in 1999 on another console aside from Nintendo. This game is an improvement of the Harvest Moon 64 with many features and adjustments. In some countries, this game is the most famous installment of the series.

In the vanilla version, it tells about a boy who inherits a farm from his grandfather. You have three years to take care of the farm and building your life from scratch.

2. Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life

Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life was released for Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2 in 2004. In this game, you will get a farm near Forget-Me-Not-Valley. Surely your duty is restoring and taking care of the farm.

Compared to other games, in this game, nursing and trading livestock are important. At the start, you only own a cow, but as the game progresses, you can get others like a duck, sheep, chicken, and many others.

1. Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town

On the top spot of the list, we have Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town. First released on Game Boy Advance in 2003. This game is the handheld adaptation of Back to Nature but with more features and adjustments for GBA.

This game successfully combining the thrill in Back to Nature with improvements that adjusted with GBA capability that allows you to play the game everywhere. With its major success, Friends of Mineral Town always serves as the blueprint and comparison for other Harvest Moon titles.

So that’s the list of five best Harvest Moon games. Which one is your favorite?

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