What is Harvest Days?
Harvest Days is an open world game that mixes together elements of farming sims and life sims as you work on your farm in the peace of a country community. It’s in development from Family Devs and is published by Toplitz Productions.
When does Harvest Days launch?
Harvest Days launches into Steam Early Access on May 12th, with the full Version 1.0 releasing for consoles in Q4 2022.
What’s it about?
Harvest Days sees you moving from the chaos of a city life to the calm and quiet of a life in the country. “Harvest Days is a classic farming game at the first look of it, but of course there is much more to discover and to do than just working on the farm,” De La Cruz and Wilding explain. “As you get introduced to the story of the village you will find out that events in the past lead to people moving away from it. So the mayor took action and offered free abandoned space in exchange for the repopulation of Duda´s Village. After you have established a profitable farm, you can buy plots and build houses on them so that more people can move to this beautiful place and reward you regularly with rent.”
How does Harvest Days play?
You’ve got a lot to do in Harvest Days — farming, harvesting, trading, caring for your animals, gathering resources, and building, but Harvest Days also encourages you to take it easy in your new farming life, alternating farm work with exploring, fishing, and chatting with your neighbours. “Apart from farming and exploring the beautiful village with its different biomes, you can follow your hobby of fishing, care for your pets and take a walk with them, talk with all the different inhabitants, spend some time in Kiko´s Bar, reveal the mysteries behind a locked gate, or visit the great founder’s hall of Duda´s Village,” De La Cruz and Wilding explain. “The first thing you do in the morning should be to water your crops, take care of your fields, and harvest the ones that are ready. After that you could gather some resources like wood, stone, berries or other things you need. You could help some of the other villagers or expand your farm by crafting a Barn for the animals, for example. To end your hard day you could travel to the pier and enjoy the sunset during some relaxing fishing before going to bed.”
So, what is the Harvest Days team most looking forward to players experiencing when Harvest Days launches? “I´m mostly excited to hear how people approach their new life and on which part they focus on in the beginning; if they start by upgrading their farm, exploring around the area, or immediately start making friends by helping the others,” we’re told.
What’s the world like?
“Duda´s Village is a relatively small town, but the area around is filled with places to discover,” De La Cruz and Wilding say. “For example, a beautiful beach, the mighty waterfall at the mountainside, a dark mine with valuable gems, a swamp hidden in dense fog, and of course other farms of some of the other villagers.”
Harvest Days features an eye-catchingly bright and colourful art style. “The game Harvest Days was influenced by well-known titles like Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing, which are recognized for their simplistic but playful looks,” begins De La Cruz and Wilding. “These were also criteria for Harvest Days, but also to standout from the other counterparts. So low-poly fitted perfectly for the setting, with the same simplicity but still colourful appearance.”
Any news on the Harvest Days achievements?
We don’t yet have the Harvest Days achievements, but De La Cruz and Wilding gave us a few hints of what to expect. “Without spoiling too much about the various achievements players get rewarded with, there will be ones for different aspects of the game — classic achievements like how many trees have you cut, or stone mined, fish caught but also more player-specific ones; how often do you go to bed early or how often have you overworked yourself.” We’ll be sure to update you when we get the achievements through!
So, what do you think? Will you be checking out Harvest Days when it launches later this year? Let us know in the comments!
