Best Farming Sim Games on Steam
Simulation games focused on realistic farm work, equipment, crops, and economics.
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1Stardew Valley - You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Feb 26, 2016
In this game, you can…
- marry someone with the exact salad you found in a trash can.
- build an 8-player farm together and even tweak the group profit split for a harder run.
- spam bombs in a monster-filled cavern to blast straight through floors for loot.
- run the mines in co-op, with one person fighting monsters while the other grabs ore and bolts.
- restore a run-down community center to reshape the whole town, or buy into a big corporation instead.
- ignore farming and still build a whole life by fishing, mining, foraging, cooking, and specializing into different work paths.
- befriend townspeople by learning their schedules, catching them at dawn, and steadily unlocking personal cutscenes and secrets.
- turn an overgrown inherited farm into a working homestead by clearing debris, planting crops, upgrading tools, and expanding your setup.
2DAVE THE DIVER - DAVE THE DIVER is a casual, singleplayer adventure RPG featuring deep-sea exploration and fishing during the day and sushi restaurant management at night. Join Dave and his quirky friends as they seek to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Blue Hole.
Jun 28, 2023
In this game, you can…
- harpoon fish all day, then run a sushi restaurant at night by setting the menu, managing staff, and serving customers for upgrade money.
- hunt Godzilla in a crossover event during your dives.
- care for a Tamagotchi-like fish on your in-game phone by feeding it, cleaning up poop, training it, and putting it to sleep.
- dive into a shifting underwater sinkhole where each trip turns up new fish, loot, and surprises.
- go from peaceful exploration to fighting sharks and a megalodon when something huge shows up in the dark.
- watch customers taste your special dishes and launch into over-the-top Food Wars-style reaction cutscenes.
- unlock a whole farm loop where you grow crops, raise and name chickens for eggs, and feed it all back into your restaurant recipes.
- keep unlocking side activities like seahorse racing, card collecting, photography, gambling, rhythm sequences, and brawling missions as the story escalates.
3Farming Simulator 22 - Create your farm and let the good times grow! Harvest crops, tend to animals, manage productions, and take on seasonal challenges.
Nov 21, 2021
In this game, you can…
- tell an AI driver to travel anywhere, load at a silo, deliver to a sell point or railroad, and repeat until it's done.
- set a real crop calendar with seasons, then shorten months to one day or fast-forward a whole year at x360.
- sink a 60-foot trailer into a river and watch millions of free-range eggs float away downstream.
- build production buildings, own them, and turn your harvest into a multi-step goods chain that keeps expanding.
- run co-op where friends share one farm or run separate farms on the same map, with shared equipment and money transfers.
- grow grapes and olives with dedicated equipment, adding a whole new style of farming alongside regular crops.
- watch the map change with the months, from summer barbecues to Halloween decor to snowmen and Christmas lights.
4Farming Simulator 19 - The best-selling franchise takes a giant leap forward with a complete overhaul of the graphics engine, offering the most striking and immersive visuals and effects, along with the deepest and most complete farming experience ever.
Nov 19, 2018
In this game, you can…
- buy a chunk of forest, cut it down, and turn the cleared land into a brand-new field.
- haul harvesters so huge they can't road-drive by towing them on a semi and oversized trailer.
- set up automation paths that harvest, unload, and deliver crops to chosen destinations while you manage the rest.
- start with almost nothing, take contract jobs for other farmers, and slowly buy your own land and machines.
- build your farm from scratch by placing sheds and buildings wherever you want on your own land.
- run a separate logging business by felling trees with machinery, hauling logs, and cashing in on forestry.
- ride your own horse across the map to explore beyond the fields.
- take on a sugar beet harvest by leasing the exact machines you need, finish the job, and turn a profit without ever buying them.
5Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition - Spiritfarer® is a cozy management game about dying. As ferrymaster to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and release them into the afterlife. The Spiritfarer Farewell Edition includes the heartwarming base game and three major content updates.
Aug 18, 2020
In this game, you can…
- take in a spirit, build them a home, run errands for them, then personally escort them to the Everdoor when they're ready to leave.
- have your ship slowly turn into a memorial, because the houses of departed spirits stay on deck after they're gone.
- play the whole journey in co-op as a cat, help with chores, and get hugged mid-adventure.
- build a ferry from scraps into a stacked, self-sufficient floating town with homes, farms, workshops, and animal pens.
- hug your passengers whenever you want, as a real action you do all the time.
- cook meals, learn each spirit's favorite foods, and watch them react when you finally serve the right dish.
- trigger set-piece events on the water like lightning storms, dragons, jellyfish swarms, and meteor showers to earn resources.
6My Singing Monsters - Dive into the Musical World of My Singing Monsters! Breed them, feed them, listen to them sing! Breed & collect a menagerie of Monsters, each a living instrument! Build your paradise across 35+ Islands, customize your world, and enjoy endless music! There's never a dull moment in the Monster World!
Mar 24, 2021
In this game, you can…
- build a song by placing monsters until new melodies emerge and the loop turns into a full island-sized composition.
- mute individual monsters or change their volume so the same island plays a different arrangement on demand.
- move your monsters into a separate battle island to fight in quest-style turn-based battles and win new costumes.
- breed monsters with hatch times that range from hours to weeks, chasing rare results with tiny odds that can take repeated attempts.
- send monsters you've raised to a separate Gold Island, then start rebuilding new ensembles back on your other islands again.
- play daily minigames like memory, spin, and scratch to earn rewards while the monsters shout their sounds back at you.
- set up coin-earning monsters and place mines that generate diamonds each day, then reinvest into more islands, buildings, and upgrades.
- collect over 250 monsters with unique sounds, then watch your island become a living chorus as each one joins the track.
7Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator - Potion Craft is an alchemist simulator where you physically interact with your tools and ingredients to brew potions. You're in full control of the whole shop: invent new recipes, attract customers and experiment to your heart's content. Just remember: the whole town is counting on you.
Dec 13, 2022
In this game, you can…
- turn your shop into a magnet for necromancers, assassins, and terrorists by building a bad reputation.
- decide whether to refuse a poison request or sell it anyway for extra coins.
- swap the potion base to oil, water, or wine, then navigate an entirely different map layout to reach new effects.
- grind ingredients to change how far they travel on the alchemy map.
- push a potion through fog-of-war to uncover effects, then plot weird routes around obstacles to hit a specific node.
- get customer orders with multiple effects and weird restrictions, then decode what they're actually asking for.
- discover a new effect by throwing random ingredients into the cauldron, then save the recipe to instantly remake it later.
- design custom potion bottles and labels, then arrange your shelves to show off your creations.
8My Time at Portia - Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!
Jan 15, 2019
In this game, you can…
- build the town's fast-travel network by placing Dee-Dee stops yourself, and watch other workshops put their own stops around town too.
- scan ancient ruins for buried relics, dig your own tunnels, find secret rooms with chests, and assemble artifact pieces into museum donations.
- rebuild a whole town by taking builder commissions that permanently add bridges, elevators, street lights, and new routes.
- hand-assemble big inventions at an assembly station by slotting crafted parts together until the full machine or structure takes shape.
- go on real dates and playdates with townsfolk, then bring them into dungeons as companions and get new quests from a spouse.
- turn your workshop into an automated factory where machines make parts that feed other machines in a full production line.
- ride around on mounts like horses and llamas, including a sunglasses-wearing alpaca/llama you can actually use as transportation.
9Forager - The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Apr 18, 2019
In this game, you can…
- craft dozens to hundreds of helper droids that follow you around and automatically collect from traps while you do other things.
- stack buffs with lighthouses, luck potions, shrines, and scrolls so traps explode into ridiculous drop rates while droids harvest everything for you.
- go from scraping for coins to making billions from a single action, then turn your base into a resource-feeding puzzle that runs forever.
- start on a tiny island with a pickaxe and build it into a sprawling base of machines and production lines.
- cut a tree, mine a rock, build a forge, then climb from steel to Void Steel and Cosmic Steel with multiple machines running at once.
- buy adjacent islands to expand the map, and each new tile can reveal a new biome, NPC quest, dungeon, puzzle, or resource tier.
- solve island-specific puzzles like pillar sequences, copying tunes, quizzes, riddles, and lights-on/lights-off to earn permanent artifacts and stat boosts.
- enter the Void World, descend deeper as enemies scale up, and run into super bosses while chasing better and better loot.
10Fields of Mistria - Start your new life! Build the farm of your dreams as you discover a world brimming with possibilities. Magic, romance, and adventure all await you in this nostalgic farming / life sim RPG!
Aug 5, 2024
In this game, you can…
- rebuild a town after an earthquake alongside everyone who lives there.
- walk into the inn on Friday night and catch ongoing group conversations that continue from week to week.
- dive into water to grab underwater goodies, then swim and jump your way across the map.
- watch villagers talk to each other on their own, reacting to recent events and even your museum donations.
- use magic to refill stamina and health, then push deeper into farming and dungeon runs.
- track every villager on the town map so you can find them instantly for gifts, quests, or a quick chat.
- fight through mines with shifting themes every 20 floors, new creatures by depth, treasure floors from perks, and monsters with attack patterns you have to read.
