🌾 Farming & Life Sims

Nintendo's 2020 island life sim for Switch — 49.91 million copies sold, the fastest Switch launch ever recorded at the time.

Spry Fox's life sim about camping on a haunted island and soothing its ghosts, one real-time day at a time.

Solo-developed Australian-outback life sim by James Bendon; 1.0 in 2025 after selling over a million copies in early access.

Gameloft's life-sim adventure set among Disney and Pixar characters; left early access in December 2023 as a paid game.

NPC Studio's 90s-anime-styled farming and life-sim RPG; a breakout 2024 early-access hit with 1.0 set for August 2026.

Glumberland's farming and creature-collection game where battles are dance-offs; early access 2020, 1.0 in 2022.

Free-to-play “community sim” MMO of farming, fishing and home-building; over 4 million players by mid-2024.

Monomi Park's first-person slime-wrangling ranch sim — 5 million copies sold by 2022, with a sequel that hit 1.0 in 2025.

Open-ended country-life RPG made single-handedly by Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone; released in 2016, 50 million copies sold by 2026.

Pixel Sprout's fantasy farming sim with dragons, skill trees and 8-player co-op; Kickstarted in 2020, 1.0 in 2023.

Studio Drydock's fully voiced farming-and-witchcraft life sim: tend the farm by day, cast spells by night.