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Best Farming Games

Stardew Valley is the best farming game on PS5 and PS4, with Farming Simulator 22 the definitive pick for big-machinery agriculture and Coral Island the standout cozy alternative on PS Plus Extra. This list ranks 15 hand-picked farming games across both halves of the genre, licensed-equipment sims and farm-life RPGs, and says plainly where a pick ships rough, runs grindy or leans on nostalgia. Every game is playable on PlayStation today.

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By Ugur Saritepe · Updated Jul 3, 2026

Top Picks

Stardew Valley
#1 Pick

Stardew Valley

★ 4.8Great
Farming Simulator 22
#2

Farming Simulator 22

★ 4.2Good
Coral Island
#3

Coral Island

★ 4.3Mixed

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15 games found

1Stardew Valley
Best overall

Stardew Valley

4.8(33,354)2016
PS+ PlusCo-op: 4ESRB Everyone 10+rural
GreatReview analysis

Overall, player feedback for Stardew Valley is overwhelmingly positive, with many players praising its charming graphics, engaging gameplay, and ability to provide endless relaxation and enjoyment. The game is frequently described as a comforting and addictive experience, solidifying its place as a beloved title among casual and dedicated gamers alike.

Why it's here: Every farm-life game on this list is measured against this one, built by a single developer who wrote the code, the music and every villager's daily routine. The farm is only the entry point to mines, marriages and a town worth reviving. The question is why nothing since has dethroned it.

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2Farming Simulator 22
Best simulator

Farming Simulator 22

4.2(30,608)2021
Co-op: 6ESRB Everyonemodern
GoodReview analysis

Overall player feedback for Farming Simulator 22 is predominantly positive, particularly praised for its immersive gameplay and extensive mod support. While many users enjoy the game for its relaxing nature and enjoyable multiplayer experiences, there are notable criticisms regarding bugs and control issues that detract from the experience.

Why it's here: The entry that finally folded the fan-made Seasons mod into the base game, then let console players mod it further: four hundred licensed machines, production chains, and cross-play servers where a whole crew runs one farm. Whether its famously thin tutorials leave newcomers stranded is the fair question.

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3Farming Simulator 25
Newest sim

Farming Simulator 25

3.7(16,295)2024
PS+ ExtraCo-op: 6PS Plus ExtraESRB Everyonemodern
MixedReview analysis

Overall player feedback for Farming Simulator 25 is highly polarized. Many players praise the game's graphics, immersive gameplay, and modding community, enjoying the blend of realism and fun. However, there are significant criticisms regarding performance issues, bugs, and a perceived lack of innovation compared to previous entries in the series.

Why it's here: The newest mainline sim brings rice paddies, water buffalo and terrain that actually ruts under heavy tires, a decade-old fan request finally granted. It also launched on PS5 locked to 30fps, and the console reception split hard from PC. Whether the patches have closed that gap is the question worth checking.

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4Coral Island
Best cozy

Coral Island

4.3(5,367)2023
PS+ ExtraPS Plus ExtraESRB Everyone 10+fantasy
MixedReview analysis

Overall player feedback for Coral Island is highly positive, with many players praising its engaging gameplay, beautiful aesthetics, and successful blend of farming and life simulation elements. However, there are crucial criticisms regarding technical issues and game-breaking bugs that have affected the experience for some users, particularly in multiplayer mode.

Why it's here: A farm-life sim where the second farm is underwater: diving to strip trash off a dying reef restores the ocean the way your crops revive the town. It is the most ambitious Stardew successor on PS5, and it shipped its 1.0 visibly unfinished. What the patches have since rebuilt is the real story.

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5Roots Of Pacha
Best hidden gem

Roots Of Pacha

4.7(404)2023
Co-op: 4ESRB Everyone 10+rural
GoodReview analysis

Overall, players highly enjoy "Roots of Pacha," praising its unique take on the farming sim genre, engaging mechanics, and charming aesthetics. The relaxed pacing and multiplayer options also resonate positively with players. However, some players express frustrations regarding repetitiveness and pacing issues as the game progresses.

Why it's here: Farming before farming existed: no shop sells seeds here, because your Stone Age clan has not invented agriculture yet. You domesticate wild crops, tame animals and contribute each discovery to the whole village's progress. Whether that communal twist deepens the formula or slows it is the open question.

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6My Time at Sandrock
Best builder

My Time at Sandrock

4.6(2,236)2023
Co-op: 4ESRB Everyone 10+fantasy
GreatReview analysis

Overall, players are overwhelmingly positive about 'My Time at Sandrock,' praising its depth, character development, and engaging storyline, while noting improvements from its predecessor. However, some players express frustration with bugs and pacing issues in gameplay.

Why it's here: The pick where the farm comes second: you arrive in a post-apocalyptic desert town as its commissioned Builder, and sandfarming in reclaimed planters is the sideline that feeds the workshop. For players who want structure, story and a hundred hours of commissions around their crops, the question is whether farming-as-garnish satisfies.

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7Rune Factory 4 Special
Best RPG

Rune Factory 4 Special

4.4(1,357)2021
PS+ ExtraPS Plus ExtraESRB Teenfantasy
GoodReview analysis

Overall player feedback on Rune Factory 4 Special is overwhelmingly positive, highlighting the game's engaging crafting system, character depth, and fun gameplay mechanics. However, there are some criticisms regarding repetitive gameplay and lack of content variety, with a minority of players finding it boring or unmemorable.

Why it's here: The farming RPG where your livestock are tamed dungeon monsters: befriend the thing that just tried to kill you and it will water your turnips. A decade-old handheld classic at heart, budget-priced on PS4 with its story DLC included. Whether its age shows or its design outruns it is the question.

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8STORY OF SEASONS: Pioneers of Olive Town

STORY OF SEASONS: Pioneers of Olive Town

4.3(1,512)2022
PS+ ExtraPS Plus ExtraESRB Everyonerural
PoorReview analysis

Overall, player feedback for 'STORY OF SEASONS: Pioneers of Olive Town' is largely negative, with many reviewers criticizing its lack of depth, clunky mechanics, and comparisons to better farming sims like Stardew Valley. A few players enjoyed the aesthetics and some aspects of the game, but these reviews are overshadowed by significantly more negative sentiments.

Why it's here: The true Harvest Moon lineage under its newer name, handing you a wild frontier to clear, terraform and industrialise with resource-processing Makers. Its Switch launch was infamously rough and the PS4 port arrived after the big patches. Whether the fixed version outruns its bland-cast reputation is the question.

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9Fae Farm

Fae Farm

4.1(952)2024
PS+ PlusCo-op: 4ESRB Everyone 10+fantasy
GoodReview analysis

Overall, player feedback for Fae Farm is predominantly positive, with many users praising its cozy gameplay, charming visuals, and accessible mechanics. However, there are notable critiques regarding bugs, gameplay grindiness, and multiplayer issues. Despite the criticisms, the majority of players express enjoyment and find it a fun addition to the farming simulation genre.

Why it's here: A farm sim engineered to remove every friction the genre is famous for: tools swap themselves, chores flow in sweeps, and up to four players share three homesteads built for drop-in family sessions. The trade is depth, and critics genuinely split on it. Where you land depends on what you farm for.

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10Farm Together 2
Best co-op

Farm Together 2

4.8(914)2025
Co-op: 4ESRB Everyonerural
GreatReview analysis

Players express overwhelmingly positive feelings towards Farm Together 2, highlighting its relaxing gameplay, charming graphics, and strong social aspect when played with friends. Critiques are minimal, focusing on aspects such as grindiness and a perceived lack of deeper gameplay elements.

Why it's here: The farm keeps growing while the console is off: crops here mature in real-world time, so every return visit finds something ready. Up to sixteen players can work one farm online, four on a couch, with cross-save to carry it all. Whether zero pressure means zero depth is the fair question.

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11Disney Dreamlight Valley
Best for families

Disney Dreamlight Valley

4.4(5,894)2025
ESRB Everyone
GoodReview analysis

Overall, player feedback for Disney Dreamlight Valley is overwhelmingly positive, with many players praising its charm, nostalgia, and immersive gameplay set among beloved Disney characters. However, a significant number of players express concerns regarding microtransactions, bugs, and repetitive gameplay, leading to a polarized experience for some. Despite these criticisms, a majority of players still consider it a fun and cozy game that offers a lot of content and enjoyment.

Why it's here: Gardening with Goofy is the engine of this whole valley: crops fund the quests, and pumpkins are the de facto cash crop of a Disney life sim that plays its farming surprisingly straight. Planned as free-to-play, it launched paid with a premium shop players still argue about. Whether the cozy loop outruns the monetization is the question.

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12Medieval Dynasty
Best survival

Medieval Dynasty

4.5(7,606)2022
Co-op: 4ESRB Teenmedieval
GoodReview analysis

Players overwhelmingly praise Medieval Dynasty for its engaging combination of settlement-building, survival, and role-playing elements, as well as its immersive medieval atmosphere. Many enjoyed the freedom and customization it offers, though some voiced concerns about gameplay mechanics and balance issues, particularly around the grindiness of certain tasks. Despite some criticisms, the overall response is strongly positive, highlighting a solid community that enjoys the continual updates from developers.

Why it's here: The only farm on this list you work in first person and then staff: hoe and scythe your own fields for the first few winters, then assign villager farmhands and watch the settlement feed itself. The dynasty part is literal, you marry, raise an heir and continue as your child.

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13Harvest Moon: Back to Nature
Best classic

Harvest Moon: Back to Nature

4.5(1,433)2023
PS+ PremiumPS Plus PremiumESRB Everyonerural

Why it's here: The 1999 original that Stardew Valley's creator cites among the games he set out to honour, back on modern PlayStation exactly as it was: a three-year deadline, a farm the village will judge, and no patches, no updates, no trophies. Whether the genre's ur-text still holds up without them is the question.

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14Farming Simulator 19
Best budget

Farming Simulator 19

4.0(42,322)2018
Co-op: 16ESRB Everyonemodern
GreatReview analysis

Players overwhelmingly praise Farming Simulator 19 for its realism, enjoyable gameplay, and modding capabilities, often referring to it as an addictive and relaxing experience. Although most feedback is extremely positive, a few players mention glitches and a lack of certain features.

Why it's here: The budget route into big-machinery farming: the entry that first landed John Deere, still runs sixteen-player servers, and sells for pocket change in Platinum trim. The base game has no seasons, though the famous Seasons mod reached PS4 here first. Whether saving the money over FS22 is worth it is the calculation.

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15Pure Farming 2018

Pure Farming 2018

3.4(1,840)2018
ESRB Everyonemodern
MixedReview analysis

Player feedback on Pure Farming 2018 is mixed, with some praising its fun elements and graphics, while others express frustration over numerous bugs and poor optimization. Overall, players seem to enjoy parts of the experience, but significant issues impact the enjoyment for many.

Why it's here: The agri-sim that went where Farming Simulator never has: rice and wasabi in Japan, coffee and hemp in Colombia, olives and grapes in Italy, all run from one save. A guided campaign made it the genre's gentlest on-ramp. Why it never got a sequel is the melancholy question hanging over it.

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About Farming Games

Farming games on PlayStation split into two distinct traditions. Agricultural simulators, led by the Farming Simulator series and Pure Farming 2018, are about licensed machinery, crop calendars and the business of running real fields. Farm-life games descend from Harvest Moon: Back to Nature, and put crops alongside friendship, marriage and town-building: Stardew Valley perfected the formula, while Coral Island, Roots of Pacha and Story of Seasons each bend it somewhere new. Between them sit the hybrids: Rune Factory 4 Special adds dungeon crawling, My Time at Sandrock crafting, Medieval Dynasty first-person survival. A raw catalogue search for farming is dominated by low-rated shovelware, so every pick here is hand-curated for genuine farming gameplay, then ranked on player ratings, farming depth and overall quality.

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Farming Games Compared

  • Stardew Valley
    Best overall★ 4.75 / 5

    The genre's modern template, a solo-developed farm RPG spanning crops, mines, marriage and a town to revive.

  • Farming Simulator 22
    Best simulator★ 4.23 / 5

    The deepest machinery sim on PS4 and PS5, with 400+ licensed vehicles, production chains and built-in seasons.

  • Farming Simulator 25
    Newest sim★ 3.67 / 5PS Plus Extra

    The series' newest entry adds rice paddies, water buffalo and terrain that deforms under heavy equipment.

  • Coral Island
    Best cozy★ 4.32 / 5PS Plus Extra

    A tropical farm-life sim where reef diving and ocean cleanup matter as much as the crops.

  • Roots Of Pacha
    Best hidden gem★ 4.73 / 5

    A Stone Age co-op farm where wild crops are domesticated and inventions advance the whole clan.

  • My Time at Sandrock
    Best builder★ 4.58 / 5

    A desert builder RPG with a hundred-hour story and farming as the workshop supporting system.

  • Rune Factory 4 Special
    Best RPG★ 4.42 / 5PS Plus Extra

    The farming and dungeon-crawling hybrid where tamed monsters fight beside you and work your fields.

  • STORY OF SEASONS: Pioneers of Olive Town
    ★ 4.25 / 5PS Plus Extra

    The Harvest Moon lineage's frontier entry, clearing and terraforming wild land with resource-processing Makers.

  • Fae Farm
    ★ 4.12 / 5

    A friction-free fairy-tale farm with automatic tool swapping, built for drop-in family co-op.

  • Farm Together 2
    Best co-op★ 4.76 / 5

    Crops grow in real-world time even while offline, and sixteen players can tend one shared farm.

  • Disney Dreamlight Valley
    Best for families★ 4.36 / 5

    A Disney life sim whose questing economy runs on gardening, with a steady free-update cadence.

  • Medieval Dynasty
    Best survival★ 4.45 / 5

    First-person survival farming: work the fields by hand, then staff them as your village grows.

  • Harvest Moon: Back to Nature
    Best classic★ 4.5 / 5PS Plus Premium

    The 1999 PS1 classic that codified the farm-life genre, emulated with rewind and quick saves.

  • Farming Simulator 19
    Best budget★ 4.01 / 5

    The budget legacy sim with John Deere machinery, console mods and sixteen-player online farms.

  • Pure Farming 2018
    ★ 3.44 / 5

    Global farming across four countries, from Japanese rice and wasabi to Italian olives and grapes.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best farming game on PS5?
Stardew Valley is the best farming game on PS5 and PS4 overall, a solo-developed farm RPG that still defines the genre. For a dedicated agricultural simulator, Farming Simulator 22 offers the deepest machinery and co-op farming, while Farming Simulator 25 is the newest entry. Coral Island is the strongest cozy pick and is included with PS Plus Extra.
Which Farming Simulator should I buy on PS5?
Farming Simulator 25 is the newest mainline entry, adding rice farming and deformable terrain on PS5, but it launched to mixed console reviews and runs at 30fps. Farming Simulator 22 remains the value pick, with built-in seasons, production chains, cross-play multiplayer and years of patches behind it. On a strict budget, Farming Simulator 19 on PS4 still runs sixteen-player servers and sells cheaply.
Are any farming games on PS Plus?
Yes. Coral Island, Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town and Rune Factory 4 Special are all included in the PS Plus Extra catalogue, and Harvest Moon: Back to Nature, the 1999 classic, is in the PS Plus Premium classics library. That makes four of the fifteen picks on this list playable at no extra cost with the right tier.
Which farming games have co-op on PS5?
Farm Together 2 is the co-op standout, with sixteen-player online farms, four-player split-screen and cross-play. Stardew Valley, Roots of Pacha, Fae Farm and Medieval Dynasty all support four-player online co-op, Farming Simulator 22 and 25 run six-player cross-play servers on console, and My Time at Sandrock has a free four-player online mode.
Are there free farming games on PS5?
No major farming game on PS5 is free-to-play; searches for free farming games mostly surface mobile and browser titles. Palia, a free-to-play cozy MMO with farming, is the one notable exception on PlayStation, though its mixed reception kept it off this list. The closest option is PS Plus: four picks here, led by Coral Island on Extra, are included with a subscription.
What games are like Stardew Valley on PS5?
Coral Island is the closest match on PS5, a tropical farm-life sim included with PS Plus Extra. Roots of Pacha reworks the formula into a Stone Age co-op setting, and Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town carries the Harvest Moon lineage Stardew Valley grew from. For farming with combat attached, Rune Factory 4 Special is the pick.
How is this farming games list ranked?
This is an editorially curated list. A raw catalogue search for farming games surfaces low-rated shovelware and broad survival-crafting games, so titles are hand-picked for genuine farming gameplay and ranked on player ratings, farming depth and overall quality. The genre-defining picks, Stardew Valley, Farming Simulator 22 and Coral Island, lead, followed by the farm-life, RPG-hybrid, co-op and budget picks.