Farm Days vs Verdant Skies
Farm Days
Farm Days gives you a farm to call home and develop in your own way to go on to be a huge farmstead. You have a small home to start with and it is up to you to manage your money and build it up into a massive holding full of crops, animals and produce to sell to the local village. There are lots of crops for you to grow from corn to potatoes and everything between and you can also use these crops to feed your animals and use their produce to sell to the village. Play with your friends and share items and help each other out as you manage every aspect of your plot.There are lots of different options for you to add to your farm too, from fun statues to all the money making buildings you need. You can also make some pretty amazing patterns and designs as you expand adding that nice personal touch. A really fun and enjoyable sim game full of items, animals and crops for you to use.
Verdant Skies
Verdant Skies is an indie farm simulation/RPG combined with a pretty unique art style and visual novel-like dialogue choices. In this game, you play as the latest pioneer who was sent from Earth to a habitable alien planet whose main job is to set up and manage the farms at the colony, but of course, you are often asked to help out other characters with their tasks. You can also interact with the characters to increase your relationship level and eventually unlock new options such as being able to date them and start a family.Verdant Skies also features a straightforward gathering and crafting where every almost every action you take in this game will cost you time and/or energy. There's no need to restore the time you lost, but energy can be easily restored by consuming food. As a game that's very similar to Harvest Moon in essence, the game's farming aspect can be impressively in-depth, allowing you to splice the genes of your crops and your livestock to produce much more superior versions.
Verdant Skies is definitely the sort of game you'd want to check out if you've loved playing games like Harvest Moon, Staxel and even My Time at Portia. The game isn't too expensive either, considering the hours you can get out of it.