The Best Life simulation farming Games for Nintendo Switch

Update : Gaucho and the Grassland added at rank #36.
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Disney Dreamlight Valley (2023)

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Immerse yourself in the magical world of Disney Dreamlight Valley. Restore the memories of beloved Disney and Pixar characters, and rebuild a vibrant neighborhood in your unique style. Experience thrilling adventures, solve captivating puzzles, and enjoy the endless customization options. With new content continuously added, there's always a fresh adventure waiting for you!

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What we like:
  • Immersive magical world with beloved Disney characters
  • Nonlinear gameplay with a variety of quests
  • Extensive customization options for character and town
  • Engaging storyline with mysteries to uncover
  • Regular updates with fresh content
What could be improved:
  • Gameplay can be repetitive over time
  • Limited space for town customization
  • High time investment needed for progression
  • Occasional technical glitches and crashes

  • simulation
  • farming
  • life
  • life-sim
  • crafting
  • cooking
  • fishing
  • adventure
  • character
  • relaxing
  • sandbox
  • immersive
  • customization
  • exploration
  • magic

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My Time At Sandrock (2023)

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PC Windows j Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Android

Step into the boots of a visionary builder in My Time at Sandrock! Rebuild a desert town, craft ingenious machines, forge friendships, and battle foes. Your creativity fuels this charming life-sim RPG, where every crafted item tells a story and every friendship opens new adventures. Dive in and transform Sandrock into a thriving community!


What we like:
  • Engaging crafting and building mechanics
  • Rich character interactions and storylines
  • Improved graphics and world design
  • Variety of activities and side quests
  • Refined resource gathering and farming systems
What could be improved:
  • Simplistic combat system

  • farming
  • simulation
  • life
  • post-apocalyptic
  • crafting
  • city-state
  • building
  • life-sim
  • rpg
  • dating-sim
  • mining
  • sandbox
  • multiplayer

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Shin-chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation - The Endless Seven-Day Journey (2021)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 4

Shin-Chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation -The Endless Seven-Day Journey- is an adventure game with a heartfelt summer vacation vibe. Join Shin-Chan and his family as they explore Japan, meet unique characters, collect bugs and plants, and help the mad scientist bring dinosaurs to life. Experience a peaceful world filled with stunning scenery, funny dialogue, and time travel.


What we like:
  • Fun dialogue
  • Beautiful scenery
  • Engaging side quests and activities
  • Time travel elements
What could be improved:
  • Repetitive tasks at times
  • Not all lines of dialogue are voiced

  • simulation
  • 2.5d
  • collector
  • creature
  • anime
  • 3d
  • cartoony
  • life
  • dinosaurs
  • farming
  • immersive
  • battler
  • atmospheric
  • adventure
  • story

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Grow: Song of The Evertree (2021)

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Xbox One PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4

Grow: Song of the Evertree is an awe-inducing experience firmly planted between an adventure game and a sweet casual farm game. The game is beautiful with opportunities to explore the world around you and keep it casual with the gameplay, whilst feeding you the story. You get to customize your character and go on a journey to save the Evertree and nurture the world back to health from the Withering. You even get your very own sweet dragon companion!

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What we like:
  • Beautiful art style & music
  • Customizable character
  • Relaxed gameplay
  • Dragon companion
  • Non-binary characters supported
  • No punishment or rush for doing things wrong
What could be improved:
  • Slow going
  • Not strictly accessible in terms of customization options

  • farming
  • simulation
  • city-building
  • open-world
  • exploration
  • sandbox
  • relaxing
  • world-crafting
  • wholesome
  • management
  • cute
  • agriculture
  • colourful
  • life
  • adventure

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Epic Chef (2021)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 4

Epic Chef is a third-person life sim game that takes you on a narrative-focused crafting adventure. Follow Zest, a guy who stows away aboard a ship to get to new lands and gets embroiled in events surrounding the Culinarim. Enjoy the humorous script, simple graphics with plenty of personality, and deep cooking minigame.

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What we like:
  • Humorous script with laugh-out-loud jokes
  • Simple graphics with plenty of personality
  • Deep cooking minigame with elements of planning and depth
What could be improved:
  • Tedious gameplay with slow pacing
  • Grinding for element bonuses to level up for more synergies required
  • No manual save feature

  • farming
  • simulation
  • cooking
  • crafting
  • story
  • life
  • comedy
  • funny
  • cartoony
  • life-sim
  • immersive
  • adventure

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My Time at Sandrock Online (2024)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X Xbox One

Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!


  • farming
  • simulation
  • post-apocalyptic
  • crafting
  • dungeon
  • life
  • building
  • romance
  • sandbox
  • dating-sim

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Palia (2023)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X/s Playstation 5 Android PC Windows

Discover a welcoming world in Palia, a free-to-play fantasy life sim adventure where you can craft, explore, and create the life and home of your dreams. With nearly endless ways to make Palia your home, you’ll find relaxation and joy in every corner of this vibrant, heartwarming world.

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  • multiplayer
  • mmo
  • simulation
  • farming
  • life
  • crafting
  • cozy
  • cooperative
  • building

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Roots of Pacha (2023)

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Immerse yourself in Roots of Pacha, a prehistoric farming and life simulator where you'll build community and explore a primitive world. Befriend animals, fish, and mine in mysterious caves, all while developing your village and unlocking your clan's spirituality. Engage in fun events, grow your economy, and enjoy hours of relaxing gameplay.


What we like:
  • Engaging community interaction
  • Delightful characters with varied dialogue
  • Innovative farming and taming mechanics
  • Regular updates and expansions
  • Balanced economy and good pacing of unlocking features
What could be improved:
  • Some frustrating farming mechanics
  • Limited interaction with community buildings
  • Time-consuming and grinding aspects
  • Lack of freedom and usefulness of money

  • farming
  • simulation
  • life
  • agriculture
  • cozy
  • cooperative
  • romance
  • vegetable

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Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX (2021)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Step into the world of Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX, where you can raise, train, and compete with unique creatures. Generate rare monsters using a revamped system, and challenge other players globally. Experience nostalgia with improved graphics and controls. It's a charming, addictive and uniquely engaging journey into monster training!

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What we like:
  • Nostalgic gameplay
  • Improved controls and graphics
  • Extensive monster generation system
  • Fun and addictive
  • Worldwide competition
What could be improved:
  • Clunky user interface

  • battle
  • simulation
  • rpg
  • fight
  • collector
  • creature
  • classic
  • anime
  • japanese
  • farming
  • cute
  • monster-raising

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Littlewood (2019)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux Nintendo Switch

Littlewood is a relaxing townbuilder that allows you to become the architect of your own fantasy world. As the hero, you are tasked with rebuilding a town and enjoying the fruits of your labor after saving it from a Dark Wizard. With craft-a-thon style elements, terraforming mechanics, and unique UI features like infinite pockets and one-button tools, Littlewood offers an optimized and streamlined version of its familiar gameplay. Plus, you're able to date most of the townsfolk!

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What we like:
  • Performance-based clock offers control over schedule
  • Optimized and streamlined version of craft-a-thon style elements
  • Unique UI features like infinite pockets and one-button tools
  • Interesting characters with distinct personalities
  • Beautiful visuals with four separate seasons
  • Ability to date townsfolk
What could be improved:
  • Characters don't have individual routines
  • Some aspects could go deeper

  • farming
  • simulation
  • crafting
  • city-building
  • romance
  • relaxing
  • rpg
  • agriculture
  • pixel
  • life
  • customization

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