Harvest Island: A Horror Farming Sim

Farming sim games are meant to be relaxing. You till the soil, you feed the cows, you socialize in the village, then you do it again. Is it possible to take things completely in the other direction and make a farm game that’s SCARY? Yobob Games, a one-man development team from California, is going to try.

Welcome to Harvest Island: a place where you can grow crops, pet animals, catch fish and gather rare materials. There’s just one catch…you must create offerings to appease the gods with strict regularity, or else. What’s the “or else,” and why are the gods interested in this place? What’s its purpose? What lies in the dark shadows and unexplored corners of the island? As they say, fool around and find out.

• Explore a Diverse Island: Find a collection of incredible things on the island, including coconuts, seaweed, horseshoe crabs, beetles, and sharks. Use these items as offerings to the gods, ways to upgrade your farm, and more. Tides will fluctuate as time progresses, changing the island’s landscape, and can even open up new paths allowing you to explore the island further.
• Catch Fish: There are tons of different types of fish that you can catch all over the island. Each fish has their own behavior and habitat. Depending on conditions, fishing during the day or night or in a far-off corner of the island will allow you to catch different types of fish. Cook your spoils and eat them to gain Bless and stamina.
• Craft Tools: Craft various tools like a ladder, rope, and fishing rod from your workbench to help you further explore the island and collect much needed items and food, as well as answer the island’s mysteries.
• Make Offerings: Gods play an important part in Harvest Island. Every day, the gods will ask you for items that are around the island. Receive blessings once you give the gods these items, and you will earn permanent stats like max bag capacity or increasing max stamina. You can also use Bless to upgrade your farm, build, craft, or even ask the gods to alter the weather or change the time!
• Day/Night Cycle: The day/night cycle is perpetual, and you don’t even have to sleep if you want to pull an all-nighter or two. Caves glow, and the forest sings and sparkles with fireflies at night, while other changes are visible during the morning and afternoon time as well!
• Endure the Weather: When it rains, animals and fish will hide, and crops will be watered, but everything will be back to normal by the time the sky becomes clear!
• Befriend Animals: You can befriend animals on the island, pet them, or even feed them. Sometimes they will give you items they find in the wild or show you an undiscovered passage to explore.

Harvest Island launches today on PC  via Steam, Epic Games Store, and itch.io. Enter at your own risk!