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HARVESTELLA
HARVESTELLA, an all-new life-simulation RPG from SQUARE ENIX! Lead a life of self-sufficiency with your vibrant house as a base and cooperate with allies to overcome various threats.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
26 of the 73 reviews raise this.
“This is basically an old school Final Fantasy game (except action combat) with a light farming minigame attached. There are social links to progress but they are all handled though narrative quests, not grinding…”
“I adore Stardew Valley and Final Fantasy. 1000's hours over many many years on them. So a farming RPG made by Squate Enix HAD to be great right?.......right? I know some people really like this game but I was massively…”
25 of the 73 reviews raise this.
“Harvestella is a very good game for what it is as long as you go into it open minded. It is not your traditional final fantasy RPG that many fans have grown to expect from SE. Nor is it a traditional farming sim as it…”
“I thought this game was fun. I liked the balance of storyline, farm, and the multiple class options.”
“I really enjoy the game play of this. It does have the mechanic of needing to be in bed at a certain time like a lot of games with farms but that is easily offset by being sure to repair things along routes so that you…”
11 of the 73 reviews raise this.
“I finished the game and defeated the post game boss [spoiler] Selene [/spoiler] in an epic [strike] battle [/strike] picnic. The main dishes being grape juice, apple juice, and orange juice... Jokes aside, this game is…”
“I adore Stardew Valley and Final Fantasy. 1000's hours over many many years on them. So a farming RPG made by Squate Enix HAD to be great right?.......right? I know some people really like this game but I was massively…”
“I really enjoy the game play of this. It does have the mechanic of needing to be in bed at a certain time like a lot of games with farms but that is easily offset by being sure to repair things along routes so that you…”
9 of the 73 reviews raise this.
“I adore Stardew Valley and Final Fantasy. 1000's hours over many many years on them. So a farming RPG made by Squate Enix HAD to be great right?.......right? I know some people really like this game but I was massively…”
“Neat game, would love to see more of it. Production value definitely not worth the full price tag though aside from the soundtrack Only complaint is unskipable cutscenes”
7 of the 73 reviews raise this.
“This is basically an old school Final Fantasy game (except action combat) with a light farming minigame attached. There are social links to progress but they are all handled though narrative quests, not grinding…”
“I thought this game was fun. I liked the balance of storyline, farm, and the multiple class options.”
“I really enjoy the game play of this. It does have the mechanic of needing to be in bed at a certain time like a lot of games with farms but that is easily offset by being sure to repair things along routes so that you…”
28 of the 73 reviews raise this · 18 of them still recommend the game.
“I gave Harvestella a shot because I’m a sucker for farm-sim hybrids, but this feels like a half-baked product. The combat isn't just bad it's legitimately horrible, it's slow, floaty, and boring as hell. The farming…”
“This is basically an old school Final Fantasy game (except action combat) with a light farming minigame attached. There are social links to progress but they are all handled though narrative quests, not grinding…”
“Why The is this game worth 60 bucks.... its like they grabbed a bunch of spare resources and said here we go a game. the story line was like a toddler wrote it... im not normally so critical on games but this was square…”
10 of the 73 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“I gave Harvestella a shot because I’m a sucker for farm-sim hybrids, but this feels like a half-baked product. The combat isn't just bad it's legitimately horrible, it's slow, floaty, and boring as hell. The farming…”
“Why The is this game worth 60 bucks.... its like they grabbed a bunch of spare resources and said here we go a game. the story line was like a toddler wrote it... im not normally so critical on games but this was square…”
“I finished the game and defeated the post game boss [spoiler] Selene [/spoiler] in an epic [strike] battle [/strike] picnic. The main dishes being grape juice, apple juice, and orange juice... Jokes aside, this game is…”
9 of the 73 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“I gave Harvestella a shot because I’m a sucker for farm-sim hybrids, but this feels like a half-baked product. The combat isn't just bad it's legitimately horrible, it's slow, floaty, and boring as hell. The farming…”
“So i've played through the main game and have reached post game. It's ok. It's def a game that I wish me had a mediocre rating for. It did some very cool stuff with it's story but the fact that there's only an illusion…”
“Got this game on sale and still paid too much. This games asking price is 60 dollars! What a f**king joke. It's not worth 15. You have to be back home everyday by midnight or you pass out. The people who made this game…”
7 of the 73 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“So this is going to sound weird, I've never gone into a blind rage while attempting to play a what I thought was going to be a relaxing farming game. The game starts with a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 20 min+ unskippable cutscene and I…”
“[H1]TL;DR: too buggy, too "samey", which is a shame since they clearly tried to tell a decent story.[/H1] We gave it a sporting chance. After at least 4 start-stops, this was hopefully the one. But it was not to be. The…”
“Some JRPGs just love wasting your time, HARVESTELLA is one of them.”
6 of the 73 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“4/10 got about an hour of gameplay on steam deck crashed my steam deck this is MADNESS and no way to change it in game, and its for everything. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3694406477\ can…”
“So this is going to sound weird, I've never gone into a blind rage while attempting to play a what I thought was going to be a relaxing farming game. The game starts with a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 20 min+ unskippable cutscene and I…”
Counted across 73 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 77.1% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“came for the JRPG (since this is from Square Enix), got emotionally invested in farming. Didn’t see that coming... I am usually all-in on JRPGs, so I didn’t expect Harvestella to hit this kind of sweet spot.. but the mix of life sim + JRPG is honestly super unique and stands out…”
— a player, Steam review · 80 hrs played“Ok I cant believe I never reviewed Harvestella, I love harvestella, its so good. Even tho its been about 18 months since I last played it I still have really fond memories of playing this. My memories are not complete and some things are a bit hazy but I want to right this…”
— a player, Steam review · 68 hrs played“back at the start i might have said if you already played all the rune factory games and this thing was on sale and you really needed one of these then yes pick it up i no longer feel this way after finishing the game the story was okay in a this is a very dumb ff story kind of…”
— a player, Steam review · 75 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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HARVESTELLA PATCH 1.0.2
■ Issues fixed ・Sometimes the initial placement of livestock is strange ・ The Sturdy Screw drop rate is extremely low Other minor bug fixes.
HARVESTELLA is available now!
HARVESTELLA, an all-new life-simulation RPG from SQUARE ENIX! Our protagonist awakens during the height of Quietus, a disaster that visits with the changing of each season – and a threat to all life.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action, RPG, Simulation |
| Player tags | Exploration · RPG · Farming Sim · JRPG · Agriculture · Sandbox · Life Sim · Building · Action RPG · Open World · Action · Story Rich (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Custom Volume Controls · Playable without Timed Input · Stereo Sound · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese * , Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 49 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows® 10 / Windows® 11 64-bit Processor: AMD A8-7600 / Intel® Core™ i3-3210 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: AMD Radeon™ R7 260X / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 760 / Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics G7 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 20 GB available space Additional Notes: 1280x720 @ 30 FPS Supports Keyboard, Mouse and Gamepad.