Harvest Moon and Stardew are not really sim games . That ' s a bit like comparing ARMA to a game like Cannon Fodder . Yeah , they ' re both related to war , but they ' re about as far apart from one another like Pluto is from the Sun , and really they are entirely different genres at the end of the day . So , not saying you won ' t like it , but Farming Sim is something entirely different . You ' ll buy tractors and farming equipment to plow your fields , then cultivate them , then seed them , then wait and farm them so that you can then sell it . Rinse and repeat . with of course other options such as caring for farm animals or making your money with forestryWhat does it do right ? Well , difficult to say since there isn ' t really much to compare it do , it just does what it sets out to do well . In that it tries to paint a fairly accurate picture of what managing a farm would be like . And why is it well liked ? It ' s a pretty zen type of game . You don ' t need to think very much while playing , so it ' s a good choice for a game if you want to wind down , turn on a podcast and relax . Not saying that that is the only reason people enjoy it , but it ' s the one why i enjoyed the roughly 42 hours i had with it .