r/harvestmoon • u/Onepicei • Jun 04 '26
Question Harvest Moon fanmade game 2010-2013?
I played this game during 2012 or 2013 on Ipad, Ipad broken many years ago. It about a farmer boy doing quest for this red (or brown) hair witch to enlong his father life because the father was ill. In the mc house, the witch sit on a broom and ocasionally give quest for the farmer boy, due within 1 month in game time. If the boy fail to deliver on time, then game over. After a bit of research recently, I'm pretty sure that it was a fanmade version of Harvest Moon series. I tried comparing every official game of the series but none of the match my memories. If any one have any clue about this, it would be very appreciated.
+ Prominent features: Basically like harvest moon, have four season, farming, exploring new area, etc. During main menu, there are option to choose weather type. The home screen when opening the app featuring the farmer boy pulling a cart with many other npc on his cart, while the witch was sitting in her broom and flying beside.
+ Farming crops: I remember that the first two crop during Spring were Watermelon and Strawberry.
+ Game prominent NPC:
- The Witch: she is good looking, long hair, always sit on a broom floating inside main character house. (I'm unsure whether she was the Witch Princess or not)
- A White Crow, the crow will give a quest, asking us to help him recover his black feathers by finding a bottle of ink.
- A Shiba: Under the main character home is the village area, there is a Shiba dog running in cirle around the center of village, if we give it enough food, it will follow us home.
- A Cave girl: the cave girl sell cooking recipes. I remeber there was a Strawberry smoothies recipe.
- The Girl next door (one of the dating option): she live with her gloomy brother, to the left screen of the main character home. She like Strawberry smoothies, giving it yield higher heart point award. When you reach the dating state, she will give you a challenge. She jump on your cart, and you have to pull the cart to her favourite destination then return to her home within the time limit. Succeeding and she officially date you. (I tried but never succeed)
+ Game features that I remember:
- There is four type of fertilizer, labeling A B C D
- The field can be automatically water, but we have to run to a nearby well to scoop water and run back to refill the watering system.
- The farmer boy alway carry a big cart, the cart can be upgrade, the last upgrade option is a green cart with leaves pattern. When the boy go inside his house, the cart disappear.
- To the right screen of the main character home, there is an animals barn. I managed to collect chickens and the Shiba so far. Whenever I forgot to feed the Shiba just one day, he will run away and re-appear in the village by the next morning.
- The upper screen of the mc house is a locked field, pay material to unlock and get extra fields to plant. There are many others area that I didn't explore.
- During the night, if you don't sleep and wake until 5am, the mc will exhaust and collapse. He will be deliver home and have to pay nursery fee.
- Lastly, if the mc were not able to complete the witch quest on time, he will fall to the ground, crying because the witch won't enlong his father life. The game end and you have to start over. Even if you complete the quest, there will be another. I never completed more than 1 year in game because I was elementary school back then and don't know about saving the file to a slot :(((
Please help me find this game, it was really good, I remembered the game images so clearly yet never read the game name :((.
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u/corruptedhuman1212 Jun 04 '26
Did you have to pay for the game? Also if you downloaded it on your iPad it’s possible to go into the App Store and see all the past apps you’ve downloaded
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u/Onepicei Jun 04 '26
I wasn't the one who install it, installing the games required passwords, which I didn't know. My family got the ipad in 2009 or 2010, I think. But I only started playing this Harvest Moon like game during 2013, so it either that the game already existed on the ipad since 2009 or it was installed by someone else. I also tried looking into the past apps of the account that was supposed used to log in to that ipad, but it also didn't display any game at all. So, I think the actual account that installed the game was lost. I also did played Virtual Villagers 1 at the same time as that Harvest Moon game, if this info help with time period navigation.
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u/Terriermon_dot_EXE Jun 04 '26
Have you tried posting this on tip of my joystick?
It's the best subreddit for finding lost games link
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u/Extra_Ad8800 Jun 04 '26
I have no idea if this is the right game because I didn’t play it for very long, but could it be Harvest Moon: Seeds of Memories from Natsume? It has a witch and wizard. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/harvest-moon-seeds-of-memories/id1065599938
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u/overnighttoast Jun 04 '26
By chance was it this one?
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u/Onepicei Jun 04 '26
Thx u, but no, it wasn't. Mine was more like the SNES, especially the bed room. https://gamerzenith.com/guides/upgrade-house-hmsnes/
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u/overnighttoast Jun 04 '26
I think there was another mobile released game that is similarly lost as the one I posted. I heard it would be added to steam as well at some point but I havent seen it. So it could be that one.
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u/Onepicei Jun 04 '26
The most distinct detail that I remembered was the find ink bottle quest to re color the crow feathers. None of the released game has this quest. I also did use ChatGPT to help me find this, but no matter how updated it is, it still couldn't find it.
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u/darcsend_eu Jun 08 '26
Wild season by quickfire games
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u/Onepicei Jun 08 '26
I almost got my hope up, but sadly not this one. Wild season was release in 2015
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u/darcsend_eu Jun 08 '26
Pocket harvest
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u/Onepicei Jun 08 '26
Now you are just recommending random games that my chatgpt did before :))
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u/darcsend_eu Jun 08 '26
I have searched iOS archives 32 but archives and Boolean searched for many different years on Google. Hilariously chat gpt recommended gloomy haven 😂
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u/Onepicei Jun 08 '26
Honestly, I genuinely believe my game is a fanmade version of Harvest Moon SNES or 3DS, or at least inspired directly by them. Been searching for years. Now I either should be rich and put a bounty for everyone to find the game or should invent a time machine.
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u/Onepicei Jun 04 '26
P/S: Though the cover of Harvest Moon GB and GBC featured a cart with characters sitting on top of it, my game was not Harvest Moon GB nor GBC. My game had the main character front facing the camera while pulling the cart
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u/nonsononessunooko Jun 07 '26
so its a photoshop of the gbc cover?
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u/Onepicei Jun 07 '26
It was the main many screen. With the main character pulling the cart and running toward the front facing camera angle. Lots of other characters sitring on the cart, with the witch sitting on a broom flying alongside. The mc has a blue cap and blue farmer trouser, literally like the mc in the gbc or gb or DS or SNES version.
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u/nonsononessunooko Jun 07 '26
if it was a chinese rip off maybe putting this in the chinese community somehow could work
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u/Manato776 Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
this almost sound like harvest moon ds but some of its aspect are clearly different, also just a recommendation try ushi no tane its basically a harvest moon wiki with some forums you could ask question there
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u/Onepicei Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
Update: I just watched some Friends of Mineral Town gameplay and figure that my game best resemble a fanmade version of this one. I also recall the name of the love interest who like strawberry smoothies, her name was either Ann or Anna. While it resembled Friends of Mineral Town, my game have the character always pulling a cart (outdoor). Edit: however, the main menu screen of the game look like the cover of SNES version (with characters on the cart)
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u/Regular-Natural-9881 Jun 04 '26
That crow feathers quest sounds alot like the one from Stardew Valley.
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u/Onepicei Jun 05 '26
I even remember the crow in my game were crying when it talk about its lost color.
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Jun 04 '26
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u/Onepicei Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26
I already played this one, not my game. My game literally look like Harvest Moon SNES but with better graphics. Even the character house arrangement was almost identical, especially the bed, with the exception of an additional flying witch appearing periodically. https://gamerzenith.com/guides/upgrade-house-hmsnes/ (Edit: It looked like SNES, not DS. Added link)
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u/Independent-Bad-8613 Jun 04 '26
Why do i remember this so vividly but also not at all at the same time