Farmstand games!
October 14, 2023 8:27 PM Subscribe
Seeking recommendations for games that allow me to set up a farmstand: a shop that I don't have to man.
Littlewood has the basic concept down, in that at some point in the game you can unlock the ability to put some of your wares in a marketplace that gets autosold the next day. It's a bit like the shipping bin in Stardew and Coral Island and the like, but it's a little too passive.
Shop management sims like Moonlighter, Garden Paws, etc require you to hang around in the shop, which is explicitly what I don't want. (Garden Paws lets you hire an assistant down the track but that costs you extra).
Ideally I could set up my farmstand with whatever I want, decorate it somehow, and have people come by to buy while I'm off farming or cooking or something.
Littlewood has the basic concept down, in that at some point in the game you can unlock the ability to put some of your wares in a marketplace that gets autosold the next day. It's a bit like the shipping bin in Stardew and Coral Island and the like, but it's a little too passive.
Shop management sims like Moonlighter, Garden Paws, etc require you to hang around in the shop, which is explicitly what I don't want. (Garden Paws lets you hire an assistant down the track but that costs you extra).
Ideally I could set up my farmstand with whatever I want, decorate it somehow, and have people come by to buy while I'm off farming or cooking or something.
In Kynseed you usually let one of the NPCs run the shop while you are busy elsewhere.
posted by the_dreamwriter at 12:02 AM on October 15, 2023
posted by the_dreamwriter at 12:02 AM on October 15, 2023
I feel like Dave The Diver might come
close to ticking these boxes. First of all you’re running a sushi restaurant, but it’s only open in the evening and while you have to be at the restaurant for a part of the service you can chose to dive for the first half of it. The rest (and the majority of the gameplay) is diving during the day and catching fish, setting a menu, lots of side quests etc. And you can decorate the restaurant. Check it out maybe. I thought it was a very well made little game.
posted by multivalent at 1:30 AM on October 15, 2023 [1 favorite]
close to ticking these boxes. First of all you’re running a sushi restaurant, but it’s only open in the evening and while you have to be at the restaurant for a part of the service you can chose to dive for the first half of it. The rest (and the majority of the gameplay) is diving during the day and catching fish, setting a menu, lots of side quests etc. And you can decorate the restaurant. Check it out maybe. I thought it was a very well made little game.
posted by multivalent at 1:30 AM on October 15, 2023 [1 favorite]
Hay Day? It's free, very chill, and you can sell the things you produce on your farm and people come by and buy them. Basically no ads, but you can choose to watch if you want to shorten the production time of the things you make or want to win a little prize, but they're not intrusive or necessary for gameplay.
posted by misozaki at 4:39 AM on October 15, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by misozaki at 4:39 AM on October 15, 2023 [2 favorites]
Welll.... There are market stands in Haven and Hearth. It's Free-to-Play, Java for PC or Mac. You put the merchandise in a cupboard in a secure house and link it to the stall, and then you set your price and the quality required and link that to another, empty cupboard to receive your payment. In the last world I was happily swapping my unused third best stuff for a variety of bugs to craft with. You come back as often as you like to take your payments and restock. I was given a stall in a large player made market so I didn't have to build the secure house and all that myself, and I was guaranteed a steady stream of shoppers. Meanwhile I was off farming and crafting and questing.
However the market stands are late game elements in a free for all sandbox survival game, which only generated a brand new world last Friday. Right now the game is a rugger scrum between skinheads and land rush refugees and it will take awhile before the forces of law and order and commerce manage to get any public markets up. In the meant time it's like a Black Sunday free-for-all, except with muggers, and we have just discovered that squirrel caches in the wild can sometimes explode and ko you. So while the market stall elements of H & H cannot be bettered you'd need to be quite persistent and play for awhile before you could experience them.
posted by Jane the Brown at 4:44 AM on October 15, 2023
However the market stands are late game elements in a free for all sandbox survival game, which only generated a brand new world last Friday. Right now the game is a rugger scrum between skinheads and land rush refugees and it will take awhile before the forces of law and order and commerce manage to get any public markets up. In the meant time it's like a Black Sunday free-for-all, except with muggers, and we have just discovered that squirrel caches in the wild can sometimes explode and ko you. So while the market stall elements of H & H cannot be bettered you'd need to be quite persistent and play for awhile before you could experience them.
posted by Jane the Brown at 4:44 AM on October 15, 2023
Seconding Hay Day. You put an ad up on your items, the stuff gets sold. It’s a fun little game that’s become more about the community games and events than the farming, so if you just like the relaxing part of farming and selling stuff then it might be exactly what you’re looking for. Plus the animations are the cutest I’ve seen.
posted by Mchelly at 6:08 AM on October 15, 2023
posted by Mchelly at 6:08 AM on October 15, 2023
I have no idea to what extent the game still operates but that was one of the major mechanics in Puzzle Pirates. You had to manage your shop - set prices, keep it supplied with the supplies to make the things you sold, but you didn't have to actively be in the shop for it to make or sell things.
posted by jacquilynne at 7:57 AM on October 15, 2023
posted by jacquilynne at 7:57 AM on October 15, 2023
Response by poster: The inspiration for this question
posted by creatrixtiara at 8:11 AM on October 15, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by creatrixtiara at 8:11 AM on October 15, 2023 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Faefarm has both a market like Littlewood and the ability to set up a small stand on your own farm.
You put your items in (either or both) and then collect while you sleep. You can choose the location of the stand on your plot and decorate around it as you like.
Definitely check out some video reviews, though. I've found the game to be fun, but maybe not worth the price.
posted by not.so.hip at 4:28 PM on October 16, 2023
You put your items in (either or both) and then collect while you sleep. You can choose the location of the stand on your plot and decorate around it as you like.
Definitely check out some video reviews, though. I've found the game to be fun, but maybe not worth the price.
posted by not.so.hip at 4:28 PM on October 16, 2023
On second thought, I'm not sure you can select the location of the produce stand in Faefarm. Ugh. Sorry!
posted by not.so.hip at 4:31 PM on October 16, 2023
posted by not.so.hip at 4:31 PM on October 16, 2023
Response by poster: Ahhhh Fae Farm comes the closest, thank you!! And yeah I've heard mixed reviews, maybe I'll wait for a sale or for it to be on Gamepass or something
posted by creatrixtiara at 9:34 PM on October 16, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by creatrixtiara at 9:34 PM on October 16, 2023 [1 favorite]
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