The latest Story of Seasons game is leaving Nintendo Switch exclusivity and heading to PC. XSEED is porting Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town over to the platform, with a release set for next month. It'll be available on Steam, where the game already has a pre-order page live, with a 10% off bonus--priced normally at $39.99--for those who buy the game prior to its launch on September 15th. You can check out our original coverage of the game from the Nintendo Switch version, where our first impressions were optimistic yet skeptical, and our full review, which criticized a majority of the game's content and execution.

Build Your Farm From the Ground Up!

Welcome to Olive Town, a peaceful community established by your trailblazing grandfather and his friends. Now that you've taken over his farm, it's your job to carry on his legacy.

Plant crops, raise animals, build relationships, and get to know the residents of your new home in this brand-new entry in the STORY OF SEASONS series!

Cultivate Your Farm, Cultivate Your Town
Tame the wilderness and build your farm from the ground up! Gather and process materials to fulfill requests and improve Olive Town's infrastructure, upgrade tools, or commission new outfits and accessories.

A Farm of Endless Possibilities
Clear the land, repair old facilities, and place new ones wherever you see fit. Level up your farming skills and craft a variety of decorations and facilities, from fences and automatic feeders for livestock to sprinklers for crops!

New Adventures Off the Beaten Path
Finding Earth Sprites while exploring your farmland may lead you to mysterious, fantastical lands such as gardens where the seasons never change, an island in the sky, or even the inside of a volcano!

There's Always Something Going on in Olive Town!
Participate in local festivals and watch the town come to life! Get to know your neighbors better with over 200 unique events, and you may even find love with a special someone!

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• MINIMUM:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    
  • OS: Windows 8.1 and 10
    
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-8265U
    
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    
  • Graphics: Intel UHD 620
    
  • DirectX: Version 11
    
  • Storage: 2 GB available space

• RECOMMENDED:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    
  • OS: Windows 8.1 and 10
    
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz
    
  • Memory: 16 GB RAM
    
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
    
  • Storage: 2 GB available space

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[Deleted User]

a lot of "exclusives" leaving the Switch recently.

 

[DragarX]

a lot of "exclusives" leaving the Switch recently.

They all want some of that sweet steam deck pie.

 

[subcon959]

If that review is accurate then I can't see it doing very well on PC, but maybe they can make the controls less janky with keyboard and mouse.

 

[Valwinz]

Probably the worst in the series and trust me there have been some bad ones in the past. the focus on pandering and soulless characters with no personality really hurt this one.

We can only hope Runbe Factory 5 does not suffer from this but Xseed taking so long with it is worrying me

 

[Deleted member 532471]

Nintendo right now

I'm really curious to see what they'll do to counter the steam deck
the current direction they're going is so weird that I don't doubt they'd just stop making consoles and become third party to keep their brands alive ( it's cheaper )

 

[ZeroT21]

To me this is just a refresh of harvest moon for the upteenth time

 

[chrisrlink]

I wonder on Marvolous's stance on modding their games seeing how Take 2 handles the GTA Scene I'm not holding my breath

 

[dragonblood9999]

Probably the worst in the series and trust me there have been some bad ones in the past. the focus on pandering and soulless characters with no personality really hurt this one.

We can only hope Runbe Factory 5 does not suffer from this but Xseed taking so long with it is worrying me

Definitely the worst Seasons game, IMO. I ran out of stuff to do pretty quick and the makers get annoying. Which sux cause I was really loking forward to it.

 

[BigBadBugaboom]

Its great it will come to pc but im not a fan of this game

 

[x65943]

For anyone upset about Zelda or Mario anniversaries, ponder that this is what the Harvest Moon franchise has to offer in its 25th year

 

[Valwinz]

For anyone upset about Zelda or Mario anniversaries, ponder that this is what the Harvest Moon franchise has to offer in its 25th year

is sad really this was such a great series with some iconic games since Snes

 

[GamerzHell9137]

is sad really this was such a great series with some iconic games since Snes

What's wrong with SoS? If anything Olive Town is pretty decent compared to the previous games.

 

[Deleted member 546149]

I heard some good stuff about it

 

[Valwinz]

What's wrong with SoS? If anything Olive Town is pretty decent compared to the previous games.

Not sure did you play that boring mess and soulless characters

 

[linkchidori]

Nintendo right now

I'm really curious to see what they'll do to counter the steam deck
the current direction they're going is so weird that I don't doubt they'd just stop making consoles and become third party to keep their brands alive ( it's cheaper )

This is not even Nintendo related, aside from time exclusive. By the way, while its cheaper, having a console its better in the sense that it can give value to their exclusives, which dont really have competition inside their own console.

 

[anhminh]

What with all the resentment at Nintendo lately? Is it that abnormal for a third party game to release on multiplatform?

Did Steam Deck doing that bad that people have to took jabs at Switch every chance they get?

 

[linkchidori]

What with all the resentment at Nintendo lately? Is it that abnormal for a third party game to release on multiplatform?

Did Steam Deck doing that bad that people have to took jabs at Switch every chance they get?

Tbh its better for third parties to release games in multiple plataforms, its an oppirtunity to increase their marketshare.

 

[r5xscn]

Not sure did you play that boring mess and soulless characters

I am not going to force you to change your mind, just letting people know my opinion on the characters. I played until the first year of the game (the Japanese version, so YMMV with the English version) and feel that each character is unique. They have their own side stories, which is easily more triggerable than SoSFoMT. My only complaint is that time goes by so fast (1 minute = 1 second IRL?).

 

[ertaboy356b]

Holy shit it requires a lot of RAM? wtf is this game.