Harvest Moon: Mad Dash (2019) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Harvest Moon: Mad Dash

Go solo or take a few friends along for the frenzy! Harvest, fish, milk, and more as you fullfil orders to complete each level! Things may start out easy, but you'll hit the beach, the farm, and even the…

37 29 October 2019

What Harvest Moon: Mad Dash is

Harvest Moon: Mad Dash is an arcade game developed by appci corporation and released in 2019. It was published by Natsume Inc.. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Go solo or take a few friends along for the frenzy! Harvest, fish, milk, and more as you fullfil orders to complete each level! Things may start out easy, but you'll hit the beach, the farm, and even the Underworld as you progress through the game! Have you ever tried to grow crops with molten lava falling on them?! That and other obstacles await you as you and your friends try to clear all the levels to restore the broken lighthouse!

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and party. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Harvest Moon series

Harvest Moon: Mad Dash is the 47th of 60 entries we hold in the Harvest Moon series. It arrived a year after Harvest Moon: Light of Hope - Special Edition: New Marriageable Characters Pack. The next entry was Harvest Moon: Light of Hope - Complete Special Edition in 2020. Its critic score of 37 is 29 points below the series average of 66. The highest-rated entry is Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life at 85.

See all 60 Harvest Moon games in release order →

How it was received

Harvest Moon: Mad Dash holds a critic score of 37 out of 100. That places it above 4% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 32 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Harvest Moon: Mad Dash launched on 29 October 2019, within three weeks of Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Outer Worlds and Disco Elysium. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Outer Worlds, Disco Elysium.

Harvest Moon: Mad Dash — frequently asked questions