Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley (2014) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley

In Harvest Moon 3D: The Lost Valley, players will experience the role-playing farm simulation in a three-dimensional setting for the first time. The game has a fully customizable world, and players can…

55 4 November 2014

What Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley is

Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley is an adventure game developed by Tabot, Inc. and released in 2014. It was published by Natsume Inc.. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In Harvest Moon 3D: The Lost Valley, players will experience the role-playing farm simulation in a three-dimensional setting for the first time. The game has a fully customizable world, and players can customize their field in any way they see fit: from a field full of tulips to a valley filled with water, the choice is up to you. You've never played a Harvest Moon game quite like this!

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are kids and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Harvest Moon series

Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley is the 40th of 60 entries we hold in the Harvest Moon series. It arrived a year after Hometown Story. The next entry was Harvest Moon: Seeds of Memories in 2016. Its critic score of 55 is 11 points below the series average of 66. The highest-rated entry is Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life at 85.

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How it was received

Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 11% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 14 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley launched on 4 November 2014, within three weeks of Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and Tales from the Borderlands. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Tales from the Borderlands.

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