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Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos

In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Harvest Moon franchise, Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos will offer new functions while keeping the core fundamentals that has made the series so popular. The…

79 26 September 2023

Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos is an adventure developed by Natsume Inc., released 26 September 2023 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

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What Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos is

Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos is an adventure game developed by Natsume Inc. and released in 2023. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Harvest Moon franchise, Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos will offer new functions while keeping the core fundamentals that has made the series so popular. The land players will explore is known as Anthos, and is home to the Harvest Sprites, spirits that protect people and nature, as well as the goddess of nature known as the Harvest Goddess. However, about 20 years ago, an unprecedented eruption in Anthos's volcanic region forced the Harvest Goddess and her Harvest Sprites to use all of their powers to protect the people. The people were saved, but the eruption left the villages cut off from each other... Believing that the separated villages…
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How it plays

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

Where it sits in the Harvest Moon series

Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos is the 55th of 60 entries we hold in the Harvest Moon series. It arrived 7 months after Harvest Moon: Back to Nature. The next entry was Harvest Moon: One World Complete in 2024. Its critic score of 79 is 13 points above 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 Winds of Anthos holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 3 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos launched on 26 September 2023, within three weeks of Starfield, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Lies of P and Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Starfield, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Lies of P, Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition.

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When did Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos come out?
Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos was released on 26 September 2023 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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