There’s something innately relaxing about farming games like Stardew Valley. They let you take life at your own pace, where the only mission objective is to make a place your own in whatever way you see fit. It’s the reason why so many of us have spent hundreds and hundreds of hours playing Stardew Valley, which is arguably the best farming game you can play today.

Sometimes, though, you want to branch out and try something new – sow some new seeds, so to speak, while still getting that wholesome, cosy feeling you get from playing Stardew. That’s why we’ve come up with this list of the best games like Stardew Valley for farming and life sim fans looking to broaden their horizons. Whether it’s intense agriculture action you’re after or the moreishness of its gentle RPG elements, these are the best farming and life sim games like Stardew Valley you can play right now.

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I have mentioned Graveyard Keeper before because for a few weeks it consumed me — and every so often it still does. In it, you’re hit by a car and wake up as the keeper of a medieval cemetery. It’s like a version of Stardew Valley that Noel Fielding would tell you he played to make sure you know he’s all goffic and weird.

In it you can grow vegetables and craft things, and trade with your neighbours in the village down the road. But you also tend your little garden of deados. Make sure the graves are all neat and that. Occasionally carve off some flesh to cook. My favourite bit, apart from almost all of it, is the donkey.

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Your time is important. And you know what? So is mine. Here s this week s podcast, the Electronic Wireless Show. It s about how your life is dripping away every second you play Stardew Valley.

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Thank God you’re here. Listen, I don’t want to over-hype things, but this might be the most essential and life-changing article you ever read. Because if you only click through to read this, you will LITERALLY find out the top ten (nine) grossing games on Steam last week, and seriously, if you bought one of them, you will feel so bloody validated.

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The grim effects of the Steam Summer Sale are finally wearing off, and we’ve got a bunch of new entries this week! Along with, of course, the usual hoary old guard of dreary regulars. So hold my hand as I guide you through the most exciting article of your life.

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Stardew Valley is all well and good, but y’know what the farming life-sim genre really needs? Witch-burnings, inquisitions and a general sense of dread. At least, that’s what I’m assuming was going through the heads of Punch Club developers Lazy Bear, as they set to work on their latest game, Graveyard Keeper. Set in a dark fantasy world, you get to stomp around in the well-worn boots of a graveyard keeper, trying to make ends meet in an ethically messy world, selling human organs to local butchers and palling around with talking skulls. It’s out today.

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