The Harvest Moon Games Gallery
Eighty-four boxes, two countries, one farm.
Every Harvest Moon game released in America and Japan from 1996 to 2025, each printing treated as its own object. America and Japan did not get the same boxes: Japan got second boxes for girl farmers, America got games Japan never saw, and after the 2014 naming split the two countries' shelves stopped matching entirely. Fifty-five of the eighty-four fronts below are verified off the scan itself — region read from the printed rating marks and publisher logos, never from a filename — and twelve boxes carry a verified back you can flip to on their pages. Where no scan has yet met the standard, the gold owl stands in, the census record stands, and the gap is on a dated recheck list. Nothing here is borrowed, composited, or faked.
AMERICA: THE EARLY HARVEST MOON
American boxes, 1997–2001 — the Natsume era opens
America · Natsume Inc. · 1997
The first American farm box: a painted barn scene that shares no art with the Japanese original. Front & back — flip it on its page.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 1998
The farm goes portable: the first handheld Harvest Moon box.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 1999
The color re-release of Harvest Moon GB — an America-only box with no Japanese counterpart.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 1999
The first 3D farm: painted art and a recolored cap stand in for Japan’s clay diorama. Front & back — flip it on its page.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 2000
The second Game Boy farm, built for the Color hardware and the Game Boy Printer. Front & back — flip it on its page.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 2000
Mineral Town’s debut: the most reissued classic in the line, in its jewel-case first form. Front & back — flip it on its page.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 2001
Boy Meets Girl: the first series box built around choosing your farmer. Front & back — flip it on its page.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 2001
The first PS2 farm sells urgency — a homeland to save in a single year.
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AMERICA: MINERAL TOWN & WONDERFUL LIFE
American boxes, 2003–2007
America · Natsume Inc. · 2003
Back to Nature’s town, rebuilt for the GBA — the handheld farm by which others are judged.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 2004
The lifetime farm: a character line-up in America, a quiet farm scene in Japan. Front & back — flip it on its page.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 2005
The girl-version of Friends of Mineral Town, sold as its own full-price box.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 2005
Another Wonderful Life: the girl-version sequel to the GameCube lifetime farm. Front & back — flip it on its page.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 2005
The PS2 edition of Wonderful Life — compressed chapters, one added bachelorette. Front & back — flip it on its page.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 2006
Korobokkol Station in Japan, plain DS in America: the touch-screen farm begins. Front & back — flip it on its page.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 2006
The West received Japan’s expanded “for World” edition — the second of two Japanese boxes.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 2008
DS Cute: the girl-version DS farm, arriving in America over two years after Japan.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 2007
Two games, one UMD: the only American retail form of Back to Nature for Girl.
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AMERICA: THE LATER HARVEST MOON
American boxes, 2008–2012 — the name's last Marvelous years
America · Natsume Inc. · 2008
The first Wii farm, from the last years of the old two-region rhythm.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 2008
Build a town from an empty shore: the first of the DS island pair.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 2009
Raise the sunken islands: the second half of the DS island pair.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 2009
The circus comes to town: the most crowded American cover in the series.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 2010
Sell at the weekly bazaar, not the shipping bin — the market-stall farm.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 2010
Sugar Village revisited: Save the Homeland’s setting returns on PSP.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 2011
The DS original of Two Towns, sold beside its own 3DS port in the same season.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 2011
The Western-first 3DS port: a 3D box Japan would not see for six years.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 2012
The hinge of the whole gallery: the last Marvelous game America called Harvest Moon. Front & back — flip it on its page.
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JAPAN: THE FIRST FIELDS
Japanese boxes, 1996–2001
Japan · Pack-In-Video · 1996
The first farm: the circular medallion that set Japan’s design language for a decade.
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Japan · Victor Interactive Software (Pack-In-Soft) · 1997
The portable original under Victor’s Pack-In-Soft label — branding visible on the scan itself.
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Japan · Pack-In-Soft (Victor Interactive) · 1999
The clay box: a photographed diorama by the series’ own artist, Igusa Matsuyama.
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Box scan gap · Victor Interactive Software · 1999
GB2: Japan kept the numbering the American boxes dropped.
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Japan · Victor Interactive Software · 1999
The only mainline Japanese title that carries the English name inside its own. Front & back — flip it on its page.
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Japan · Victor Interactive Software · 2000
Boy Meets Girl: the subtitle announces the series’ first choice of farmer.
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Japan · Victor Interactive Software · 2000
The girl-version pattern begins — and this box has a verified back, the shelf’s proof pairs are possible. Front & back — flip it on its page.
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Box scan gap · Victor Interactive Software · 2001
Bokujō Monogatari 3: the last numbered Japanese title before subtitles took over.
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JAPAN: MINERAL TOWN & WONDERFUL LIFE
Japanese boxes, 2003–2005
Box scan gap · Marvelous Interactive · 2003
Mineral Town in a small cardboard box: Marvelous’s name now front-of-box.
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Box scan gap · Marvelous Interactive · 2003
A quiet farm scene where America printed a line-up: the same life, sold softly.
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Japan · Marvelous Interactive · 2003
The girl-version GBA box, eight months after its brother — America waited until 2005.
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Japan · Marvelous Interactive · 2004
Wonderful Life for Girl: the valley re-farmed from the other side.
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Box scan gap · Marvelous Interactive · 2004
Oh! Wonderful Life — the exclamation is the edition marker.
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Box scan gap · Marvelous Interactive · 2005
Korobokkol Station: 101 Harvest Sprites, named in the title America erased.
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Box scan gap · Marvelous Interactive · 2005
Poem of Happiness, the original edition — the first of two Japanese Magical Melody boxes.
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Box scan gap · Marvelous Interactive · 2005
For World: the expanded edition that became the West’s Magical Melody.
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Japan · Marvelous Interactive · 2005
Korobokkol Station for Girl beat its American counterpart by over two years.
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Box scan gap · Marvelous Interactive · 2005
Both farmers on one Japanese PSP box, two years before America’s compilation.
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JAPAN: THE LATER BOKUJŌ MONOGATARI
Japanese boxes, 2007–2017
Box scan gap · Marvelous Entertainment · 2007
Tree of Serenity: the US title translates where later ones would transliterate.
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Box scan gap · Marvelous Entertainment · 2007
“The Island That Grows With You” — pure description where America used pure branding.
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Box scan gap · Marvelous Entertainment · 2008
Sparkling Sun and Friends: description over branding, again.
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Box scan gap · Marvelous Entertainment · 2008
Exciting Animal March: as crowded as the American box — both regions chose maximalism.
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Box scan gap · Marvelous Entertainment · 2008
Welcome! To the Wind’s Bazaar — the box its own remake would answer 17 years later.
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Japan · Marvelous Entertainment · 2009
Sugar Village and Everyone’s Wishes: the Homeland setting returns.
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Box scan gap · Marvelous Entertainment · 2010
Twin Village: Japan had only this DS box for seven years while the West had a 3DS one.
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Box scan gap · Marvelous · 2017
Futago no Mura+: the 3DS version finally comes home, with extras the West never got.
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Box scan gap · Marvelous AQL · 2012
The Land of Beginnings: the last Japanese box of the unified series.
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THE STORY OF SEASONS ERA
Japan and America side by side, 2014–2025 — one series, two names
Box scan gap · Marvelous AQL · 2014
Connecting New World: the first game America could not call Harvest Moon.
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America · XSEED Games · 2015
The moment the third name appears: Marvelous’s farm, published by XSEED, renamed.
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Box scan gap · Marvelous · 2016
Three villages, three cultures — and a 704-page Japanese guide to match.
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America · XSEED Games · 2017
Trio of Towns in America: three villages under the new name, fully settled.
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Japan · Marvelous · 2019
Reunion of Mineral Town: both GBA farmers folded into one Switch box at last.
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America · XSEED Games · 2020
Mineral Town rebuilt for Switch — and the series’ PC debut besides.
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Box scan gap · Marvelous · 2021
Olive Town and the Land of Hope: the frontier farm, launched rough and patched smooth.
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America · XSEED Games · 2021
Pioneers of Olive Town: clearing a forest frontier on Switch.
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Box scan gap · Marvelous · 2022
Japan renames its own port SPECIAL — two days after America’s plain-titled one.
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America · XSEED Games · 2022
The American PS4 box that beat Japan’s to market by two days.
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Box scan gap · Marvelous · 2023
Welcome! Wonderful Life: the valley returns, both editions folded into one.
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America · XSEED Games · 2023
Forget-Me-Not Valley rebuilt: the American Switch box of the life-story remake.
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Japan · Marvelous · 2025
Let’s! Grand Bazaar: the bazaar returns, seventeen years on, on two Switches at once.
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America · XSEED Games · 2025
The newest American box in the census — shown at the largest honest scan that exists for it.
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BRANCHES & CROSSOVERS
Innocent Life, Rune Factory, PopoloCrois, Doraemon
Box scan gap · Marvelous Interactive · 2006
A New Farm Story: a robot farmer on a volcanic island, by ArtePiazza.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 2007
The futuristic branch: three different titles across three regions for one game.
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Box scan gap · Marvelous Interactive · 2006
Rune Factory begins: “a Harvest Moon where you wield a sword,” for the 10th anniversary.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 2007
A Fantasy Harvest Moon: the last branch the Western name fully embraced.
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Box scan gap · Marvelous · 2015
PopoloCrois folds an RPG series into the farm frame.
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America · XSEED Games · 2016
The only branch box on the American side to carry the new Story of Seasons name.
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Box scan gap · Bandai Namco Entertainment · 2019
Doraemon farms: the series licensed into Japan’s biggest family franchise.
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America · Bandai Namco Entertainment · 2019
The worldwide Doraemon box: Natura town, farmed by a robot cat.
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Box scan gap · Bandai Namco Entertainment · 2022
Friends of the Great Kingdom: the Doraemon sequel, censused in its Japanese box.
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THE OTHER HARVEST MOON
Natsume's own line after the split — same name, different series
America · Natsume Inc. · 2007
A puzzle game wearing the name, years before the split — the brand experiment begins.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 2009
Frantic Farming: the second puzzle outing for the name.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 2014
Ground zero of the split: the first “Harvest Moon” Marvelous had nothing to do with.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 2016
Skytree Village refines the Lost Valley formula under the Harvest Goddess.
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Box scan gap · Natsume Inc. / Tabot · 2018
Light of Hope’s physical form is its Switch Special Edition box.
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America · Natsume Inc. · 2021
One World: the biggest-budget statement of Natsume’s own line.
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America · Natsume Inc. / Appci · 2023
Winds of Anthos: the open-world entry, from a rotating cast of developers.
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Box scan gap · Natsume Inc. · 2025
From mobile to a physical console box in 2025: the line’s newest object.
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The census behind this gallery was built title by title from the games themselves — release dates reconciled across Marvelous, Natsume and XSEED records, box facts read off the physical printings — and it stays open: the missing scans are on a dated recheck list (2026-12-04), and the shelf grows when one verifies. The companion census of the series' books is the guides gallery.
