Story of Seasons in the modern era: Trio of Towns and the Mineral Town remake
Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns launched in Japan in June 2016 for Nintendo 3DS and in North America on February 28, 2017, published by Xseed. It was the second game under the new name and the one that settled it. Three towns with distinct cultures, Westown's frontier, Lulukala's seaside and Tsuyukusa's Japanese village, trade goods and festivals between them, and the farming systems reached their handheld peak: deep crop quality mechanics, part time work, town rank goals and the series' largest cast of the era. It is the last mainline Bokujo Monogatari built for a dedicated handheld, and it plays like a summation.
The remake era began with Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town, launched in Japan in October 2019 and in North America in July 2020 for Nintendo Switch, later reaching other platforms. It rebuilt the GBA game, itself a rebuild of Back to Nature, in full 3D with redrawn character art, quality of life systems and new content, while keeping Mineral Town's map and cast intact. For the market, it did important work: it told lapsed players exactly which new name was their old series, using the most loved town as the proof.
The modern line continued from that bridge: Pioneers of Olive Town in 2021, the A Wonderful Life remake in 2023 and Grand Bazaar's remake following, each covered in this section's Story of Seasons entries, alongside the Natsume Harvest Moon games evolving separately under the inherited name. The two lines now compete openly, and the collector's distinction from this section's naming entry, Marvelous games under Story of Seasons, Natsume originals under Harvest Moon, is the map that keeps a modern shelf honest.
As physical objects, the modern games are Switch and 3DS standard editions, red cases and cartridges with no manuals, bought for play and for the steelbook and special edition variants that occasionally appear rather than for paperwork archaeology. Trio of Towns on 3DS, from the platform's late years, is the modern entry most likely to follow the classic lane's pattern of quiet scarcity. The farm's modern era is best collected simply: complete runs, both names, the split made visible on one shelf.