Start with a dusty old house.
You arrive in a sleepy village and take over an akiya, an empty house nobody has lived in for years. Sweep the tatami, patch the roof, mend the kitchen and the old bath. Every job happens in 3D with your own hands, not in menus.
Then make the village your own.
- Grow vegetables in your kitchen garden. Crops grow in real time, even while the game is closed.
- Cook, pickle and dry what you grow, and sell it at the farm stand and the Sunday morning market.
- Make friends with the villagers, run small errands for them and give gifts.
- Decorate your home and dress your character from the village shops.
- Build a garden with a koi pond, a bonsai shelf and a rock garden.
- Follow the seasons: harvest festival, moon viewing, first snow and New Year.
- Learn a little Japanese as you play. Every Japanese word comes with its English meaning, and a notebook keeps the ones you find.
Two places to live.
Hinata Village
A sleepy village in the hills, with a story. Fix up the old house on the main road, make friends and follow the seasons.
Kiriyama Hamlet
A quiet mountain hamlet on terraced fields, for free play. Farm the terraces, make charcoal and soba, and help the hamlet grow.
An early build, and still growing.
Things will change and grow, and your feedback helps. The game saves automatically in your browser. Clearing your site data deletes the save, and private windows may not keep it.