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It’s been months since Harvest Moon: Home Sweet Home released in August 2024, and now you can finally use a controller with the mobile game. Natsume announced on social media that the update is live as of December 17, 2024. Grabbing that gives you an option other than using the touch screen, as well as adds for cloud saves.

It seems like people on Android devices may have already had access to these new elements a bit early. The Google Play page noted that it updated to 1.3 on December 10, 2024. However, the App Store Version History specifically notes the 1.3 update launching on December 17, 2024, and it shared the brief patch notes.

Here are the full patch notes for 1.3:

• Added controller .
• Cloud Save is now available.
• Minor bug fixes.

With the mobile controller , any one you typically use with your Android or iOS device’s games should work with Harvest Moon: Home Sweet Home. Just make sure it is connected via Bluetooth before you settle in, then play as usual. 

Natsume didn’t note how cloud saves will work. However, presumably this will happen as you make save files, then allow you to carry over to any other possible Android or iOS devices you own that are connected to that .

This is one of multiple Harvest Moon mobile games from the company. Other immediately playable titles include the life-sims Harvest Moon: Light of Hope and Harvest Moon: Seeds of Memories. There is also the puzzle spin-off Harvest Moon: Mad Dash. 

Harvest Moon: Home Sweet Home is available on Android and Apple iOS devices. 

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Natsume announced a release date for Harvest Moon: Home Sweet Home, its new game in the series, and it’s only a week away. The game will launch on Android and Apple iOS devices on August 23, 2024. 

As is common in Harvest Moon games, Harvest Moon: Home Sweet Home starts with our avatar starting life over again in a small town. In this case, rather than returning to a family member’s place to run a farm, we return to where we grew up. The goals involve running a successful ranch, getting close to the other people in town, and helping to develop Alba Village so it will grow. 

There’s also a new trailer showing how this Harvest Moon game looks and works. It starts with the male version of the avatar reading a letter while at a bus stop, then arriving back at Alba Village. From there, we see the character in front of some fields with new crops growing. After that, the character walks around town. We also see a shift in perspective to the female protagonist. Conversations with Jacques and Jean, two residents, come up. There’s also a closer look at a field that contains ordinary crops, like eggplants, pineapples, and watermelons, alongside one that looks like a snowman. From there, we get to see livestock like cows, sheep, chickens, horses. The fishing minigame, horse races, and more love interests appear after that.

Here’s that full trailer showing off the game.

The Harvest Moon: Home Sweet Home release date is August 23, 2024, and people with Android and Apple iOS tablets and phones will be able to play it. 

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At the end of May 2024, Natsume announced its new Harvest Moon: Home Sweet Home game, but didn’t have any art or screenshots to share. Now the company took to social media about a month later for the first official reveal. 

There are nine images plucked from Harvest Moon: Home Sweet Home total, and they offer a peek at avatar options and NPCs in the new game. However, we still don’t know about crops, livestock, or love interests based on this initial batch, though a cow, chickens, and a horse do appear. The avatar options highlighted in the images from Natsume show male and female ones will be available. So will different hair and skin colors. 

A handful of villagers from Alba also showed up. One is Hugo, a chef who owns a restaurant in town. Another shows an avatar talking to a man named Braden. Harriet looks like the fishing specialist this time around. The design direction for them looks similar to the one used in Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos.

Here’s the full, first batch of Harvest Moon: Home Sweet Home screenshots:

Harvest Moon: Home Sweet Home will come to Android and Apple iOS devices in Summer 2024.

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Natsume is working on another new and original Harvest Moon game, this time called Harvest Moon: Home Sweet Home. It is expected to release on Android and Apple iOS mobile devices in August 2024.

So far, only a logo is available for Harvest Moon: Home Sweet Home. There are no screenshots or initial trailers suggesting how this installment might look. The initial announcement referenced “familiar faces,” which could suggest appearances of the Harvest Sprites, Harvest Goddess, and recurring characters like Doc and Doc Jr from Natsume’s line of original entries that debuted starting in 2014.

This marks the first new mobile entry in Natsume’s original line of Harvest Moon line of games since Harvest Moon: Light of Hope. That launched in 2018 on Android and iOS, and it eventually appeared on the PS4, Switch, Xbox One, and PC as well. The two mainline games and Mad Dash spin-off released between 2019 and 2023 all only appeared on consoles and PCs. 

As for the next Story of Seasons Bokujou Monogatari game, it is possible we will learn more about the next new one at the Marvelous Game Showcase 2024. A new entry was teased at the 2023 installment, so the latest presentation could reveal more about it.

Harvest Moon: Home Sweet Home will launch on Android and iOS mobile devices in August 2024.

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