Last updated on January 3rd, 2026 at 12:10 am
Harvest Moon: Light of Hope – Roleplaying Game Review
Harvest Moon: Light of Hope is a Roleplaying/Simulation/Entertainment game from Natsume Inc., first launched in 25th September 2018.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 289+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Harvest Moon: Light of Hope Stand Out
***Please Note: Harvest Moon: Light of Hope is compatible with the following devices. iPhone 5s, SE, 6, 6Plus, 6s, 6s Plus, 7, 7 Plus, 8, 8 Plus, X; iPad 5th gen; iPod Touch 6th Gen.; iPad Air1, 2; iPad mini Retina, 3, 4; iPad Pro.
In celebration of Harvest Moon's 20th Anniversary comes an all new Harvest Moon title for the AppStore! Harvest Moon: Light of Hope! The game encompasses twenty years of the spirit that have made the franchise what it is today!
Looking for a fresh start and some new surroundings, you set off on a voyage to begin your new life! Unfortunately, the weather has different plans, as your ship is hit by a monsoon, and goes down! You drift into a small harbor town, now in shambles from the storm, where a young doctor named Jeanne saves your life. The town has essentially been deserted, but you're never one to back down from a challenge! It will be up to you to help rebuild the town and save the lighthouse…but it won't be easy! Nevertheless, with some hard work growing crops, tending livestock, and gathering materials for repairs, you will be able to make new friends, start a family, revive the lighthouse, and save the town, your new home!
• Collect important materials to rebuild the town and restore the lighthouse!
• Complete requests from villagers to unlock new areas and items!
• New and unique festivals, including the Dog Racing Festival!
• Learn to grow and mutate crops with user friendly UI and tutorials!
• Play as a boy or a girl, get married, and start a family!
This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Harvest Moon: Light of Hope is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 3rd October 2018
Recent improvements include:
Thank you very much for playing Harvest Moon: Light of Hope! We have just released version 1.0.2 that will correct a few minor issues and improve the game play.
We hope everyone enjoys the game!
Download & Availability
Harvest Moon: Light of Hope is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Harvest Moon: Light of Hope on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We finally can finish this installment but we would really like to use our backbone so we can fully enjoy it cause we mobile players well some do like controller support.
We love this game but dear natsume can we please get a harvest moon for the phone thats more like magical melody. That one was our favorite and we miss it.
Its great love the ipad version we also got the ps4 version as well.
Okie okieI see the issues that some people have complained about. The game does tend to crash when you are doing a lot of things and the loading screens are a little on the long side, but, This is a good game and this is coming from someone who likes Story of Seasons more. The game isnt all that bad, the characters are a little dull and the lack of character customization is a tad frustratinghowever its still pretty fun to play. Fishing?? Easy. Literally all you do is tap the screen, idk why so many reviewers say its impossible?? Youre just tapping. The farming is simple and easy, if you lightly hold down one of the corners to your tilled spot you can drag to select more spaces to throw more seeds all at once, you can also do this with harvesting crops. Collecting materials is easy and getting money through fishing is a breeze, Im still in the first season and already hit 20k multiple times. Some aspects are still annoying or an inconvenience but we meanfor like $7 this is pretty fun and tbha lot easier to control the character than Stardew!!! And Stardew has always been our #1 game!! If you have the extra funds take a chance. Its a really chill way to pass the time once you really start getting into it.
We love farming life sim games. The kind you find on Steam, Xbox, and Switch. We were searching for something similar that we could play on our IPad Pro. There arent a lot and we were worried about purchasing this one because of the negative reviews. We finally decided to give it a try. The only complaint we have is the lack of controller support. We wish that worked a little better but the touch controls are surprisingly good and we havent had any issues with the game quitting or freezing. We played two seasons and not one issue. Im happy with the purchase and wanted to share for those that may be on the fence. Its a cute game that is narrative driven. The days are long and you can make plenty of gold with gems in the ours. All and all is a good game and worth $15.
This was nostalgic and we enjoyed it. If you Save and sleep it does not save. So always remember to save before you sleep, or save when you wake up.
We really love this game, im addicted to it. But for the ocd person like us, please please please can you please do the delete option at the save slots, so we can delete the slot that we accidentally clicked. Pretty please.
This series has been fun since our child hood days. Its so nice to see Harvest Moon on mobile. To be able to do activities of agriculture and simulate the wonderful farm life. Only have two issues about the game: 1) Have some ocassional crashes that can be a nuisance. 2) Loading screens should not have such a long delay. If these issues could be addressed then we can enjoy this game fully. Thanks for this mobile port.
Please update the game !!! Please… Or add more patch.
Ive been playing harvest moon since we were 4 years old and its one of our all time favorite game series. Recently, Ive been thinking about buying a HM game to pass the time (quarantine), but we cant find a decently priced N64 or PSP anyway. This game has a Hero of Leaf Valley feel mixed with HM Boy and Girl. But, somehow, it still feels like 64. We dont understand how there are so many bad reviews on this game. The only thing we noticed that we could bring up is that when youre playing the game for hours without breaks in between, the game crashes and you have to re load the app; as long as you save it doesnt really effect the progress. Other than that, we think buying this game was the best decision we couldve made (seeing as the entire world is locked in their houses right now). Thank you, Natsume! – a life long HM player.
We just buy this game it showed 14.99 but when we looked to see how much we payed for it said we pay 16.09 we dont mind we love this game but yall need to fix the Price on so people would know it 16.09 not 14.99 dallor plz fix the Price on ty.
Yes the loading time is a little long, but it does not take away from this great game. Is there anyway we can get some of the dlc content like the clothing store.
We can't believe all the bad reviews. We were scared to get it because of all the bad reviews. We don't understand why there are so many bad reviews. We played the hell out of seeds of memories on iPad and we got this game and we're glad we did. We like it so much better than SOM… We've played about an hour so far and still figuring things out. We know a lot of complaints are recycled characters but those are characters we've always loved so we're glad to see them in the game. It really is a great game and a lot of fun although pricey. But we for one love the art style and we feel like the graphics look much better then SOM… The ONLY thing we are worried about is the fishing, that seems to be a major issues for all the reviews on here, we're not at that part yet so we don't know, stardew Valley is a well known game but the fishing is really frustrating on that game too, SOM it was just tap tap tap it was easy to catch fish. We sure hope it's not like stardew valley. We love fishing in these games and we get a lot of income by fishing. Anyways we're not sorry for our purchase as we are enjoying the game.
Right after save and sleep… The loading became long… And still loading after 2mins. What happened.
First of all, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ANOTHER HARVEST MOON GAME ON THE APP STORE! We have always loved your games and each one never disappoints. This game only crashed once for us coming out of the ours, but it wasn't a big deal and hasn't happened since. Other than that we have no complaints. Definitely worth every cent.
Second Edit. Fishing has been fixed. Before when we got the exclamation mark, we would catch one fish out of ten. Now we catch 80% of the time. Edit. Game no longer crashes. Fishing still impossible though. Fish bites and the !exclamation appears. We tap and get the progress bar. We tap our phone furiously. No fish. IPhone doesnt have a button like the PS4 or Switch. How are we supposed to catch fish? Game also crashes quite often.
This is very much like a Seeds of Memories 2….a much bigger map, more things to do, improved mechanics, better graphics, and nice soundtrack. Relaxing and fun. Nicely done devs.
Love love love this game! Only 4 stars because the game crashes ands sometimes we lose a lot of hard work because of it so we definitely think that needs to be fixed.
We really enjoy this game and we play it almost everyday and Ive come to work around the bugs in the game and having it glitch out while mining, fishing, or doing really basically anything you spend some time on to make money, but we definitely think they should update the game and fix the problems that everyone seems to be having, but we definitely still do love the game bugs or not just would be better fixed.
We have an IPad that we would like to play our save file on, but am super confused how to transfer the save data instead of starting over? Any help would be appreciated!!! :(.
Its been a great game so far. But it just recently crashed in a very important part where we were in the ours at the level we needed to be at (31) to get mithril. Unfortunately now we have to restart. Pls fix the crashes.
If you save it a couple times throughout the day then it crashes less often. Graphics are good and storyline is fun.
Love the game… Keeps Crashing… For our friend above the quantities of the item matter for the quests. Please fix the crash bug and Ill give you a five star… Keeps crashing before we get to save on our good parts eg. We filled our animal barns but before we could go to bed it crashed now we have to buy them all back… We were headed to the mines to close off our day… We literally have to go through the whole events after we buy each animal all over again… Name them again.
We love the Harvest Moon Games!! But what we would like to see, that is in all of the other games we have played, is a calendar so that we can see events coming up. That is our only recommendation. Otherwise, this game is great.
This game is fun, we love harvest moon but you blow through the main story line extremely quickly, and while there are still things you can do post credits, it takes some of the fun out to beat the main storyline so quickly. Game does crash at times, but we just save after we do anything important.
We really wish there was a way to connect the game across your devices, Ive been playing on our iPad but cannot on our phone. Crashes a bit but not bad, all in all a good game.
We came here to write a review specifically because we purchased this game yesterday, even reading all the horrible reviews. Ive been sick the last couple days and decided to play a game yesterday. We have not experienced ANY crashing on our iPhone 7+. The loading screens do not take long at all; 5 seconds at the most? Mainly 1-2 seconds for traveling in between rooms/ areas in the world. Some of the bigger cutscenes may take up to 5 seconds, and the loading screen about 5 seconds. But mostly it takes 1-2 seconds to load up on our phone. As a kid that grew up on dial-up Internet, its still pretty fast. Maybe for the z-generations, or whatever theyre called, 5 seconds is too slow…? The only thing that grated on our nerves is the cicada-like sound during summer days. We have to turn our sound off, which makes fishing a bit more intense. We havent gotten to fall or winter yet, but the spring sound was nice. Wish they wouldnt have included that high pitch cicada background noise everywhere. All in all, a very good game. Im very much enjoying it. We played some sort of harvest moon game at a friends house, back in the PS2 days (we think?) and we remembered liking it very much. Thats the extent of our harvest moon knowledge, so we were pretty new to it. We wanted to play a game that didnt have in-app purchases. Just pay once and play. This has been a very enjoyable game so far! We would recommend it for kids and adults alike. Theres no swearing or adult humor that Ive found so far (although Im only in mid-summer; have not done any marriage stuff yet. The farming aspect and mining is keeping us busy enough.) So if youre on the fence and see all the bad reviews, it appears theyve given it a pretty good debug. Its good to go now.
If it had an auto save button without having to sleep that would be dope. If not, please find a way to keep it from crashing SO FREAKING OFTEN then we wouldnt worry about to autosave button.
Little slow in loading but All ok.. .. If something improve more it will be better.
Great game, but just cuts of in the middle of the game causing you to lose progress and have to start over.
They make the game a bit too easy, which makes it a little more boring. Wish it was like the old PlayStation game that made it more challenging.
We love this game overall and would give it a five star except for the crashing. It seems like we need to save every five seconds to make sure we dont lose progress. Ive lost days of work because of these crashes and it would be nice if it gets fix.
We really like the game it has a lot of different things that could keep you entertained for a while. The only problem that we have with it is the constant crashes.
Love the game play, only major flaw is it shuts down randomly. So if you didnt save you just lost everything you did following your last save. We hope they fix this bug soon as 14.99 for a crashing game is a bit much. Also we wish it auto saved instead of having to manually save. That would be a nice add on.
Dont get us wrong there are much better Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons games out there. But this one is cheap, and it lets us play one of our favorite game series on our phone.
There are a few things, first. The moving system is kinda annoying, a simple joystick would be easier. Also, we wish you could skip the character talking cut screen. Another thing. The repetitive loading screens are reeeeeeaally aggravating, so less of those would be nice. Clicking on things is also difficult, (mailbox, collectible items, etc.) otherwise, the graphics are great! Another thing that would be cool, is if you could visit other towns for money, maybe 100 coins, and make others multiplayer friends. Thanks! And keep up the good work.
Hi, we love the Harvest Moon games a lot. Would give it 5 stars but it force quits from time to time and it doesnt auto save from area to area.
Not many bugs, the controls are not very smooth. Long load times when transferring areas. When you go to bed it will save THEN sleep. So when you come back you need to sleep again. It should be sleep then save.
We love this game, despite the fact that it crashes sometimes. Make sure you save frequently.
We are using iPhone X iOS 12. Now playing this latest update, but 3 time crushes within playing. Please, fix it. You know we cant save while playing for every min and hour. We have to play again from morning.
Love this game. It crashes here and there so save often if you dont want to lose your progress. Features we would love to see are MFI controller support( Im using our SteelSeries Nimbus Controller and It somewhat works) and Apple TV application to play on our big screen.
We just downloaded this game, we like it, its not our favorite farming game but we still like it, its truly a good game but how come the loading times are so ridiculously long and on the Home Screen theres no way to access a game you had going so its basically forcing you to start over! So if you could fix that, that would be greatly appreciated.
We love Harvest Moon and was excited to play a mobile version, but it just crashes too often. We save it as often as we can but it will crash when you leave the mines and at random other times when going between locations. Its very frustrating. Its great when its working but they need to get the bugs fixed.
We love the harvest moon games. Its been very exciting to finally have one for ios. The movement controls are kind of difficult + it crashes often (usually when trying to exit the mines). We do wish there was an auto-save feature so we wouldnt have to redo things or lose progress because the app crashes out.
When we play the game it get us out please solve the problem.
Im super annoyed that we paid fifteen dollars for this game and it always crashes, making us lose all of the days progress! We have to save after every little thing that we do just in case it crashes on us! Im really tired of it.
We love the game, hate that it crashes all the time and that it doesnt auto save. The load times are baffling as well. Its 2020 and were playing the game on our phones, not N64 or PlayStation. You could keep the feel the same while eliminating all the same old problems. Mobile games need to pause automatically when the screen sleeps, and it needs to restore from the exact state, seemlessly. Otherwise its Classic Harvest Moon and we love that its not a free to play moneypit.
Can you fixed this problem we cannot not open the games and we are also a huge fun of harvest moon but after reinstall the game we cannot open it why it this because of the phone version or others our we-Phone software version is 13.3 the problem when we open the games without the internet it said unable to Verify App why is that happen if its because of software version or others.
Have always loved these games but this version ever since we completed day 7 it crashes like every other day which to us makes the game unplayable.
Its getting impossible to play this because it constantly crashes. Please fix this – 15$ is a rip off if we cant play.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.2
- Size: 745.05 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Natsume Inc.]()
Last updated: 3rd October 2018 | Genre: Roleplaying, Simulation | Developer: Natsume Inc.