Top 25 best farming games for iPad and iPhone (iOS)

Stardew Valley is my all time favourite farming game. There are no in-app purchases, there are no timers that take real life time, and there is no real way to lose. It’s just farming at its purest form, giving players the ability to do what they want and grow the farm they want, while sprinkling in a town to explore, fishing, mining, and more to keep things interesting. If you’re looking for more on the game, feel free to read our guide on how to use bait in Stardew Valley.

Tiny Pixel Farm is a cute, idle farming game where you take care of little plots of animals or plants, interacting with them from time to time. The entire game is played on a single screen, where you can see your whole farm and tap to interact, and you can get villagers who want to come and stay at your ranch, adding some new characters.

Seeds of Memories brings a story aspect to this farming game, with the additional challenge of befriending every person in your town to learn more about their own stories as well. You;ll have a lot of control over your own life and farm in this game!

FarmVille is a very well known game – I have to admit I had an impressive farm myself on Facebook as a teenager. FarmVille 3 brings the game to mobile and adds decorating, growing crops, collecting animals and visiting other friends’ farms! Though there is a lot of waiting in this farm game, I do enjoy the amount of limited time items. Oh, by the way, here we have Farmville 3 codes that you can use to get some free rewards.

Big Farm: Mobile Harvest is an exciting simulator where you need to take care of animals and grow crops. In this game, you will have to deal with fields overgrown with weeds, obtain primary farming skills, and build various agricultural facilities such as stalls, barns, and irrigation systems. This game is an online simulator of the personal garden. The graphic is bright and cute, and the soundtrack is also good. Big Farm: Mobile Harvest has multiplayer, which allows you to play with your friend.

The Smurfs farm too – on their village in Smurfs’ Village. Your goal is to actually grow food that the Smurfs can eat, so that they can grow. Along with growing your mushroom homes and the berries that you eat, you can decorate your village, meet loads of Smurf characters, and play a bunch of fun mini-games to break up the gameplay.

What’s better than a farm? Well, having an ocean view on your farm! In Family Farm Seaside, you can grow your crops on your farm and also on your seaside farm, collecting items into a barn that has unlimited storage, so you can turn your produce into other foods or just sell them off to purchase more things for your farm! The graphics are quite nice too.

Stripping farming games down to more basic mechanics, My Farm Day is an adorable game where you have to develop your farm! You can plant crops, sell them once they have grown, and tend to them while they are growing. Following through on fantasy, there are rainbows, crystals and more.

Your crops don’t die in Hay Day, which is great if you are forgetful when it comes to looking after your farm. Hay Day’s main difference is not killing off your produce, but you can also fulfil orders, sell items, trade with neighbours, and take care of a boatload of crops all on your mobile device. For more on the game, make sure to check our guide on how to gain experience and level up quickly in Hay Day.

Instead of a traditional farmstead, Hobby Farm Classic has you trying to make a farm on an island full of excotic plants, free-roaming animals that need to be wrangled, and villagers who are interested in working on your farm. You can also make machines to turn your produce into products to sell for more money.

If you want a bit of city building with your farming, Township is a game for you! While trying to upgrade and build up your town, you will also be tasted with building up a farm – producing crops which can be used and sold to help contribute to the town that’s ever growing on the sidelines! And if you are looking for more info about this farming game, we have a Township review for you!

What if you just want to farm chickens? Egg, Inc puts chicken farming into the production line, allowing you to make the most eggs you can through tapping the screen. You are able to hatch chickens to make more eggs, hire workers, research different eggs and more while tapping the screen full of eggs.

Building a farm and then thriving city in the middle of nowhere in Alaska, Klondike Adventure. Along with farming and exploring, you can also play various mini-games, trade with your neighbours and slowly expand – turning this isolated area into a thriving hot spot in the state of Alaska. The graphics on Klondike Adventure are quite good.

Tiny Sheep is a cross between a farming simulator and pet game, as you don’t really need to grow anything and instead are taking care of a bunch of sheep, shearing them, feeding them, and generally looking after them. Sheep farming is a real life thing, so this is indeed a farming game, just far less of a crop-based one!

A voxel farming game, Blocky Farm has everything you’d want from a farming game; growing crops, raising animals, riding tractors, etc. Taking care of plants and animals is easily done and key to keeping a good farm running. Along with farming, you can ride a boat out and go fishing to catch something extra to sell.

We are more than halfway down this list and I am sure you are thinking “Jupiter, a lot of these games look the same” and my reply is “BAM. Zombies.” Monster Farm: Happy Halloween is a zombie farming game that’s perfect for feeling a little spooky. Your zombies and monsters will help you grow spooky crops and make Halloween-themed treats.

This colourful farming sim is very popular these days. It will remind you of Animal Crossing a bit, with a similar art style and options. The sunny village is always active, so it’s a massive time sink. Whether you’re growing or harvesting crops, feeding animals, or tampering with magic (yes, magic) there’s something to click on whenever you’re there. And with a new friend system, you can now level up your friends and assign them to buildings to boost productivity.

Tsuki Adventure is an adorable carrot farming game that has a really lovely countryside feel to the game, providing not only carrot farming but also cute animals, the ability to fly a kite, eat ramen, farm your carrots, fish and more. There aren’t a bunch of in-app purchases or anything else to take you out of this game.

King made a match-3 farming game because of course they did. The name of it is Farm Heroes Saga – where you will be matching adorable fruit to same the town from some sort of bad raccoon? To be honest, I really don’t know, but if you want the concept of a farming game but are really looking for a match-3 game, King, as always, has you covered. And for a few more tips and tricks, make sure to read our guide on how to grow a bumper crop in Farm Heroes Saga.

Though SpongeBob Adventures: In a Jam! has more of a story element to the game, there are lots of farming aspects there too! You will find yourself cleaning up areas of the world, to make room for you to plant more items in your field, fulfilling orders that the characters of Bikini Bottom want to purchase from you. As you are under water, you don’t actually need to water your plants, but there are plenty of other activities to keep you busy.

Though this is more farming adjacent, It’s Literally Just Mowing is a relaxing, fun game where you find yourself gardening in a way that you have probably done so in your life. Most of us haven’t had massive farms to work on, but we have mowed our own lawn. In this game, you find massive plots of overgrown land, some on farms, some as community lots, and some around people’s homes. You then can mow the lawns, fixing them up so that it’s a nicer place to live in and their garden feels nicer.

Another exotic farming game, you will be looking to earn as much as possible while upgrading your farm and growing your town in Funky Bay. This game also has treasures that you can find through pirates and mining for resources within the world around you. There are quests that you can fulfil and plenty of crops to harvest!

Superheroes seem to need help too, and their current mission is Farming! Superfarmers is a farming game where you are helping superheroes run a well-oiled farm, producing crops, taking care of animals and fulfilling requests along the way. As it turns out, superheroes are just lazy celebrities, so you might be doing more work than you though.

The name Farming Simulator 20 fully justifies itself. This is the continuation of the popular series of simulators, imbued with realism and the spirit of everyday life. In terms of gameplay, everything is clear. Here the player is doing what real farmers do: taking care of the fields and livestock, selling the fruits of their labor, and raising money for improved and new equipment.

Graveyard Keeper feels like a dark version of Stardew Valley, which is why it’s perfect for closing off this list. Instead of growing crops or taking care of animals, you are creating a grave, selling mystery meat, and generally trying to keep the dark forces at bay, but the gameplay is that of a farming game, which makes for a pretty interesting combination!

And while you are still here, make sure to check out our list of the best gardening games on mobile.