In Grandpa’s Farm, you’ve inherited a long-neglected farmstead and you’re about to spend the next season of your life getting it up and running again. You’ll make steady progress and chronicle your efforts by writing letters to neighbors and loved ones. You’ll also have the option to attend local festivals to trade, compete, and gossip with other farmers.
Inspired by games like Harvest Moon, Animal Crossing, and Stardew Valley, Grandpa's Farm emulates slow-life video games by asking players to roleplay farmers while composing actual letters to real or fictional recipients. Farm development is determined by cards dealt from a standard deck of playing cards, and game mechanics ensure that progress increases every season for a satisfying, meditative experience.
Grandpa’s Farm can be played as:
- A solo journaling game
- A multiplayer game where players collaborate in playing the same farm and character(s)
- An epistolary game where players write actual letters to each other detailing their farms’ development over the course of days, weeks, months, or more
- Any mix of the above!
To play you'll need:
- One standard deck of playing cards per player
- Writing materials
- A second deck of cards for solo festivals (optional)
- A simple calculator (optional)
Grandpa's Farm is illustrated by Evlyn Moreau. An artist and designer from Montreal, Canada, Evelyn loves to draw strange creatures and craft zines, and her work mixes illustrations and gaming materials in whimsical ways. She is the author of the blog “Le Chaudron Chromatique” and recently contributed to the RPG works Dissident Whispers, Hivemind, and Retropunk.
Grandpa's Farm is also one of six games funded as part of the Possible Worlds RPG subscription Kickstarter. A boxed set collecting all six games printed as pocket-sized, wire-bound guidebooks is available for pre-order until October 2021. Individual guidebooks will be made available in December 2021 at $12.50/per, so pre-ordering the $50 boxed set gets you two games free.
Possible Worlds' series covers are designed by Austin Breed.
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $6 USD. You will get access to the following files:
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