Social Network Games
In recent years, Harvest Moon has inspired a large number of social network games centred around farming, most notably Happy Farm (2008) and FarmVille (2009). Happy Farm is considered one of the most influential games of the 2000s, while in early 2010 FarmVille had a peak audience of 84 million monthly active users. In 2009 Marvelous Entertainment released a version of Harvest Moon, called Let's All Harvest Moon (みんなで牧場物語, Minna de Bokujō Monogatari?), for the Japanese social network site Mixi, where it attracted 2.3 million users. Other similar farming social network games released in 2009 and 2010 include Sunshine Farm, Happy Farmer, Happy Fishpond, Happy Pig Farm, Farm Town, Country Story, Barn Buddy, Sunshine Ranch, and Happy Harvest, as well as parodies such as Farm Villain.
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