Harvest Moon: Light of Hope Special Edition
Skip · Multiplayer · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 41, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 24.1h
- Value
- $0.83/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
In celebration of Harvest Moon's 20th Anniversary comes an all new Harvest Moon title for Steam! Harvest Moon: Light of Hope Special Edition! The game encompasses twenty years of the spirit that have made the franchise what it is today!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was November 2018. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 31 in the 9 years tracked, about 14 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 24 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dinkum ($19.99, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Hokko Life ($19.99, scores 16).
Of the 378 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 40 percent of the 105 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
93% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
8 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 03:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Nice lay back game and has things to find and discover as well request to complete.
It's cute! It's no Stardew Valley, but it's in that vein, and the crop mutations are a fun feature you don't see elsewhere. It's worth playing when I want a SDV-flavored farm sim but I don't want to have to pay attention to too many processes and details. It's simpler, and that's both a pro and a con depending on the day and mood I'm in. Worth having in my library, though, for sure!
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Harvest Moon: Light of Hope Special Edition scores 41/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/585900/harvest-moon-light-of-hope-special-editionReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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