Citations:farming sim

Noun: "(video games) a simulation game which centers on running a farm and/or raising crops and livestock"

 * 1997, "The 16-Bit Gamer's Survival Guide", GamePro, March 1997, page 88:
 * Nintendo says it has a couple of third-party games coming sometime this spring, perhaps as early as April: a still-untitled farming sim by Natsume, and Timon and Puumba by T•HQ.
 * 1999, "Arcade's Top 10 Game Boy games", Arcade, December 1999, page 119:
 * Down on the farm... Clear your land, till the soil, plant some seeds – there aren't many farming sims out there, but Harvest Moon proves that they should be more popular than Lara.
 * 2010, Tristan Donovan, Replay: The History of Video Games, page 157:
 * Life simulations and dating games also influenced Yasuhiro Wada, the designer of the gentile farming sim series Harvest Moon, which first appeared in 1996 on the Super NES.
 * 2010, "The Cheat Mistress, The Games of the Decade, unnumbered page:
 * While many millions of people are wasting away their life on social game Farmville, [sic] many of us have been there, done that with the master of the farming sim, Harvest Moon.
 * 2019, "Wargroove", Edge, April 2019, page 114:
 * Either way, if Eric Barone clearly understood what made Harvest Moon tick while adding just enough to give his farming sim [Stardew Valley] a fresh spin, Wargroove lacks the deceptive simplicity and exquisite balance of Advance Wars.
 * 2020, "Interactive: Spirittea", Wireframe, February 2020, page 25:
 * Created by Eric 'ConcernedApe' Barone, Stardew Valley is an inspiration to indie developers everywhere. Not only did Barone create his much-loved farming sim entirely by himself, but the game's also gone on to become a storming success, with over ten million copies sold to date.