Summary
- Natsume has revealed two Nintendo 3DS Harvest Moon games are coming to Switch this summer.
- The Lost Valley and Skytree Village have been combined into one Switch game which has been dubbed the Cozy Bundle.
- The bundle’s games have been optimized for Switch and will include all of their DLC.
As we approach the Nintendo Switch‘s eighth birthday, and the release of the Nintendo Switch 2, you might think reveals for the original console will start to dry up. That will happen eventually, but we’re not there yet. Still to come on Switch is a Harvest Moon bundle that revives two of its Nintendo 3DS games and optimizes them for the Switch.
Joining the Switch library this summer via the aptly named Cozy Bundle are Harvest Moon: Skytree Village, and Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley. The bundle’s arrival will mean there are eight Harvest Moon games available on Nintendo Switch – six you can buy and two via Nintendo Switch Online – making it quite the system for fans of the series who want to play through almost its entire history.
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Harvest Moon studio Natsume noted (thanks, Nintendo Life) that it wanted to bring fan-favorite installments from the series onto the latest Nintendo console, giving people the chance to revisit towns and characters they might not have seen for over a decade. The Lost Valley is now 11 years old, and follow-up Skytree Village came two years later, just in case you needed something to make you feel old.
Two More Harvest Moon Games Are Coming To Nintendo Switch This Summer
Return To The Lost Valley And Skytree Village Soon
The bundle will also include all of the DLC for both games and as noted above, the games will be optimized for the Switch. Exactly what that means hasn’t been clarified. Don’t go expecting a remaster, but making a point that the games included in the bundle have been tweaked in some way ready for their arrival on Switch implies that there may be some improvements.
While there’s no news on when we might get a brand new Harvest Moon game, bringing older games to the Switch continues Nintendo’s efforts to make as much of its back catalog available on its current console so that all these games can come to Switch 2. Backwards compatibility for the Switch 2 has now been confirmed which means even though the Cozy Bundle isn’t a Switch 2 game, it will be playable on Switch 2.
Even though Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley are available on other platforms, the Switch has become a cozy farming machine for a lot of people. Partly down to those series, but mostly because of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The latest Animal Crossing game has been a system seller for Nintendo. So much so that you have to think a sequel for the Switch 2 is close to being ready if it’s not done already.
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