Rice Paddy 365: Farming Sim

Watch over a year of rice paddies in a mountain valley, about one day per minute. Snowmelt, flooded paddies mirroring the mountains, rice planting, green fields, golden ears of rice. And the harvest is in your hands. Suiden 365 is a relaxing rice farming simulation set in the countryside of Aizu, Fukushima, Japan. The game starts on today's date and the seasons follow the real calendar. Enjoy the slow beauty of rural Japan while you take care of the farm work, from tilling the soil to harvesting the rice. ■ Farm work with a swipe - Tilling, puddling, planting, weeding, stink-bug control, shooing sparrows and harvesting - In winter: repairing levees, clearing snow off the greenhouse and spreading snow-melt - Just swipe across the paddies. Every job has its own sound and vibration - How well you work changes the year's harvest and rice grade - Harvest between Sep 28 and Oct 8 for first-grade rice. Wait too long and the rice falls over ■ Four seasons, about one day per minute - Time runs slowly by day and quickly at night - Cherry blossoms and rapeseed in spring, hydrangeas in early summer, sunflowers in summer, cosmos and autumn leaves in fall, and deep snow in winter - The distant mountain changes too: snow-capped, lingering snow, fresh green, autumn colors, first snow - Sunny, cloudy, rainy and snowy days based on Aizu's climate - Morning mist, sunsets, and mountains reflected upside down in the flooded paddies ■ Mountain-valley sunlight and a real starry sky - The sun moves as it does at Fukushima's latitude. The sky brightens at sunrise, but the paddies light up only when the sun clears the ridge - At night, the stars are placed where they really are: Orion in winter, the Milky Way and Scorpius in summer - Fireflies on summer nights and red dragonflies on autumn days ■ Life in a Japanese village - A thatched-roof farmhouse, a white storehouse, a wooden hut and tall cedar trees - Persimmon trees full of fruit in autumn, a temple bell tower and stone lanterns - A local train passing in the distance - The evening chime plays "Going Home" - Swans visit the snowy paddies in winter ■ Sounds - Frogs, cicadas, bell crickets, bush warblers, wind and rain - All sounds are generated in the game ■ Also - Playable offline - Japanese and English - Free to play (contains ads) - Farm-work timing follows typical dates in the Aizu region

Rice Paddy 365 is here. Experience a year of rice farming in a mountain valley in Aizu, Fukushima, from planting to harvest. - Till, plant, weed and harvest with a swipe - Four seasons, mirrored paddies and a real starry sky - About one day per minute, at a relaxing pace