Games Like Hay Day: Farm and Trade Games to Play Online
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Games like Hay Day are farm and trade games: you grow crops, feed animals, turn what you harvest into goods and sell them. Hay Day is a farming game by Supercell, first released in 2012. The games below are original titles by independent studios that share its loop of growing, making and selling.
How Hay Day plays
In Hay Day you grow crops and feed livestock on your own farm. Production buildings turn ingredients into goods, and the ingredients can be crops, animal products or goods from other buildings. Eggs, for example, can be sold or combined with other resources to make waffles and cookies.
You sell goods through truck orders, boat orders and town visitors, and you can buy goods from other players' roadside shops (source). Coins buy production buildings, livestock, trees and decorations. The experience you earn raises your level, which opens up new crops, goods, livestock and features.
So the game is one loop: grow, feed, make, sell, level up. This table shows where the games below ask for the same.
| What you do in Hay Day | Games that ask the same |
|---|---|
| Plant crops and wait for the harvest | Sunfield Vegetable Farm, Happy Farm Familly, Magic Farm: Clicker |
| Feed animals for milk and eggs | Frenzy Farming Simulator, Idle Dairy Tycoon, Your Idle Farm |
| Turn raw goods into products | Your Idle Farm, Idle Dairy Tycoon, My Sugar Factory |
| Sell what you make | Sunfield Vegetable Farm, My Mini Mart 3D, Frenzy Farming Simulator |
| Level up and open more of the farm | The Farmers, Field of Dreams: Simulation Adventure |
Plant, wait and harvest
- Sunfield Vegetable Farm is the nearest to the crop side. Plant carrots, tomatoes and cabbages, water them and watch them grow, then stock the market carts and serve customers at the checkout. Buy new land for more beds, fields and carts, and hire a cashier and farm workers. It plays on desktop and mobile, with W, A, S, D or the arrow keys and a click to walk.
- Happy Farm Familly is a farm management game. Plant vegetables and fruit crops that you can sell, take care of them and watch the weather, because changing conditions affect the plants. The money from the harvest pays for upgrades.
- Magic Farm: Clicker starts with a single seed. Harvest magical crops, buy upgrades to expand your fields, find rare plants and automate your harvest. You click or tap to play.
- Field of Dreams: Simulation Adventure turns vacant land into a farm. Expand your borders to get more resources, grow western-style crops, raise animals and fill the farm with buildings and decorations. You play with the mouse.
Animals, workshops and products
Hay Day's buildings turn eggs, milk and crops into goods. These games run the same chain.
- Your Idle Farm has the longest chain. Plant and harvest crops, raise chickens and cows, keep bees and turn the produce into bread, cheese, jam and juice in a growing chain of workshops. Left click plants, waters, harvests and builds, and the mouse wheel zooms the camera.
- Frenzy Farming Simulator starts with plants and chickens. Collect and sell the eggs, add cows for milk in later levels, then make cakes from the milk and eggs and sell them for money. You play with mouse clicks and swipes.
- Idle Dairy Tycoon begins with a single cow. Collect fresh milk, sell it for coins, buy upgrades and automate the farm, then craft butter, cheese and yogurt. A touch or a left click collects the milk.
- My Sugar Factory is the factory end of the chain. Start with one sugarcane bush, buy a factory and open a laboratory to improve the sugarcane. It is pixel art, and you play with the mouse or a tap.
Selling, levels and a village
Hay Day lets you sell through orders and visitors, and each level opens something new. These games put the shop and the levels first.
- The Farmers is the nearest to Hay Day's levels. You plant crops and trees and raise chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, and every harvest earns gold coins and experience. As your level rises, more of the store opens: vegetables, fruit trees, flowers, animals, fish, buildings, roads and decorations.
- Village Farm Life covers the whole chain. Plant and tend crops until harvest, buy and breed animals and care for them until they are grown, and make food from what you harvest. You play with the mouse.
- My Mini Mart 3D puts the shop up front. Start with a small mini market, grow fresh crops, stock the shelves, serve customers and hire helpers. Its page lists both mouse and keyboard controls.
- Uncle Wang's Happy Life is a cozy life simulation in the Chinese countryside. You play Wang, a grandpa with his dog, who builds, farms and cooks in his village homestead. The left mouse button or a tap does everything.
The farm games guide has more crops, tractors and idle farms, and games like Stardew Valley covers farms that grow into villages. Every farm game is on the farm page.
Tips for farm and trade games
- Make products, not just crops. Your Idle Farm turns produce into bread, cheese, jam and juice, and Frenzy Farming Simulator turns milk and eggs into cakes.
- Hire help early. Sunfield Vegetable Farm lets you hire a cashier and farm workers, and Your Idle Farm says a crew keeps the farm running while you are away.
- Watch the weather. Happy Farm Familly says changing weather conditions affect the plants.
- Grow the land with the farm. Sunfield Vegetable Farm lets you buy new land for more beds, fields and carts, and Field of Dreams: Simulation Adventure has you expand your borders for more resources.
- Harvest for experience too. In The Farmers, each harvest earns experience as well as coins, and a higher level opens more of the store.
Games like Hay Day FAQ
Are there free games like Hay Day for PC?
Yes. They play free in the browser on a computer, with no install and no registration, and there are no in-game purchases, paid access or subscriptions on the site. Sunfield Vegetable Farm uses W, A, S, D or the arrow keys, Your Idle Farm plays with the mouse, and Idle Dairy Tycoon plays with a left click.
Can I play games like Hay Day on a phone?
Yes. The site works in the browser of a phone, a tablet and a computer. Sunfield Vegetable Farm says it plays on desktop and mobile and lists a mobile joystick, Idle Dairy Tycoon takes a touch, and Uncle Wang's Happy Life takes a tap.
Are there games like Hay Day without waiting?
Some let workers do the waiting. Your Idle Farm says a crew keeps the farm running while you are away and that a harvest is waiting when you come back. Idle Dairy Tycoon automates the farm with upgrades, and Magic Farm: Clicker lets you automate your harvest. Sunfield Vegetable Farm says it saves automatically.
Start with a few crops, add one product, and each of these farms grows from there.
