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Hearthfield

Hearthfield is a cozy co-op farming game where cooking is king. Research ingredients, master a deep recipe tree, and get rich from the kitchen — not by selling raw crops. Farm, fish, mine, and automate your way across the seasons with up to 4 friends.

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Merrill Lines
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Merrill Lines
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About the Game

Cooking is the whole point.

Most farm games pay you to dump raw crops on a merchant. Not here. In Hearthfield, raw
ingredients are barely worth anything — real wealth comes from the kitchen. Everything you
grow, catch, raise, and mine is fuel for a deep, satisfying cooking economy.

Research, don't gamble.

Study ingredients to unlock what they can become — without using them up. Spend Research
Points to light up a sprawling recipe tech-tree, then turn humble produce into dishes worth
real gold. Discovering a new recipe is its own reward.

Food is your fuel.

Eating cooked dishes restores your energy, so getting good at cooking literally is getting
good at the game. Stay up through a harvest crunch if you dare — but sleep debt is real, and
exhaustion will make every swing cost you.

Build a homestead with friends.

Play solo or in online co-op for 2–4 players. Share a farm, split the chores, and grow
a town together across living seasons.

From hand-tending to high-tech.

Start with a hoe and a watering can. End with automated fields, auto-sorting storage, and a
searchable network that crafts from anywhere. Quality-of-life upgrades reward mastery —
they don't replace the fun.

A cozy world with real depth.

  • Seasons, crops, and animals that feed your recipes
  • Fishing, foraging, and light mine-delving for rare ingredients
  • Befriend townsfolk, take on quests, and uncover the story of Hearthfield
  • Skill trees for cooking, farming, crafting, and more
  • Full controller + keyboard/mouse support, built for Steam Deck

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