indiegame.fan
Royal Farm header art

Royal Farm

The king has announced the next market day—will your stall be ready? Grow crops, care for animals, cook and craft the right goods, then bargain with customers as you expand your farm and automate selected parts of production.

Steam Page
Release
Coming Soon
Steam Reviews
No reviews yet

Does this feel indie?

Vote based on whether this game feels indie to you. You can change your vote at any time. Results earn an IGF score after 10 accepted votes.
No votes yet
Vote on More Games
Game contextLatest: IGF Team
ContextThe evidence factors used to assess whether this game belongs on IndieGame.Fan.Status
Notes
Latest Contributor: IGF TeamEdit notes
Search Google: Who developed Royal Farm?Developer scaleThe operating scale of the game's developer.
Search Google: Who published Royal Farm?Publisher scaleThe operating scale of the game's publisher.
Search Google: Is Royal Farm self-published or published by Ert Gaming Studio?Publisher statusHow the game's publishing relationship is classified.
Search Google: How is Royal Farm and Ert Gaming Studio funded?FundingThe known source of funding behind the game.
Search Google: Who controls the creative direction and IP for Royal Farm and Ert Gaming Studio?Creative controlWho appears to retain creative control of the game.
Search Google: What is the release status of Royal Farm?Release statusWhether and how the game has been released.

Media

13 items

About the Game

The village is where you prepare. The royal market is where every choice is tested.


In Royal Farm, the king announces each market in advance. It may be a regular market day or a themed festival with objectives of its own. Read the announcement, set your priorities, and use the days before the market opens wisely. A successful stall begins long before the first customer arrives.


🌾 Plan Around the Next Market

Each announcement gives your farm a new focus. Choose what to plant, which animals need attention, and which finished goods deserve shelf space. Balance goods that can be sold quickly against production chains that need more time but open additional options.

Festival themes add objectives to this rhythm, asking you to adjust what you prepare and bring. The announcement points you in a direction; how you reach opening day is up to you.


🏪 Stock the Stall and Make the Deal

When market day arrives, arrange your chosen products on the shelves and prepare for customers. Some shoppers will look for what you brought; others may ask for something your farm can produce but you left behind. Every fulfilled request begins with the choices you made back in the village.

Once a customer is interested, price becomes part of the game. Make an offer, weigh their counteroffer, and decide when the deal is good enough. Bargaining can continue across several rounds, but patience has limits. Push too hard and the customer may leave without buying.


🍲 Build Connected Production Chains

Begin with the land and your animals. Sow and harvest crops, care for cows, chickens, and sheep, and collect resources such as milk, eggs, and wool. Some products can go directly to the market, while others become ingredients or materials for the next stage of production.

Use the kitchen to turn harvested ingredients into prepared meals, and work at the blacksmith to shape useful materials into crafted goods. Production is hands-on: chop, grind, mix, and heat ingredients, then saw, hammer, and time your actions while working at the forge. As more recipes become available, decide which chains and stations deserve your attention before the next market.

Pin recipes from the book to keep their ingredients and production steps close at hand. Visit the storehouse to inspect the goods shared across the village, then decide what to use now, what to save, and which missing link must be completed first.


Explore Beyond the Farm

New areas broaden the resources available to you. Fish at the lake, gather useful materials from the mine, cut timber in the forest, and hunt wildlife for ingredients and crafting resources. These hands-on activities feed back into your production network, opening more recipes, crafted goods, and ways to prepare for future markets.

Time spent away cannot be spent farming, cooking, or crafting, so choosing which resource your current plan truly needs is part of the challenge.


Grow, Upgrade, and Automate

As your level rises, new recipes, tools, areas, and production options become available. Guided goals introduce new systems step by step. Expand the field with more plots and crops, increase the capacity of animal areas, and improve the lake and mine to reach additional resources.

Invest your earnings in machines that handle selected repetitive jobs. Automatic feeders and collection systems support animal care, while food processors and crafting machines keep chosen recipes moving. Automation creates breathing room, not autopilot: you still supply materials, stock the shelves, and decide what matters next.


Every market begins a new cycle: read the announcement, build a plan, prepare the right products, face the customers, and invest in what comes next. Royal Farm blends welcoming farm routines with thoughtful production and negotiation, giving every harvest a purpose and every well-prepared shelf a story.