Farmagia

Farmagia is a single-player action role-playing game and farm life sim in which the player grows monsters from seeds acquired from dungeons called mazes. On the player's farm, actions such as tilling and watering cost stamina called Farmagia Points (FP), which is replenished upon completing a maze. Fertilizers are purchased from the game's magic shop to improve monster growth and shorten the number of in-game days until harvest.

The player grows two types of monsters on the farm: Battle Buddies, which are used to battle enemies encountered in mazes; and Research Buddies, which award points used to purchase additional skills and benefits in farming and battle. Additionally, Agri-Buddies are crafted from the game's magic shop to perform farming actions without consuming FP or resources. Once harvested, Battle Buddies are trained on the player's ranch to boost their individual stats. The effectiveness of training depends on the monsters' motivation, which decreases with every stat increase, and is recovered by feeding the monsters with treats.

Farmagia is set in Felicidad, a land in the underworld where its human-like denizens magically farm and grow monsters to use in battle and society, with these farmers known as Farmagia. Denizens live atop continent-sized monsters that serve as Felicidad's landmasses, with the town of Centvelt on the "continent" Avrion serving as the game's central hub. The continents are protected by the six Elemental Spirits, who strengthen any Farmagia with whom they form a pact.

The player characters are a party of young Farmagia orphans from Centvelt, consisting of Ten, their bold and reckless leader, and his childhood friends: Arche, a cheerful yet sickly girl; Leii, Ten's self-conscious best friend; Chica, Arche's pacifistic friend; Emero, Chica's older brother figure; and Anzar, the group's admired senior. A fairy named Lookie-Loo, who lacks conventional Fairy Skills, is also part of the group. They are guided by Nares, Avrion's altruistic ruling general, and Dentro, the orphanage's elderly caretaker.

The game was announced at the Marvelous Game Showcase in May 2023 under the title Project Magia, with Hiro Mashima designing the characters and monsters. The current title was revealed at the following showcase in May 2024 along with the game's release year and opening sequence. The game's theme song is "dis-dystopia", an image song performed by Ayane Sakura and Inori Minase as the characters Arche and Chica, respectively.

Farmagia was released worldwide on November 1, 2024, published by Marvelous for the PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and Steam, with Marvelous USA handling the game's release in North America. Following the game's launch, Marvelous released weekly "buddy skins" for in-game monsters as free downloadable content throughout November 2024.

The Nintendo Switch version of Farmagia launched at #8 on Japanese charts, selling 4,296 physical copies within its first three days of release, making it the only new release to chart in the top ten games sold that week.

The game received "mixed or average" reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic. Reviewing the Switch version, Paulo Kawanishi of Nintendo Life praised the character designs, writing, and technical performance. However, he criticized the farming aspect of the game, noting the lack of variety regarding the designs of its dungeons, monsters, and the farm itself. Leigh Price of Siliconera considered the game to be mediocre, calling its farming and training aspects "undercooked", but enjoyed the story and sidequests for their character writing. Abraham Kobylanski of RPGFan found the game's monster-farming premise to be bizarre, describing the story as both "strange but captivating" and "uneven", and praising the music and dating segments while criticizing the game's farming aspect as an "afterthought".