Games like Stardew Valley on mobile
By the Lootero team. Published .
Stardew Valley is on phones, and in our view it is one of the best-value games you can buy there: $4.99 on the US App Store and on Google Play, with nothing else to buy. If you have taken your farm as far as you want to, or you are looking for the same slow loop of gathering, selling and building up a place of your own, these are the seven games we would play next on iPhone and Android. Potion Permit is the closest to Stardew Valley's mix of daily work and townspeople to get to know. Slime Rancher is the one we would buy first: for $8.99 you get the whole game with nothing else to buy, and its ranch grows the way a Stardew farm does, as you sell what it produces and spend the money on more room.
In Stardew Valley you take over an overgrown farm, grow crops and raise animals, and between harvests you fish, explore the mines and get to know the people in town, one of whom you can marry. Every game below gives you a place of your own that grows as you work, and something to gather or grow and sell to pay for it. Two of them are free with ads. You buy the other five once (Dave the Diver also sells one expansion), and two of those let you try the start for free on iPhone. Each game's section says how it plays differently from Stardew Valley. After the seven comes a section on Lootero, the game we are making, which is much further from Stardew and has no price yet.
Short answer
Prices are paid once, with nothing else to buy, unless the line says otherwise.
- A town you win over by curing its people with potions: Potion Permit, $6.99 ($6.49 on Google Play).
- A farm with animals and someone to marry: Harvest Town, free with ads and purchases.
- A tiny island farm you can play offline: Mini Mini Farm, free with ads and optional purchases.
- A ranch of slimes on another planet, played in first person: Slime Rancher, $8.99 ($7.99 on Google Play).
- Diving for fish by day and serving sushi by night: Dave the Diver, $9.99, free to try on iPhone, plus a $4.99 expansion.
- A mouse rebuilding its home in a freezing winter: Winter Burrow, $9.99, free to try on iPhone.
- A campsite to decorate for visiting animals: Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete, $19.99.
Potion Permit
- Made by
- MassHive Media, published on phones by Playdigious
- On phones
- 2024
- Platforms
- iPhone, Android
- Price
- $6.99 on the US App Store, $6.49 on Google Play, paid once (also free with Google Play Pass, the game subscription from Google)
Why you might like it
Potion Permit sends you to the town of Moonbury as a chemist, after the mayor's daughter falls ill and the town's own healer can't help her. The people of Moonbury trust their old remedies more than you, so you win them over one patient at a time. When someone gets sick you diagnose them at your clinic, gather the ingredients out in the countryside and brew the potion that cures them. The money you earn pays to upgrade buildings in town and open up more land to gather in, and as people come to trust you, you can make friends and find a sweetheart. A dog follows you everywhere and helps with the work. An App Store reviewer in September 2025 who had wanted to get into Stardew Valley but never managed it found that this one held them, for its relationships and its puzzles.
How it differs from Stardew Valley
The clinic sits at the centre of it instead of a farm, so your days are shaped by who walks in sick. On phones its weak point is saving. The game saves only when your character goes to bed, so if your phone closes the game while you take a call, you start that day again. An App Store reviewer ran into this in September 2025, and Google Play reviewers were still asking for a manual save in August and September 2026. Stardew Valley on phones saves by itself, even when you close the app. One of those Google Play reviewers had also grown tired of the diagnosis minigames after about 30 hours and wished the game would remember a diagnosis once it was made.
Harvest Town
- Made by
- GAMINPOWER (listed as AVIDGamers on Google Play)
- On phones
- 2020
- Platforms
- iPhone, Android
- Price
- Free, with ads and in-app purchases (from $0.99 to $99.99 on Google Play)
Why you might like it
Harvest Town is the free game here that comes closest to the shape of Stardew Valley. You clear the weeds around a farmhouse, raise chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep and horses, and adopt a cat or a dog. The four seasons change across the year, there are caves to explore and hidden secrets to find, and each person in town has their own story, with one you can choose to marry. A Google Play reviewer in September 2026 who had played Stardew Valley for years called it very similar, and another that month liked that gathering wild plants doesn't use up your energy.
How it differs from Stardew Valley
Harvest Town is free, so it makes its money from ads and purchases. It also has things to do with other players, such as races and a market for trading, and it runs regular events, from holidays to a fishing contest. The App Store sells a Permit ($4.99), a Permanent Permit ($11.99), VIP cards and packs of diamonds, and doesn't say what any of them give you. On Google Play, purchases go up to $99.99. Both stores warn about chance purchases: Google Play's age rating says some purchases give random items, and the App Store's says the game has loot boxes. The reviewer who liked not losing energy while gathering found the purchases easy to ignore. Another, in October 2025, was annoyed that outfits can't be sold or thrown away. They also felt they had to put down every decoration, even ones they didn't like, to help the town grow.
Mini Mini Farm
- Made by
- CoffeeBreak
- On phones
- 2020
- Platforms
- iPhone, Android
- Price
- Free, with ads and optional purchases ($2.99 to $11.99)
Why you might like it
Mini Mini Farm is the smallest and calmest game here. You are sent to a deserted island as a pioneer, where you grow crops, fish and mine for materials, then fill the villagers' requests for coins and spend them on new land and buildings. Your goal is to bring the island's exploration rate to 100%. Google Play marks it as a game you can play offline, and a reviewer there in July 2026 liked that there is no energy to run out of and that the ads mostly show up when you choose to watch one. Its developer, CoffeeBreak, still adds to it: a second dungeon came in June 2026, and animal explorers who find coins and items for you came in July.
How it differs from Stardew Valley
Its store page calls the story light and says nothing about friendships or marriage, and what you do with the villagers is fill their requests. The July reviewer liked that crops grow fast enough to keep you busy, which suits short sessions on a phone. Its store page says you can play it to the end without buying anything. What you can buy is an end to all video ads ($5.99), or only to the ads that play when you use the game's teleport ($2.99), a Dungeon Amulet ($4.99), new houses and better tools, up to $11.99 for a set of tools.
Slime Rancher
- Made by
- Monomi Park, published on phones by Playdigious
- On phones
- 2026
- Platforms
- iPhone, Android
- Price
- $8.99 on the US App Store, $7.99 on Google Play, paid once
Why you might like it
In Slime Rancher you play Beatrix LeBeau, who takes over an abandoned ranch on the Far, Far Range, a planet a thousand light years from Earth. With a vacuum pack you suck up slimes in the wild, bring them home to pens and feed them, and in return they produce plorts, which you sell to pay for bigger pens, gardens, coops and better tools. Feed one slime the plort of another kind and it grows into a Largo, a bigger mix of the two that produces both plorts. Feed a Largo the wrong plort and it turns into a Tarr, which attacks your other slimes and turns them into Tarr too. It came to phones in May 2026, with its Secret Style pack of extra looks included, and you choose between the normal Adventure mode, a calmer Casual mode and Rush, where you race the clock.
How it differs from Stardew Valley
You play in first person, in 3D, rather than looking down from above, and there is no town and nobody to date. The ranch and the wild areas around it are the whole game. It needs a fairly recent phone: the App Store version needs iOS 18, and its listing warns that phones such as the iPhone XR and the 2020 iPhone SE may freeze or crash. Google Play's listing doesn't name a minimum phone. For controllers it supports PlayStation and Xbox pads, and a Google Play reviewer in May 2026 was still waiting for support for the Backbone, a controller that clips onto the phone. On iPhone it costs a dollar more than on Google Play.
Dave the Diver
- Made by
- Mintrocket
- On phones
- 2026
- Platforms
- iPhone, Android
- Price
- $9.99 for the full game (free to try on the US App Store), plus a $4.99 expansion
Why you might like it
Dave the Diver splits each day in two. By day, Dave dives into the Blue Hole with a harpoon to catch fish and other sea creatures, and the Blue Hole changes from one dive to the next. By night, he helps run a sushi restaurant that serves what he caught, and its profits pay for better gear so he can dive deeper. If Dave runs out of oxygen, you keep only one of the things you found on that dive. Later you get a farm for rice and vegetables, and the game is full of side quests, minigames and odd characters. The phone version, out since September 2026, is the full PC game with fast travel and tilt controls added.
How it differs from Stardew Valley
It tells a story with bosses and a mystery under the sea, and the dives play like an action game, where aim and timing matter. A Google Play reviewer in September 2026 found the virtual joystick frustrating for that, and another was thrown by a second direction pad that appears on the right side of the screen when you harpoon stronger fish (you can turn it off). It needs a phone with 6 GB of memory, which on iPhone means a Pro model of the 12 or 13, or any iPhone from the 14 on. On Android it asks for Android 8.0 or later and 6 GB of memory too. It also needed an internet connection at first: an App Store reviewer in October 2026 asked for offline play for flights, and the update that month lets you play offline for up to 72 hours after connecting once. On iPhone the opening is free and $9.99 buys the full game, while on Google Play you pay the $9.99 up front.
Winter Burrow
- Made by
- Pine Creek Games, published by Noodlecake
- On phones
- 2026
- Platforms
- iPhone, Android
- Price
- Free to try on the US App Store, then $9.99 for the full game; $9.99 on Google Play
Why you might like it
In Winter Burrow you play a mouse who comes home from the big city to find their childhood burrow in ruins and their aunt missing. You head out into a frozen forest for wood, food and supplies, craft tools, knit sweaters and bake pies, and rebuild the burrow piece by piece until it is a warm home again. Along the way you meet the locals, make friends and look for clues about what happened to your aunt. Apple's editors suggest having your mouse drink a hot cup of tea in the game before a long trip for supplies, because it helps them resist the cold. It came to phones on 30 September 2026.
How it differs from Stardew Valley
Winter Burrow is a survival game first, and the cold is what you fight most. You watch four meters, for health, hunger, heat and stamina, and a Google Play reviewer in October 2026 found health and hunger running out so fast on long trips that they kept having to run home, and wished for a marker pointing the way back to the burrow. It follows a story from start to end, which the games site One More Game felt may limit how often you replay it. Two Google Play reviewers in October 2026 also got stuck after the story: a late quest asks you to craft holiday trees, and they couldn't find everything the recipe needs. On iPhone you can start for free, and $9.99 buys the full game (the listing adds "No ads"). On Google Play it is $9.99 up front. The games site Pocket Gamer reported a launch price of $5.99, so watch for a sale.
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete
- Made by
- Nintendo
- On phones
- 2024
- Platforms
- iPhone, Android
- Price
- $19.99 on the US App Store and Google Play, paid once
Why you might like it
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete puts you in charge of a campsite. You decorate it from a catalogue of more than 10,000 items, from tents and swings to lazy rivers and merry-go-rounds, and you gather materials such as wood and cotton to trade for furniture. In between you fish, catch bugs and chat with animals, each with their own personality, who come to visit your camp. Every month brings events such as garden events and fishing tourneys. It is the paid version of Nintendo's free 2017 game, which closed on 28 November 2024, and it comes packed with the items and events that game released over seven years, with no purchases inside it.
How it differs from Stardew Valley
Decorating is the heart of it rather than farming. It doesn't need a constant connection, but the parts you played with other people in the free game are mostly gone. A Google Play reviewer in April 2025 missed those features and was put off that some animals, such as Poppy and Raymond, only come once you reach a high level. What's left is Camper Cards: you make a card about yourself, other players scan it, and the players whose cards you have scanned visit you at a new place called the Whistle Pass. At $19.99 it is the most expensive game here. Nintendo sold it for half that until the end of January 2025, and an App Store reviewer who paid that price called it a bargain. A Google Play reviewer advises saving your game data often, so you don't lose your camp when you move to a new phone.
Lootero
Our game- Made by
- Lootero (that is us)
- On phones
- Coming November 2026 (not out yet)
- Platforms
- iPhone, Android
- Price
- Not announced yet
Why you might like it
Lootero is our game, so read this card as our own pitch. It is an action game, much further from Stardew Valley than anything above, and it belongs on your list only if the part of Stardew you enjoy is gathering what you can and spending it on more land. You play a young archer on floating islands. Every world starts as a small patch of grass in the clouds, where you chop trees and break rocks, sell what you gather at the stall and spend the coins on the next piece of the island. Each locked piece shows what waits on it, such as a fight or more to gather.
How it differs from Stardew Valley
Lootero has no farm and no town, and most of it is fighting. Some pieces of the island seal you in with waves of slimes, bats and golems, every level-up deals you three upgrade cards such as extra arrows or fire arrows, and each world ends with a boss you summon when you are ready. You move with one thumb, and your archer shoots at the nearest target as soon as you stand still. If you lose a world, you keep the experience your archer earned and the items you found. It is single-player and comes to iPhone and Android in November 2026. We haven't announced its price yet, or whether it will be paid or free to download, so we can't tell you yet whether it will have ads or in-app purchases.
Is Stardew Valley on mobile?
Yes, Stardew Valley has been on iPhone since October 2018 and on Android since March 2019. It costs $4.99 on the US App Store and on Google Play, with no in-app purchases. It is also free with Google Play Pass, Google's game subscription, and on iPhone and iPad it is part of Apple Arcade as Stardew Valley+, which costs $6.99 a month or $49.99 a year in the US.
The phone version has the story content of the 1.6 update, the big update that came to PC in March 2024, and it saves by itself, even if you close the app. You can play with touch controls or a virtual joystick, and in the mines your farmer can attack monsters by themselves. Its latest App Store update, in March 2026, added Game Center leaderboards. It is rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store from about 64,000 ratings, and 4.6 on Google Play from about 204,000 reviews. One complaint we saw is about the controls: a Google Play reviewer in August 2026 who loves the game found them clumsy next to the PC version. Another reviewer that month liked that your crops don't die when you haven't played for a while.
Can you play Stardew Valley multiplayer on mobile?
No, Stardew Valley's App Store listing says multiplayer is not supported in the phone version, so on a phone you farm alone. Of the games above, Harvest Town is the one with the most to do with other players, from races to its market. In Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete other players visit through the Camper Cards you scan. None of the other store pages mentions playing with friends.
Free games like Stardew Valley on mobile
Harvest Town and Mini Mini Farm are free to download, with ads. Mini Mini Farm's store page says you can play it to the end without buying anything; Harvest Town's doesn't say. Mini Mini Farm is the gentler of the two with your money, since its purchases are a short list of ad removal, houses and tools, while Harvest Town sells diamonds and Permits and has purchases that give random items. On iPhone, two more let you try before you pay: Dave the Diver gives you the opening for free, and Winter Burrow lets you start for free. If you already pay for Google Play Pass, it includes Stardew Valley and Potion Permit.
Which games like Stardew Valley can you buy once?
Stardew Valley, Potion Permit, Slime Rancher, Winter Burrow and Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete are one purchase with nothing else to buy. Dave the Diver sells one expansion on top of the full game. These are the prices on 3 November 2026:
| Game | US App Store | Google Play |
|---|---|---|
| Stardew Valley | $4.99 | $4.99 |
| Potion Permit | $6.99 | $6.49 |
| Harvest Town | Free with ads, purchases | Free with ads, purchases up to $99.99 |
| Mini Mini Farm | Free with ads, purchases up to $11.99 | Free with ads, purchases up to $11.99 |
| Slime Rancher | $8.99 | $7.99 |
| Dave the Diver | Free opening, then $9.99, plus $4.99 expansion | $9.99, plus $4.99 expansion |
| Winter Burrow | Free start, then $9.99 | $9.99 |
| Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete | $19.99 | $19.99 |
Google Play doesn't name Dave the Diver's $4.99 purchase, but on the App Store the only purchase at that price is the In the Jungle content pack.
How do the stores rate these games?
Most of these games sit between 4.4 and 4.8 out of 5 on both stores. Dave the Diver is the lowest on the App Store at 4.2, where a reviewer in September 2026 found that the game kept crashing during its opening. These are the ratings on 3 November 2026, with the number of ratings on the App Store, and of reviews on Google Play, in brackets:
| Game | US App Store | Google Play |
|---|---|---|
| Stardew Valley | 4.8 (64K) | 4.6 (204K) |
| Potion Permit | 4.5 (553) | 4.5 (21.6K) |
| Harvest Town | 4.8 (19K) | 4.5 (120K) |
| Mini Mini Farm | 4.8 (8.1K) | 4.6 (107K) |
| Slime Rancher | 4.8 (1.7K) | 4.8 (5.2K) |
| Dave the Diver | 4.2 (332) | 4.4 (1.5K) |
| Winter Burrow | 4.6 (539) | 4.6 (812) |
| Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete | 4.8 (9.8K) | 4.4 (11.2K) |
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Sources
- App Store listings for Stardew Valley, Stardew Valley+ and every game above (seller, price, release date, star rating and number of ratings, description, version notes, supported devices) and their In-App Purchases lists, checked 3 November 2026: Stardew Valley's listing says the phone version has the 1.6 update's content, saves by itself and does not support multiplayer; Harvest Town sells a Permit for $4.99, a Permanent Permit for $11.99 and diamonds; Mini Mini Farm sells ad removal, houses and tools from $2.99 to $11.99; Dave the Diver sells the full version for $9.99 and the In the Jungle content pack for $4.99, and its October 2026 update allows offline play for up to 72 hours; Winter Burrow sells the full game for $9.99; Potion Permit, Slime Rancher and Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete list no purchases. Reviews on the App Store pages of Potion Permit (September 2025), Dave the Diver (September and October 2026) and Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete (February 2025), and the App Store editors' notes for Winter Burrow and Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete.
- Google Play listings for the Android versions, checked 3 November 2026 (price, star rating and number of reviews, Contains ads, in-app purchases and their price range, Play Pass, the Offline tag, release date, descriptions, and reviews: Stardew Valley from August 2026, Potion Permit from May 2025 and August and September 2026, Harvest Town from October 2025 and September 2026, Mini Mini Farm from July 2026, Slime Rancher from May and July 2026, Dave the Diver from September 2026, Winter Burrow from October 2026, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete from December 2024 to April 2025).
- Apple: Apple Arcade ($6.99 a month or $49.99 a year in the US), checked 3 November 2026.
- Wikipedia: Potion Permit (MassHive Media, published by PQube; phones on 6 February 2024). Wikipedia: Slime Rancher (Monomi Park; plorts, Largos and the Tarr). Wikipedia: Dave the Diver (Mintrocket; one find kept when the oxygen runs out, the farm for rice and vegetables; iOS and Android in September 2026). Wikipedia: Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp (the free game's service ended on 28 November 2024; Pocket Camp Complete on 2 December 2024).
- Pocket Gamer: Slime Rancher to release on mobile (Iwan Morris, 26 March 2026; Monomi Park and Playdigious, 26 May, $8.99, Adventure, Casual and Rush modes). slimerancher.com: Slime Rancher now on mobile (26 May 2026; Secret Style pack included, cloud saves). Pocket Gamer: Winter Burrow out now (Iwan Morris, 1 October 2026; $5.99 at launch). One More Game: Winter Burrow review (Vincent Ternida, 13 November 2025; Pine Creek Games and Noodlecake; health, hunger, heat and stamina; a linear story). Pocket Tactics: Dave the Diver mobile (Quinn Collins, updated 12 August 2026; 17 September, fast travel and gyro controls, the In the Jungle and Dredge content). Nintendo Australia: Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete is now available (3 December 2024; an introductory price half the regular one until 31 January 2025).