Wetherell Farm Saga

A cozy farming life sim with something asleep in the woods.
Your great-uncle has left you a farmhouse, a barn and a few overgrown acres in Wetherell, a small New England village where the ferry drops you at dawn and goes back into the fog. Clear the land, grow crops through the seasons, fish the river and the shore, dig into the mine and earn your place among twelve neighbors who know each other far too well. It is a warm, unhurried life.
But on the night of every new moon, some of those neighbors slip away into Harrow Wood. What they do there, and why, is yours to find out. Help them, stop them, join them, or keep your head down and farm.
A cozy farming game first
Four 28-day seasons of tilling, planting, watering and harvesting. Sell what you grow, upgrade your tools at the forge, lay sprinklers, plant an orchard and bring the greenhouse back to life. Fill the coop and the barn with chickens, ducks, rabbits, cows, goats and sheep. Adopt the stray dog, pet the village cats, and rearrange the whole farm in build mode whenever the mood takes you. Nothing here rushes you: the day ends when you go to bed, and the game saves while you sleep. Turn the horror off and this is the whole game, complete on its own.
A village that lives without you
Twelve villagers keep their own schedules by day and by night, in rain and in shine. Learn what each of them loves and hates, trade gifts and gossip, unlock their heart events and meet them at a festival every season. Court one of them if you like; courtship is optional and stays all-ages. The clock in the square stopped years ago, and the village stopped gathering with it. Bring the tower what it needs, one part at a time, and get it ticking again together.
Something sleeps in Harrow Wood
Beneath the warmth, small things go wrong. The morning fog lingers past noon. Crops come up in shapes no seed packet promised, and strange ones sprout that no shop will sell. The dogs will not take the forest path. Listen at doors, follow the clues in the library, and track your neighbors into the trees to see what really happens at the altar. Resist, ignore or join: Wetherell's fate, and your own, ends very differently depending on what you choose.
You choose how dark it gets
Horror intensity is an option you can change at any time. Full is the default.
Full: the whole story, slow-burn dread and all.

Mild: the mystery and the clues stay; the most disturbing imagery and text are removed and the dread is softer.

Off: a complete cozy farming game with no horror content at all.

Key Features
Four seasons of crops, fruit trees, quality tiers, three tiers of sprinklers and a greenhouse

Six kinds of animal across a coop and a barn, with an auto-feeder to buy from the carpenter

Fishing with a timing mini-game; what bites depends on place, season, time, weather and moon phase

A 40-floor procedurally generated mine with ores, gems, monsters and a boss at the bottom

Crafting, cooking and artisan machines, with upgradeable chests, kegs, preserves jars and furnaces

Five skills with profession choices along the way and a mastery at level 10

Twelve villagers with schedules, gifts, heart events, optional courtship and four seasonal festivals

A stray dog to adopt and name, and village cats to pet

The clock tower restoration, plus a daily help-wanted board

Build mode, named and sortable chests, save any time and an autosave every night

An optional cosmic folk-horror story with its own crops, weather, rituals and three endings

Keyboard, mouse and controller, full rebinding, UI scaling, a colorblind-safe palette, reduced flashes, relaxed energy and adjustable day length

Content Notes
Atmospheric and psychological dread, folk-horror and cosmic themes, a secretive cult and its rituals. Offerings dissolve into light; no harm to people or animals is ever shown. Light cartoon combat against monsters in the mine. No gore, no sexual content, no real-world religion. The intensity setting and a full content-notes screen are in Options.