#7
Friends of Mineral Town is close to the platonic ideal of the farming-sim genre. Wake up, water your crops, talk to a villager, go to bed. Then do it again, slightly better. There is nothing here trying to be clever or subversive. That is the point. The daily loop is reliable in the way that only old-school design can be, and the PS Plus inclusion makes it one of the easiest recommendations on this list for anyone who has ever bounced off a more complex life sim and wanted something that just gets on with it. Classic cozy. No frills required.