If you want a game that combines farming with fashion, then Cottonville is for you.  Create a character and move into a farm where you’ll grow crops.  But these crops aren’t for eating.  You’ll use them to make fabric and dyes, and then sew them to make all sorts of clothes.  Your house also doubles as a shop, and when you have enough, you can sell your clothes to customers to buy more seeds so you can grow crops and make more clothes, and repeat the process indefinitely.  Cottonville is available on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.

Gameplay is very similar to other farming sims.  You’ll have patches of land you can dig up and plant seeds and water them.  You’ll have to wait a few in-game days for them to be harvested, though.  When you do that, you can then make them into fabrics and dyes, and then clothes.  Then you can open your shop and sell your clothes to customers.  Each customer has kinds of clothes they like, indicated by symbols.  It’s a little hard to tell what they like at first, but at least there are instructions and handy guides.  But since you won’t know what customers come in when you open your shop, you really can’t plan ahead.  When you sell clothes you’ll earn money to buy more seeds and supplies in the little town next to your house/farm/shop.  And that’s pretty much the whole game right there.  If you want a farming sim that’s not too complex, then you might want to check this one out.

Kid Factor:

Nothing violent or objectionable here.  Reading skill is a must for the text, though.  Cottonville is rated E for Everyone.

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