Weekly Scout/Issue 17 ・ Aug 27, 2026
Farming and life sims
Farming, running a shop, becoming the town chemist, growing up: five life sims from Asian teams, made for taking it slow.
This is a retrospective issue compiled in October 2026; the date marks the week it covers.
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Coral Island
A farm life sim from Indonesia's Stairway Games: farm, raise animals and make friends on a tropical island, with online co-op. Steam lists no Traditional Chinese.
✗Trad. Chinese ✓Simp. Chinese ✓Japanese ✓Korean ✓English
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Potion Permit
A life sim from Bandung's MassHive Media: become the town chemist, diagnose residents, gather ingredients and brew cures, with a dog by your side.
✓Trad. Chinese ✓Simp. Chinese ✓Japanese ✓Korean ✓English
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My Time at Sandrock
Pathea Games' follow-up to My Time at Portia: become a builder in the desert town of Sandrock, gather resources and build machines to keep the town alive.
✓Trad. Chinese ✓Simp. Chinese♪ ✓Japanese ✓Korean ✓English♪
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Cuisineer
A roguelite dungeon crawler plus restaurant sim from Singapore's BattleBrew Productions: fight monsters with a spatula for ingredients, then cook and serve them back home.
✓Trad. Chinese ✓Simp. Chinese ✓Japanese ✓Korean ✓English
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Chinese Parents
A life sim from Beijing's Moyuwan Games, from birth to the gaokao, taking a light-hearted look at family pressure in Chinese education.
✓Trad. Chinese ✓Simp. Chinese ✓Japanese ✗Korean ✓English
Compiled with AI assistance. Every fact links to its source; the source prevails if we got something wrong.
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