Four villages, one misty forest

Harvest Moon:
Echoes of Teradea

A farmer's guide to Teradea: the four villages and their crises, crops and livestock, the animal companions that carry you across the map, the ten romance candidates, and the Forest of Echoes mystery behind it all.

Start with the beginner guide Release date and platforms

Release date15 October 2026

PlatformsSwitch 2 / Switch / PS5 / Xbox / Steam

VillagesFour, one per season

Romance5 bachelors · 5 bachelorettes

New to Teradea?

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Release

Release Date and Unlock Timing

The 15 October 2026 launch, the September delay and what unlock actually looks like.

Read →Updated 2026-10-15

Start here

Beginner Guide: Your First Week

The on-rails opening, taming your first mount and the early quests that pay off.

Read →Updated 2026-10-15

Farming

Farm and Season Systems

Moving your farm, soil quality, crop rotation, mutations and the cheap way to feed animals.

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Teradea is a continent of four villages, each sitting in its own season and each nursing its own disaster. Mist pours out of the Forest of Echoes, wolves own the night, and the Harvest Goddess is running low on power. You inherit a farm outside Bloomfield Village and a lot of ground to cover.

This guide covers the launch build of Harvest Moon: Echoes of Teradea, on sale 15 October 2026 for Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Steam. Everything here comes from Natsume's press releases, the official store listing, official screenshots and trailer frames, and first-hand reports from creators who played early. Where a number has never been published, this site prints no number.

Official trailer frame: the player crossing a grassy hill above the Teradea valleys

Official launch-trailer frame — open ground between villages.

Before you set off

Three cheap fixes decide how comfortable your first week is.

Tame a mount first. Running drains stamina. South of Bloomfield Village, past the lake, three horses graze: crouch, walk up slowly, pet and feed one, then return the next day to tame it. Free, and it saves more stamina than any early upgrade.
Carry food, always. Wild wolves, bears and tigers patrol the wilderness, and being caught costs you every item you were carrying plus a trip back to the farm. Dropping food distracts them.
Do the bag upgrade. One optional quest triples your inventory from two rows to six. Take it as soon as it appears.

What is in Teradea

System	What it does
Four villages	Bloomfield (spring), Tidewind (summer port), Quarrytop (winter mine), Maplehill (autumn town)
Farming	Soil quality, crop rotation, crop mutations, and a farm you can move between villages
Exploration	Jumping, ladders, vines, a map that records your finds, warp statues, remote islands
Companions	Tamed animals with skills that open terrain and break obstacles
Romance	Ten candidates — five bachelors and five bachelorettes
Story	Lift the mist from the Forest of Echoes and put four villages back on their feet

Straight answers

Is it out? Store date is 15 October 2026; it moved from 24 September. Unlock time follows your platform's store, so regions differ by up to a day.

Multiplayer? No. Single-player only.

Keyboard and mouse? No scheme for it. The PC version advertises full controller, DualShock and DualSense support, and its own menu prompts are pad buttons.

Can I pre-order on Steam? No. The Mooberry Cow Pack arrives as an early purchase bonus instead, from launch through 11 November 2026.

Where to read next

Start with the beginner guide if you are about to load the game, then farming and crops once the first week is done. Courting someone? The romance page lists every option by village. For buying and unlocking, go to release date and platforms.

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