About Haru Harbor

What the game holds to

Nothing bad happens

Nothing dies, nothing spoils, and no timer runs out against you. Ferry and tea house guests wait while you are away.

Water is a mechanic

Watering makes fields faster. Tides, fishing, coastal fishing, sea farms and koi breeding are systems of their own.

Fair by principle

No paywall in front of your progress, no paid random boxes, the same prices and offers for everyone.

Cozy, not a duty

Only one festival at a time, no time pressure in the Boat Festival, smaller goals for players who come less often.

Logical without a manual

Every chain makes sense from everyday life: rice, glutinous rice flour, mochi.

Together, not against each other

Helping always pays off for the helper. Competition only between village communities.

Culturally careful

Everything in the village is Japanese and checked with care: festivals at the right time of year, no real shrines or temples, no meat from farm animals.

How Haru Harbor is made

The game world is a stylized 3D world built in Blender and Unity, with a warm, painterly shader, soft light and a kit of models. For characters, portraits, goods icons and textures we use AI-assisted tools and curate and rework the results by hand. Programming, rules, economy and tests are built with the help of Claude. The screenshots in this press kit are real captures of the game; the loading screen and festival banners are illustrations made the same AI-assisted way.