Released on the Nintendo Wii as Wiiware, Harvest Moon: My Little Shop was a Harvest Moon (now known as the Story of Seasons) Spin-Off game that debuted in 2009.
The game starts with the Excuse Plot of your mother and father both going on an excavation on some ancient ruins and sending you to stay with your grandparents in Clover Town while they're gone. When you arrive at Clover Town, you'll notice that the town has seen better days, and your grandparents' shop is going to be torn down due to lack of customers. With your dedication, you help revitalize the town.
While the game has you maintaining crops and livestock, the bulk of the game involves running the store—where you can sell decorative eggs, juice and ice cream to your customers while playing minigames. The more points you gain, the more gold you earn. The game also incorporates motion controls for the minigames, like stirring the Wiimote around to fill a cone with ice cream.
Tropes that apply to the game:
- Adaptational Villainy: Very mild. Takakura originally debuted in Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life as the player character's farm assistant. Here he initially wants to tear down your grandma's shop, but once you take over he decides not to and goes to help run the construction shop.
- Alliterative Family: Adam and Amanda are siblings.
- Ambiguous Gender: The androgynous Jamie is not gendered.
- Canon Foreigner: Some customers are original characters to the game.
- Continuity Cameo: A hodgepodge of customers that visit your shop are from the various previous titles in the Harvest Moon series. So is the alternative shopkeeper for the construction shop, Takakura (who debuted in Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life).
- Crossover: Various games from throughout the series cross over.
- December–December Romance: Implied to be the case with Ellen and Saibara, with Ellen mentioning him on occasion.
- Downloadable Content: There was four sets released for the game, costing around four dollars each that added new animals, crops, tourists and/or decorations for your shop.
- Four-Leaf Clover: The motif of Clover Town. Eventually you get to give necklaces made out of four-leaf clovers to spread happiness to villagers, courtesy of the Harvest Sprites.
- Granny Classic: The player's grandmother, Sharon. Also Ellen from 64 fits the bill too.
- In-Universe Game Clock: You can only do farm work once a real-life day, be watering crops or feeding animals. Also you need to wait for crops to fully mature.
- Kid Hero: Cory/Connie appear to be younger than other protagonists in the games in the series. They were sent to stay with their grandparents when their parents are on a business trip.
- Lighter and Softer:
- The whole game has a storybook feel, with the characters being outlined in a white paper-style border.
- Your animals don't get sick or die when you neglect them; rather, they run away from you.
- Named by the Adaptation: Muffy's son with Mark is named "Andy".
- One-Steve Limit: There's a boy named Nick, while previous games feature a Harvest Sprite named Nic.
- Pointless Band-Aid: Nick wears two bandages on his forehead for no clear reason.
- Related in the Adaptation: The two protagonists of Magical Melody, Adam and Amanda, are siblings.
- Young Entrepreneur: You get to run both the farm and the store.
