YMMV / Harvest Town

• Accidental Innuendo: There's one cutscene involving Duke & Chris getting an injection, and one of the dialogues may seem lewd if taken out of context.
  ???: Ouch, ouch, ouch! Gentle, please!
• Base-Breaking Character: The fandom is quite split on the game's Tsundere Love Interest options.
  • Lee Yau was voted as the most popular bachelor in one of the official Facebook group's polls (and is consistently ranked in the top half of the batch). The same group also marks him as one of the most disliked characters because of his Jerkass personality.
  • Lulu Lopez is one of the more popular bachelorettes, and is frequently featured in fan arts, but just as many people hate her for constantly insulting the player, with her supposed dere side apparently non-existent.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: More than a few players have expressed a desire to have Jim Ortiz as a marriageable option. His sympathetic backstory, his desire to be a good father to his rebellious son despite being an Alcoholic Parent and the fact that he's technically single (and not at all that bad looking) endears him to many. It certainly helps that his son, Justin, is considered the most popular child character.
• Fandom Rivalry: With Stardew Valley fans, many of whom insist that Harvest Town is a rip-off of SV, even giving the game a one-star rating for that reason alone, rather than considering any of its other merits. HT players retaliate against this by calling out the SV fans' hypocrisy, saying that SV is similarly a rip-off to Harvest Moon, and pointing out the things that HT does better than SV.
• Good Bad Bugs:
  • Characters occasionally walk on water when moving around town, which never fails to make a funny post on the community discussions.
  • The flamingo pet house that can be obtained in the 2021 New Year Event has a bug where you can spawn duplicate flamingos by putting the house back in the inventory then replacing them on the manor indefinitely. Since one of the achievable rewards in the game is to have 20 pets, this is exploited by players to unlock the rewards (and its bonuses) without actually having to buy new pets.
  • The word-hunt event has a bug in which some players get placed on a much higher level at the leaderboard than they should, and are given rewards that they otherwise wouldn't have earned. Since this doesn't seem to deprive the true winners of the event from their prize, it's joyfully regarded by the rest of the community as akin to winning a random lottery.
  • The update that brought the Guild system came with a bug where the Occult Cave monsters gave a 100% monster drop rate, to the players' delight. Many exploit this by spending long hours grinding in the cave to hoard hundreds and thousands of drops to compensate the otherwise abysmal drop rate, and the bug generated more buzz among the fandom than the actual new feature introduced in the update.
• Ho Yay: Some character's dialogues can sound quite flirty, even if you're the same gender as them.
• Scrappy Mechanic:
  • The game prevents the main character from going to sleep before 8 PM ("It's too early to go to bed."). So if the players have finished their daily task before then, they are forced to meander around while waiting for time to pass (which may take a while). Suffice to say, this feature is almost universally disliked and the game's official Facebook page are filled with requests for it to be removed.
  • The Fishing mini-game has received a lot of complains about how difficult/frustrating it is to be able to catch rarer fish. Particularly grating is the fact upgrading your rod does little to ease the activity (it simply increases the possibility of encountering rarer fish types, but does nothing to help you actually catch it).
  • Having high farming skills allow your crops to grow faster. Considering that harvesting / replanting crops is one of the most tedious activities in the game, many players consider this as Blessed with Suck, and would rather be rewarded with an increased crop output rather than decreased crop growth time.
  • After the v.2.0. update, the Goods Stall now have a "Cooldown Timer", and the timer gets longer the more expensive stuffs you sell. With this system, the player can't immediately sell off unused objects they've accumulated after selling a batch, thus taking up precious inventory space.
  • The spinning wheel in the Occult Cave has frustrated a lot of players for the sheer difficulty of obtaining the useful items (usually equipment). Many players try to "cheat" by quitting the game without saving and replaying it; but not only is this a tedious process, there's no guarantee that the item you want will be available in your next attempt, since the "useful" selections that appear on the wheel are randomized. Not helping is the fact that the more useful equipment can't be purchased normally.
  • The gingerbread house, for some. It's a reward given to players participating in the 2020/2021 Christmas/New Year Event, and serves as a pet house for gingerbread men that can be purchased using real money. It's fine and good for those who got the pets, but those who didn't are stuck with a Useless Item that neither gives Prosperity points nor even look all that great. To make things worse, once it's placed on the lot, it can't be removed or returned to the inventory, thus taking up space that could have been used for better decorations.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The game was still in Beta when it was first released, and numerous large changes have been implemented between the v.1.0 (Beta) and v.2.0. (International) releases. Suffice to say, lot of the changes have not been well-received.
  • The Scrappy Mechanic that is the Cooldown Timer added to the Goods Stall system.
  • Monsters no longer appear in the forest/mountain/beach areas after the Occult Cave is unlocked, making it more difficult if you want to collect monster drops.
  • The greatly reduced chance for obtaining monster drops, which makes item crafting a lot harder.
• Values Dissonance: The game is made in China, and there are a lot of cultural aspects in the game that might be seen as odd by Westerners.
  • In one of her dialogues, Peach mentions having tasted Andy's drink and not liking its flavour. Most Western fans are appalled at the idea of Andy allowing a kid to drink wine, but this would not be an issue in China, where there is no minimum drinking age.
  • Likewise, a lot of Westerners have problems with Peach apparently sharing bed with her grandpa, due to the squick-y implications of incest. Sharing bed with one's family (including parents and/or grandparents) is quite normal in many Asian cultures.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Several players have insisted that Lee Yau is female even though he's listed as a bachelor, both in the official wiki and other sources.
• The Woobie:
  • Justin Ortiz. He's a young boy who was abandoned by his mother to live with his drunk father—who, despite his best efforts to be a good parent, is clearly unable to keep a household or provide a healthy environment for the child's upbringing (their house is a disgusting mess, and Jim's bio explicitly states that he can't cook or clean). Justin hates living with his dad and would often be seen alone at the bus station, waiting for his mother to return.
  • Jim himself qualifies. Being dumped by the love of his life after the latter got tired of the town clearly broke him, and it is all but stated that he turns to alcoholism to cope with the heartbreak. The only thing he has left of his ex-wife's memory is his son, who, for the most part, wants nothing to do with him and constantly insults him for being a poor father.

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