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Baldur's Gate 3 dev says AAA is "perversely fascinated" by indie games, because those devs still understand how to make good ideas that aren't reliant on data (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 4 days ago

Good marketing and luck do play their roles, but aren't enough by themselves. With those two but without pulling your emotional strings, SV wouldn't be seen nowadays as a "spiritual successor" to Harvest Moon / Story of Seasons, but rather as a "cheap knock-off".

Doubly so for an indie game - indie devs don't have enough money to make shit look like ambrosia, unlike AAA studios.

Also note HM/SoS did not start as a corporate-run series. The formula was already there in the SNES game, developed by a rather unknown studio (Amccus). Apparently Yasuhiro Wada came up with the idea because he wanted to try something different, and he's from a rural background.

Corporate is kind of lucky the formula is enough - to make someone feel proud of their farm (like in Ech's answer) or relate to the characters (interacting with them often, giving them gifts, seeing cutscenes etc.), otherwise it would've ruined it with "more graphics! 9001 love interests! 9001 crops! ...what do you mean, the characters aren't relatable?".