Let’s nail down “better.” Pick any entry in the Rune Factory series (the gold standard for magical farming survival).
It asks the questions no one dares to ask: What if farming was mostly just being wet and hungry? What if magic only made things slightly more pathetic? What if the final boss was just your own poor life choices, manifested as a persistent fungal rash? Let’s nail down “better
In standard survival RPGs, farming is a trap. You spend 3 hours building an irrigation system only to have a random wolf eat your only carrot. In magical farming survival RPGs: Let’s nail down “better