Market Mind

Grow crops. Cook them into something better. Sell before it spoils.

The Market Mind is a cozy pixel-art farming game about a small village market. Plant wheat, carrots and potatoes, turn them into flour, bread, stew and cake in your workshops, and fill the orders the villagers post each day. Two rival farms sell into the same orders — and everything you make spoils sooner or later.

It's calm by design. Time can be paused at any moment, and everything (buying, planting, cooking, selling) works while it's paused. Take as long as you like to plan.

How it plays

- Farm — pick a seed, then click or drag across the field to plant. Drag again to harvest the ripe ones.

- Workshop — build a Mill, Kitchen or Bakery on your building lots, queue up recipes, and turn cheap crops into goods the village pays far more for.

- Market — buy seeds and sell into the village's open orders. Each order shows how much you sold and how much the rivals did.

- Storage — a cellar keeps goods fresh twice as long. Twice as long isn't forever.

- Village — watch the mood, the population, the rival farms and the news. Events are announced days ahead so you can prepare.

A market that answers to you

Fill orders and the village grows: more people, bigger orders, fancier goods. Leave some of the market to the rival farms and they grow alongside you, so the village forgives the odd missed order.

Want to take over the whole market? You can. But starved rivals can't afford mills or bakeries, so every order ends up on your shoulders — and when the village goes hungry, people move away, demand shrinks, and your full barn starts to spoil. The challenge grows with your ambition. Play gently and it stays gentle.

Features

- A relaxing pace: pause any time, the first days start paused, and big events can auto-pause the game

- Crops, workshops, a cellar, village events and two rival farms that are real businesses with their own money

- Freshness on every item: plan around shelf life, not just price

- A "next step" guide for your first days, and tooltips on every number

- Original pixel art, sound effects and music, all made from scratch

- Options: fullscreen or windowed, music and sound volume, and a switch to turn off flashy animations for a calmer screen

- Autosaves every in-game morning

Controls

- Mouse — everything

- Space — pause / resume

- 1 / 2 / 3 — normal, double and fast speed

- Right-click — put the selected seed away

- Esc — menu

- F11 — switch between fullscreen and windowed