The Mystery of the Evil Farming Game (Help Needed)

Hey everyone. I've been following this particular story for quite some time now, and I figured that the third anniversary of the mystery's birth would be as good a time as any to bring this thing to a wider audience. Hopefully, with more people on the case, this thing can be put to rest once and for all.

So the whole thing started on this humble little subreddit, r/tipofmyjoystick. It's a place where you can go in, recollect some of the hazy details of a game you've long forgotten, and hopefully have a member recall, or find you the title of your game. They find almost all games asked about, everything from a Fallout: New Vegas DLC to a gory Pac-Man clone.That is, until the following series of posts, which stumped everyone.

The First Post

The first one was posted in 2016, exactly 3 years ago to the date. The user who posted gave the following details:

I know almost nothing about this game. All I can remember is that it's kind of like
Harvest Moon but with a dark twist. The game starts out with you and your wife, one night you
get in to a fight and you end up stabbing her to death. Now the game revolves around you
farming to stay alive while trying to keep the town from finding out about the "incident"
that happened. Every now and then the cops come to search your house and you have to hide
her corpse.

In an edit they stated:

I have no recollection of what console this game was for or when it came out.
I know that it was released after 2000. I know this is so vague but it's really hard to
remember something you forgot! Also it had to be before mid - early 2015. Graphics were not
3D. I'm 100% sure it wasn't a browser game.

A few people gave suggestions, but nothing was figured out. Everyone moved on.

The Second Post

Then, in December of last year, another user made a post about a game very similar to the last one:

There was this game I used to have downloaded in about 2006, before I upgraded my computer
and lost it. It was a farming, Stardew Valley style of game, where you murder your wife,
and then you try and pretend you never killed her, and that was the whole game, keep farming
and make sure no one finds out you killed her. There was fishing minigame, and I
specifically remember fishing up evidence of your wife’s murder and then you pass out.

Edit: It wasn’t pretending to be a kids game, it wasn’t RPG Maker and I got it off some
indie devs website. There were screens between each “day” that showed the date (in the game)
and one of the characters was an old dude with a white beard.

Yet again, a game about farming after murdering your wife is posted, and no one can find it. A few suggested Moirai, but that was much too new to be it.

The Third Post

But then again, in the same month, yet another user posts
about a game with the same details as the others:

Hi all, first time posting here. Today I found my old laptop but sadly it won’t boot up. But it brought back some great memories. Particularly a game I’m about to describe.

So at the start of the game you killed your wife, but after that you just lived as normal managing your farm. However, it had a twist. The police could come at anytime and find the body, so you had to constantly be wary and move the body.

The laptop was built in 2001 and I bought a new one in 2003 so it would have been between that time. It wasn’t a browser game, and I think I may have gotten it from uTorrent, but cannot remember tbh.

Hope this is enough info. And many thanks.

The members suggest trying to get the data recovered off the OP's hard drive.
Over the coming days, the OP updates the post with the following:

EditEdit: Laptop checked in earlier today, quite busy but should have an update Friday.

FinalEdit: Sad news. The laptop is buggered. The dampness/moisture of the storage
I placed it in has knackered it all. Any final suggestions?

EditEditEdit: I am retrieving quotes from professional data recovery firms.

Update - the ‘platter’ of the hard drive was damp and it’s been deemed unrecoverable. I’m really sorry to have built hopes up.

And thats it. No one could find out anything else. The drive was busted, and all leads were dead ends.

Conclusion

Redditor RelaxedCreeper was able to condense the game's main points into one list:

• Freeware
• Similar to Harvest Moon/Stardew Valley
• Pixel art gameplay, but cutscenes are in a different artstyle
• Farming is the main focus
• Protagonist is married
• One night, protagonist gets into a fight with his wife and stabs her to death
• Rest of the game consists of farming to stay alive, keeping the town from knowing about the murder
• Cops occasionally show up to search the protagonist's house while he tries to hide his wife's corpse
• Released between 2000-2003
• Was available to download on an indie dev's website, which was also hosting graphic (presumably gore centric) videos, website name might of started with "Ash"
• Not 3D
• Not a browser/flash game
• Has dialog
• Fishing minigame, fishes up evidence of the murder, resulting in the protagonist passing out
• NOT Moirai
• Not an RPG Maker game
• Transitions between each day showing the in-game date
• One character is an old guy with a white beard

Unsurprisingly, these post are some of the most upvoted in the subreddit. Some have dismissed the whole thing as a hoax, while others believe that the last one or two posts are just copycats trying to cash in on the hype of of a legitimate mystery. Whatever the case, I'm hoping you folks could give some input on what you think this thing is about. If you have have any leads to what this thing may be, don't be afraid to leave a comment. Thanks for reading through all this, and please help yourself to some Level 1+ GAs on your way out:

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