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Life and Lemon

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The short version

What is Life and Lemon?

Life and Lemon is a cozy fruit-farming card game. Players plan crop placement, fuse and cross-breed cards, improve harvests, and meet characters while building a community.

Life and Lemon is a cozy fruit-farming card game in development from Finn Truong. The game centers on running an orchard: place crops strategically, learn crop traits, fuse cards, cross-breed crops, enhance quality, and harvest for profit. It includes 80+ unique cards to discover and 15+ characters to meet, with relationship events that can unlock special items and skills. Players explore biomes with native crops, perks, and challenges. A playtest demo offers up to 60 minutes, features the first season Spring, and has 25+ cards to discover. Field save is not supported yet, so the field will be empty when returning, though most progression data is saved.

Getting started

How to play Life and Lemon

  1. Place crops strategically to maximize yield.
  2. Learn crop hidden traits and use synergies.
  3. Fuse cards to create new results.
  4. Enhance crop quality and cross-breed crops for new species.
  5. Meet characters and grow relationships to unlock story events, items, and skills.
  6. Explore biomes with their own native crop, perks, and challenges.
Controls

Life and Lemon controls

The developer does not list specific controls on the game page. Click the play frame above and try the keyboard, mouse, or touch; most jam games show their controls on the first screen.

Play better

Tips for Life and Lemon

  • Plan crop placement around maximizing yield.
  • Use hidden crop traits to find powerful synergies.
  • Fuse cards to open more combinations.
  • Improve crop quality to increase yield.
  • Cross-breed crops to create new species.
Questions

Life and Lemon FAQ

What platforms can it be played on?

It is available for HTML5, Windows, and Android.

Is the game finished?

It is in development.

What is included in the playtest demo?

Up to 60 minutes of content, the first season Spring, and 25+ cards to discover.

Does the game save the field?

Field save is not supported yet; most progression data is saved, but the field will be empty on return.

How many cards and characters are included?

The game includes 80+ unique cards to discover and 15+ characters to meet.

From the developer

About this game

Read the full developer description

Life & Lemon is a cozy fruit farming card game where you learn how to run an orchard, grow fruits, discover new species, master advance techniques and make new friends across a lush, colorful world!

  • Strategically plan your crop placement to maximize yield.
  • Learn about each crop hidden traits to discover powerful synergies.
  • Reap your harvest and turn a profit!


  • Learn how to fuse cards to together to discover endless possibilities with 80+ unique cards to be found.
  • Enhance crop quality to exponentially increase yield.
  • Cross-breed crops to make entirely new species.



  • Meet a colorful cast of oddballs, rejects, delinquents and sweethearts, grow your relationship with them to experience story events and unlock special items and skills with 15+ unique characters you can meet.
  • Help build a thriving community, look out for each other and great things will happen.

  • Smooth and addicting gameplay loop.
  • Ability to fuse cards together to create new, powerful results.
  • Powerful tools card to collect and use to enhance your farming.
  • 80+ cards to discover with endless synergistic combinations.
  • Explore the world to find unique biomes, each with their own native crop, perks and challenges.
  • A quirky cast of characters to interact and befriend.
  • Satisfying sounds and cozy, relaxing music. Perfect to unwind after a long day.

🎮 Playtest Content

  • The demo has up to 60 minutes of content,  primarily to playtest and gather feedbacks to improve the core loop and cleaning up bugs
  • This demo feature the first season: Spring.
  •  25+ cards to discover
  • A cozy and relaxing mood. Something to enjoy after a long day

(Note: The game doesn't support field save yet as I planned to expand and refine the system more first so if you quit, even though most progression data will be saved, the field will be empty when you return 🙇) 


Explore and immerse in the mysterious and wonderful world of fruit farming, when life gives you lemons, start a fruit business.

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Life & Lemon is COMING TO STEAM, if you liked this game and want to see more, please drop a wishlist on Steam, it will help a small solo dev like me massively :D 



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Description from Life and Lemon on itch.io, by Finn Truong.

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