I've played some of the Harvest Moon games. My favorites are Friends of Mineral Town (and More Friends of Mineral Town), Grand Bazaar, and Tale of Two Towns.
Some of the other titles got frustrating because it was too hard to do stuff, my character was too easily out of stamina. That ruined some of the titles for me personally.
I prefer the Rune Factory series as it also has farming, mining and fishing, but it's much easier to level up sufficiently that farming isn't a chore. (And in addition it has monsters and caves!)
Friends of Mineral Town is being remade for the Switch and will be released this summer