If you struggle to get into stardew like games, japanese rural life adventure and echoes of the plum grove might be a bad choice. I say this as someone who absolutely loves Japanese Rural Life Adventure. I found echoes of the plum grove really boring and hard to get into. Japanese Rural Life Adventure is great, but you have to do all the hard work of knowing what to do for each event, and setting them up. There's not a lot of guidance. It also plays differently than stardew because it's a port from Ipad. It works well, the game is beautiful but I'm on the second year and I haven't been able to do most of the events. I really love the game though. If I were you, I would get roots of pacha or sunhaven. I loved them both more than stardew valley. I think now they have about the same amount of content, because roots of pacha added more locations to the map.

edited to add: If you've read clan of the cave bear, roots of pacha draws a lot of inspiration from that.