Because in the darkness

This is a free, idle game that I'm pretty sure I found via a farm simulation list somewhere. It was put out by 7Spot Games in 2023, and I'm not sure that it's been updated since. (I don't want to join the Discord server just to find out.)

Your little farmer avatar is a cow, and you unlock little quasi-islands of land, which seems to be the basis for the name Cow Bay. There's an unnamed royally dressed cat who tells you "The Kingdom Needs" and then you get a number of something you can pick or create.

Basic overview of the game.

Initially, it's berries or logs of woods, since those don't take energy to pick and will respawn on your islands. You eventually get stones, a sand pit, a grass spawning island, a garden area, and a cave to another screen to harvest mushrooms (with more stones and a chest that randomly gives you something from that level). There's also pine trees, and you'll unlock an anvil where you can create an axe, a pick-axe, or a shovel. Each of these actions takes up energy, which you can replenish by eating berries or later creations. (Despite being a cow, you're more eating human foods, so the bundle of grass actually isn't edible.) Then you get a station to turn logs into milled boards, plain stone into bars, and such; a separate furnace can create glass bottles and handle a different type of stone.

It's not really a hard game, which isn't a surprise. Initially, you have to fill tasks to unlock more storage in your storage bin, but then you just have tasks for the kingdom. There's a partially visible ship hull in the nearby water, and you have to do a fair bit of tasks to finish the ship and make additions. Then, you can sail to the next level, which has a similar premise. Pick berries, pick coconuts, make a machete to cut down bamboo, turn bamboo and rope (made in the previous level) into a fishing pole, fish, there's another cave, make shears to harvest wool from the sheep. The sewing station allows for three or so fabrics. There's another storage bin to upgrade. (You can only access the immediate inventory listed on the right of screen when sailing between levels.)

There's an air balloon to upgrade in the second level of sorts, but once you finish upgrading, there's still just a little sign that says Coming Soon. I imagine that's probably why there's not really a recent seeming presence in the search results; most walk-through videos are from the initial release. It's not the absolute worst way to kill some time. You can set the different stations to complete a task while you go do other things or complete the task in one ad, but switching to another tab or window pauses the game. The thing that mostly stuck out (and influenced the mood on this post) is that it was a rather resource heavy game, which I wasn't expecting for an in-browser game. Like, I can't prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt, but I think I hastened the death of a tablet with this game >.>