It was designed to look and feel like a retro game, but it's still a relatively new game. You can plant flowers, vegetables, fruit trees, and you can raise animals. Honestly there's so much freedom with what you can do. You can raise animals and not grow crops, you can just fish if that's what you want to do, or you can mine and fight monsters. It's up to you.
It might be on sale in the eshop right now, but it's inexpensive and I cannot recommend it enough. I used to play it on PC but I think I prefer playing it on my Switch Lite. I haven't even really told you everything that you can do in the game, but there's almost too many things going on to explain all of it in a single post. It's one of my favorite games of all time; I've been playing for a few years and I still haven't finished everything or gotten tired of it. I don't know if you'll love it as much as I do, but I'm sure you'll find something about it that'll wow you if you do end up buying it.