As a farmer, I hear lots of jokes about sheep.
I’d tell them to my dog but he’d herd them all.

I absolutely love that they remade farm frenzy, I absolutely loved this game as a kid and so I decided to try the refreshed and its great!

TL;DR - Manage farm in a limited time for 3 - star ratings


What it is in a nutshell?

You will have a level, objectives and a time limit to complete said objective.
This formula is looped throughout the entire game, with several in between features just for flavour.

An example:
- Collect 3 eggs
Chickens lay eggs, click them
- Collect 3 pancakes
2 Eggs make a pancake, click the machine to do it
- Get 500 money
Sell some eggs, pancake, or animals

If you did all of that within 1 minute = 3 stars, take longer = less stars

IMPORTANTLY, Since the simple design it might seem stale,however the levels have an impressive amount of variations, you can get 0 chickens, 1 cow
or nothing and some money
or nothing but chickens
overall, there are plenty of unique game mechanics (animals, resources, item upgrades) to keep the levels interesting and rewarding

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You’ve got yourself a humble homestead which you’ll have to turn into a thriving farm. The President of the Farmers Association, Scarlett welcomes you and is glad that you want to join their organisation. She’ll be on hand to help you grow and expand your farm to its full potential, allowing you to join the Farmers association. Scarlett will help you each time there’s something new to learn in running your farm. So, get your wellies on and let's go play around in the mud.

To begin with you’ll have to grow some grass on your plot of land, this is extremely important as the animals cannot survive without any grass. As the grass is eaten from your farm animals, you’ll have to replace it. To grow grass, you’ll need water which can be collected from the Water Pump, although it will run out after a few usages. You are able to refill the water but it will cost you some pennies each time you refill and you’ll have to click on the water pump in order for it to refill, it will take a few seconds to refill. So, you’ll have to make sure you have enough money to keep the watering the ground and grow the grass otherwise your animals will clear off.

There are four animals which you can collect produce from, Ducks, Pigs, Cows and Horses. Ducks produce Eggs, Pigs produce Bacon, Cows produce Milk and Horses produce smaller Horses. It will cost money to add new animals but adding more will bring in more produce quicker. This is great when needing to collect plenty of produce, although just remember the more mouths feeding on the grass the quicker it will disappear. You can also have a Cat and Dog; a Cat will help collect produce dropped from your animals, while the dog will help protect your animals from the pesky bears.

On each level you’ll have the field area where your animals will eat grass and drop their produce in the centre of the screen. There’s a Water Pump top centre and spreading out on each side are the machinery you’ll use to produce what’s needed. There is room for three machinery on each side however, they can be doubled up depending on what is required, it will cost some pennies to swap between the machinery. You will need to create items like bacon and eggs, flatbread, cheese, sour cream and pizzas to name a few. Some will require multiple ingredients before they can be produced. Once you have fulfilled the current order the level will end giving you a time and one to three stars depending on how fast you completed the level along with some diamonds.

In the bottom centre of the is your Storage, Scooter and Gyrocopter. Storage will allow you to store produce and those pesky bears ready for selling. Using the scooter will allow you to nip off to the market and sell your wares, you can even sell any bears you catch. The gyrocopter will fly off to collect other items such as tomatoes, cream, starter culture and items which you may need.

There are some bears which will appear on and then and will go after your animals, you can add a dog to help protect your animals but this won’t stop them. To stop the bears before they chase off your animals, you’ll need to slap them in a cage, once caged they can then be sold.

In the top left corner are the animals at your disposal and the cost of adding one to the field. Time Limit, Cash and Pause are in the top right corner, in the bottom right corner are the Goals for the current level. Bottom left corner is Scarlett while sandwiched between Scarlett and your Goals

In the top left corner are the animals at your disposal and the cost of adding one to the field. Time Limit, Cash and Pause are in the top right corner, in the bottom right corner are the Goals for the current level. Bottom left corner is Scarlett while sandwiched between Scarlett and your Goals

After completing a level you’ll find yourself back at your homestead, you’ve got your house, water tower, tractor, cat and dog houses, vegetable plot, pig pen, stables, barn, gazebo and duck coop on your land but will require you to build them. These will cost you some money, stars and vegetables, you will also be able to upgrade each of them. Once built you’ll be able add animals and they’ll bring in some daily income but they will cost a few pennies for their daily upkeep.

With the diamonds you collect for completing a level you can upgrade your production machinery. This will allow you to increase the number of products produced at one time, or allow you to increase your warehouse, have more slots on your scooter or gyrocopter while also being faster etcetera.

There are four sections which have ninety levels spread across them, The Beginning (levels 1-20), Farm Restoration (21-40), The Farm Management Blues (41-65) and Invaluable Experience (66-90). After completing all ninety levels you will unlock another 20 Bonus Levels for you to complete.

In the settings you’ll find Music and Sound Volume Sliders, Show Tutorial, Full Screen and System Cursor Tick Boxes and that’s your lot.

Farm Frenzy: Refreshed is a fun and enjoyable game for all. There are plenty of levels to keep you on your toes and these levels can be quite challenging when competing against the time limit to score stars. This isn’t a bad thing though as I enjoy a challenge but if you want to get a heads up on what’s required for each level. You can check the Extras from the main menu screen where you’ll find Walkthrough, here you can find some information required for your current level. There is also Soundtrack and Wallpapers in extras for you to checkout.

Positives
+ Nice cheerful graphics
+ Plenty of Levels
+ Lots of upgrades
+ Has achievements
+ Steam Cloud

Negatives
- Can be challenging to beat the times
- No cards currently

Turn a humble homestead into a thriving farm, grow and create resources for trade in the City in Farm Frenzy: Refreshed

7/10

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Fan of the Farm Frenzy franchise? Definitely give this game a try. Similar mechanics to all the other games, with a twist on what you can spend your stars and diamonds on. Unlike in previous versions, where you are guided to unlock building upgrades in the main shop in a particular order, you'll have to make the decisions for yourself. They kept the gameplay fresh without messing with the farm management that is a hallmark of the series.

A few drawbacks to this game: the amount of time that you have to click on a resource before it disappears has decreased. You also can't pick up multiple, overlapping objects with one click. This edition comes with a built-in walkthrough and not all solutions are accurate.

Overall, though, a lot of fun and refreshed, but not irritatingly reimagined, version of Farm Frenzy.

The number of hours I had spent playing this game is the amount of hours I had struggled to complete this game. I like cooking and farming games but this game is a torture. As the levels are getting more difficult, I felt lost and had no idea where to start for every level because there are too many tasks need to be completed at the same time. (plus keeping track of the missing items). Even when I followed the given walkthrough, I still won’t get three stars, let alone the extra or the purple star.

I felt some of the features or the game mechanisms didn't really make sense.

• The level of the equipments must be matched with the level of difficulties. If the playing level requires the equipment to be in level 2, you have to upgrade the equipment, else you won’t be able to finish the playing level more than 2 stars.
  
• You need to have enough gems to upgrade the equipment. It means you have to do well in every level to accumulate enough of gems to upgrade the equipment.
  
• The equipment upgrade doesn’t mean you really upgraded the equipment. It just offer you the option to upgrade the equipment during the game. For example, you upgraded the kitchen to cook two bacon and eggs at the same time. It doesn’t mean you can do it in the game. You have to pay additional coins to upgrade the kitchen to level 2 when playing the level and then, you only can cook two bacon and eggs at the same time.
  
• Produces such as eggs from the ducks or bacons from the pigs can gone missing faster during autumn OR your warehouse is full. I really don’t like this idea. The produces won’t stay there and wait for you to reduce the storage and the worst is the idea of missing items during autumn.
  
• Sometimes, ordered items missing if you are not fast enough to pick up those items and you need to spend more money to re-order.
  
• The farm is chaotic if you buy a lot of animals and you need to pick up the produces at the same time. And if it’s autumn or the warehouse is full, the produces or your ordered items will be gone if you are not fast enough to pick them up among the animals. If it’s winter, you have to defrost some of the animals. While managing all these, some levels have bears go after your animals and you have to put a cage on them before they kill your animals. If the well is empty and you are not fast enough to refill the water, some of your animals are gone as well.
  
• There is a walkthrough for each level if you are lost or not sure what to do because there is so many things happening at the same time in each level. However, some of the given walkthroughs not consistent with the playing level.
  
• The farm upgrade is expensive, and the equipment requires a lot of gems.
  
• Some levels require to reach the goal of certain amount of money. It doesn’t mean you will be earning a lot of money in those levels that don’t have the monetary goal. One of the achievements is to finish the level without picking up any produces by yourself. The only way to do it is to buy a cat which cost $2000. You have to pay extra money to upgrade the equipments to do your work faster. There isn’t enough extra money to get luxurious to buy a $2000 cat.
  
• There are too many tasks in every level. There are two different equipments at one place and once you finish doing the first task, you have to pay the secondary equipment to do the other task.
  
• Probably it’s easier to revisit those previous levels which are not in three stars and replay following the walkthrough.
  
• The cat supposed to pick up everything and send to the warehouse but most of the time, it misses some of the produces and you have to pick it up yourself.

As someone who played "Farm frenzy 3" i bought this game. while i do like the additions like the farm i really miss the old music. Also i dont like the graphic that much. Still a good dame thou.

Изначально меня переполнял энтузиазм, первые 3 часа в игре пролетели незаметно. Однако со временем понимаешь, что разработчики просто сыграли на твоих эмоциях и воспоминаниях из детства. Лучше ли эта часть, чем ее предшественники?
Определенно нет, и вот почему:
-минимум крафта. Производящих домиков здесь меньше, а чтобы сделать что-то сложное, нужно просто купить все компоненты самолетом.
-отсутствие прогресса. Не важно на каком вы уровне, 1 или 51, вам никак не пригодится планирование действий, вам не нужно будет думать вообще, игра дает максимально простые задания собрать сначала 10, потом 20, потом 40 яиц. А потом накупить 40 свиней. Мало уровней, где действительно нужно продумывать свои действия.
-наград в этот раз меньше, и вы получаете их не за достижения в игре, а за покупку улучшений фермы.
-новая фича с погодой сначала кажется интересной, но по своей сути она кардинально не влияет на геймплей.
Единственный плюс, который я могу выделить, это графика и милые животные.
У меня сложилось впечатление, что игру сделали быстро и на отвали, у нее есть неплохой потенциал, добавить бы больше контента и проработать уровни.
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I was longing for this game and the first few hours in it slipped past unnoticed. After a while, you realize that the devs just played on your emotions and childhood memories.
Is this game better than its previous parts? Don’t think so.
First, it lacks crafting options. You get few buildings, and if you want to craft something special, just use your airplane to get all the necessary things.
Your progress doesn’t matter. Should it be Level 1 or 51, the difficulty is all the same. You don’t need to plan ahead. Just collect a special amount of produce, that’s it. The previous parts made you choose a certain strategy for each level. The objectives were unique. The gameplay wasn't repetitive.
Few awards that focus mainly on getting upgrades for your farm, not gameplay achievements.
The weather feature is interesting but useless.
The only thing that makes me happy about this game is graphics and cute animals.
The overall impression is disappointing.

6/10 - Adorable. Clicking simulator. Farming!

It's exactly as the description describes it. Just a cute, adorable little farm simulator game where you click to continue evolving your farm and adaptations and such. - It's good for a nice chilled out, zoned out game.

Worth the purchase at full price I'd say if this looks like your game.

I remember playing this when I was younger so finding it on steam & playing it brought back memories would defo recommend.

I love this game. It is very addicting and fun for all ages.