It is a nice looking farming game with many new creative ideas that no other farming game has. Too bad that the developers didn't have time/money to finish making the game. The game is so buggy you cant even play it. I have a brand new gaming computer wich can run BF4 on Ultra settings with no lag (and many other demanding games) but this game is so badly optimized it's not even playable. I bought it on the release day for over a year ago and the devs has not made anything to make it more playable since then. So DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!

I really wanted to like this game. As someone who has played and enjoyed many hours of Farming Simulator 2013 but found certain aspects lacking I saw Agricltural Simulator 2013 to be the answer my wants. With the ability to reshape fields, hire workers and manage them in all aspects it seemed to have all the features I was looking for. Unfortunately, while those features are present, the game itself is a horrible pile of bugs which make it unplayable even at lowest settings. I cannot recommend that anyone spend actual money on this game.

Insects probably have the largest biomass of the terrestrial animals. At any time, it is estimated that there are some 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual insects alive

This game probably has the same number of bugs on earth.

This game has potential I give it that, but the developers are so lazy perhaps, that they never made an effort to fix it and probably never will. I think you need an Entomologist to study the number of bugs in this game. Well I had fun while it lasted. Please, don't buy this game guys it is still unplayable.

Agricultural Simulator 2013 Steam Edition is a very good Farming game with a lot of realism built into it. BUT.......... No support from the developers and the fact that you cannot even start a new game makes this product unuseable. It's too bad that this has happened to this game because I enjoyed it very much up until I was unable to play due to the developer abandoning us here on Steam. I cannot give this game a good reveiw at all. Purchase Farming Simulator 2013 instead.

Hands down one of the top 3 worst games I've ever had the misfortune of buying, playing, and even help debug. The developer Actalogic is just not up to par to develop quality games, since they use an outdated and broken game engine that has so many holes you'd think it was Fallout New Vegas' Hoover Dam being fought over by the NCR and Ceasar's Legion.

For 1 whole month a number of players and the CEO of Actalogic tried to work together to debug the game by testing over and over to make a list of reproducable errors (not all that easy to do for some). Each little 'patch' would end up plugging one hole to only create 3 new holes in the 'Hoover Dam' that is AG2013. In the end Mr. CeO just left for vacation and never returned leaving us with a long list of promises and upcoming updates.

IF you're lucky to get it to work on your PC and think all is smooth sailing, just wait...you just wait. Play the game using the same save file for 20+hrs using the equipment to build your own farm up. Then, you'll know what we already know.

Too many bugs, awful handling, No Maps and last but not least: NO SUPPORT in any way. Gave out a beta patch months ago, since then there is silence. There are far better Farming Sims out there.

"Wow, this game is beautiful, it must be better than Farming Simulator"
*rotate camera 180* **CRASH**

"Hey, look, my tractor!"
*gets in tractor* **CRASH**

"Damn, that looks ready to harvest!"
*starts combine* **CRASH**

"I'll just try to feed my animals"
*picks up feed* **CRASH**

"I ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up my tractor, let's take it to the barn for repairs."
*won't repair* **CRASH**

"FFFUUUUUUUUU......"

This is how frustrating this dumpster fire of a game is.
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With the horrendous review score Agricultural Simulator 2013 (AS13) has, I went into it with rock-bottom expectations. However, somebody gave it to me for free, so I still wanted to try it. One thing that surprised me was how a decent number of people were completing the achievements, which didn't seem like it'd be worthwhile if the game was so terrible. I honestly don't know what compelled those people to go for them, but I certainly fell fall short and have no problems with that. Same with the low play-time, as I have no interest in playing the game any further.


Here's the heart of the problem with AS13. Since it's a farming simulator, it makes an earnest attempt to recreate the different tasks you'd complete if you were going to be a commercial farmer. You have to till the soil, treat it with fertilizer, plant the seed, harvest the crops, and interact with your farm equipment for each step necessary. For instance, you can't just hop behind the wheel of a seed dispenser willy-nilly. You have to get the bag of seed, load it into the compartment, connect the seed dispenser to your tractor, drop the right parts of the machine, and start driving it around the tilled-up field so they are sown evenly. It's far too realistic and detailed, with all the limitations of doing each step manually, that it becomes a chore to complete anything. The reason farmers do it is for a paycheck, but what's my motivation for going through all these steps? To watch virtual plants grow? I didn't even make it all the way through the tutorials before I was fed up with the game. 

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2132727722
This release has several tutorials breaking down how to do everything, which is good because it's fairly complicated. Aside from a few clunky parts, such as connecting one machine to the other, it handled well enough. Driving a tractor with precision isn't the easiest thing to do, unless you drive it very slowly, which makes me feel empathetic for farmers cruising around at three MPH to get acres of farmland prepped.


I didn't get past the tutorial section, but if I had to predict, the game would have some story elements to it. You'd be a farmer trying to make a sustainable living, and proceed through the crop season, from sowing to harvesting. It couldn't be less engaging than the gameplay itself. 

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2132728119
Honestly, the visuals aren't too bad. It's been a while since I've gotten a close-up view of a tractor or farm equipment, but AS13 seems to have put effort into accurately recreating the mechanics and visual components of the machinery a farmer would use. In this sense, I'd say that the game's appearance holds up pretty well. However, since the setting is a farm, it doesn't give much stimulation, or interesting things to look at. A simulation could accurately depict a painted wall drying, but that wouldn't mean you have anything worth looking at, which is the main problem here. Open acres of tilled-up dirt is droll.


There's a country music tune that plays throughout the tutorial section, and it certainly fits the theme of the game. Also, since you're on a farm, there's ambient background noise such as chickens clucking. I'd suspect most of this comes from stock sound effects, but there's nothing wrong with that.


🌟 Based on how long the tutorial was, and the achievements listed, there's a lot to do in the game.
🌟 This might be what farming is really like, so it's a successful simulator.


❌ From what other reviews say, there are significant bugs and problems with the game working right.
❌ It's boring.


🔍 Precision seems to be important in the game in order to maximize your farming potential.


From my time with it, AS13 gives an example of how a simulation can recreate an activity accurately, have enough structure and objectives for a player to know what to do, and still fail as a game. There are several games that recreate jobs people actually do for a living, and you could argue they aren't significantly different than what has been made here. The difference is that in the games where they work well, it takes significant short-cuts in the jobs they're simulating, taking creative liberties to give it a sense of gameplay and fun, instead of a recreation of work. 

It's easy to imagine how a game being more like real-life would ruin it: waiting 30 minutes to bake a cake in a cooking game, spending hours reviewing resumes and interviewing candidates to hire employees in a business sim, or obeying traffic laws in Crazy Taxi (Normal Taxi). It'd make the games realistic, but would erode the fun factor. AS13 is sensible enough to not make you wait actual weeks for crops to grow, but that's not enough. For me, this is a great showcase regarding game design. If you're going to faithfully recreate something, make sure it's something exciting, like flying a plane, or driving a race car. When basing it off something more mundane, by all means don't make it a 1:1 recreation. Creativity and flexibility are vital, and because AS13 is so pedantic, it's not a game I'd recommend. Trying your hand at actual gardening would be more enjoyable, and depending on what you tried to plant, could be cheaper.

I picked this game up for my little son who loves tractors, potato harvesters and so on and so on. He also owns a lot of toy versions of them and plays a lot of them.

However - I thought it could be fun to show him a few things in this game. I really tried to get into the routines and the GUI and controls....but nothing is made well.

The worst point of all is that it's not running smooth at all. It's lagging all the time and it's looking terrible if I turn everything down. It's not a problem of my rig. I know that a lot of people are able to play this game without any problems but I can't. I tried different video drivers and a few other tweaks.

Check the forums - there is no support for this game anymore. No patches. The game feels like a beta build.

Even if you are able to play the game smooth, a lot of gear and naturals are randomly disappearing, the GUI is not intuitive, you are "waking up" at a huge famn and have no idea what animals you have, what fields you have, where they are, what vehicles you have,... nothing. You have to figure out everything on your own.

For a short period I thought it's maybe my fault,...that my rig is guilty that this game is not running well, that I'm too stupid to manage my farm and so on. I downloaded the free Farming Simulator 2013 demo and it's great.

TL;TR
This game is NOT Farming Simulator (Landwirtschafts-Simutator). It's a cheap and broken copy!

I've read all of the reviews and have no doubt these guys are having the issues they are talking about however I bought the game knowing that there are issues and to be honest, it seems to work pretty good for me. I have no severe lag or studdering as I've seen mentioned, nothing really out of the ordinary given that I know the game has a few problems. I also haven't gone looking for problems either.

I did follow the advice of a couple of posts about adjusting the some settings using the command window, don't know if that helped or not but the game runs fine. As long as you're not expecting to aquire a polished and completely stable game and you don't mind the occasional/frequent glitches you should be able to enjoy the game. Be advised, it is a true farming sim unlike Farming Simulator (which I own) or the new Pro Farmer (I've tried the demo). You have to do everything manually and it takes time.

I hate to be the oddball posting a positive review amongst the overwhelming negative but given I know it has problems, it's not that bad. Maybe I'm just one of the lucky ones but then again if you think about it most product reviews are reviews written by people that had problems with the item. Many people who like the item never post anything. Just my opinion.