Farming World is an isometric farm management game. You'll setup fields, till them, plant crops, wait, pesticide, harvest and market them. Then repeat the process over and over. There are frills like buildings that let you have animals and others that turn your produce into better products like canned goods. Its all a nice system, but its just monotonous. Even though there is a 100x speed up, there is a lot of downtime during the winter if you don't have 12 month produce.

The game menu is pretty easy. It consists of options, buy menu, land agreement menu, market menu, contracts menu (which I didn't need once), statistics and the bank. The menus feel click heavy. When you open one menu you need to click close to put it away instead of being able to click something else. The mouse wheel doesn't scroll the game menus. The main screen has a nice ticker at the bottom that tells you when things have finished. The top of the screen has a nice array of your capacity for equipment, storage, cooled storage and grain storage.

There are three modes to chose from, tutorial, campaign and freeplay. Each one of them starts you off with the same farm. I've played the tutorial three times and somehow never finished it due to the game not recognizing that I did exactly what it asked me to. The campaign and free play are identical except the campaign has a 'rival.' A computer run farm that up until 5 hours in, I never knew it existed. Its not an emphasis. Its just there. There's no competition.

Both modes have you select the country, difficulty and color of your machines. Then you just play until you lose. If you fall into debt you can get a loan from the bank and the terms you'll repay it. If you can't repay it, that's a game over. If you have no money, you can't hire workers to harvest your crops. The bank will only let you get one loan at a time. The campaign

On the surface it looks like a Farmville game, but after almost five hours of playing, I'd say its worse. There are fewer clicks in a Farmville game. Luckily in this game you can increase game speed. You can setup a field and make the size of it. Then you need to buy or rent the land for your field. After that, you need to click the field, click to till the land. The game will ask you if you want to buy or rent the equipment. If you have the money, always buy the equipment. If not, renting is cheaper. There seems to be a flat rate for renting. After that, you'll need to fertilize the field and rent or buy the equipment. Once that gets done, you'll need to plant the crop. Luckily you can hire an advisory for a week, but just read the stats on each of the crops. There are dozens of crops to chose from and you'll see how long each of the four life phases take. From a seedling to maturity. The game shows you how much water, temperature each plant needs. If you don't have the conditions it has a ! next to it. Meaning your crop isn't geared toward success.

Once you select the crop, you need to buy or rent the equipment. After that, you need to wait for the crop to grow into a different phase of its life. You can click to auto water crops that drop below 50% water. If you don't auto water, you'll be clicking over and over again on each field to water it. Then you can use pesticide on it. The choice is yours, organic, or synthetic. Each has its own success rate. The market wants organic, but there is less protection. Then when the crop has entered its next phase, you can use a second dose of pesticide on it and buy or rent the equipment. Eventually, the crop will mature and you'll see a percentage grow and grow. That percentage is how much of the crop has matured. If you harvest at 50% you get 50% of your crop instead of 100%. If you planted your crop too late in a season, it might freeze. So that's the challenge. Finally, you hire workers to harvest the crop. What I mean by hire, just click on an icon and poof it goes right to work harvesting. To harvest a crop, you need the warehouse space. If you don't have the space, buy a bigger warehouse.

Now that you have harvested a crop, you can click the market tab where you sell your crop by sliding a bar and clicking the sell icon. Everything you sell, whether its crops, milk, meat or produce has a market value, which fluctuates like it does in real life. So its a slight gamble. If you want more money, you will have to construct buildings. Fruits and vegetables can be canned or juiced. Flowers can be put into bouquets at a florist. Grains can be baked into bread. Meats can be butchered. Milks can be processed into dairy. Stuff like that. Each building can turn one thing into another thing. Then you sell those things at market.

You can rotate your crops and have two crops or more per year. Some need to grow from the start spring til the end of summer, so you can fit in a different crop in the fall until the winter freeze. Over the winter is where the waiting comes in. Sure you can grow crops in frigid weather and have most of them die, but you can also wait. When waiting, you can speed things up to 100 times as fast, but at the every month, there is a finances popup that requires you to close it. This seems unnecessary. I should just have the money put into an account. It just makes a long waiting process even longer.

Like crops, you can have livestock too. Horses, cows, chickens, goats and cattle. Construct buildings for them, then highlight the buildings, and select the type of animal to put in there. There's no extra cost for a milk cow building vs a horse stable. Its all the same building, which seems like a forgotten detail. Thankfully you can autofeed animals like you can autowater fields. When the animals get old enough they begin to produce milk and eggs. You can also sell them at that time as well. Animals will mature and grow old where they won't produce, nor will they be as valuable when you market them. The only problem with animals is the fact that their fences break. You'll need to find which building has a broken fence. If you have 10 buildings with animals, you need to click on all them to find which has the broken fence. It happens once a year to each animal building.

Once you get the rhythm down you can run a successful farm pretty easy. However, with it so successful on a small scale, I didn't feel the need to keep increasing the size of my farm once I was making $100,000 a year off lavender, carrots and milk.

The game offers a nice sort of progression with stars. For every filed you harvest, you get a star. These stars get used to unlock everything. Better equipment, better workers, plants, animals, buildings. Everything needs to get unlocked. The game starts you with a few stars so you unlock what you want to. Its a nice system, but there's no need to unlock everything when you're making so much profit per year.

When you run out of storage, silo or garage space, you'll have to buy more buildings. The game lets you unlock bigger buildings. You can even unlock better machinery and workers. They work faster and have slightly higher percentages, but if the default is 90% efficiency. The cost of stars isn't worth having 100% efficiency even if they work twice as fast. Everything already takes a day. Perhaps giant farms might need that.

With all that said, the game is just dull. It works well enough, but I don't feel the need to make my farm bigger and better. It lacks scenarios or any variety to make one playthrough different than the next. The only replay value I can think of is your own choice. If you decide to have goats instead of cows. It is a functional game with no frills. No rivals, no challenges, no diversity from one year to the next. The fences will always break. I will always till, fertilize, plant, spray, spray 2x, wait, harvest, market. Over and over. The more fields just means the more work you have to do.

Ok ill burst the bubble.

Most look at the screenies and think is this a facebook game?

Answer is yes, graphics and gameplay is totally facebook.
You even click stars that appear on the ground!

All you do is lay a field , click harvest etc, and do the same again, once money is earned you can buy a second field and repeat.

This is my first impression of such a short play but this is the game straight away soon as you start playing, this is just my honest impression.

As for bugs, yes there are bugs, like fields getting stuck and wont grow, only option you have is to restart the field all over again, this means it could actually bankrupt you and game ends.

The timer does not stop for everything either, you could miss a step on your field because a pop up window opens and you have missed the timer on your field to click to send it into the next stage.

I love these type of games but i am being honest here after only playing this game a short while, so yes this is a early impression.

Games like this belong on facebook not on steam in my opinion.

This is my first review and I feel like I should express my feeling after playing this game for 2 hrs so noone would have to face the same expirience.

This game is boring. There are lots of flaw in this game for example:

- No auto-feed for livestocks so you have to feed them by clicking. Imaging you have like 10+ barns
- Kinda broken. You can earn a lot of money from selling produced food e.g steak and chicken meat. There is no need to plant any crop
- AI is way stupid. It will do almost nothing. You will feel like you're playing alone.
- No way to cure disease for your crop!?
- Background music is lame and repeatitive
- No shortkeys so you have to click everything (Facebook style)
- Way too easy to play. And you have to collect more stars to unlock more stuff with aren't worth unlocking.

The only good thing about this game is it tells you the suitable temperature for each crop so you might be able to try to plant them in real life (I guess). That's all I could think of...

Sorry for my bad English..

Overall: 3/10 - Not what I was hoping for.

Problems: Lack of economy, tons of micromanaging, not very realistic.

I love sim games, this one is far from one. It has a very noticeable lack of economy compared to other business sims. This leaves it with only so much depth. The realism of crop growth is also non-existant. Maize/Corn for example does not grow well in America. But what the game lacks in realism and depth, it makes up for in micromanaging! For crops, you buy/rent a plot of land, plough, plant, choose to pesticide or not (not sure the point of pesticiding in this game), and wait several minutes on full speed for the game to go through a couple months until you can tell it to harvest the crop. Then you can goto the market and sell it for a seemingly rock bottom price or hire the salesman to sell it for a slightly higher price, but then it might not sell, or take over a year perhaps. Then you do the same to the next field and so on, don't forget to plough and order seeds again after harvesting, nothing is done for you.

I think the animals are bugged, at least I hope it's a bug and not part of the design. You have to 'raise' them from infants to adults, and then butcher them or just out-right sell them. They seem to continually grow, or rather keep their numbers up even during the butchering, but if they get too old you're stuck with them for a few years without anyway to sell them short of demolishing the entire building, which is certainly an option. I'm not really sure the point of the animals in this game but they sure do bring in money.

It's hard to say if this is a finished game, hopefully they're still working on it since it feels more like a pre-release alpha game in development. I was hoping this would be a remake of an old classic, but sadly it isn't even close because of the lack of complexity. It's more like a game you would expect to see online but with a total lack of quality graphics.

Good economy farming game ruined by manual clicking mechanics.

The core mechanics are actually quite decent. There is good quality distribution based on weather, player choices, and time of year, with a relatively deep economy. The buttons are tiny (so no tablet in mind, +++) yet it's very comprehensible. There are logical production chains and the player has absolute freedom to farm whatever they want, and I think all crops and animals are present. And most importantly, the game works, which isn't a certainty with farming games from the early 'tens'.

Now the bad: it's just boring... With animals you can put high speed on and just clicker feed the animals. There is no option to do this automated, so you can focus on other things. The game doesn't really offer visuals to enjoy, which is the core of any management game, well maybe just a big part.

So if you accidentally own this and appreciate farming, by all means fire it up and waste some time with it.

ENG:

Best 2D/2.5D dimensional farm manager game, what I have ever played, only in multiplayer is missing. Testimonials! c:


FIN:

Paras 2D/2.5D ulotteinen maatilan managerointi peli, jota olen ikinä pelannut, vain monipeli puuttuu. Suositteluni! c:

Overall good if you want to micromanage farms
Recommended if you enjoyed playing John Deere American Farmer or Farming Giant,
also less buggy than either of them.

Bored? Create your ideal farm in a couple of hours.
Start with cows for fast cash, get stars by processing food, there is no end game.

Most "bugs" reported are intentional - realistic annoyances,
except it's designed for XP so need to use fullscreen mode in newer versions of Windows.
Internal achievements for plants, animals and contracts are non-functional,
but these are needless anyways, it doesn't hinder gameplay progress.
With auto-feeding, random broken fences is the only upkeep for animals,
but the more pens the more chance it occurs, as in daily at times.

Difficulty settings just delay the inevitable overabundance of cash.
Campaign adds a competitor to grab land and delays with stars to unlock everything.
Market price fluctuations too small to matter and nothing spoils in storage.
Contracts are often below market value.
Market value unknown until you have the product to sell.
Maximum bank loan is 200k for 5yrs regardless.

Good detail in weather, climate, soil, treatments, yields and lifespans.
Good selection of generalised crops and animals.
Impossible to grow everything in any one farm, due to location (country) not available space.
Generic selection of tractors in 3 grades of quality.
Workers are hired for once off tasks not managed, just like buying fertilizer.
However, too many plots/pens required to support a building and vice versa,
ie 14-16 cow pens for a 24/7 small dairy processor, yet max 1 pen per butchery.

edit: edited for clarity and grammar

This Game is BOOOOOORING!

The Tutorial is really slow, and is a bit irritating.

i have played about an hour of freeplay, and either i have not found it or it has no automation at all!
wich is infuriating if you have 15 cow stables and everyone needs to be klicked twice every minute.

also the UI is suboptimal, it is too complicatet too sell stuff (again no auto), and every window needs too be closed by clicking a 3 pixel X, before its possible to do other things, like open the window you wanted to open in the first place, but you misclicked because the mouseovers are too slow, and the buttons for the menu are not intiutive.

One might say i have not played enough to Judge, but i say this game punishes you for playing, so i´m not trying again!

Sincerly
Nordfalke


P.S. English not Native Laguage

It's boring. It's godawfully boring. I'm sure that most anyone who's considering this game has read the other reviews- which nullifies my two cents...but... I have to warn potential buyers anyways. I honestly think Farming Simulator 15 is a better purchase. But all this opinion is useless if I don't say why. So, let me start off. I got this from the Humble Bundle (despite this, still a wonderful organization, I recommend it totally.) Which means I paid what I wanted for it. It wasn't even worth it if I paid a single cent. The only redeeming factors was that I got other better games from the bundle.

On a first glance, looks interesting. A nice little farming simulator. I figured I could have some fun, set up some automated chains, so on and so forth until I built a budding farming empire. I pursued this dream for as long as it took to install the game, run it, and then play a bit of tutorial and freeplay. Then, having gotten bored from waiting for my crop to grow, watering it, picking a random pesticide because the game asked me to, and then watch a little harvester make it vanish, and suddenly I had some crops, which I could then click a button to make them turn into money. Maybe...just maybe that would've been acceptable...if that wasn't the entirety of the game. There was no point in doing anything past that. Money was pointless. I could make a new building for something or other, but there wasn't really a reason to. I could try to make more money just for the point of having it, but it's not fulfilling in the slightest. Instead, I'd wish for my time back.

The point I'm trying to make is, the most satisfying thing this game (and from what I've seen, the company in general) can give you is the satisfaction of uninstalling it, and never bothering to install it again. I've not checked the developers forums, or anything of the like, but I see no signs thus far of any developer response to the community, no updates to try and make the game better. Just a quick cash in with a cheap boring game with no substance.

However, all that said, all the malice I have for the game said and done, I'm happy to change my opinion and review if the developers provide something to respond to the community- anything to prove that they actually care about the game and its players. Otherwise, don't waste your money on this game. It doesn't deserve it, and its just sending the message that this game and other cash cows can get away with giving the consumers nothing of any real value. It's sh*t, and it's not even good enough to fertilize the cash crops its supposed to bring in.

Tedious, tedious tedious. I'd rather watch real grass grow. half an hour to harvest one small field that yielded 50.6 percent after tender care. There are so many other sims on Steam that deserve your money, Game Dev Tycoon, Cars Incorporated, for example, not this one. 1990's graphics, no way to adjust screen resolution, miniature text. A huge waste of money. Unless you're living in 1995 then it would seem brand new.