Is there a game more like SimFarm?

[LafinJack]

Hi there, I was wondering if there were any semi-modern games that were more like ye olde SimFarm, where you manage the farm itself instead of use the machinery. I searched this forum and saw a couple mentions of SimFarm itself, but no alternatives. Thanks all, and have fun!

[Trego]

There is a game called Farming Manager..If I remember you dont drive anything just manage the farm make decisions on what to plant and when to sell etc, also I think it has seasons.

There is a graphical display of the farm and the fields and you can watch the farm machinery working from a distance but it is mainly a management game.

[LafinJack]

Thanks, I'll check it out!

[TheLostPenguin]

You can kind of play FS15 that way in that you aren't really driving things around and working yourself, just giving orders for where things should go and what to plant, and when/where to sell your harvested crops. However since the game was never meant to work like that you'll run into one notable problem in that although you can speed up crop growth time massively, vehicles will always drive/work in realtime which will leave you with very little to do until you own most of a map and have a large number of vehicles/fields to manage.

If that does sound like what you want (or close enough) then look into the courseplay mod, it allows you to automate as little or as much as you want, to the extent of not only having the actual fieldwork of sowing/fertilising/harvesting automated, but all the transfers of vehicles from location to location also handled with a couple of clicks, once you set everything up (which would take some time I expect for a very high level of automation).

[Pus in Boots]

there is a "newer" game called John Deere, about 10 years old. and yes John Deere as in John Deere, the game is obviously with John Deere machines.
it is a bit like Sim Farm, and quite entertaining.