Unfortunately, I cannot recommend this game to any gamer unless they are deadly serious about their farming simulators.
This game offers absolutely no help, tutorials or explanations on how to play at all. You're simply thrown into the game and will spend your time clueless on what to do before you ragequit or borequit.
I've played a whole lot of FS13 and assumed it would be a similar experience (even if from different companies). But I was very wrong.
However, the game is actually a pretty good looking game for something that came out a few years ago. But it's not for everyone, the effects can really bother some people, luckily there are options to turn them off if you don't quite like some of the shaders being used.
It would be nice if this game had co-op but unfortunately that is not the case for this game or Agricultural Simulator 2013 either.
So if you had to play a farming simulator game, I'd recommend FS13 demo instead due to that being a free trial to see if you like it and if you do, get that instead. It also has co-op so you can play with friends.

It's a great farming game. When it works, it's great. However it's buggy and will crash frequently if not working perfectly. Unable to play it on my laptop (repeated crashes) but it runs fine for hours on my desktop.

Farming with hired workers is great and easy, and it's very enjoyable. Fairly realistic on how the tractors work which is a great plus.

If you're interested in farming, pick this one up in a bundle or something for cheap. It's great and not very costly.

Bought 2000 rabbits, 45 goats, and 2 tractors.
Did donuts in my neighbors crops.
Uninstalled game.
10/10

The game runs ok I have this and the 2012 version i would recomend the 2012 version as it has more in it.

BEAWARE this game can be unstable I have not had instubility on these UiG titles but just be aware of this before you purchise these game the can be unstable to the point of not being useable.

This is a good game if you have a lot of time on your hands. It is very slow moving, however it is fairly realistic regarding damge to equipment and fuel usage etc. The graphics are good with tractors leaving tire marks in the ground. If you are looking for a realistic simulator this is for you. If you are looking for a farming simulator that you can have fun with friends and a joke around but still keep the farming trend i'd go for a game more like Farming Simulator 2013 (2011 or similar) .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op3j8FY6rYs As far as I can tell, the only reason for buying this would be to hijack a tractor, discover you can ram cars off the road, drive it sideways off a bridge, break the graphics, do a back flip, and then write a song about it.

Poorly optimized and dreary graphics/physics.

Well... this game would have been fun if therre wouldn't be bugs and that the graphics would be optimized... defenitly not worth a penny

tried to buy a cow...crashed the game...in the words of the bart simpson, "Don't have a cowman" ---literally!

Edited: Originally, I had given this a positive review as I was enjoying the game. The issues I saw were mainly equipment tumbling in the garage when the garage door was opened. You ignore it and it will correct itself when the garage door closes. There was also a noticeable delay in the game starting after launch. Just wait, it will start (at least it did for me). There were physic issues where a tractor or combine would occasionally fall apart piece by piece and float into the air, which seemed to happen at the edge of fields or a bump. In spite of these issues, I just saved often and continued on.

I figured out how to generate the most money to help me quickly buy more land, upgrade buildings, as well as equipment purchases and upgrades. I also started to hire farmhands as I grew in size.

I later discovered that if you play for awhile without saving, the game will lockup and crash. Therefore, I am reminded to save the game often. So far, seemed OK with the saving often work around, but, i started having major issues after I had purchased the third farm. The game did not seem to be able to handle such a large operation. It started to crash shortly after I started to do some farming activity. I don't know if the game intended for me to sell off the earlier farms as I progressed to bigger farms. I was trying to run all three farms at the same time with two farmhands operating at each one. Apparently, it was too much for the game to handle. I had also noticed that the game will lock up if you try to use equipment bought for one farm to do something on another. For example, I was hauling a trailer of barely from one farm to the silos of the other...CRASH. Therefore, it's reasonable to assume that each farm is independent of the other.

I got this game in a simulations bundle and should be the only way you end up with the game in your library. There are probably less buggy farm games out there so I do NOT recommend this game as an outright purchase.