There is a balancing act to keep an eye on here though as helpers cost money, you just need to keep an eye on your costs and make sure you not cutting too much into your profits. A simple press of a button and the task carried on by itself, relieving you to carry out other tasks and removing some of the monotony of your easier daily tasks. One of the other features I really appreciated was being able to hire helpers, any task you have started can be taken over by a helper. I kept things simple to start with and never overburdened myself, I did not want to overspend or take on too much so early in the game. This was a godsend and helped me track what was going on in my various fields, this used in conjunction with the massive help section was amazing for working through the first few hours. So, I was started to hit my groove now and was keeping a track of all my fields through the handy map which could be changed to show it’s current growth, it’s fertilization state or what was currently growing in it. I wanted to make sure I was investing my hard earned cash in the correct items that would, in turn, increase my profit and make my farming life easier and more efficient. I spent quite some time pouring over the stat screens getting used to what everything did and what I should use it for. When I say the amount of assets is vast, I mean it, there’s vehicles, tools, buildings, cultivators, tree planters, harvesters, seeders, mowers, it’s insane! Many of them are customisable, have their own stats and have multiple uses and modes. The early pointless meandering and feeling of being lost soon wore off though as I got more to grips with all the menus, screens and the plethora of tools and vehicles at your disposal. There was a lot to get used to and at times and early on I found it overwhelming, often got lost in the menus and did not really know what would be the best course of action to take. The starting point I picked, the one for newcomers, started with the little tutorial too and helped me get to grips with everything and made sure I knew what I was doing. This was very nice as it allowed me to start with a few vehicles and tools, which in turn gave me a bit of a headstart as I was new to the whole thing. You start with a different amount of equipment, buildings and cash, so you can customise your experience depending on what gameplay experience you want. You are presented with different preset starting points for your farm depending on your experience and how difficult you would like your opening few hours to be. They did their job and by the end of the six tutorials and I felt a bit more confident to enter the next part of the game, the career mode. This presented me with a nice set of missions that taught me the basics of the game, took me through how to prepare the fields, plant crops and harvest them correctly. There are a few modes for you to try from the get-go, I tried the tutorials first due to me being a Farming Sim newcomer and knowing how complex the game was for first-timers I thought this would be the best course of action. You are just a farmer, who wants to farm and has no real driving force to do so apart from to provide himself with a livelihood and for the love of tending to your animals and crops. It’s all replaced with a very deep, customizable farming experience which took me a while to get used to but was rewarding and in the end, an enjoyable experience.įarming Simulator has no story at all, I think is better than the alternative which would be trying to shoehorn some weird story into the game serving little purpose at all. This title is nothing like the guilty farming pleasures of my past and takes a lot more of a realistic tone to its tasks, gone are the cute animals, easy to maintain fields and generally easy going endeavours. Over many years I have played Harvest Moon, Rune Factory, Stardew Valley and even remember getting quite excited when Tom Nook was paying top dollar for my turnips in Animal Crossing. I have played numerous farming games over the years and do have a little guilty pleasure when this genre is concerned, it’s usually the cutesy type though and not the all-encompassing farming sim played in this review.
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