Farming game thread - General Farming games for the General farmer

[Slowbro]

My reaction exactly. Really glad Rune Factory's back from the dead, but Nintendo needs to take my money for Animal Crossing already.

AC fans are throwing their money at Nintendo and they aren't showing us shit, I don't get it.

At least RF got some love though... It doesn't seem to happen that often.

 

[Oddjob OTP]

Anyone played much Graveyard Keeper? I threw about 2 hours at it and definitely got a Stardew Valley sort of vibe off it, and it's an interesting setting but I'm not sure how much it picks up. Kind of slow and boring even by farming game standards.

 

[Lackadaisy]

Anyone played much Graveyard Keeper? I threw about 2 hours at it and definitely got a Stardew Valley sort of vibe off it, and it's an interesting setting but I'm not sure how much it picks up. Kind of slow and boring even by farming game standards.

I considered buying it, but I heard a lot of criticism similar to yours.

 

[AnimuGinger]

Anyone played much Graveyard Keeper? I threw about 2 hours at it and definitely got a Stardew Valley sort of vibe off it, and it's an interesting setting but I'm not sure how much it picks up. Kind of slow and boring even by farming game standards.

I played it to the end of the main story before the zombie patch. It just turns into a giant grind of waiting until the right day to advance the story, especially once you learn to cheese the stamina system with wine and cake.

 

[shartshooter]

Not a farming game but one of my favorite Natsume games is The Legend of River King 2. It plays more like an RPG but it has the same quaint, peaceful vibe.

Stardew Valley is pretty alright. I think a lot of stylistic and character choices are going to seem dated in not too long. It's not as endearing as old Harvest Moon. My dream game would be Stardew Valley's farming in an Animal Crossing game.

 

[SnowBall]

I like Stardew Valley on its own but I am not fond of the atmosphere. It is hard to pin down what bothers me about it but the game seems to have that hipster millenial vibe that feels so off. I also fell a bit out of love with the game due to making the mistake of checking out the fandom, which gets extremely rabid.

 

[AnimuGinger]

I'm looking at giving My Time At Portia a shot. Seems a little less cancerous than SDV.

 

[SnowBall]

My Time at Portia looks interesting but the art style looks like they hired the people behind Big Mouth to design the characters.

 

[SnowBall]

Sorry to double post and necro the thread but the new trailer for RF5 dropped and it looks so good.

Release date got pushed back to 2021 but that was to be expected.

 

[WinchesterPremium]

Sorry to double post and necro the thread but the new trailer for RF5 dropped and it looks so good.

Release date got pushed back to 2021 but that was to be expected.

It is out in Japan 22nd for NA release.

 

[Xarpho]

One of the reasons I never got into Stardew Valley was that it didn't really fix any of the problems that Harvest Moon had, like the bullshit around business scheduling and "first day of summer, all of your crops died overnight lol".

I'd like to see a farming game that scales up as you build, so you start out planting and watering crops by hand, 20 hours in and you've got acres of crops, hired help, vegetable oil manufacturing plants, and dozens of heads of cattle.

 

[XYZpdq]

I've poked at Harvest Crossing and Animal Moons and shits for at least ten minutes on other people's saves
if I didn't have a real job or real chores these would probably be great
n64 Animal Crossing was neat at least for Nintendo finally opening The Forbidden Door and offering legit emulated nes games

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Some of the old Harvest Moons are alright. Stardew Valley has faggotry so that's out. I tried a couple Rune Factory games, they're more like RPGs but with farming elements, but fine.

 

[Pee Cola]

Farming games peaked at Corn Cropper for the ZX Spectrum.

 

[Mike Stoklasa]

Story of Seasonscore

 

[polaris_VII]

Not sure if I should necrobump this thread or create a new one, but I flipped a coin and now I'm here.

I bought Farming Simulator 25 a few months ago and only really got into it very recently. If learning curves are your worst enemy, this game isn't for you. You will get frustrated, you will call aspects of the game retarded (some are, to be fair), you will quit a few times. But when it finally all clicks it's a really cool experience.
Currently I play the game on my Xbox Series S, which is probably one of the worst ways to do so. 1080p/30fps, bad draw distance, some stuttering. That's okay because it's not some precision game like CoD. Plus, you can install mods on the console version (works in a similar manner to Fallout 4).

Right now I'm still getting my skills down. My farm specializes in hogs and wheat, with 270 head of the former and about 15 acres of the latter. Pretty small. Here's what it looks like.

I run 4 tractors, all of them being Deere models from the late 1990s. Two are "medium-duty" and I use them mainly for crop chores, and then I have two smaller ones for tending to my animals (transporting food, straw, my slurry tanker). This is one of the smaller ones, a Deere 3650.

I also have a combine harvester and an old pickup (latter pictured below). I use the pickup primarily for transporting diesel fuel to my farm, as the fuel station is annoying to drive to.


I have about 38 hours in the game so far and it's been a frustrating but rewarding experience. Very rarely will I pick up a game again after a bad first experience, but this one is an exception. I guess a lot of the problems were because I bought the game only a month after launch. Most of it is ironed out now.

Here's a video of my old farm from a week ago. Sorry if this is TLDR, I rarely get this enthusiastic about stuff.

 

[Neodanthril]

I just can't make it past year one in Stardew valley because I hate having to get fish for the community center. I don't mind the fishing minigame itself but needing to remember that on the second Tuesday of spring of an even numbered year and it's raining I need to go to a very specific body between 1:58 and 1:59 am and catch a max difficulty fish but only after Ive dumped a hundred grand or however much it is into the community center to unlock the bus is not enjoyable to me.

 

[FatalTater]

Used to play Farming Simulator.
I yelled at it a lot and got my tractor stuck on a large rock.
Then I wasn't allowed to play Farming Simulator anymore.

 

[Cougar Pump]

I bought Farming Simulator 25 a few months ago and only really got into it very recently.

I could do to get back into Farming Simulator. On 22 I had it modded to make the hired help basically free and turned it into a kinda management game which ended up being pretty fun. The annoying thing about FS is they re-issue the game every couple of years at full price having improved only a few things, broken a bunch of other things, and then slowly dole out a bunch of hardly worthwhile DLC for insane money. So piracy is obviously the way, but even that's frustrated by their daft release behavior and constant re-inventing of the wheel

 

[polaris_VII]

The annoying thing about FS is they re-issue the game every couple of years at full price having improved only a few things, broken a bunch of other things, and then slowly dole out a bunch of hardly worthwhile DLC for insane money.

That pissed me off about FS25, FS22 was $20 cheaper on console and it ran at 60 FPS instead of 30. But the series has improved a decent amount over the years, although at a rather sluggish pace.