Customer Reviews

SimFarm

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

When you are harvesting, fighting insects or disease, or going to the fair, this game is fun. The graphics are good and I'm glad its all in aeral view. You aren't trapped on the farm either, you can vote in the nearby city, attend the fair and earn or lose prizes, and buy more land. The only real complaint is that the animals can be amazingly stupid -- refusing to eat when the food is right in front of them for example (growing up a block from a farm I know that animals are not this foolish).

Right after SimFarm came out, my brother and I loved it. It's probably better for younger kids. It takes a few days to figure out, but then it's okay, except for the crop duster. Don't get one of those. Sure it can be exciting at times, (i.e. when your sheep all break out of the pen and are sitting in the middle of whatever they can find, or when all your crops go bad at once) but I would recommend starting a new farm whenever it gets boring, or putting in new plants, speeding it up a little, or using a disaster scenario.

I just bought the game 2 days ago and I can't stop playing it! I admit, the graphics are a little bad but that is probably because it was MADE IN 1993 and that was what was considered good back then. You can grow a variety of crops and then kill off stuff for them. I was playing it with my dad and he took it way too seriously. It is a good game for the couch poatato farmer. PS-It doesn't come with instructions, but you can figure the controls out easily.

I thought that the game was okay, I guess. It was cool when you start out and your farm is new and all, but after 20 minutes or so it gets kinda boring 'cause you have the same problems with your farm over and over again. If you want a slow, no action game, then this would be perfect.

Patience and more patience is what it takes to see the success of crop rotation, growth, production, harvesting, marketing, and selling, but on Sim Farm you can accelerate your crops and make a boom market or a C grade wash out. This interactive game lets you design, build, and produce marketable goods in a rustic acre. Not only are there over 20 crops to select, but also quite a number of livestock. The fun is that you learn what you need to grow a bumper crop- weather, chemicals, land, machinery, and labor. If you make the right combinations then you can pay your bills, loans, and buy more acres to design a bigger farm. The fun is in how hard you work to create a dream farm. Though I have never lived in the country or on a farm, this is exactly the hard work that must be done in real life to make things happen. Its fun for children in that it helps them learn about plants, earth, livestock, capital gains, loans, and machinery. For older folks its just fun to make a fortune building and amassing a nice farm and organizing it. Like all the other Sims games the reward or prize is just making up different scenarios and increasing your knowledge of how to make thing work. It can be extremely addicting but its incredibly fun.

The game in the beginning is extremely fun and addicting. After a few days, however, you realize that you spend all of your time spraying the fields. Buying livestock is pretty fun, but the animals are stupid (the food is right in front of them and they "can't reach" it) and break out of their fences and destroy your crops. Everytime I buy livestock I regret it (except sheep are good; they don't eat a lot and they reproduce very often). You can plant a lot of different crops, which is neat, but they all go through basically the same thing: plant, spray, spray, spray, spray, spray, harvest. The cycle repeats continuously until you get sick of it.

In other words, it's fun, but it's a once every few months type game.

Hints: Don't ever bet on your cousin to win the rodeo, he ALWAYS loses. Your cow wins at the state fair more often than not. Crop dusters are a major waste of money (they would appear to make the constant cycle of spraying the fields easier, but there's no way to land, so it's a wasted $6,000). Always buy barns for your animals and sheds for your machinery; it extends the life and saves you money in the long run. Invest in futures when the markets are high; don't settle for a lower price for your crops than you can get. Buy seed... it's cheaper to buy your own seed and store it in the shed than to let the program "auto-buy" it.

I was impressed with SimFarm at first because of the wide variety of crops available to grow, in any region or climate of the United States. Also, there are many temperature guages and budgets and things that show you all sides of running a farm. HOWEVER there was one major glitch in this game- it's too much work. You always have to be out spraying your fields, all the time, for the same things over and over. It got so that I didn't want to play this game because it took too much work- kind of why I wouldn't want to be a real farmer. One other small thing- once I finally made enough money to get a spray plane, there was no way to get it to land!

Overall it was good but it is kind of complicated to understand if you have never played it before. I would still recomend it to you but I would also say that you should read the manual very well

Sim Farm is a great simulation for people who love to buy, sell, manage, and predict outcomes. In this game, you are in charge of a agricultural plantation, growing crops, raising livestock, playing the market, and developing the land. You have to watch the weather carefully. And, like all the famous sim games, it has the exciting disasters. For this game's day, the graphics are good. Right now, though, they aren't top of the line.
I definetly recommend SimFarm for everyone who enjoys a good, classic game.

Yes sheep really ARE that stupid! not a bad game in its day, Having grown up on a farm i can relate to it better as well, very addictive game like the other sims & dont give up on the crop duster it is easy when you know how to land it! (with a bit of trial & error I might add!)