If you’re a farmer, or if you know the ins and outs of farming through some other means, you’ll stand a chance of progressing with ease. The game has some incredibly extensive help menus (including information on what tasks can be done and how to do them) but this was the first sign of Farming Simulator’s main problem. This can feel incredibly daunting there are numerous fields, a town centre with shops for the equipment you’ll need and places to sell your produce but, unless you’re already a farming expert, you’ll still have no clue on what your next move should be.
From there, the world opens up with literally no indication of what to do next. You see, whilst there isn’t really any specified goal in the game, you’ll likely want to be working towards seeing your farm grow into your own empire you’ll need to be efficient to achieve this.Īt the start of your career the game will give you some quick tutorials for using various vehicles, how to manage your fields and navigating certain menus, before completely leaving you to your own devices. You’ll be taking on a whole host of farming duties – ploughing and cultivating in the fields, managing and selling animals and their produce, managing your own workforce of employees, and so on – and every single step needs to be carefully planned to make sure that you are making profit. In fact, this doesn’t really feel like a game – instead, it feels like you really have woken up and started your working day. The attention to detail and realism of this game is incredible everything from the real-life brands of farming vehicles to the fluctuating market prices for produce and livestock has been truthfully represented. Farming Simulator: Nintendo Switch Edition is the latest offering in a franchise that has spanned across multiple console and mobile platforms for almost ten years and, effectively taking last year’s Farming Simulator 17 for a portable spin, it is hoping to be the definitive handheld farming experience. Farming might not be the first option that springs to mind when thinking about which careers you’d most like to see simulated in video game format, yet this series is a hugely successful one that has been going for some time.