Last Updated on July 10, 2021
Family Farm is an innovative and fun tycoon game in the setting of 19th century farmsteads. It’s a simulation of a farmstead experienced in stories which span a generation. Clicking cows won’t earn you any cash! You control characters with RPG-like attributes, skills and needs. Keep them fed, develop their skills, upgrade house to accommodate a bigger family and grow their land in to a Family Farm!
The game interface presents the farm in a god view with ability to zoom in and out. The game world is tile-based, so you can easily plan fields, corrals, orchards and other game objects.
Timing of seasons is limited and activities take place in real-time, so you have to manage your workers efficiently. You have to cook meals for them and watch out for fatigue otherwise morale goes down. Family members improve in skills which make them faster and increases chances of critical success (ie. multiplying yields). Yields are determined by properties of crops in relation to soil fertility, weather and additional work.
A workforce can be hired, but it is costly, but if you upgrade the house enough, perhaps a new baby will be born. As your family grows you can expand your farm and focus on long-term investments such as livestock or orchards.
Features include:
- Polished and simple gameplay.
- Different modes:
- Manager Mode.
- Planning Mode.
- Decorating Mode.
- Animal-Moving Mode.
- Offers a realistic approach to farming: it’s not an addictive social application but a living world.
- Time management challenge: manage up to 20 workers at one time to do their duties in a limited time of season.
- Complete 10 life stories with various goals giving tens of hours of gameplay.
- Groom and raise a variety of cute farm animals: from horses and cows to sheep and chickens.
- Grow and harvest the fruit, crops and vegetable on your patches and fields in harvest season.
- Cook delicious meals to keep your family and workers happy – regular or affecting their attributes.
- Decorate your farm with flowerbeds and decorative objects.
- Attractive artwork with cartoony graphics.
- Presents a bird’s-eye view of the farm, with the ability to zoom in and out.
- Game world is tile-based, so you can easily plan fields, corrals, orchards and other game objects.
- Rustic soundtrack.
- Highly customizable.
Website: www.familyfarmgame.com
Support: Blogs
Developer: Hammerware
License: Proprietary
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