15 people found this review helpful
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 12.3 hrs on record
Posted: 8 Jul, 2014 @ 11:01am

Overall: 3/10 - Not what I was hoping for.

Problems: Lack of economy, tons of micromanaging, not very realistic.

I love sim games, this one is far from one. It has a very noticeable lack of economy compared to other business sims. This leaves it with only so much depth. The realism of crop growth is also non-existant. Maize/Corn for example does not grow well in America. But what the game lacks in realism and depth, it makes up for in micromanaging! For crops, you buy/rent a plot of land, plough, plant, choose to pesticide or not (not sure the point of pesticiding in this game), and wait several minutes on full speed for the game to go through a couple months until you can tell it to harvest the crop. Then you can goto the market and sell it for a seemingly rock bottom price or hire the salesman to sell it for a slightly higher price, but then it might not sell, or take over a year perhaps. Then you do the same to the next field and so on, don't forget to plough and order seeds again after harvesting, nothing is done for you.

I think the animals are bugged, at least I hope it's a bug and not part of the design. You have to 'raise' them from infants to adults, and then butcher them or just out-right sell them. They seem to continually grow, or rather keep their numbers up even during the butchering, but if they get too old you're stuck with them for a few years without anyway to sell them short of demolishing the entire building, which is certainly an option. I'm not really sure the point of the animals in this game but they sure do bring in money.

It's hard to say if this is a finished game, hopefully they're still working on it since it feels more like a pre-release alpha game in development. I was hoping this would be a remake of an old classic, but sadly it isn't even close because of the lack of complexity. It's more like a game you would expect to see online but with a total lack of quality graphics.
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