In Farmerama players can run and establish their own farm, responsible for growing crops, breeding livestock and animals, taking their produce to market to sell, and much more in this browser based free to play farming simulator. With plenty of decent things about it the game also has some bad points, read on to find out what they are!
THE GOOD
Self-Sufficient Cycle - Gameplay revolves around self-sustaining and providing for yourself; planting and harvesting crops to turn into animal feed, which provides animal poop for fertilizer, which is then used back on farm plots to harvest more crops for animal feed, and so on…
No Energy – The game doesn’t use an energy system like some other farming games, where once your energy is used up you need to pay or wait for it to replenish, allowing players to play whenever they like.
Free Game Expansions – Staying free to play the game provides its expansion for free, such as its primary expansion Bahamarama, which opens up a whole new tropical area to discover new content and farm new land.
Casual Focus - The game has a repetitive/grindy nature, but with cooldown timers with building times and resource replenishment this is bypassed by promoting shorter, more frequent gameplay sessions.
Premium Accounts – Paying for memberships provides a number of benefits such as quicker resource for faster progressions, or access to some areas without needing to his a level requirement; the benefits don’t create imbalance with the game and are slight enough to avoid it being “pay-to-win”.
Chickadee Mentors – New players can be guided by veteran players in the Chickadee system, allowing mentors and new players to earn rewards for working together; the game promotes co-op gameplay over competitive.
THE BAD
Cash Shop – The “Farm Supplies Store” is a shop that only uses barnyard bills (the game’s premium currency) and sells some unique and exclusive items; whilst some Barnyard Bills can be heard through playing in reality this is a cash-focused shop.
Weaker Graphics – If compared with its main rival, Zynga’s FarmVille, the game doesn’t look as good or as polished.
High Level Hoarding – With limited land then high level players get to a point where they have gathered so much stuff that they just have nothing to do with it, so all they can do is fill up their barn with items they never get to use.
Cash Creep – End-game events that provide unique rewards can be quite time consuming and realistically to get them completed in time before the event ends requires spending premium currency, not really allowing players to just earn them through playing.
Broken Chickadee System – When initially implemented the game was filled with a number of problems and bugs that were too much for the developers to deal with, so the system has been left by the wayside: the result is that no new mentors can be signed up as there are no available slots, and old members can’t quit the position, so some older players can’t experience the system and there’s more chicks than mentors available.
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