Unlike campaign mode, you’re left completely on your own in free farming. Want to farm coffee in Columbia? Rice in Japan? What about grapes for wine in Italy? Done, done, and done! Each farm comes with new crops and the equipment to ensure you are cultivating your crops correctly. The major bonus of free farming mode is choosing where your farm is located. Free farming is all of the things listed above and more, without the progression limitations the campaign places on players. Newcomers and casuals will probably prefer sticking to the campaign to learn the ins and outs of Pure Farming 2018 and the mechanics therein, but for those feeling more adventurous there’s free farming. You’ll also open up greenhouses and animal pens, eventually cultivating your farm to produce everything you need to make sure the family farm stays, well, in the family. By accomplishing them you’ll unlock new crops, equipment, and even bigger fields where you can grow aforementioned crops.
Maybe after this I can grow some wheat and settle that debt in a similar fashion.įrom this point on you’ll be bombarded with emails on your iPad telling you how to do various tasks around the farm. I won’t lie, I had a slight anxiety attack as I was reminded of my own student loan debt. Literally the first alert I got in the game was an email from the bank letting me know the terms on which I could pay my near $300k loan back. This ultimately leaves you, the player, with a sparse amount of land, a few crops to grow, and a boatload of debt. The campaign places you as a nameless man who is fixing to save his grandfather’s farm in Nowhere, Montana. I wasn’t planning on enjoying Pure Farming 2018 nearly as much as I did, and I certainly didn’t think I’d want to keep playing after I’d finished enough content to write this review, but I did, and I will, and in the end that’s worth more than anything I can say here. What I can provide you is an overview as both a surprised and pleased newcomer to the genre.
Therefore, if you are a hardcore digital farmer looking to see where Pure Farming 2018 lands on the comparison charts, I’m loath to inform you that you won’t find that information here. Now, before I get started, let me premise this review with the statement that, to date, I have not played any other farming simulators before (providing you don’t include Farmville, which I don’t), so my wheelhouse of knowledge on the topic is borderline nil for comparison. That being said, it’s certainly honest work, and in the version that Ice Flames and Techland Publishing has provided gamers with this year, it’s also fairly relaxing.
It’s also not a very lucrative career path.
It’s generally hard work, filled with long days and nearly endless toil. Pure Farming 2018: Farmer’s Tan Not Includedįarming isn’t exactly what most would consider to be an exciting activity.