

Outside of the rough getting started guide… the vehicle/machinery purchase menus were where I had the most trouble. It’s interesting that it has taken this long to get one of the most iconic names in farming into the game, but for whatever reason (and it sounds like it just required the right things to happen at the right time)… John Deere is finally present and accounted for. You have your animal options (this time including horses for the equine fans out there) and of course the large number of different farming machines you can choose from. You have a wide range of crops you can select to grow, what you do with them is also somewhat flexible (either selling on the market or converting to stock feed etc). There is of course a tutorial section… but perhaps I’m a bit too used to being handheld a bit longer and taken through a whole cycle of farming rather than just what seems to be a mornings work.īut… if you can get past that rough introduction to the game… once you start getting a hang of the controls and how things have to be done… there’s a lot to the game. I restarted I think three or four times just to re-read what I was meant to do.Īfter finally getting the basic hang of the way the fields worked, the game basically says “well that’s all the hand holding I’m doing… you want any more help… go look at the tutorial section”. The problem really arises when, for one reason or another, you forget one of the steps to proceed… because there is no obvious way to bring up your task again. Then you are guided to the next marker and your task to move on to the next. When you start the “guided” beginning, you will be directed towards a large green marker… fine no problem. It was then that I had a vague recollection of running into the same issue last time.

I ran the “Getting started” game… thinking it would run me through the basics… and it does, to an extent. I played the last installment of Farming Simulator but it’s been so long since I last loaded that up that I thought I’d better start with the basics. But if you are familiar with the mechanics… you will likely be happy with some of the new additions, including the icon John Deere.īut back to that point about being overwhelmed. I say that because if this is your first time playing it, you may get overwhelmed pretty quickly.
