Yes, you read that title correctly. This is a review for Farming Simulator 16-bit. No, this is not some weird, far-too-late April Fool’s joke. My good friends at Strictly Limited Games ( that is a store link for those interested in picking this bad boy up) and GIANTS Software sent me a copy to check out, and I am grateful for that. Anyone who’s followed me for a while knows I started playing these games when I picked up Farming Simulator 15 on sale and have been hooked ever since. Some years ( like 19 and 22) have been sent to me to review, others, like 25 I bought myself happily.
I went into this with odd expectations. My first game was my dad’s Intellivision, and I played Asteroids sitting on his lap. I grew up on Sega Genesis and Nintendo systems, so I know what those systems can do, so to hear a playable version of Farming Simulator was coming out for it, I was intrigued.
Let me start by saying yes, it is clearly a scaled-back version. Don’t expect to be raising hundreds of animals and buying businesses with full-on supply chains etc.
What you will get is a straightforward and simple game loop. Grow crops, harvest crops, take them to the selling point, repeat. When you get enough money, buy better equipment, at which point you can either store or sell your older stuff. Then repeat the process. You can also save up and buy another map, at which point the process continues. Your equipment can easily be moved between maps, and as you play a map, your crops will continue to grow on the others.
This means you can play each map simultaneously if you want, or just ignore them if you so choose. What is also nice is that the maps are relatively compact, so getting fuel or seeds for your tractors is super easy.
None of this means anything if the controls are bad, and honestly, I didn’t even bother hooking a controller up to my laptop. It’s 3 buttons and some arrow keys basically. That is hard to screw up, which they did not. If they made this when I was a kid, I would have wasted hundreds of hours playing instead of just a couple of dozen. As far as a 16-bit Demake of a game goes, this is as close to perfect as it can get. My only real complaint is that I wish the game explained things a little better. It, however, is nothing you can’t figure out on your own, 9/10, definitely worth picking up. Once again, I will leave the link below in case any of my collectors want to grab it. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.
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