Somehow, this was always a summer game for me. Whenever school bells rang and announced two months of frolicking outside with no responsibilities, it came hand in hand with me redownloading the game for the following eight weeks. Once I discovered, after years of restarting the game, that I can create an account and save my progress, I was unstoppable.
For those who are hearing of this gem of a game for the first time, the game starts you off with a patch of land to plant corn and a few hens. Through passing new levels, you can buy more farm animals and plant different crops, and then even make pies, bread, or even sweaters out of the wool you get from your sheep. Best part of the whole process, capitalistically, is you get to sell all of your harvest or products in a shop. You can also trade with other players, helping them out with their shipments for which you get extra points which can advance you in reaching higher levels.
Hands down my favourite part of the game was saving enough money for a dog. They were mostly a decorative feature as compared to pigs or cows they didn’t give meat or milk to reinvest into further production, but they were cute and ran around the whole farm, so money well spent.
Truth be told, even though I haven’t entangled myself into the farmer world for the past few years, the game still occupies space in my phone, saving my progress. Hoping that perhaps one day I might want to, in mind at least, regress back to a 12-year old kid, taking care of farm animals.