Farm Expert 2017 Reviews

This game has a lot of niggles and bugs, but they will be ironed out over time. Some of the auto features don't work everytime yet, like getting the AI to bring in the crop for you. Overall, this game is like a cross between spin-tires and a farming simulator, (because of the soil dynamics), but the vehicles are very buggy just now, (one week in from the release date). In gear 2, your tractor leaps into the air and floats like it is filled with hot air! If you want a fully working game, then wait a while and read more reviews, but don't listen to people who have only played this game for five minutes and given up! Farming is about patience and if your more of a GTA, COD of BF nut than a farming nut like me, this game will put you to sleep! Personally, I cannot wait till someone makes a mod like CoursePlay for this game! I love farming simulators, but I also find it boring going up and down the field over and over again. The next best thing the devs could do, is to let more than one AI work on the field at once, like in the big G's FS13 and FS15. Its a pain in the 'A' waiting for plowing to finish before you can start cultivating, etc. I have played Farming Sims since early 2000 and started with John Deer Farmer et al. Check out Farmer-George on Youtube or Twitter.com/FarmingSims I will probably make a few videos for this game!

I write here a small what do i think about this game review. I had owned the previous farming expert 2016 version, that i recently deleted from my steam account. That version was really a big mess. The developer of that and this game made some fixes to FE16 that solved some heavly problems, also some of them stayed in the game.. That made the game just worthless and no any chances to playing it again.. They also promised to still improve that game.. But because of FE17 i dont think they dont really have the time for it to do that. Because this silden team is not very huge. And i think they have to much to do to improve Fe2017 instead.. Do you expect that it would be a big change from FE16 to FE17. I would say no, because its still the same looking game with the same type of graphics. But this FE17 game should actually called FE16. But the view on the commercial side, FE17 sound newer and need to be more actractive to buying the game. If you look on the features side, it is still a sort of improvement. -Loading times are sorter, no heavy gpu load with the game is loading, the in game map is improved, there is now a garage for maintance, the helper is improved, tractors doesnt slide anymore, doors and gate automatically goes open when you standing in front of it. And also the verhicles are improved on the looks in the store, there are more brands now and so on. But there are indeed still some flaws in the game.. Its not the same game as farming simulator (i own from FS 11 to FS15) but feature wise it has much more to offer then farming simulator. Some things works a little shocky, game performance is a little down. But if you only look to the features its a nice addition against farming simulator. I would give this version a 6 / 10 when they would fix every flaw that would still in the game. Is it worth 20 euros? I would say no, because quality wise i still let it a bit down. I would say if you can get it for 10 euro perhaps 15 euros, i would see go for it.

I recently bought this game during the summer sale. And i love it. Despite the bad reviews i bought it and its amazing. I dont know if the devs fixed most of the bugs but i havent experienced one bug since i started playing. There are so many aspects of this game that other games in this Genre didnt event think of. You start with only a silo for wheat you then have to build and upgrade them. Your tractors need servicing. You loose traction on wet terain. Needles to say i am looking forward to Farm Expert 2018

I have been playing this for 127 hours and I only had a few minor bugs.The game works very well and I never had any crash or freeze. I think that some bugs depend on what omputer is used. I have windows 10 and a dualcoreprocessor. The game was abandond before it was finnished so there is some incorrect information in the game and some things were never implemented like there is tractors with manual gearbox but manual svitching is not implemented so they work as a permanent cvt2. One thing I don´t think work so good is animals. Chickens and goats are ok but cows produce little milk and I couldn´t get the sheeps to produce any wool. It is based on a year so you sow in spring (or late fall) and harvest in the summer or the autumn and you can advance time as much as you want so there is no waiting around. If you are like me and think that the fun part with a game is to figure out how everything work and what information is correct and what is wrong you should buy this. And if you want more information there is a fairly good guide on steam. This is basicly a machinedriving simulator becauce that is what you do in this game but it works very well.

Bought this for 1.99 today on sale. I see why the review's are so bad. The control's are a nightmare. The graphic's are not too bad. The control's are a nightmare...yep so bad I had to say it twice. The bulding is cool but I couldn't do anything with the house or what I assume is a chicken coup. May have to be unlocked. When attaching implement's the tractor jump's. Layed over onto it's side once. I know you are suppose to "play a game for hour's" before you review but I just couldn't. It is just terrible. If your one that like's this game, good for you. You have proven you have more patience than me. For two buck's with free dlc I had to at least give it a shot.

I never seem to post reviews of games I play but feel i need to with this one. It was a great concept from the outset and from what i have seen on the internet. So i decided to go out and buy the game to give it a try, whilst it was on offer for £3 on the sale. I started the game and went into the tutorial to learn how to play it. Within 10 mins of the tutorial starting I found 2 bugs, one of which basically means you can't continue to tutorial. The keybind for un hitching the trailer is wrong it tells you to press 'R' which is unload so end up losing half the harvest before you start,, and then the broken part it tells you to hitch a sugar beet harvester which the hitching point is in the ground and wont allow you to hitch it full stop. After reading up more on this game it seems the developer likes to collect the cash and abandon the game. GAMES LIKE THIS SHOULD NOT BE ON STEAM. GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER VALVE AND SORT IT OUT!

I know this game has a lot of negative reviews, and I was not expecting much when I bought it as I dipped my toes into a farming game for the first time. Yes it has bugs, like AI workers going round in circles on certain fields, but you can work around the bugs. I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised by what this game offered, Nice graphics and animation, models are ok and the field work is great, with the terrain deformation. The straw baling is excellent, you can even pick up the bales to load onto a trailer. The animal textures are too shiny, but nothing you can not work with. The greenhouses asspect of the game is fantastic, yes it is hard work, but you reap the benefits. All in all a very good game for getting into farm sims.

Seriously, I'ts a very good idea with more realistic physics and all... IF it works, and it don't. Tractor bouncing like crazy on flat road the tracks from wheels are urealisticly deep in dry mud. I haven't played it long enough to make a statement on the rest of the gameplay but I feel I will wait for FS2017 and put my money there instead. It's a pity because this devs really consentrated on the things FS lacks but only their ideas were good :(

I have a few hours into the game now and can honestly say there are no major issues at all. The physics for driving on the roads are not perfect, so just drive carefully but the rest of the stuff in this game makes up for that. All the crop and fruit planting are far more realistic than FS 15. It will really pay you to do All the tutorials. As for the wingers out there FS 15 has still got bugs example: turn on your lights and game freezes.. I think it's great what these Devs have done with this game and wish them all the luck for the future. We do need another farming sim. If the devs stick with this I think it's the recipe to be an alternative to FS 15. Am not knocking FS 15 as have hundreds of hours in it. Also the price at the moment makes it worth giving it a go.

Missed opportunity , had so much promised, but was a hurried release. Developers did not fix the flaws which were apparant in the alpha videos/ pictures ( eg bouncing tractors, tractors floating, blurry graphics etc etc ). Has all the ingredients ( which the Farm Simulator series doesn't have ) , to be a success , but needs to be polished ( patched !! ) a lot. In its current state, i can not recommend this game.