Pro Farm Manager Reviews

what A heap of rubish dont buy it can buy out keep crashing no english insrustons buy farm sim insted

Still waiting for English translation and ingame tutorials but the idea is wonderful

First of all, look at the numbers of hours played by the negative reviewers. I do not believe, at this point, there is one that has played over an hour. It's hard for me to believe anyone can make an honest assesment about this game spending that little time with it. Why? First of all, it's been translated from the french version. The developers claim that the translation is 95 percent done...I don't think so. I probably spent an hour looking up words used in the game menus using Google translate to convert into English. I don't recognize farm machinery by look alone, so to figure out which machine was the seeder, I had to translate that to french to get "semoir" before I could figure out what machine it was. Secondly, the manual has been translated to English and it's right here on the site. it's helpful for sure, but it doesn't cover near enough to let you really know how to go about things. For instance, the manual will tell you what machinery you need to feed your animals, but doesn't really tell you exactly how to go about using that machinery. Another example is that I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to get manure out of animal pens. It was simply because I needed to use a Clous TL-4 telescopic front end loader instead of just a regular bucket on a tractor. It's things like that which really aggravated me at times. However, If you wanted to get an idea of what the game is about, I would suggest looking at the manual before buying. It will let you know what this game has to offer. Lastly, this game is way deeper than other so called "farm sims". To me, the other "farm sims" seem geared toward a techno toddler that enjoys pushing his John Deere model tractor across the yard and filling it's trailer with rocks to haul around. It's fun I guess, if your easily amused. They always leave me wanting more though and I don't think they should be called farming simulators, more like pretty farm machinery simulators. Sure they have animal breeding, but the aspects of it are really shallow. I don't know of another "farm sim" out there that let's you decide which two individual animals you would like to breed. "What does it matter", you say. Good question, it wouldn't matter if you were playing other "farm sims", all the animals are paper cutouts of each other. This game, however, has animal genetics. There are multiple traits for each animal such as egg laying rate with chickens or a breeding success factor for cattle. So if you wanted to raise a bull that was very good at knocking up the cows, you can breed for that. If you wanted a goat that was a good milk producer, you can breed for that as well. They even have a demeanor factor. Apparently, if the animal has a bad demeanor, it's easier for it to get lost. I haven't got to the point of being able to do this yet, but at the beginning of each month, there are livestock competitions where you can enter your favorite, best bred animal into in hopes of winning a cash prize. I guess what i'm saying in the end is this game offers choices. Another example is you can put your fields where you want and make them as large as you want. So the problem in the end, is that since this game is so deep, and French, you are going to have your work cut out for you figuring out how to play it. If more English speaking players could get on board make some better documentation to eliminate the headaches, it would do this game a lot of good. Finally, this game does have bugs. You can play it, but it's kind of like a big tease. It leaves me sometimes thinking that if this game ran smoothly, I would probably have a severe gaming addiction. You know, "What might have been." I've had it crash on me whenever I've had a marathon gaming session, which leaves me pretty irritated. But I guess that's what comes with the territory of Early Access. Anyways, if you are looking for something a little more grown up and an actual "farming simulator", give this game a spin and support the devs. If they were able to finish this, I would gladly pay up to fifty bucks for it. The potential is great.

Stay away from this, it is, at best, an very very early alpha. Could be good down the road. In this stage. NO