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160 Farming & Life Sim games reviewed and scored, best first.
160 reviews
A pixel-art village-and-heroes RPG from the Punch Club and Graveyard Keeper studios that markets itself as idle and plays like a part-time job — genuinely funny writing and strong art undercut by a loop that never lets go of the mouse.
5.5 / 10
A years-in-the-making, Kickstarter-backed open-world farming sim that finally hit Early Access — and immediately ran into the one thing its audience cared most about. The co-op isn't the shared-farm co-op people bought it for, and the Mixed rating is mostly that discovery happening 392 times.
5.5 / 10
A solo-developed cozy idle farm sim that most short-session players find genuinely relaxing -- while its handful of longer, more critical reviews describe its headline "8 worlds" feature as cosmetic and the whole thing as thin once the initial charm wears off.
5.5 / 10
Talentless Person Games' pocket-sized clicker sends you smashing other planets apart to rebuild the home you lost, over a LoFi soundtrack and a run that's done in about an hour. It's a pleasant enough hour for the asking price, but "survival" in the title oversells a game with no hunger, health or threat system anywhere in it.
5.5 / 10
A 2015 remaster of Firefly Studios' 2003 cult classic that turns out to be closer to The Sims in space than the SimCity-style colony builder its marketing suggests — a genre mismatch the overwhelming majority of its negative reviews describe independently, on top of real modern-PC stability bugs.
5.4 / 10
A genuinely charming little desktop-widget cafe sim undercut by widespread, still-present bugs in its core customer AI and placement systems — though this review's own check of the developer's patch history contradicts one reviewer's claim that the game has been abandoned.
5.2 / 10
A monster-farming action RPG featuring Fairy Tail creator Hiro Mashima's character designs, whose menu-driven, visual-novel-adjacent structure badly mismatched the Rune Factory and Harvest Moon comparisons its marketing invited, with reviewers on both sides of the split agreeing its premium price outran the content on offer.
5 / 10
A free-to-play idle RPG about farming, fishing and fighting for scrap, released by solo developer blevsoft in December 2023 and left without a content update since January 2024.
5 / 10
A post-apocalyptic reskin of developer FreeMind's own hit Farmer's Life, swapping the horse and hand-sown fields for a legged robotic tractor and a seed-drone, and landing at a Mixed rating with its harshest reviews arriving in the week it left Early Access rather than the months before.
4.5 / 10
A NZ$2.69 boat-and-auction idle tycoon whose "Mixed" Steam rating is mostly a fossil record of its 17-month Early Access run — and whose core complaint, that the whole game empties out inside two hours with nothing built to replace it, still checks out against the game's own achievement data today.
4.5 / 10
A solo developer's flood-recovery clicker built entirely from free Unity Asset Store art — cheap, honestly priced, and stopped cold by a progression wall its own achievement data confirms.
4.5 / 10
A basic but originally decent Flash-style stealth puzzler, now overwhelmingly defined by the developer's later addition of roughly 5,000 near-meaningless achievements — a widely condemned "achievement spam" update that reviewers say buried the actual game underneath it.
3.6 / 10
A budget tractor-and-crop sim from Gameza Studio that asks under three dollars and, going by its own tiny review sample, mostly delivers a stuck tractor, a touchy camera and an arbitrary plowing timer for the price.
3.5 / 10
A solo-developed beekeeping sim with real, specific depth that actual beekeepers among its tiny review sample genuinely admire — buried under a total absence of any tutorial, a broken hiring feature, and a game the developer never patched after its 2022 release.
3 / 10
A NZ$6.29 xianxia-themed idle herb farm from a Chinese solo developer who shipped a near-identical idle game five weeks earlier — a decorative thousand-card compendium and an auto-battling cultivator sit on top of a loop with exactly one real decision, and both patches and the developer's attention stopped inside the first week.
3 / 10
A bare, aggressively monetised mobile-tapper port whose own paid "Farmer's Pack" is independently reported by multiple reviewers to break the game's economy outright, on top of an idle game that several reviewers say isn't actually idle at all.
2.5 / 10
