With Bluetooth and Wi-Fi turned on you can quickly call another local player into your game. If you are really impatient you can chose to speed this up through in-app purchases, though this seemed completely unnecessary to me.Īnother way to speed things up is to invite a friend to play. By increasing your production and efficiency, you can earn even more cash to speed up you agricultural empires development – creating a satisfying feedback loop. From Bailers to Windrowers, each is recreated in brilliant detail.

More money allows you to expand your farm and purchase new tools from the 50 licensed machines on offer. Given the goal of the game is to maximize your profits often this last options is the most important. These range from the simple pleasures (like honking your horn), right through to hiring farmhands, cycling through crops, and checking market prices. The manual isn’t the only easily accessible option, all of the games various controls are just a convenient tap away. As you complete specific task, the game may prod you in the right direction, but for the most part it’s up to you to work things out (though there is a 23 page instruction manual just two taps away if you need it).

This prevents you getting bogged down by lengthy instructions, getting you straight into the meat of the game. You drive your tractor with either a slider or the gyroscope, both of which responded perfectly to my inputs – though, admittedly, a large part of this is due to the game’s deliberate pace.ĭespite the volume of options and information, the game is light on tutorials. This is in part down to Farming Simulator 16’s controls. And all of this is in order to afford better equipment and more fields to further increase your income.īut while this all sounds like hard work, it’s actually a lot of fun.

Then it’s time to check market prices to select a profitable crop so you can repeat the whole process. After that, you drive, slowly, across the open-world to sell it. You have to drive slow moving farm machinery to plow, sow, or harvest a field. When I describe the game, I struggle to believe how good it is.

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