Farming Life
Skip · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 20, under the fair line, at $0.89.
- Length
- 8.7h
- Value
- $0.10/hr
- Reviews
- 66% of 217 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
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About the game
Are you tired of corporate life? Create your own farm! Plant vegetables and fruits, harvest crops, employ workers, take care of animals. Buy farm equipment, manage employees and just relax!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 750 2GB or AMD R7 265 2GB, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
55 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 90 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $0.89 at 91 percent off still sits 13 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Farm Manager 2018 ($19.99, scores 33) beats it on value, while it beats Hokko Life ($19.99, scores 16).
The drop-off
83% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Farming Life is a leisurely, management-focused farming simulator developed by Pyramid Games and published by Gaming Factory and Ultimate Games S.A. It offers a welcoming, colorful take on agricultural life, aimed at players who enjoy steady progression, light strategy, and the satisfaction of designing and expanding their own countryside homestead. While it doesn't strive for the realism or depth seen in...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is a fun game with most of the components you would expect form a farming game. Crop growing, harvesting, hiring help, animals, etc. It's quite a addictive for several hours, where you do ween off a bit when things become somewhat repetitive. But to be fair, I think most people have to expect some repetition in a farming game, as that's how they function irl. I looked at earlier reviews of this game which...
I love farming games and really wanted to like this one too. But this game is so tedious! I have never been so bored in the first hour of gameplay. I hate the tasks, day one people are asking you to deliver pumpkins by the end of day which is unrealistic. You have to click so much. You can't just assign employees to work fields or tend animals, you have to assign specific fields, then they get tired and you have to...
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Farming Life scores 20/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1031270/farming-lifeReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.