Farming Simulator 22

Farming Simulator 22

Worth it · Multiplayer · 2021

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 4 of 8 sales

Worth it at $19.99.

Cost per hour
$0.12/hr
ReviewsS
93% of 93,433
Genre rank
Top 1% Multiplayer
Why
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
169.2h
To 100%
269.3h 1.6x the story
Achievements
45

Price and sales

Sales
19 on record
Typical cut
30% off
Steam low
$9.99 April 2026
Sale every
89d last October 2026
Lowest now $18.99 at Fanaticalall-time low $9.60 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
1,869 now
Recent reviews
95% 30 days
Cheaper than
10% of its genre
Better reviewed
98% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

60% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

19 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 30 percent off across all of them, roughly 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Farming Simulator 17 ($14.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Garden Paws ($19.99, scores 70).

More about Farming Simulator 22

This site sampled 799 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 16 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 1,390 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach3.5M+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
For context
Refunds16 of 799 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

If you like slow, challenging and therapeutic games then this is the game for you. You also need to like farming, agriculture and all that goes with it. For me it keeps the old grey cells ticking over. Playing the game, building, maintaining and developing the required infrastructure takes a good amount of planning. This game has a great deal of mods which you can download to help you develop faster but playing the...
CaiomheRecommendedafter 4840h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Preformance friendly unlike fs25, good depth and fun stuff. Sometimes the physics get wonky but its not that serious. Plenty of good mods with a built-in browser and one-click installs. You have to get used to the controls but its just fine after that. Fun sandbox-simulator game overall. One major flaw i noticed tho, when you alt+f4 when the game is saving your save game gets deleted.
LeafForge.jarRecommendedafter 15h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
BUYER BEWARE! The game itself is good, which is why I will recommend it in general, the rating given here notwithstanding. (I will change the rating, if the issue described below is removed.) HOWEVER, please note that the purchase options are constructed as a trap in a customer-unfriendly and arguably unethical manner: If you buy the base game, you will NOT be able to complete your collection or extend the gameplay...
Tiax1987Not recommendedafter 24h6 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Create your farm and let the good times grow! Harvest crops, tend to animals, manage productions, and take on seasonal challenges.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon R7 265 or better (min 2GB VRAM), 35 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Farming Simulator 22 scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1248130/farming-simulator-22
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperGIANTS Software
PublisherGIANTS Software
GenreMultiplayer
Released2021
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements45