The Farmer Was Replaced
BANGER · Strategy · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 9.3h
- Value
- $1.07/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Last discount ended
- 8 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce GTX 550/equivalent or higher*, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in February 2023. Its cuts run 20 percent off as a rule. There have been 8 in the 4 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 8 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, TIS-100 ($6.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Beltmatic ($6.99, scores 90).
$44.74 is where it would stop being a BANGER. It is priced at $9.99.
Of the 712 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 32 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 1,555 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 9.3 hours; clearing it takes 38, which is 4.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
87% start to 1% 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
def review_game(): hours_played = 16.4 achievements = 100 fun = True sleep = False while achievements < 100: write_code() test_code() find_bug() fix_bug() optimize_everything() if code_finally_works(): quick_print("LETS F GO") return "10/10 would automate my entire farm again now waiting for dlc" Started playing thinking it would be a simple little coding game. 16.4 hours later, 100% achievements done and I'm still...
This game not only helped me secure a job, but also made me love coding! The Farmer was Replaced is a fantastic game that holds your hand while you take your first steps in programing! It not only makes it a simple, easy to learn programing game, but even encourages you to research the thing you are coding if you don't know what it does! And it even encourages you to optimize code to maximize profits! The best part...
Compared to "Code: Terraform", this game falls short. Cons: - ergonomics of the editor is really bad, which is obviously painful when you use vs code a lot. (CT on the other hand feels almost like they cloned VS Code) - autocomplete shows functions which don't exist and do not show overloads - missing fundamental python functions like my_dict.values(), coding feels like having two hands bound to your back ...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Farmer Was Replaced scores 93/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2060160/the-farmer-was-replacedReviews 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 14, price as of Oct 1.
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