Farm for your Life

Farm for your Life

Fair · Strategy · 2014

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
8.4h 22.4h to 100%
Value
$1.19/hr
Reviews
82% of 640 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 1 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Raising the score
Value$1.19/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews82% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 81% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 104 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

About the game

Your community was taken down by a heavy storm which caused an apocalypse and unleashed the living dead. Together with the other survivors, it is your task to rebuild and to allow that sustainable life can still be assured. Cultivate your farm and manage your restaurant to provide food and deal with all the zombies.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX 9 supported, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

28 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 12 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Lemon Cake ($2.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Hokko Life ($19.99, scores 16).

More about Farm for your Life

Finishing takes 8.4 hours; clearing it takes 22, which is 2.7 times the campaign.

The drop-off

49% start to 4% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Sep 30, 01:53 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Fun and cute game. Don't think it's worth 9.99 but if you get it on sale, go for it. It does get really tedious but shows lots of potential. Unfortunately I doubt the devs gonna constantly update this game. About a few hours in, you'll reach or feel like you've reached end game already. So if you're curious about this game but don't want to pay the price for it, get it on sale. Not recommending it due to the lack of...
Kitty EaterNot recommendedafter 16h89 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The game's premise is fun, and it is fun at first. But then the issues start cropping up. First off it's very buggy. The NPC's pathing is terrible and they can get stuck indefinitely making them literally useless. Often they just stand there and pick up and put down items continuously. Gathering resources from the forest is just frustrating and not fun at all; there's just too many zombies and they seem to always...
Megane OverlordNot recommendedafter 6.2h9 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Farm for your Life takes several familiar casual-game ideas and combines them into a surprisingly distinctive post-apocalyptic management experience. Instead of presenting the zombie apocalypse as a grim struggle filled with weapons and gore, it asks you to rebuild a community through agriculture, cooking, restaurant management, and defensive planning. Developed and published by Hammer Labs, the game has a playful...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 11h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Farm for your Life scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/266390/farm-for-your-life
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Reviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperHammer Labs
PublisherHammer Labs
GenreStrategy
Released2014
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements26