Farming Simulator 17
BANGER · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $14.99.
- Length
- 35.4h
- Value
- $0.42/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Take on the role of a modern farmer in Farming Simulator 17! Explore farming possibilities in a new North American environment. Drive over 250 farming vehicles and equipment from over 75 manufacturers, including new brands such as Challenger, Fendt, Valtra or Massey Ferguson.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $5.99, set in March 2024. Its cuts run 40 percent off as a rule. There have been 40 in the 10 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 12 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Farming Simulator 19 ($17.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Farming Simulator 15 ($12.99, scores 84).
The press gave it 69; the people who bought it give it 93 percent. A 24-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 16 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 1,052 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
35.4 hours to finish it, 165 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.7 times the campaign.
The drop-off
49% start to 4% 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
Players
221 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
This game still holds up in 2026. I'd love to try FS25 but I'm having so much fun with this version that I'm in no hurry. You could pick up this game on a sale for less than $5. There was a fix that I had to use to fix a common problem that kept the game from loading and I'll include it below. Once the game loads you'll have countless hours of work ahead of you. the graphics are pretty good for a game from 2017 and...
My family's been farming this land for 62 hours and all I got was some lousy achievements. It's a bit of fun though
I only reccomend this game if you're into farming, otherwise don't bother. It's a fun game at the start but then it becomes a chore simulator, breeding animals is the most boring task cause there's so much to do, but other than that I mostly enjoyed this game.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Farming Simulator 17 scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/447020/farming-simulator-17The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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