Farming Simulator 19
BANGER · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $17.99.
- Length
- 113.4h
- Value
- $0.16/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The best-selling franchise takes a giant leap forward with a complete overhaul of the graphics engine, offering the most striking and immersive visuals and effects, along with the deepest and most complete farming experience ever.
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
March 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $7.19. Its cuts run 33 percent off as a rule. There have been 32 in the 8 years tracked, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 10 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Farming Simulator 15 ($12.99, scores 84) and Farming Simulator 17 ($14.99, scores 89).
73 from critics against 94 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 1,295 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.
113.4 hours to finish it, 254 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.
Still 983 concurrent players, 8 years in.
The drop-off
58% start to 3% 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
983 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 was sitting in my game library for a long time before I gave it a real go. I bit the bullet over the weekend and clocked over 25hrs in two days. Would I say I'm hooked? As Tom Green said in Freddy Got Fingered, "Daddy, I'm a Farmer!" Although there has been newer versions released (which I havent played yet), I feel as though this version serves as a good introduction to the franchise. Once you've established...
This game is really great as far as graphics and other settings go, but the main purpose that someone would want this is because its not as expensive as new FS games are. ($49.99 U.S. DOLLARS) Sometimes, the processor of your PC isn't "New and Improved" enough for the newer games to let you play them (the other games crash) ---if nothing else, this game: you can actually play.
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 19 scores 93/100 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/787860/farming-simulator-19The 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 12, price as of Sep 24.
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