I’ve been playing a decent amount of Farming Simulator 22 lately, and I have to say that it’s so much more fun than I expected it to be. The initial entry to the game is like staring at a brick wall and being asked to walk through it, I had no idea how to get through it. However, when you look around the menus and start to test out all the machinery, you quickly figure out what you’re supposed to be doing. There’s so much joy to be found here, and I love the satisfaction of performing everything correctly under the surface.
Don’t get me wrong, this is very much a game about sewing seeds, fertilising, harvesting, and selling grans and other crops. It’s very boring on paper, but in practice, it’s so much fun. It’s definitely a game you need to pick up and play to believe what I’m saying, but please do take my word for it that it’s worth your time. If you love production lines, managing a business, and all that sort of stuff in your games, then this is the one for you. Farming Simulator 22 takes it all to the next level as well.
While you can just harvest crops from your field and sell them, or complete contracts for neighbouring farmers, you’re also able to process the produce you get and make more profit from it. You can make bread from grain, cakes from flour, and all sorts from the other products you’ll get. You can even send grape juice off to become wine. It’s a mad concept that you’re basically acting as the backbone of a country in this game by driving tractors around and causing traffic jams. I can’t help but love the charm, but then that may be because I live in the country and am surrounded by farmers.
I’m so excited for more people to play this game, but I think it’ll be a long slow burn. The series doesn’t tend to update every year, but you can see the advancements made between this game and the last game very clearly. Giants Software put a lot of effort into this game, and you need to see what they’ve accomplished.
