Saturday Casual Gaming 14: Farm Rush

Designed by: Junjo
Developed by: Alkyon Studios
Main Graphics: LPC Collaboration Inc
Platform(s): Kongregate, Mobile
Game Type(s): Idle, Farming Simulator

You may have noticed something different about the title of this week's blog. To avoid any repeated games, I'm going to start putting the game title in the title of the blog, too.

This game is a nice little free-to-play time-waster. You click on farming plots (there are nine of them, arranged in a square block of square plots) and farm different things from each one, earning you more money to hire more hands and salesmen. The more of each you have, the faster everything goes. Then you restart your game in a New Game Plus style mode called "prestige". Prestige is a pretty common term in idle games, so if you've played any before now, that may sound familiar.

When you prestige in Farm Rush, you lose all of the farm hands and sellers you had, but you get prestige points to spend on bonuses to your growing speeds, selling speeds, and crop values. The crops are Grass, Potato, Carrot, Wheat, Tomato, Eggplant, Peppers, Artichoke, and Corn. No, I don't know why we're growing grass or why corn is the final crop.

Your farm hands increase your growing speed, and whenever you wind up with a multiple of ten (10, 20, 30, 40, 50) you get an extra bonus. Your shop assistants give you bonuses in multiples of five with no limit. Once your farm hands reach 50 on a particular crop, they're maxed out, but you can get more when you finally unlock corn. Believe me, unlocking corn takes forever on your first run. The tutorial actually recommends prestiging at your first opportunity. It can, however, pay to get the prestige points from unlocking at least corn.

Buying power-ups is kind of a pain. They cost more the more you buy, so you're always chasing long-term prestige goals, and it can be difficult to understand what each one does.

I buy at random and live with the consequences.

The game itself is pretty fun, though, and it's great for waiting around somewhere with wifi so you can save your progress. That's right, this game requires an internet connection. One of the lowest-impact games I've reviewed besides Trimps, so far, and it demands an internet connection for saving.

That being said, I strongly recommend this game for people who like sprite-graphics, simple gameplay, and chasing after unlocks.

That's all for me for today (sorry it took so long, guys, I've been busy trying to unlock stuff myself!)

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FC