In one way, it's sort of weird that farming repetitive daily task that involves long hours and lots of hard work - has formed the basis for the latest craze in casual simulators. But in another way it makes perfect sense. Games like FarmVille are all about managing time and resources in order to create a particular outcome, and farming may be the most clear and direct form of resource-management in the world. Seeds go in, plants come out. Then done. The players really get some good values here
It begins with simple backstory: You’ve been left a huge farm to tend to. You’ll raise animals like chickens, cows, and sheep, and you’ll grow and harvest crops like wheat and corn. You’ll also have to juggle to myriad of tasks that goes into sustaining a grade-A ranch. Your critters must be fed and your silo must be painted, for example. Occasionally visitors from town or other farms will swing by, offering you tasks or money for your ware, like eggs or bread.
Hay Day is the latest freemium game to try and cash in on the farm craze, and while it isn't particularly original it still manages to get all of the basic elements right. Like managing small company
You start out with little more than a grubby patch of land and and a talkative scarecrow for a helper. After being walked through the basics you're largely left to your own devices as you attempt to build up your business.
With only a couple of crops to choose from, and not very many places to grow them, things begin sedately, but as your farming career blossoms you'll have animals, tend multiple feeds, and try to sell your stock to as many
people as possible.
Everything grows in its own time, from eggs to carrots, although you can speed things up with the liberal application of diamonds, which you can buy with real-life money from the game's shop.
Factory farming: Every action you perform - whether cutting down trees to make space for your expansion, baking bread in the on site oven, or selling items to the customers who wander in - gives you stars. These are basically XP, and each time you level-up you get new crops, buildings, and products to play with.
The biggest strength I notice is the graphics. Very rich beautiful detailed, with landscapes and zoom and pan, Hay Day‘s presentation is fairly cinematic for a mobile game. It’s eye cacthing. The controls are also smooth, nonintrusive, and use the iPhone’s touch screen well. For instance, just tap on a plot of land, then run your finger across the field to collect the grown crops. You’ll use the same gestural controls to gather sellable products your animals will yield, like wool or milk. You’re also able to visit your friends’ farms via Facebook.
It begins with simple backstory: You’ve been left a huge farm to tend to. You’ll raise animals like chickens, cows, and sheep, and you’ll grow and harvest crops like wheat and corn. You’ll also have to juggle to myriad of tasks that goes into sustaining a grade-A ranch. Your critters must be fed and your silo must be painted, for example. Occasionally visitors from town or other farms will swing by, offering you tasks or money for your ware, like eggs or bread.
Hay Day is the latest freemium game to try and cash in on the farm craze, and while it isn't particularly original it still manages to get all of the basic elements right. Like managing small company
You start out with little more than a grubby patch of land and and a talkative scarecrow for a helper. After being walked through the basics you're largely left to your own devices as you attempt to build up your business.
With only a couple of crops to choose from, and not very many places to grow them, things begin sedately, but as your farming career blossoms you'll have animals, tend multiple feeds, and try to sell your stock to as many
people as possible.
Everything grows in its own time, from eggs to carrots, although you can speed things up with the liberal application of diamonds, which you can buy with real-life money from the game's shop.
Factory farming: Every action you perform - whether cutting down trees to make space for your expansion, baking bread in the on site oven, or selling items to the customers who wander in - gives you stars. These are basically XP, and each time you level-up you get new crops, buildings, and products to play with.
The biggest strength I notice is the graphics. Very rich beautiful detailed, with landscapes and zoom and pan, Hay Day‘s presentation is fairly cinematic for a mobile game. It’s eye cacthing. The controls are also smooth, nonintrusive, and use the iPhone’s touch screen well. For instance, just tap on a plot of land, then run your finger across the field to collect the grown crops. You’ll use the same gestural controls to gather sellable products your animals will yield, like wool or milk. You’re also able to visit your friends’ farms via Facebook.
There’s nothing to complain about here, other than everything feels quite familiar. With Farm Ville and its ilk, the social farming sim has been shoved down our throats for years, and Hay Day
doesn’t introduce anything exceptionally revolutionary to revitalize or
rethink the genre. It’s also a bit annoying how the tutorial holds your
hand for the first 15 to 20 minutes of gameplay. “Now let’s collect the
eggs.” “Now let’s build the stable.” It’s not a gripe with this
particular game, per se, just a gripe with many sims in general. Perhaps
games should stagger out the instructions by introducing challenges
that players can dwell on before a new gameplay element or technique is
added.
Replay value comes in the form of achievements. It's chalenging our patience.Just by clicking on your house to view all of the achievements you’ve unlocked so far: Collect several hundred eggs for Egghead, for example, or get lots of milk from your cows for Got Milk?
As far as item collection goes, you’ll have to wait in real-time before your farm’s products are ready to be collected and sold. It may take a few minutes for wheat to grow, or a half hour for cows to produce milk. You can speed up the process by using diamonds, of which you have limited quantity, but can acquire more through the game.
The game also has a social aspect,in that you can add Facebook friends in order to trade with them, and visit their farms to see how your competition is doing.
The real draw of gardening is the satisfaction of a pretty job well done, and that's something that Hay Day just about manages to capture. Watching your crops grow and your twee factories spew out products is a quietly pleasing experience.
When you're vehemently opposed to freemium farming sims then this one won't change your mind. But when you fancy spending a relaxing few minutes a day tending the farm then you could do a lot worse than tend this one.
Download here to play the game
The game also has a social aspect,in that you can add Facebook friends in order to trade with them, and visit their farms to see how your competition is doing.
The real draw of gardening is the satisfaction of a pretty job well done, and that's something that Hay Day just about manages to capture. Watching your crops grow and your twee factories spew out products is a quietly pleasing experience.
When you're vehemently opposed to freemium farming sims then this one won't change your mind. But when you fancy spending a relaxing few minutes a day tending the farm then you could do a lot worse than tend this one.
Download here to play the game
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