Probably not the world’s most exciting game.

Seeds can be bought, vehicles refuelled, crops sold, and it’s all rendered in beautiful detail with licensed products from real-world manufacturers.

It’s all extraordinarily detailed, with you able to control everything from raising and lowering thresher blades to deploying output pipes to transfer harvested wheat. In addition to crops such as wheat, sunflowers and soybeans, you can also raise livestock such as pigs and cows, and cut down trees for lumber. You can drive a wide range of heavy agricultural machinery including tractors, combine harvesters, utes, trains and trailers and are responsible for everything from ploughing fields to planting crops, harvesting them, and transporting them to businesses in the area to sell. It’s a complex industry and one that lends itself well to simulator games, from the fairly casual through to the advanced - and Farming Simulator 17, developed by Giants Software and published by Focus Home Entertainment on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, is definitely in the latter category.įarming Simulator 17 puts you in charge of a farm in the Pacific Northwest of the USA.

FARMING is an essential component of civilisation and an often overlooked field in our day to day lives - from the milk in your morning beverage to the bread in your sandwich to the contents of your dinner plate, a farmer was involved in getting it there.

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