SimFarm: SimCity's Country Cousin, developed by Maxis in 1993, is a computer game in which players build and manage a virtual farm. It has a similar format to the SimCity series. Mirroring duties on a real farm, SimFarm puts players in charge of building up the land, placing the buildings, buying and selling livestock and planting crops. About Games Careers About Games Careers Inspiring the Joy of Creative Play JOIN US Since 1987, we have made games that allow players to create and tell their own stories.
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Sim Farm
DOS - 1993
Also available on: Windows - Mac
Description of Sim Farm
Read Full ReviewSimFarm was billed as 'SimCity's Country Cousin', yet that fails to set expectations. SimFarm simulates running a small farm (which may grow into a big farm) and plays very differently from its SimCity 'cousin'.
Where SimCity favored active (but simple) play, zoning and building roads until you ran out of money, SimFarm requires a patient approach. SimFarm has plenty of buttons and levels and a high degree of nuance, but rather than actively building your farmstead, you'll be spending much of your time planning the planting schedules for fields, choosing which crops to grow, and when to sell harvested crops.
In many ways, SimFarm presages the idle games of today. Much of the game will be spent waiting for crops to mature and be harvested; once harvested, you either sell the harvested crops right away or wait for market prices to improve (while risking further downturns and inevitable deterioration of the harvest). You are able to toggle the game speed to make things go faster, but this is a game which you play in turns both passively and actively. Patience is the key to doing well on your farm.
There are MANY different crops available in SimFarm, each of which is modelled with unique grow-times, susceptibility to pests/weeds/fungus, optimal grow temperatures, water-needs, and storability. Aligning your plantings and grow seasons with weather favorable to your selected crops and planning several seasons of appropriate crops for each field well in advance are key to a profitable farm. The husbandry aspect of SimFarm is less detailed and is more akin to a mini-game than a proper bit of gameplay. For instance, while you can raise cows, you're not going to be able to set up a dairy farm and make that your primary business. Animals consume resources and eventually reproduce. While selling animals can supplement your income, it's hard to make your bread & butter, especially since it's easy to accidentally sell a 'mother' before the calf/foal/lamb/piglet depicted in the mouse-over image becomes its own 'animal' to be sold. If anything, animals are the most fun for the havoc that they can cause when they get out—if a fence gets blown down, a couple of cows can make pretty short work of a field.
The weak-spot for SimFarm is a lack of documentation. While the in-game help has vital statistics on crops and animals, there's very little on HOW to do many of the activities you need to perform or schedule to keep your farm running in the black. Though the interface is not unintuitive, it may take some getting used to before you get a handle on what you're doing. Additionally, the town has a bad habit of shrinking after new developments are voted on and constructed; there's no indication (that I've found) for what causes the town to shrink or how that shrinkage (or growth) is tied to the farm's performance. It's usually not a problem, but if you've sunk the money into getting a crop-duster, it can be frustrating to find that suddenly the town's airfield is gone.
SimFarm holds up well, and while there have been many farming games since, few farm sims take as in-depth an approach as this classic. This title may also catch the interest of idle gamers who'll enjoy exploring this precursor to genre; a bonus for idle-gamers is that emulation will allow you run SimFarm in its own window while you multitask, waiting for your harvests to come in.
Review By P. Alexander
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How to play Sim Farm
- Download the SimFarms.zip file.
- Extract the Zip file to your retro games folder.
- Double-click or drag the SimFarm.exe to your DosBox launcher shortcut icon.
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My best friend had the mac/pc hybrid game and brought it over and installed it for me once. I was going to download this game, but the nostalgia and memories of him got to me just seeing the screenshots. He died in 2005. :-(
farmer2020-04-11-3 points
sure used to play this game
cd2020-04-09-2 points
its great
Angelo2018-12-15-6 points
Ottimo gioco
docmarty732017-08-080 point
can anyone get the cheats to work??
katy molko2016-03-300 point
i can save my city, because this game is only a 'democity'.. :(
broady2015-11-01-4 points
Keep yor feey moving or you ass will hit the ground mother rocking disease control
ccc2015-11-010 point
Disease control
Stilz2015-10-23-3 points
opened DOS, not compatible. *sigh*
Farmboy2015-07-092 points DOS version
Memory's of when I was young
Paulo josé2014-11-300 point DOS version
recreate the live in farm you plant coltive and creat the animal´s the milk .. is very fun.
Dino752014-03-18-2 points DOS version
Sweeet!
scarybear2014-02-210 point DOS version
worked fine on Boxer, couldn't be any more happy with this!
Fez2013-11-291 point DOS version
Classic fun game
Simfarmguy2013-04-111 point DOS version
It keeps saying can't open packed script file. Tried using chrome and IE
Simfarm2012-11-26-2 points DOS version
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I just get error. Install.exe could not be found
ginariasa2012-10-30-1 point DOS version
its not worked for me
faz2012-10-220 point DOS version
everlasting game
deegan2012-07-070 point DOS version
awesome! i loved this game
Sara2012-04-18-1 point DOS version
Wow this is awesome!! Thank you so much, I've been wanting to play this game again for a very long time..I'm so glad you didn't give me a virus like all my other attempts!! LOL Thanks again!
admin2011-05-162 points DOS version
Sim Farm Mac
Changed the game archive, this is now the DOS version, patched and already installed. Thanks for the feedback.
Disgruntled2011-05-130 point DOS version
Issue when installing. error cd or something
Drizzle2011-03-170 point DOS version
Wow, im surprised this game has no attention. this is still one of my favorite old school sim game. i still play it from time to time, and keep wishing someone would make a similar game with more depth.
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- Year:1995
- Publisher:Maxis Software Inc.
- Developer:Maxis Software Inc.
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- Year:1993
- Publisher:Maxis Software Inc.
- Developer:Maxis Software Inc.
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