

In a statement, studio member Thomas Frey said of the launch, “GIANTS is pleased to commercially release our latest iteration of the most popular farm simulator in the world. The studio confirmed that the game is also coming to Windows 8 Phone, Microsoft Surface RT and Amazon Kindle before the year is out, then PS Vita and Nintendo 3DS in Spring, 2014.

In a press release sent to VG247 this afternoon, developer and publisher GIANTS Software confirmed that he game is now live on Google Play and the iOS App Store at £1.99. Don't be sheepish, read all about it here. There's little explanation of how to get going, resulting in an excruciatingly protracted start – who knows, perhaps real-life farming start-ups are the same? Persist, and there's a balanced, pleasant distraction tucked deep within the game, but its lumbering pace and lack of polish will limit its appeal to anyone except absolute devotees of a good old virtual mucking out.Farming Simulator 14 has launched on iOS and Android. Visually, Farming Simulator 14 is a shade underwhelming, and its abi lity to communicate with the player is painfully poor. Largely focused on operating vehicles and machinery, it ticks along at an agreeably gentle pace, atypical of most contemporary games. There have been successful parodies too, such as Surgeon Simulator, but until now they've been largely limited to PC and Mac.įarming Simulator 14 brings what one might hesitate to call "the party" to Vita, where the business of running a smallholding – harvesting, selling to market and expanding the operation – is compressed into a handheld. Truck driving proved popular, and even the needs of ski lift enthusiasts have been catered for.

There has been something of a boom in simulating the seemingly mundane over recent years.
