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The Farmer Was Replaced

95% positive of 9,488 Steam reviews

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Released
2025
Steam Deck
Playable
Platforms
Steam

Made by Timon Herzog. Published by Metaroot, Timon Herzog.

About the game

Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.

Tagged by players

  • Programming
  • Automation
  • Farming
  • Farming Sim
  • Idler
  • Text-Based
  • Logic
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Minimalist
  • Resource Management
  • Sandbox
  • Puzzle

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Overwhelmingly Positive

What players say

  • Recommended
    Arguably one of the coolest concepts for a game I've ever seen. If this existed 10 years ago, my career trajectory might have been different. I've learned more Python in the last 48 hours than I ever did with books or online courses.

    12 h played when written. 53 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    YMMV I have ZERO coding experience. This game is amazing, but, for people like me, there's a major drawback. The education that the game offers is, in my opinion, less than the bare minimum. As long as you're someone who is fairly savvy with logic and/or problem-solving, you can get through the beginning portions of the game quite quickly. It feels really good, too! However, almost immediately after covering all the…

    7.8 h played when written. 52 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    Very eh experience overall Maybe you get more mileage out of this if you're totally unfamiliar with coding and Python because the "game" does very little to make itself interesting as a game (visually or mechanics-wise) and not just a basic learning tool. Also, the IDE is very lacking and the developer themselves seems to recommend downloading an external one and I'm just not really willing to use an IDE to play a…

    2.6 h played when written. 5 found it helpful.

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