The Farmer Was Replaced

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.

The Farmer Was Replaced is a programming, idler and automation game developed and published by Timon Herzog.
Released on February 10th 2023 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 1,292 reviews of which 1,249 were positive and 43 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 6.89€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Farmer Was Replaced into these genres:

Programming Idler Automation Puzzle Text-Based Logic Minimalist Farming Sim Artificial Intelligence Education Farming Resource Management Simulation Sandbox Strategy 3D Colorful Singleplayer Economy Early Access

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7 (64-bit)
Processor: Intel Core i3
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GTX 550/equivalent or higher*
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 1 GB available space
Additional Notes: May run on weaker systems

Reviews

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Oct. 2024

I don't feel the store page does a great job of selling this at a glance so allow me to fill in the gaps that should push anyone who's on the fence, into firmly willing to grab it: 1: This is not as simple as just writing "While True: Farm()". The game is beautifully balanced to allow simple, inelegant solutions to work, for example; moving off the map automatically wraps you to the other side, so you can just infinitely move north if you must. But at the same time, once your farm is of good size, you'll start sectioning it out, traversing those sections in the most efficient ways, and your code will triple in size just because you hate watching your drone waste precious time. 2: The unlock tree actually includes code! So inexperienced coders won't be overwhelmed trying to find optimum solutions, since they won't have access to things like variables right off the bat. At the same time, experienced coders will have fun trying to circumnavigate limitations and write the optimum code they have in their mind, without using the things they haven't unlocked yet. 3: All the crops complement each other nicely and require unique ways of managing them. Pumpkin yield is greatest if they've merged into a larger pumpkin, so you'll have to code a solution that prevents the drone from harvesting until it's certain it's over a huge one. But growing pumpkins costs carrots! So you'll have to track your carrots and make sure your drone doesn't spend them all, maybe sectioning off an area of farm for carrot farming, which are farmed more simply. But growing carrots costs wood and hay!!! So now you've got 4 sections of the farm, all managed differently by the same drone. If the above sounds daunting, these crops are also unlocked via the unlock tree. So you physically can't grow complex crops until you're ready, the game is so well paced, and the documentation is perfectly explained without being daunting or huge. It's really perfect for all skill levels, and that might make it the first coding game that is. It's the only one I can think of that doesn't prevent imperfect solutions from working whilst still rewarding the most optimised code. It's happy to tell you how everything works, but leaves you to your own devices as to how to use it best. And if you're really good and want a challenge, there's mazes for you to write path finding for. But again, if you're bad, you can just hard code those too! Though that's much slower, so again, good code is rewarded without blocking novices. It's really got something for everyone, it's not as thin as the screenshots make it look, yet it's not as daunting and punishing as a lot of other coding games. I'm 5 years experienced full stack senior software dev, currently have a 6x6 farm farming 4x4 pumpkins, and farming 2 carrots for every 1 spent, and 2 wood and hay for every carrot planted using 2x4 plots for the carrots and wood, and a 2x2 plot for the hay. My code doesn't all fit on the screen at the same time, but it's also really simple and I'm confident anyone could write it after just being exposed to this game.

Aug. 2024

This game is a brilliant choice for those with a strong programming background. However, for someone like me, it quickly becomes overwhelming, to the point of causing intense headaches. If you're truly passionate about coding and enjoy complex challenges, this game is highly recommended. I thought I had a love for coding, but this game showed me I have a lot more to learn. (Ignore the fact that I’ve claimed a refund—it was more about my limitations than the game itself.)

July 2024

Youtuber Call Me Kevin did a vid on this game, you can thank him for the influx of players including me! I learned a bit of Python back in the days, and this game is a great way to revitalize my knowledge. It's nice how you can instantly see the effects of your code on the copter. Easy to see your progression and understanding of the programming language. I will show the farming industry what I can do with the power of my programming!

June 2024

I've been teaching computer science for 20 years to kids. Right now, I have over 100 weekly students. I spend a lot of time thinking about how beginners learn programming, so I was excited to play this. This game gets it right, and has a ton of potential for more great things. The "tech tree" gives access to features of the programming language in a logical (and classically presented) progression. We learn to consider order and timing of execution. Variables are introduced, along with functions. More complex features, like lists, tuples, dictionaries and sets follow, along with utility functions like abs and min. But what are we doing? We're planting and harvesting crops. We're purchasing buffs to make them grow faster, and using the produce to unlock upgrades to our speed, farming area, and other new crops. These crops grow in particular ways that lead to classic computer science problem solving, and those problems require the features of the language we gain access to. We need to iterate the crops in our row, and later a grid of rows and columns. We're introduced to carrots, which require using conditionals and comparisons. Pumpkins require us to use an accumulator to create a massive single pumpkin that fills the entire field. We learn findMax to determine which sunflower has the most petals. Cactus introduces sort functions. Mazes lead us first to a brute force solutions, but the plot thickens when we start removing walls to increase the treasure. I haven't gotten to dinosaurs yet, but I have a hunch what the developer is going to do next. What this game does well is present a set of problems that grow in difficulty and require features of the programming language as they are presented. What's missing? More crops that introduce more concepts. A crop that grows in patches and harvesting rules push us toward flood fill. Another crop with planting rules that uses the four-color theorem. Some of the classic turtle graphics like square spiral could be employed as a way of iterating a grid in alternative ways. What didn't I like? Some aspects of the code editor. I want enter to auto-complete suggestions. Sometimes it does, but usually it adds a line and I have to fix it. Also, Ctrl-Z should move my cursor back to where it used to be. I use undo instead of backspace, but it just doesn't work correctly in the editor. I don't mind the solutions the dev used for scaling and positioning of scripts, but the typing should be flawless and it isn't quite there.

May 2024

Brilliant little coding game that is a must buy for all aspiring programmers looking to learn Python, but also for experienced Python programmers looking for a fun innovative challenge. https://youtu.be/-hdhyKf2aN8

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Steam data	15 December 2024 00:56
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Steam price	23 December 2024 12:30
Steam reviews	22 December 2024 05:49

6.89€

9.1

1,249

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Developer

Timon Herzog

Publisher

Timon Herzog

Release 10 Feb 2023

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