My Dear Farm Review: The Cutest Farming Experience You'll Ever Have
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to own a farm, grow produce, and sell it to your community? I’ve always loved gardening, and sometimes I wish I had a more oversized backard to plant all sorts of vegetables and flowers. Growing plants and produce is one of my favorite things to do when I’m not playing games.
Thanks to farming simulators like Harvest Moon or Stardew Valley, though, those two loves can often be paired together. With winter approaching, I recently lost a batch of cherry tomatoes in my real-world garden. That bummed me out, but I was able to soothe my sadness with a new farming game that’s really cute and fun to play: My Dear Farm.
My Dear Farm is an adorably irresistible free-to-play farming game from developer HyperBeard featuring building customization, decorating, and avatar creation. It allows you to customize the land to your wishes, plant whatever vegetables, fruits, flowers, and trees you want, and then sell them to eager customers.
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The very first thing you’ll do in My Dear Farm is create your cute, little avatar. There aren’t any gender options since the base avatar form is neutral, but you can change aspects like hairstyles, hair color, outfits, and more to change the look and suit your ideal character.
I personally found all the customization options adorable. I spent literally thirty minutes running through all the possible avatars I could’ve made, and all of them were so cute and squishy-looking, in the best way possible.
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After making your farmer avatar, you’ll start digging up your first farm patches. My Dear Farm’s gameplay functions on a grid with squares comprising garden areas, furniture, and other buildings, so once you shovel up dirt and create a couple of fertile patches, you’ll be able to plant seeds. I hope you like your vegetables, because the first seedlings you’ll receive at base level are cabbage seeds, then carrots. And you can’t leave your phone just yet; you have to water your plants for them to grow and be harvestable. Eventually, all your vegetables will start to grow until they pop up from the ground, whereupon you can finally sell them to your stand or directly to customers.
The significant difference between selling your produce to your stand versus customers is that stands are an instant transaction mechanic, where you can sell several of your harvested crops. Stands also have a cooldown timer until you can sell again. Customers, on the other hand, come as you play, and their desired purchase is entirely randomized. This is why it’s important to gain more seeds; customers will want different fruits or vegetables besides just cabbage.
I think the major turning point for farming games for me is how I can actually take care of my own. Of course they’re digital plants, but it doesn’t change the fact that I was spending my time nurturing nature. I also loved how My Dear Farm allowed me to get an instant return on my produce thanks to the stand mechanic. It felt easy to level my account, acquire more seeds, and turn my garden into a full-functioning farm.
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As you sell more produce throughout your farm, you’ll receive gold, experience points, and furniture tokens. Experience points will, of course, level your farm up, in return providing new unlocked seeds, furniture, and stands to purchase for your establishment. Gold is used to buy seeds, land to expand your farm, and stands to sell your harvest immediately. And if you’re more interested in decorating your farm, you can use furniture tokens to collect all sorts of objects, such as fences, paths, and many more.
It was such a charming experience to decorate my farm. Trust me when I tell you, I spent a lot longer getting every fence aligned and placing furniture than actually growing cauliflower. I love gardening, but add aesthetically pleasing ornaments or adorable statues and I’m hooked. The only slightly disappointing issue was that I didn’t have a lot of options to make my garden sparkle. There were only a handful of furniture choices in the shop, and I wish I could’ve customized my farm a little more.
Image Credited to My Dear Farm | HyperBeard
I feel pretty delighted to have stumbled across My Dear Farm. It’s a very well-made game that features an easy, casual gameplay experience. The chill game mechanics are accompanied by relaxing audio and unbearably cute visual design. I didn’t encounter any other issues besides my insatiable urge to become the Leonardo da Vinci of garden decorating. And I think the greatest accomplishment My Dear Farm has achieved is how I can still enjoy gardening through the cold, cold winter by playing digitally inside the warmth of my home.
SCORE: 4 STARS OUT OF 5
PLAY IF YOU LIKE:
• Kuma Sushi Bar. If you loved this sushi-making game by HyperBeard, you’d probably like My Dear Farm too. Both games have adorable characters and various customization options to decorate your establishment. Check out my review of Kuma Sushi Bar.
• Stardew Valley. If you like playing farming simulators like me, you’ll enjoy Stardew Valley. Like Stardew Valley, My Dear Farm features tons of farming where you can grow all sorts of fruits, vegetables, and trees.
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