Overwhelmingly PositiveCasualIndieSimulation

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.

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Program a drone using a simple python-like language to fully automate various farming tasks that would otherwise be very grindy. Feel the satisfaction of simply pressing "execute" and watching your drone do all the hard work. Unlike most programming games the game isn't divided into distinct levels that you have to complete but features a continuous progression. Farming earns you resources which can be spent to unlock new technology. Programming is done in a simple language similar to Python. The beginning of the game is designed to teach you all the basic programming concepts you will need by introducing them one at a time. While it introduces everything that is relevant, it won't hold your hand when it comes to solving the various tasks in the game. You will have to figure those out for yourself, and that can be very challenging if you have never programmed before. If you are an experienced programmer, you should be able to get through the early game very quickly and move on to the more complex tasks of the later game, which should still provide interesting challenges.…

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95%positive · Overwhelmingly Positive

4.4K Steam reviews · Nov 3, 2026

“if you are a coder this game is great! it is a fun way to practice skills in a gamified way, game runs smooth as butter and it looks very good. however my experience is different, i am a software development student, and this game helped me not only to understand i dont understand sht about coding, but that i hate…”

rafarsmb

1h played · 204 helpful

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“Early Access Review Kind of awesome, a great example of gamification where the player feels like he is just having fun but is actually learning basic programming principles and some basic python. I only wish i could choose from additional programming languages, then i would happily play the whole game again…”

Benjamin

6.8h played · 405 helpful

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“Early Access Review As a programmer, this game made me realize it's not coding I no longer like. I just did an 8 hour shift in this game after buying it. It's the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in the office that I hate.”

Semst

9.2h played · 259 helpful

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“Early Access Review Short story; Amazing game 10/10 Long story; I'm a professional software developer of like 15 years. I've worked in many different languages and in general because I code so much for work I've really lost that sense of fun and passion I used to have while coding. This game brought that b…”

Nyx

30.4h played · 533 helpful

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