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The Farmer Was Replaced

Timon Herzog · Metaroot · 2025-10-10

Steam

CasualIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 18, 2025 (Mac), Feb 10, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

363
playing now
96%
positive of 9.1k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
1
twitch viewers (latest)
70/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

363 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 02:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Cooling
  • · 363 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 2,735 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~342/week).
  • · Review velocity down 41% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 4% of 9,649 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 181k–407k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 9,053 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2023-02-10)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 8 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2.3k2.3k20232026Week of 2023-02-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 235 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 301 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 232 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2,254 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 170 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1,905 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 623 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 407 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 282 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 255 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 322 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 241 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 225 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 198 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 103 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 11 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

6152782026-08-07 00:00 — 395 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 423 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 523 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 422 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 465 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 571 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 424 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 436 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 540 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 401 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 355 players2026-08-10 17:00 — 445 players2026-08-11 01:00 — 351 players2026-08-11 09:00 — 349 players2026-08-11 17:00 — 445 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 308 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 278 players2026-08-16 06:00 — 322 players2026-08-17 13:00 — 600 players2026-08-18 21:00 — 605 players2026-08-20 04:00 — 400 players2026-08-21 12:00 — 538 players2026-08-22 19:00 — 615 players2026-08-24 03:00 — 334 players2026-08-25 11:00 — 407 players2026-08-26 19:00 — 470 players2026-08-28 03:00 — 301 players2026-08-29 10:00 — 401 players2026-08-30 02:00 — 363 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$4.992023-02-102026-08-082023-02-10 — best price $4.992024-01-02 — best price $6.992025-09-08 — best price $9.992025-10-10 — best price $7.992025-10-24 — best price $9.992025-12-04 — best price $7.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-02-09 — best price $7.992026-02-23 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $7.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-04-13 — best price $7.992026-04-27 — best price $9.992026-05-27 — best price $7.992026-06-10 — best price $9.992026-06-25 — best price $7.992026-07-09 — best price $9.992026-07-27 — best price $7.992026-08-08 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Twitch viewers

2802026-08-26 20:34 — 5 viewers2026-08-26 23:34 — 18 viewers2026-08-27 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 09:33 — 1 viewers2026-08-27 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 15:34 — 28 viewers2026-08-27 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 13:34 — 2 viewers2026-08-28 16:35 — 1 viewers2026-08-28 19:34 — 4 viewers2026-08-28 22:34 — 2 viewers2026-08-29 01:34 — 5 viewers2026-08-29 04:34 — 5 viewers2026-08-29 07:34 — 2 viewers2026-08-29 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 13:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-29 16:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-29 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 17:34 — 1 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

59
achievements tracked
86%
earned "Hello World"
5.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsAdjustable Text SizeCamera ComfortCustom Volume ControlsPlayable without Timed InputSave AnytimeStereo SoundSteam CloudSteam Leaderboards1 DLC

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)8,8693%59

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

IdlerLogicPuzzleFarmingSandboxStrategyEducationAutomationMinimalistSimulation

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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