Farmer’s Dynasty

This gets a super reluctant thumbs up from me. I'll try to explain why
.The Good:It's a nice, relaxing game where you can just waste hours chilling and tending your farm. I love these sorts of games, my job is stressful and I enjoy just chilling when I get home.
The ability to fix up your farm and your neighbor's farms is also nice. I also really enjoy being able to customize my farming equipment, painting them different colors, etc. And the fact they get dirty and need cleaned is a nice little touch.
The map is expansive and feels much larger than it really is.
The Bad:The animal and NPC animations are AWFUL. Just...atrocious. It's also very buggy, animals will appear and disappear, NPCs will float around. It's nothing game breaking but it does kill the immersion.
Vehicles tend to keep rolling even after trying to stop them several times. The harvester absolutely despises hitching up to its attachments and I've ended up wasting 5-10 minutes just backing up and trying again over and over to line up juuuust right to pick it up.
The nitpicky:This stuff isn't a game killer for me...but it'd be nice to customize your character a little. Even better if I could play a female. Like I said, not gonna ruin my experience but it would be nice.
The Engineers Sight is handy, but having it outline apples and strawberries and mushrooms in...green? Really? Green will be easier to spot in green trees and green grass? That makes zero sense.
Overall...it's not something I would recommend unless you really love those 'pretend to have a job' sorts of games that let you escape into a world where you aren't trapped in whatever job you're currently in. Also as a side note I'm pretty sure Steve in Fisherman's Wharf is a drug dealer. People keep asking me to bring them 'packages' from him and giving me 200+ euros for delivering them. It's a little suspicious if you ask me.

I don't know if I should recommend or not. The thing is, I'm very mixed about it but there are a few more things I like than dislike.
PROS:
Accurately simulates a farmer's life. Mainly eat, sleep, milk cows, get eggs, interact, repeat.
Repairing buildings adds to the stuff you can do.
Decent graphics, definitely do not recommend using an internal GPU, game does not support it.
Comparing it to FS19, the equipment scaling is better, a 3 meter cultivator actually feels big, and not like a 2cm one.
Nice concept of inheriting a farm.
CONS:
The main one is that you can only play on one map. What I mean by this is that you can only play on a (From what I see) a Polish style map. I would've loved to see another map that would be more difficult to play on, and be able to chose between them.
The prices seem overkill for certain crops.
People seem very, bland. Very waxy. Not the main focus of the game, but definitely an important one.
Not much to do after you buy every field on the map, all the equipment and have a wife and two kids.
Over all, a well made game with a couple of bugs here and there. But I can definitely say that it needs work. I really want to see what this game becomes in a year or two. Definitely worth a try in the future, but now, only if you want to. It'll definitely be one of the games that sits in my library patiently until I don't want to play American Truck Sim, Farming Simulator, Stormworks or Forza. Definitely my longest review but it's mainly to tell you about the main concept of the game in a more Pros vs. Cons way.

The game starts by putting you in the boots of a farmer who has recently inherited his grandfather’s farm, wanting to try his hand at learning the trade.
Your neighbour, Oliver (who scares the hell out of me), shows you around your estate.
It’s a bit of a mess to be honest. And so this is where the first new piece of gameplay comes into its own – repairing.
From your farm – you go into work mode, and here you can choose to go into the deep repair mode.
This allows you to look at a barn, move up to the section that is in need of repair – say a broken wall, for instance – and your farmer will get the appropriate tool and start repairing.
You can lay bricks, nailgun wooden roofs, tile floors and remove the rust from any metal.
Basically you are Bob the Builder – and yes, you can fix it.
There is a helpful tool to make sure this all works well called engineer mode, where you can see the areas highlighted in red that need fixing.
To fix the area you just press one button a few times and, hey presto, you’ve got a new house.
You can even put unlimited amounts of scaffolding down to allow you to climb up onto the roof to get to those hard to reach areas.
I’ll be honest with you here though, and there is something very satisfying and weirdly enjoyable about actioning all this repair and maintenance nonsense.
Yes it’s monotonous and yes it’s simple, but I’ve always felt like I was making a difference.
You’ll soon – well, about 2 hours in – become an old hand at all this, getting some old farming equipment from your neighbours by doing odd jobs for them, and it is here where you can then finally start to get on with some actual farming.
As you would expect, it’s pretty much the usual thing and anyone familiar with any farming game from before will know what to do – going up and down a field plowing, cultivating, planting and reaping.
There isn’t anything new to experience here and as always the experience lives or dies on whether you enjoy this task or not.
There are however also some animal buying and selling moments, a nice little bit of relaxing fishing to partake in, and a good few RPG-lite moments.
With this you acquire social points that come about from being kind to neighbours and doing them favours as well as working on their jobs.
This normally includes some repairing and farming, but there are also fetch quests and, like I said at the beginning of this piece, asking people out on dates.
You can get married and get some kids and a dog if you want, or you can choose to live alone staring out at the children’s playground you built in the garden for no reason.
All these strange social elements work fine though and it certainly ensures that there is something a little extra included in Farmer’s Dynasty.
The game looks fine too, and it’s a pleasant world to spend some time in.
I liked my little farm, even though it was a bit identical to all the other farms. and with the local church being about the same size as one of the biggest cathedrals in the world, I did have to question where the local council is getting its budget. Unfortunately though the character design is a bit strange – people don’t look right, and a few animations seem to be missing; NPCs suddenly start running for no reason, before promptly stopping and standing still.
The soundtrack running throughout Farmer’s Dynasty is a joyous, almost old Hollywood movie, type of score that is pleasant to the ear, but you can be sure you’ll tire of it after a while; do what I do when I farm and get some of your favorite playlists kicking off in the background, and similarly in terms of the voiceover work and it isn’t the best I’m afraid; some of the characters feel like robots and others are a bit too suggestive when you just want to talk about your new combine harvester.
There are odd writing moments too – a neighbour suddenly berating politicians out of the blue is pretty commonplace.
At the end of the day though, Farmer’s Dynasty is a solid and interesting addition to the farming sim market.
I like the repairing elements of gameplay (probably more than I should), and you can easily invest hours and hours playing the game, especially when going deep with the RPG elements.
The actual farming moments don’t innovate enough though, and there is no getting away from the fact that it is a big old grind.
Whether you have the patience to really get involved will be down to the individual gamer.

Year One. Since I inherited the farm.
Heading towards fall now. It's been a good year. Rex the stray dog just moved in he barks in the yard at the deer and boar wander into the yard. There are never any thieves here, for that mind no cops either. So I just leave the gates and the door open all the time. Being from the city it took a while to get used to it. But the people are friendly, but strange.
The People
Strange how? Well just for example there ain't no blondes. Did they all get up and leave? Were they made to feel unwelcome? Maybe they all bottle dye it, but I haven't asked people about it. Not been here long enough to pry. I just help folk out with odd jobs when I have the time and I generally do. I take them things they need, fix buildings which I pride myself on being a strong point, plow their fields.
I also deliver packages around the place like I am USPS. Mostly collecting stuff from some old man in the South and running it round the place. I get paid $200 a time mostly but the buses are good for getting about the place. I used to worry about it being something illegal in those there packages. I never opened them enough but people are very open about it. Maybe they are all a little touched and want to keep me busy, but who knows. I guess as I am the one that is running round the place for them I must fit right in.
The Lovely Sasha
I have been courting a young lady, Sasha on a farm nearby. Her folks are very proper. I can never take her out anywhere but she is okay with my turning up at 6:30am after I have collected the eggs and milked the cows, saying hi to her and sweet talking her, ignoring the rest of the family and driving away. I do this every other day and that seems to be the way around here. Drive by wooing.
The Farm
The farm is a beaut. On the side of a valley it's sweet and I am happy to live here for the rest of my days. Which is fortunate as there is some strange law in these parts that means I can't buy other farmhouses or houses to live in. The farmers will happily sell me their fields, but not a new home. Lucky it's kinda nice.
I started with two fields. Got them harvested and filled again with wheat. They will ripen and grow over winter. I have bought two more fields locally with money from selling tomatoes from the greenhouse and doing jobs for the people in these parts. I hope to buy another small one before fall comes.
I have done all the farming myself except for fertilizing. You would laugh to see my plow lines at the start but my turns at the end are getting real neat. The fertilizer I get them to air drop that in for speed and just cause it's cool. Kinda enjoy the farming part. Folks around were kind enough to give me the equipment I need as I did odd jobs for them. The equipment is poor quality, I reckon that bale cart came over with the settlers. But it works until I can buy more. At the moment I am spending money on fields as I am cash poor rather than time poor as that changes later on I can invest in more efficient equipment.
Still can't neatly reverse the tractor with the seeder on in to the seed stall if Sasha's life depended on it.
Decorating the old place
It was a bit of a wreck around here when I moved in but it cost me nothing to fix up and now I am spending a little of what I make on redecorating the house and doing the garden so the place is real nice for when Sasha makes me a happy man and agrees to me my wife. Though the way I hear argue with her sister on the farm sometimes makes me know she's not all sweetness and light all the time...

this is not Farming Simulator 19. this is almost like an RPG farm/ag/hands-on type of game.
you grind your way through missions to help build an inherited farm. you run old equipment. do a lotta building repairs. and build up your "empire" from there.
you need to eat and sleep. it's not insane levels, but an aspect of the game.
the map is pretty large. takes you a while to drive around it (there is also teleport to machinery).
you get deformable terrain. that is a really nice addition to this game. makes driving the equipment a lot more realistic especially in the beginning of the game before you can hire help. i personally like the depth of field and contrast in the game. bit of a unique look to it.
this game is interesting. it's fun if you like farming games or have ever lived on a farm... or are a wanna-b farmers.
a "DLC" would be cool if they ever chose to expand the offering.

Live out every man's dream of breaking your back to carve out a living from the land and raise an ungrateful family

Farmer's Dynasty is the first game this group has made and started off very rough and even buggy. I got it very early on and so expected there to be bugs. Since then they have greatly improved the game and are very responsive to gamer's reports about issues. The worst issue I had was when a floor in one of my buildings disappeared. Had to start a new game but was able to report it to the devs who responded quickly and since then I have never had it happen again.
In this game you take on the role of a relative of a decaying farmstead in a rather rundown county. You start by fixing up your farm and getting your first harvest underway. The first harvest is perhaps the most satisfying you will get!
You can meet and gain friendships with hundreds of NPC's around the county and even romance the women and marry and have kids. I always spend hours trying to find the prettiest one to marry which initially was nigh impossible since the models were so rough and the girls were all bald. They have since given them overhauls and hair.
After a while you can buy new machinery and tools and even more fields and greenhouses and build apiaries for bees and plant flowers. You can fish in the streams and participate in various events like drone races, fishing contests and mushroom hunts.
If you like games like farming simulator, stardew valley or the ever classic harvest moon but wondered what if these 3 games were made into one game then this is the game for you to try!
PROS:
Highly accurate simulation of farming tools and fields
Massive map in which to grow and expand on
Ability to marry and have kids
Voice acting
Cows, chickens and ducks!!!!
A pet cat that wants fish and hunts mice for you.
Drone races!
CONS:
A few bugs but nothing when you consider this is the first game in the dynasty series and how far it came. Nothing really game breaking anymore that i've seen.
Rough character models.
Inability to terraform.
Takes a while to get around the map. <this is especially true in the start when you are doing quests for free farming tools but stick with it as it gets much better after you get the tools and can start buying better machinery.>
OVERALL:
If you want a farming RPG with good simulations then get this game. Looking forward to playing and reviewing their other Dynasty games.
Edited to add a picture: Enjoy my HOT PINK TRACTOR!