Review

Although Alawar Entertainment has published a couple of titles on PSN, this, Farm Frenzy, is their first Mini. While you’ve probably never heard of them, they are a fairly big player in the casual game market (I actually own two of their games on PC). Indeed, in casual gaming, Farm Frenzy is a very large game franchise, with there being no fewer than 10 titles in the series, counting sequels and spin-offs, the latest being set in ancient Rome.

This is a port of the original game that started it all. It’s part of the “Time Management” genre, which can be anything from a building sim to basically an arcade game (taking cues from BurgerTime), where you run around doing things to keep your business going. In this case, a farm.

I live in a rural area. I know first-hand that farming is not fun. It’s a lot of hard, thankless, backbreaking work. Yet somehow when translated to a video game, people can’t seem to get enough of it. I wish I knew why. The cartoon animals?.....