Big Farm Reviews

The game was fun, updates have always been an issue (mostly due to bugs added in with each one), but the latest is just too far over the top. You can play alone or in a group, but now the contracts all want things you need to spend real cash on if you plan on getting anything done. Big Farm claims it is to keep the game challenging for the long term, but they have gone too far. It is no fun to ditch all your contracts and have to wait hours to maybe have the chance of getting a fish that you can turn into the latest golden ticket (mallets) so you can upgrade layers of items to finally make the newest addition to the game, honey. I don’t know at what level you need to be to have the honey forced down your throat, but once you get there, it isn’t fun. Great job at making everyone mad at you Big Farm! And it continues! Now you need the glorious water buckets to get a sheep pen to make hats at the tailor shop. Plus you need those mallets to upgrade your manufactory to get the dye to make colored items in the tailor shop. The honey requests became outrageous and this last update seems to have reduced that at least. They just can’t leave well enough alone! Or maybe they know they are making it outrageous to play without spending real money and add something they plan to fix so it looks like they listened and fixed something??

The developers get players engaged and enjoying the game. However, the longer you play, the more you need to spend real world dollars to get anywhere. Currently, my next 9x9 plot of land (which will only hold one field, orchard, or pen of livestock) will cost $262 real world dollars to purchase enough in game gold to purchase the plot OR 47 million in-game earned dollars which can take upwards of 3-4 months of grinding to earn... and then there won’t be any currency to buy the needed building, field, etc. without the required buildings, etc., you cannot produce the items needed to sell and progress in the game. If everyone in my co-op bought one 9x9 plot of land at $262 real world dollars, that is $7,860 real world dollars not withstanding what the developers are making off of the ads players must watch in lieu of produce sales contracts. It seems like the developers, instead of fixing glitches and crashes continue to add more and more expensive Road blocks that serve no purpose but to add dollars to their bottom line. If you want to play, welcome aboard, but just be warned that it’s real world expensive and the in-game currency conversions get to the point where you aren’t earning enough to not have to use real world currency. Devs, you need to re-think the fine line between profitable and out-right extortion.

How many times can one company make the same mistake?? Over and over again new updates are issued with new glitches and bugs - and NOTHING is done to fix the ongoing connection issues we’ve been dealing with for many many months. I LOVE this game and have played it for many years - both the PC and now the mobile version, but these new buildings and new style coop tourney (and the sparkly bubbles - whose idea was THAT) may be the turning point for me. I don’t want to be told how to run our coop projects for tourney. We’ve always been able to plan our own coop strategies and concentrate on projects we enjoy. Why should we be forced to run projects that we hate and our farms are not set up for? And the three new buildings with products you can’t make a profit on? Market orders that include the products have laughable rewards. This is just another gold grab trying to force people to buy what they need to expand their farms. I do spend real money on the game but am cancelling my subscription and will not buy any more packages until I see a real difference in the way you treat your customers. I’m so disappointed in your latest game changes and in the direction you’re taking this great game. You’re ruining a good thing. 😠😡

This has been my experience… loved the game, had worked up to over level 100 (which takes quite a bit of loyal dedication, time, and planning on your farm), had a great co-op with helpful friends working together. Then one day I open BigFarm , ready to show my farm some love and up pops a window that says “this account has been banned. Contact support .” Banned? I assumed this was some type of glitch as I had just recently updated BigFarm and things like that can happen. I waited and tried. Still banned. I have not the faintest idea why. And apparently support doesn’t either. I contacted support and provided screenshots of the messages launching on startup of BigFarm . It’s been over two weeks… and well, crickets. No response. I have replied to the help ticket (as suggested in the confirmation of the first message) two times with more info and nothing. Just the lonely sound of crickets on a farm that doesn’t exist anymore. So, if you decide to play, don’t get too attached. One day, you might find yourself ghosted colder than your least favorite ex ever did to you.

recently they added a sparkly bubble to the game that appears like fireworks every time you touch the screen. EVERY TIME!! I am now unable to play do to this as it triggers a migraine. There are other changes which make every one unhappy but the game is still playable it just takes a lot longer to progress and you may not be able to participate in some of the competitions. To each their own. I’m just disappointed I can’t play at all without developing a debilitating migraine.

Thank you for the response and for removing the sparkly bubble, but I literally lost millions of game dollars in product, time and resources due to the fact that I COULD NOT PLAY!! Your lack of action and communication on this matter is awful. You waited a full week to do anything about it even though hundreds of people were telling you they were experiencing physical distress over this addition. But you were more worried about the darn cooperative tournament uproar and the fact that players were threatening to cancel their subscriptions over it and not watch any ads than anything else.

At first it’s fun but then becomes hard because you need things to upgrade buildings and fields. If you use real money on this game then you’re good to go but the rest of us who are trying to get through the levels without using money are struggling big time. They had a thing where you can get free gold and so I did some of the things and guess what … I didn’t get my gold. So I did something else and I STILL didn’t get my gold. That’s 5000 gold that I didn’t get and all the time I wasted on those tasks. Those who play this game know that getting gold is really hard so when they gave us this opportunity I thought great let’s do it but now I’m just mad that I’m not receiving my gold for tasks I do and I’m about to stop playing this game. Also, the ads. Every time you try to get rid of a contract BOOM an ad. You try to go to the island BOOM ad. STOP! I don’t want the ads.

I loved playing this game. It was great. But the changes they have made have caused many players, including myself, very unhappy. So many changes have been made that now it costs real money to advance or be competitive. Like so many developers, the had a great game that people enjoyed and then destroy it by making it almost impossible to advance without spending loads of money or making the building times so unrealistic that it’s not worth it which in turn causes you to lose out on the free gifts. Selling xo reacts to help expand, is a constant barrage of having to watch 30 seconds videos. Also, expansion is crazy. When it costs $200 in an in app purchase to be able to expand.....or wait 6-8 months trying to collect items, boredom sets in. New contests come out but overload the system so they end it early and nobody gets anything because it crashes the website. Too bad Big Farm, you had a winner. But I guess your greed took over.

Big Farm is a really cute, slow-paced game, and that’s what I was looking for when I first started playing. It’s enjoyable up until level 60+ when you start needing a ton of in-game currency and resources to progress. The game gets monotonous as you work to build up those resources (read: it takes months); even though their are lots of opportunities to win resources, they don’t provide a meaningful amount to accumulate quickly. There are also multiple upgrades that require the same resources, but the opportunities to acquire the resources don’t increase, nor do the rewards increase. Basically, the game became work. They have also recently added more ads to the game and it’s no longer fun to play. I can’t hardly do anything in the game without having to sit through an ad. Going to wave goodbye to my coop and uninstall.

I think I am finally going to say good bye to this game. It was fun when I first got it, and I found a co-op I enjoy being part of. However, I have hit a point where I need a lot of the random building material (mallets) in order to go any further on almost all of my buildings and fields. I don’t mind spending a little real money for a game, but this would take big bucks. I’m trying to earn the items just naturally through the game, but it is taking forever. Also, I get kicked off the game constantly. I will be in the middle of a task and the game just shuts off and I have to restart it, and I rarely get back to the task I was doing prior to the shut down. It just continues to get frustrating. I keep hanging on because I have invested in it, but I think I am just done. I wouldn’t necessarily recommend this game.

I have been playing this game for almost 15 years. First on PC, and then I was thrilled to find the mobile app a few years after we retired our home office PC.

There was an update this morning. They changed all of the images on the feed bags to 2D cartoons. My co-op agrees that they are among the ugliest things we’ve ever seen. That is perhaps the most insulting thing I have seen happen to this game.

Chicken feed is labelled “chicken feed” and has yellow corn on the top of the bag. Pig feed is “pig feed” and has light green cabbage on the top of the bag. Rabbit feed is “rabbit feed” and has bright orange carrots on the top of the bag. Then they all had a nice, unobtrusive picture of the animal on the front of the bag. If there are people who are colour-blind, okay, I could see that. But they are all still additionally labelled with words…apparently, the game developers think that only people who play Big Farm are of the lowest intelligence and cannot read.

It’s time to stop caving into the lowest common denominator. Some people are idiots. That’s their choice. Ignore them. This has been one of my favourite games for 15 years because you guys never sold out to the cartoons everyone else uses. How about fixing some of your cache and/or app driver issues so that the game loads better instead of selling out to cartoon land?

This game is fun at first when you’re barely learning how to play , but everything takes FOREVER!!! 3-4 hours to produce things ?! When you’re at like level one and trying to level up , it goes by fast. Everything produces fast and that’s when you have the most coins to be able to speed things up. But then when you get to like level 8-9 it starts taking forever. You start planting everything and producing things and since it takes so long to finish you end up leaving BigFarm because there’s nothing to do , and you end up forgetting to come back to it. So like there’s no point in having it if that’s what the games gonna be like

Edit: so I wrote this review a few days ago and they responded saying it’s supposed to be playable over a long period of time. But it’s those features that make people not want to play it. I understand leveling up is supposed to be challenging as time goes on but making things take forever to produce and grow , makes people not want to play it for a long time. To make this game better and a bigger hit , I suggest changing that.

Update: I have been playing for a month now, and I can conclude that this game is perfect for people with OCD or controlled-freaks start to manage others. Also, it becomes quite expensive if you want to build your story; so it’s not kid friendly (cause kids don’t have money). And if you don’t have patience, then this game will teach you patience (if you don’t want to spend A LOT of money.) __ORIGINAL: It’s quite picturesque scenery. I enjoy following the characters’ lives in these kind of stories. Disney is no longer magical. Don’t see these kind of images/stories from Disney anymore. I deduct 1-star because it doesn’t let you convert cash to gold coins, the waits are too long for many tasks, and there aren’t clear instructions for many activities.

This is overall a really great game! Tournaments are new and interesting, there’s always something to do, and the community is really nice and welcoming. However, I’ve recently run into a problem with the market. It will no longer allow me to make improvements. Whenever I try to a pop up screen tells me there is an error and that I don’t have enough resources. This sadly isn’t the case because I do have enough resources. I tried rebooting my phone and instead it made it worse by completing resetting my market level but the rest of my farm remained in the same state it was before powering my phone off. I don’t know how to solve this issue and have asked for help but the suggestions don’t seem to be solving the issue.

I enjoy the game but you have serious connectivity issues.

I have just recently deleted this game. I play games for some mindless entertainment, not added stress. I had been with a co-op for awhile and felt I was a contributing member. I cannot and do not want to be a 24/7 gamer. I still think that most of the people in that co-op are good people. I think they got too carried away with winning the tournament and critical, unkind comments were made. I don’t need to subject myself to that. I didn’t want to go back to playing alone because it just reminded me of the hurt I experienced. So, I deleted the game.

I would suggest to any new players, consider very carefully whether you want to join a co-op or be a self player. I can get tense and intense and some folks feel like they can say anything when they are online and don’t really know the other players.

Up until a couple of days ago, I was really enjoying the game and felt a friendly connection to my co-op members. The experience was hurtful. I wish them the very best. I still think they are good people; but let the stress of winning a tournament over-rule their sense of care and courtesy of others. Stressed or not, it is never OK to speak or act unkindly.

I have been playing this game for almost two years. Ranked among the best players. I invested $2k of my own money into this game. The game makers are showing their $$$ greed by making it almost impossible to do anything on this game without using my own money. I refuse! I wish I never spent the $2k before! Don’t download unless you have the patience of a saint. When I say this is a slow paced game, I mean it is slow! Never in my life have I wasted so much time and money. The ONLY reason that I stayed was for the friendships that I made in the co-op. Well, we have each other’s information to keep in touch now. This game has ruined all games like this for me in the future! I’ll stick to matching jewels games! At least with those, I have a chance at advancing! Good bye Big Farm Mobile Harvest!

i really love this game and have been enjoying it a lot, as it satisfies the type of farming/production games i like pretty well. however i absolutely hate the icons that advertise the in-app purchases on the main screen and wish there was some way to hide them. i don’t make in-app purchases in my mobile games and never will, and i find that seeing those icons there all the time really dampens the experience. they’re ugly and they clog up the screen for no real reason other than to be in your face so you can buy things. please consider adding an option to hide these from the main screen or find some way to make them less invasive/intruding!

Enjoyable with or without being in a coop, but more achievable when part of a coop. Just wish it was possible to build all parts without spending real money. Occasionally there are freebies that help, but so far I have not found the blueprints needed to upgrade the water tower. If you play once a day, it will take forever to grow. But if you want to just watch the progress over time, it is still enjoyable. Sometimes the waiting is annoying, but if you spend real many, you can speed it up. This is a “pay to win” sort of game.
There is plenty of variety. However, a users guide would be very helpful. There are some things I still haven’t found how to build.

First of all, I love this game! I just wanted to suggest something. The latest update included daily gifts being added. It’s great, I love the idea. The only tiny problem I have is that it would me much easier to open all of the gifts at the same time. I am on a 4 day streak and I’ve opened four gifts but all separately, having to press the button multiple times. It would be nice just to press it once and all four gifts (or however long the streak is) open at the same time. Other than that,this game is still amazing. I enjoy it. 5 stars.

I love this game. It’s awesome & I really enjoy it & love the little animals & watching my farm grow , & love my coop too. Great bunch of people!! Could you pls fix the bugs in chat so myself & other players as well, don’t keep getting thrown out of it every few minutes??! When that happens I have to power off my device then back on again & it’s frustrating & interrupts game play too. I don’t have time for it either. I want to be able to relax & enjoy playing in the time that I have in which to do so. Connection gets bad too sometimes & again I have to either power off & back on again or sit & wait for it to straighten it self out.
Please fix this! I’ve sent numerous feedback requests for you to do so but it’s just not working right.

I’ve played a lot of games, and this one is by far the most generous and balanced. Spending is not required to grow in and enjoy the game. The Devs have designed a game, that with strategy and patience, will provide everything the player needs. Yes, you progress faster if you spend, as it should be. Updates bring bugs, but that is the case with every game I’ve played. The Devs respond to resolve them. That is all that can expected. Also, each update has incorporated changes to address player feedback on game modes that don’t work well. All in all, it is a fairly well designed game, that continues to evolve to be better, and is fun to play. Side bar: I think trying to “win” this game is like trying to “win” at yoga. This is more of a “it’s the journey, not the destination” kinda game.