Farming-Simulator 2009 (2008) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Farming-Simulator 2009

The sequel to the popular "Farming Simulator" contains plenty of new features and improvements. Take on the role of a young farmer on an island and experience everyday life in the countryside. Choose from many…

58 31 December 2008

What Farming-Simulator 2009 is

Farming-Simulator 2009 is a simulator game developed by Giants Software and released in 2008. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on GIANTS Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The sequel to the popular "Farming Simulator" contains plenty of new features and improvements. Take on the role of a young farmer on an island and experience everyday life in the countryside. Choose from many vehicles and equipment and explore the island which is over 4 km square in size and freely accessible. Play the improved career mode, beginning with a sparsely equipped farm and some old outdated vehicles. Your goal is to whip the farm into shape, extending the vehicle fleet and becoming a successful farmer. Through various activities such as plowing fields, seeding, pressing bales and the final harvest, you build up the financial resources necessary to allow you to buy better…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

Its themes are non-fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Farming-Simulator 2009 holds a critic score of 58 out of 100. That places it above 14% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 7 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Farming-Simulator 2009 launched on 31 December 2008, within three weeks of Spelunky Classic, Skate 2, Crayon Physics Deluxe and Dissidia Final Fantasy. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Spelunky Classic, Skate 2, Crayon Physics Deluxe, Dissidia Final Fantasy.

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