Farming Simulator: Nintendo Switch Edition (2017) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Farming Simulator: Nintendo Switch Edition

Take on the challenges of the modern farmer! Explore a huge open world including a detailed North American environment, loaded with farming activities, over hundreds of acres of land. Harvest many types of…

73 7 November 2017

What Farming Simulator: Nintendo Switch Edition is

Farming Simulator: Nintendo Switch Edition is a simulator game developed by Giants Software and released in 2017. It was published by Focus Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Take on the challenges of the modern farmer! Explore a huge open world including a detailed North American environment, loaded with farming activities, over hundreds of acres of land. Harvest many types of crops, tend to your livestock, take part in forestry work, and sell your products to expand and invest in your farm! Transport your goods in trucks and trailers, or load and drive trains to reach your destination.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

Its themes are action, business and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Farming Simulator: Nintendo Switch Edition holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 2 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Farming Simulator: Nintendo Switch Edition launched on 7 November 2017, within three weeks of Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins and South Park: The Fractured But Whole. All of them reviewed better. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins, South Park: The Fractured But Whole.

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