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The Farmer Was Replaced

96% positive · 8,918 Steam reviews · released Oct 10, 2025 · by Timon Herzog

ProgrammingAutomationIdlerPuzzleText-BasedLogicMinimalistEducation

What it likely sold — estimate, stated as a range on purpose

Lifetime units: ~338,438 (P10–P90: 135,375 – 744,564)

Gross revenue: ~$2,772,416 ($1,108,965 – $6,099,319)

Estimate, method v1.0 — before Steam's ~30% share, refunds and VAT. The band means: we'd be surprised if the truth sat outside it. How we estimate

Player voice — measured shares of Steam thumbs, never a model

Last 90 days: 91% positive across 283 stored reviews. Casual games with 100+ reviews typically sit around 86% (median of 4097 games).

Performance & stability78% positive · 23 mentions
“An excellent and simple game about programming. You start in a single tile where only grass can grow, and slowly work your way to advanced algorithms used to automatically produce various crops. I like how each crops after the first couple…”Recommended · Steam review · Jun 2026 · 91 h played
Price & value75% positive · 12 mentions
“I enjoyed my short time with it but realized that as a person recovering from burnout this was not for me, my brain got exhausted immediately trying to learn a new kind of language, and I can't afford that, so I'm stopping already. Well…”Recommended · Steam review · May 2026 · 1 h played
Difficulty & balance92% positive · 12 mentions
“As a total beginner, I found the learning curve for this game to be quite steep. To overcome this I had to do a fair bit of googling. The structure of the coding isn't really addressed in game so you kind of have to figure out what goes in…”Recommended · Steam review · Jun 2026 · 7 h played

299 recent English reviews stored · topics keyword-matched · topics under 12 mentions stay hidden · methodology

Game DNA — store facts, community tag votes, labeled AI inference

Technology

3D

Structure

Sandbox

How you play together

Single-player

Platform features

AchievementsSteam Cloud

Business model

Buy to playEarly Access

Sources: Valve store fields · community tag votes · AI-inferred values are marked and drawn from a fixed vocabulary.

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