Farming Simulator 25 Review (PlayStation 5)

by Jim Smale · November 25, 2024

Farming Simulator 25 Review, Build a farm along winding rivers and historic grain elevators in North America, surrounded by ponds in Central Europe, or in a lush East Asian landscape filled with rice paddies near a neon-lit port city. Grow crops, tend to animals, practice forestry, and manage an empire of business ventures with farm shops, productions, and constructions!

Farming Simulator 25 Review Pros:

Highly detailed graphics.
27.41GB download size.
Platinum trophy.
Own in-game trophy list.
Display settings – field of view slider, first-person field of view slider, brightness, realistic beacon lights, ingame Hud scale, and third-person field of view slider.
Invert Y Y-axis look option.
The downloadable content manager lets you manage what is and isn’t installed and shows install and free space sizes.
Ten save slots.
Three locations – Zielonka, Hutan Pantai, and River Bend Springs.
Game setup – location, preset, start money, start loan, economic difficulty, start a farm, and guided intro tour.
Three presets – new farmer, start from scratch, and farm manager.
Fast loading times.
Three economic difficulties – Easy, normal, and hard.
Full character creator – 13 avatar choices, hairstyle, beards, outfits including branded clothing, tops, bottoms, footwear, headgear, gloves, and classes. You can be male or female.
Tutorial pop-ups as you play, you can turn them off.
Farm management and simulation gameplay.
You can play in first or third-person view, it’s a simple button press to change.
A full 3D game world with 360-degree camera control.
Save when you want.
In-game character interactions and you can fast-forward through them.
Voiced characters.
Multiple choice encounters.
Clear easy-to-read Hud that can also have bars to help gauge the progress of tasks.
Pressing buttons on the Hud will help with controls, it’s a lot to take in but honestly, it’s smooth and very easy to manage.
Buy and sell vehicles from the store or the menu.
Even the locations are more detailed and have more life to them than ever before.
Walking over owned land shows the status of the field like crop type, growth, how much is fertilized, and if it needs plowing.
When driving you can zoom in and out whilst in third person view.
Every vehicle looks incredible with its high detail. Each handle is different.
Farming jobs are wood cutting, Herding animals, Growing and selling crops, and taking on missions.
All vehicles are licensed brands.
Play how you want.
A very satisfying game.
When near a detachable point you get a pop-up to not only tell you what to press but also what you will be attaching.
Cruise control can be turned on whenever and you can set the max speed of it.
Looking at and seeing the progress of field tasks is easier and clearer.
The map is color-coded to help see what state fields are in or what is currently in the fields.
Both a mini-map and a big map.
To be successful you need to learn the seasons and plant certain seeds at certain times of the year. Luckily the calendar helps with this.
Hire Ai workers and set – the working width, and number of headlands, work the headlands, start with, and skip lines. A simple hold button activation.
Day and night cycle with different weather.
In-game radio.
The d-pad lets you instantly swap between vehicles.
With the in-game mini-map, you can change the size of it and even turn it on and off.
Ground deformation is now a thing and it is not just you that can change it, the weather can destroy not only crops but the actual earth you plant in!
Quests feel a lot more fleshed out and add a lot more depth and variety to them.

Farming Simulator 25 Review Cons:

No actual markings for mods, and the downloadable content section isn’t clear.
The performance is not great, it runs a tad sluggish and has slight screen tearing.
During the guided tour tutorials it won’t always be clear what needs to be done as it just stops using markers after a while.
It’s a lot to take in and more so if this is your first Farming Simulator experience.
If you have played the games before then you have to suck eggs with the guided tour until you get to the new content.
The camera is still a beast to use, a handy recentre the camera or look behind instantly would be awesome.

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