While Farming Games are great fun to play due to all the things that players are able to do in-game, in this article we're going to be talking about something different. The discussion at hand is whether these games can be made more realistic.

Simply put, the answer to this question would probably be yes since these games are already quite realistic and there are tons of ways in which this realism can be enhanced even further. The first thing that comes to mind when discussing how to make these games more realistic is to probably change the growth times of crop to be more like their real world counterpart.

Nowadays, in pretty much every farming game, the growth times of crops vary quite a lot and some crops that grow very slowly in real life grow quite fast in the game and vice versa. This is something that can be looked at and if fixed properly, can definitely make the experience a lot more realistic and also more engaging for the hardcore players.

Animals are perhaps the biggest asset that developers can use to add more realism into the game. As it stands right now, they only role they serve is to basically exist and provide different kinds of produce such as milk and eggs after set intervals of time and even though this formula works well, it can be altered a bit in order to achieve a more realistic experience.

Animals should be allowed to interact with the farm and players should be allowed to interact with animals. One thing that can be implemented is that if players pay close attention to the animals then they will in turn have a happier mood and in-turn will yield more produce. This rewards players for interacting with their farm animals while also promoting more lifelike gameplay.

Implementing weather in farming games would without a doubt take the level of realism through the roof. Adding weather would completely change the way a farming game plays since players would constantly have to adapt to how the weather is. The gameplay would become a lot more dynamic and in turn a lot more enjoyable since players won't be able to rinse and repeat the same process every day to progress through the game and must adjust their gameplay methods according to the weather. Aside from just changing the gameplay, weather would also change the visuals of the game as well since it will probably have a white frosty theme during the winter season but during the spring season the farm will be flourishing and full of bright colors.

All things considered, as mentioned before, the answer to the question whether farming games can be made more realistic is definitely yes and the methods to do so have been talked about above. These things put aside though, we'd like to take this opportunity to recommend that you try a few farm games out for yourself since they're great fun to play.