Not Enough Time

3rd World Farmer is definitely an interesting one. It started as a students’ project at the IT-University in Copenhagen, and considering the content, that makes perfect sense.

You play the part of a poor family attempting to extract themselves from poverty through their farm. At first you’ll have very little money with which to buy crops, but if you make it through your first planting cycle with your meager field of wheat or corn, you might have enough to dig a well or buy a chicken or two.

As the years progress, and if you are successful, you’ll upgrade to more varied crops, larger and stranger livestock, and you’ll even get involved in local politics.

You’ll learn to love them.

The game is rather in-depth for a Flash game and soon you’ll find yourself trying to perfect your strategies for optimal crop yield while avoiding marauding militias and being faced with important decisions such as allowing companies to dump toxic chemicals on your land or sending off your children to school.

With all of this to consider, you might find it easy to forget things such as your family’s age and health, though. Don’t let your farmers get sick or soon there will be no one to harvest all those yummy bushels of corn and wheat. And since eventually Mamma Farmer and Pappa Farmer will get to old to continue the farm, they’ll need to be fruitful and have lots and lots of Baby Farmers.

Also, there is a way to “win” the game, so don’t give up just because you think you’ve got the gist of the game.

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