Game: Dreamland Farm
Genre: Adventure, Arcade, Simulation, RPG
System: Nintendo Switch
Developer | Publisher: RedDeer.Games
Age Rating: US Everyone | EU 3+
Price: US $10.99 | UK £9.89 | EU € 10,99
Release Date: September 27th, 2024
Review code used, with many thanks to RedDeer.Games.
Dreamland Farm is a mini farming simulation with cute pixelated graphics. Grow, chop, bash and explore in this short adventure.
Here at LadiesGamers we’ve had the opportunity to review several games published by RedDeer.Games. How will Dreamland Farm rate?
Heading to Dreamland Farm
Dreamland Farm starts with a short visual narrative explaining why your little pixelated character has arrived at the farm. To start, you aren’t given any seeds, but with a healthy initial budget of 1000 coins, you can go exploring to find the local town to buy some.
Sunrise Town is a short walk away, and en route, you may come across mushrooms or berries to forage. Berry picking is quite a drain on stamina, so I had to restrain myself from collecting all I found. Once in town, you can purchase some seeds. However, take note of the selling price; sometimes, it’s not profitable to sell the finished produce. There are only 3 seed piles available, and it’s a buy-all-or-nothing situation.
Once back on your farm, you can plant your nearly acquired seeds. Farming is easy; just position the guide box and press the button. The shovel and watering can are automatically selected, and you can scroll through your seed collection to select the one you want.
All the crops do seem to take a while to grow, but with the pace of the game dictated by your stamina rather than time, the days pass quite quickly. You won’t have enough stamina to water the whole field, unless you eat, and upgrading the watering can only makes it bigger, it doesn’t reduce the amount of stamina you use.
In addition to arable farming, you can buy animals for your barn. The price of each animal type increases with the number you own, with a starting cost of 100 coins. You can purchase 5 of each type. You will also need to purchase animal food, as you can’t let them graze or make your own hay.
The Dreamland Farm World
The Dreamland Farm world is not overly large, although, at times, I wished my little farmer could run. Apart from the shops and farm buildings, most of the other buildings are decorative, but that shouldn’t stop you from trying the doors!
Every few days, you will receive a letter giving you a quest. These are completed by sending the items through the mail at the post office. Rewards will be sent via letter and range from money to tool upgrade blueprints. You use the blacksmith’s forge to upgrade, and apart from needing the materials, the upgrade is free.
The quests add variety to the game, some just challenging enough to be enjoyable, others easily completed. Unfortunately, though, Chef Applerose’s tasks seem out of sync: They asked for radish soup, but instead, I had to send cauliflower; they asked for a salad, but this time, I had to send the forgotten recipe. I hope this issue gets resolved quickly.
Gameplay
The controls in Dreamland Farm are straightforward and displayed on the screen. The game works well in both docked and handheld mode, although there is no touchscreen functionality. I didn’t encounter any frame rate issues or crashes.
There is a great guidebook that explains all aspects of the game, from an introduction to resources and cooking to quests.
There are three save slots and Dreamland Farm autosaves as you sleep.
There is no time in Dreamland Farm, so a day is as long or short as you wish. Overall, I spent around 9 hours playing, and I ended with all 20 animals bought, all quests completed, and all tools upgraded to the maximum.
Conclusion
Dreamland Farm is a basic but pleasant farming simulation. At times, it can be a bit too slow, waiting for rocks or trees to appear, but overall it’s an enjoyable game to while away a few hours.
Final Verdict: I Like it 
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