I do not know what all these fake positive reviews are about, but this game is not finished.

I would not even consider this in beta.

This is in an alpha state of the game.

Will update down the line if they update the game.

This is a review originally written for  Opium Pulses [www.opiumpulses.com]. The full article can be found HERE [www.opiumpulses.com]. Feel free to take a look at the Opium Pulse Steam Curation page HERE as well.

The Last Farmer is a survival/horror game by developer Geekon. What will be the developers 15th game release within a year-and a half, one might be slightly pensive as to what sort of quality they’re bringing to the table. If my time spent in-game as well as taking the overwhelmingly trend-specific ratings of prior titles into account: the concerns are entirely well founded. That being said, while there is ABSOLUTELY a market of games that are simply “so bad they’re good”, it seems as though Geekon misses the mark even in that regard.

Coming-to in a dead-end nook of a desert, your character makes his way to a small overlook, where you find the remnants of a barn, and a conveniently placed natural source of clean water. Within the dilapidated barn, you find a worse-for-wear car (which will turn into a long term project to help aid in your supply runs) and a “conveniently” placed bed, as well as several workstations you’ll need to get up and running to get yourself fully functional for the road ahead, as desolate and clunky as it may be.
Effectively you’re a farmer in a post-zombie-apocalypse situation, just trying to survive in your “journey of restoration”!

And what a journey it is! Opening strong with poor font spacing during story-board cut scenes and atrocious spelling mistakes within the bare bones tutorial, you’ll be journeying across your keyboard trying to figure out what keys do what. Minimal explanations and no viewable key binding menu, or ability adds to frustrations. While some of the controls feel about par for the industry, the inability to remap or even view them starts players off on a fairly sour note.

To further add to the magnificently clunky journey, poor optimization, overly sensitive default movement (the default is set to 25, I ended up setting mine to 10 for it to feel “normal”) as well as generally broken setting plague The Last Farmer. Default sound settings end up near muted is the slider is moved more than a few ticks. Music changes suddenly, without warning nor transition, and without any real reason. The audio is bland and uninspired, and grows old quickly. In addition, the voice acting is relatively bland and awkward, leaving MUCH to be desired.

As far as visuals go, there is very little to write home about. From your giant Meat Mittens with oddly protruding fingernails to the blatant use of assets slapped left and right, there is not much to see. Picking the barren obscure desert of Texas leave little to be seen, sans randomly placed (and nonsensically designed) homes, abandoned military bases, and odd “points of interest” that have little to be interested in, and seem relatively out of place. In an odd way, it almost feels like the desert was a choice made as an excuse for it to be relatively bare in terms of “filler”. What could have been a relatively promising concept, once again, falls flat.

In a market nearly over saturated in both survival craft as well as zombie titles, you will find plenty of titles that do what is attempted here, but better for near the same cost. While perhaps not hinging on the Farmer aspect as much, games like 7 Days to Die still provide a vastly more entertaining time, and much less frustration. In short, repetitive assets, boring and blurry zombies with the same vocals, uninspired design and just a general lack of effort really make The Last Farmer just about The Last Thing on my list when it comes to Zombie Survival Craft titles.

You can put the pig in the car