Thursday, January 7, 2010

iPhone Game Screenshots: Tap Farm

Tap Farm is a free simulation farm game. I have been a fan of farming games since I played Harvest Moon 2. The later versions of that are not bad, but nothing beats the simplicity of the 2nd one. I have tried the original and the 2nd is the best in my opinion. Anyways the new wave of simulation farming on Facebook and stuff has piqued my interest.

I mostly enjoy Papaya Farm, but that is currently gone from the iPhone app store, although it might still be downloadable for other mobile phones and a Facebook version is supposedly in the works. I still mostly play Papaya Farm, as it is still on my iPhone, however, one day when the app was not working (their servers sometimes go down) I searched for an alternative and came up with Tap Farm.

Tap Farm is just as easy, but it is not as fulfilling (i.e. entertaining). It just takes so much to get stuff and there is not really much to do other than harvest, plant, and decorate the farm. It misses important things like the social aspect of giving stuff and stealing stuff from others farms. It is also missing the fun of processing crops to be other things when you have the tools.

Overall it is not bad for a free Farm app, but Papaya Farm is better and next time it is not working I will be looking for a new Farm app and not going back to Tap Farm, as there is nothing to really get me wanting to go back to it.

Click on the thumbnails below to see a larger version of the screenshots.



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Tap Farm

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Hey there! Since you seem knowledgeable about these games I figured maybe you can help me. I play tap farm (and agree with you that it's a bit boring), and recently got a symbol on my screen at the top that I have no clue about in terms of its meaning!

It's right in between the coins and the experience. I gave taken a screenshot but don't know how to send it to you. Let me know!

-tanya (trdtny@gmail.com)

wildcat1001 said...

I no longer had TapFarm on my iPhone. I redownloaded it and I think I know what icon you are talking about. It is kind of a little plant icon. I have no idea what it means, though.

Unknown said...

Yeah that's the one. It's too bad they don't have any sort of forum, FAQ's and such, right? Thank you fir redownloading it!

wildcat1001 said...

I finally figured out that the symbol is for Magic Beans. You can buy some of the trees and stuff with them. To get more Magic Beans, though, you have to download other apps and it seems most of the available ones are apps you have to buy. Plus, for me the apps to download free are ones I can download for Papaya Farm and get papayas instead, so I download them there instead because I play Papaya way more.