SimSafari is a construction and management simulation game almost identical to SimPark, except that the park is set in Africa rather than in North America, and therefore has African animals and plants. It was created by Maxis, partly as an educational tool for children to learn about environmental balance. It was first released on March 15, 1998.

Maxis, creators of such blockbuster hits as SimCity and the addictive SimTower show their wild side with their latest release, SimSafari. Imagine yourself in rugged bush country, peering through binoculars at vast herds of elephants, zebras, and lions. Create your own safari park in this desert wonderland, even team with a neighboring village and build a flourishing safari camp.

Features include dozens of close-up views and animations of animals, a Safari Smarts trivia game to expand knowledge of African wildlife, specialized advisors (including business managers and ecologists) to help you run the park, and more. Maxis, creators of such blockbuster hits as SimCity and the addictive SimTower show their wild side with their latest release, SimSafari.

Imagine yourself in rugged bush country, peering through binoculars at vast herds of elephants, zebras, and lions. Create your own safari park in this desert wonderland, even team with a neighboring village and build a flourishing safari camp. Features include dozens of close-up views and animations of animals, a Safari Smarts trivia game to expand knowledge of African wildlife, specialized advisors (including business managers and ecologists) to help you run the park, and more.

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1. Sim Farm

Description of Sim Farm

SimFarm was billed as “SimCity’s Country Cousin”, yet that fails to set expectations. SimFarm simulates running a small farm (which may grow into a big farm) and plays very differently from its SimCity “cousin”.

Where SimCity favored active (but simple) play, zoning and building roads until you ran out of money, SimFarm requires a patient approach. SimFarm has plenty of buttons and levels and a high degree of nuance, but rather than actively building your farmstead, you’ll be spending much of your time planning the planting schedules for fields, choosing which crops to grow, and when to sell harvested crops.

In many ways, SimFarm presages the idle games of today. Much of the game will be spent waiting for crops to mature and be harvested; once harvested, you either sell the harvested crops right away or wait for market prices to improve (while risking further downturns and inevitable deterioration of the harvest). You are able to toggle the game speed to make things go faster, but this is a game which you play in turns both passively and actively. Patience is the key to doing well on your farm.

There are MANY different crops available in SimFarm, each of which is modelled with unique grow-times, susceptibility to pests/weeds/fungus, optimal grow temperatures, water-needs, and storability. Aligning your plantings and grow seasons with weather favorable to your selected crops and planning several seasons of appropriate crops for each field well in advance are key to a profitable farm. The husbandry aspect of SimFarm is less detailed and is more akin to a mini-game than a proper bit of gameplay. For instance, while you can raise cows, you’re not going to be able to set up a dairy farm and make that your primary business. Animals consume resources and eventually reproduce. While selling animals can supplement your income, it’s hard to make your bread & butter, especially since it’s easy to accidentally sell a “mother” before the calf/foal/lamb/piglet depicted in the mouse-over image becomes its own “animal” to be sold. If anything, animals are the most fun for the havoc that they can cause when they get out—if a fence gets blown down, a couple of cows can make pretty short work of a field.

The weak-spot for SimFarm is a lack of documentation. While the in-game help has vital statistics on crops and animals, there’s very little on HOW to do many of the activities you need to perform or schedule to keep your farm running in the black. Though the interface is not unintuitive, it may take some getting used to before you get a handle on what you’re doing. Additionally, the town has a bad habit of shrinking after new developments are voted on and constructed; there’s no indication (that I’ve found) for what causes the town to shrink or how that shrinkage (or growth) is tied to the farm’s performance. It’s usually not a problem, but if you’ve sunk the money into getting a crop-duster, it can be frustrating to find that suddenly the town’s airfield is gone.

SimFarm holds up well, and while there have been many farming games since, few farm sims take as in-depth an approach as this classic. This title may also catch the interest of idle gamers who’ll enjoy exploring this precursor to genre; a bonus for idle-gamers is that emulation will allow you run SimFarm in its own window while you multitask, waiting for your harvests to come in.

Review By P. Alexander

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How to play Sim Farm

1. Download the SimFarms.zip file.
2. Extract the Zip file to your retro games folder.
3. Double-click or drag the SimFarm.exe to your DosBox launcher shortcut icon.

Awesome fan site here with guides and everything you'll need : http://www.oocities.org/timessquare/3806/simfarm/

Comments and reviews

farmer2020-04-110 point

sure used to play this game

cd2020-04-090 point Blades of time system requirements india.

its great

Angelo2018-12-15-4 points

Ottimo gioco

docmarty732017-08-081 point

can anyone get the cheats to work??

katy molko2016-03-30-2 points

i can save my city, because this game is only a 'democity'.. :(

broady2015-11-01-4 points

Keep yor feey moving or you ass will hit the ground mother rocking disease control

ccc2015-11-010 point

Disease control

Stilz2015-10-23-3 points

opened DOS, not compatible. *sigh*

Farmboy2015-07-091 point DOS version

Memory's of when I was young

Paulo josé2014-11-300 point DOS version

recreate the live in farm you plant coltive and creat the animal´s the milk .. is very fun.

Dino752014-03-18-2 points DOS version

Sweeet!

scarybear2014-02-210 point DOS version

worked fine on Boxer, couldn't be any more happy with this!

Fez2013-11-291 point DOS version

Classic fun game

Simfarmguy2013-04-111 point DOS version

It keeps saying can't open packed script file. Tried using chrome and IE

Simfarm2012-11-26-2 points DOS version

I just get error. Install.exe could not be found

ginariasa2012-10-30-1 point DOS version

its not worked for me

faz2012-10-220 point DOS version

everlasting game

deegan2012-07-070 point DOS version

awesome! i loved this game

Sara2012-04-18-1 point DOS version

Wow this is awesome!! Thank you so much, I've been wanting to play this game again for a very long time..I'm so glad you didn't give me a virus like all my other attempts!! LOL Thanks again!

admin2011-05-162 points DOS version

Changed the game archive, this is now the DOS version, patched and already installed. Thanks for the feedback.

Disgruntled2011-05-130 point DOS version

Fight your way through the wastelands with powerful weaponry, collecting radiation to mutate some new limbs and abilities. Not ‘the final hope of humanity’ post-apocalyptic, but ‘humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world’ post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?DOWNLOAD LINKSAll links are interchangeable, you can download different parts on different hostsRequest a game or request re-upload, visitIf you need help a problem, visitLink MegaUp.net:Link Openload.co:Link Upera:Link Link Go4Up (Multi Links):Link MultiUp (Multi Links):Link OwnDrives:Link TusFiles:Link Rapidgator:Link Uptobox:Link Uploaded:Link Google Drive:(See instructions if you don't know how to install: )1. All these things and more you could do if only you were good at this game.

Issue when installing. error cd or something

Drizzle2011-03-170 point DOS version

Wow, im surprised this game has no attention. this is still one of my favorite old school sim game. i still play it from time to time, and keep wishing someone would make a similar game with more depth.

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