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I could endure any hardship as long as it's raining and lit up by neon signs.

The Farm DLC honestly to me is a mess and an unnecessary mess at that. I'll start with the stuff that I like from this DLC, the new furniture is nice like with all the DLC's, it's easily got my favourite kitchen cabinetry and the new kitchen accessories pair nicely with it. The jobs are also pretty good, with the standout IMO being the wedding barn. The ability to change roof tiling is also cool and I'm kind of surprised it took this long be added, but is still welcome nonetheless. The biggest feature added, that I didn't really play around with outside of the jobs apart from one occasion is the new architecture tool. The ability to expand the size of pretty much all the houses in the game, not just this DLC's is impressive. What's even more impressive is that the ability to change the size and shape of most structures in the game as well as build entirely new ones is the one feature throughout this entire DLC that I didn't encounter any bugs with.

Onto the bad. The performance for some of this games properties is just downright abysmal. I have a 12th gen I5, a 3070 and 16GB of RAM, way above the recommended specs for this game and way over quite frankly what a game that looks like this should require. Yet I am still plagued by constant frame drops and stuttering that no amount of option tweaking can fix and this is 8 months after release. This DLC is also ridiculously buggy in almost every other facet imaginable. Remember the pets AI that was effectively non-functional? Well here is an even worse version plagued by even more bugs but this time, there's nowhere near enough good content to distract from that. The fact that such a simple feature such as gates is still broken requiring me to sell and re-buy them every time I load up the game 8 months after release is beyond laughable. You'd think that gates would use similar scripting for doors which have worked fine for my entire playtime of the game but apparently not. Double gates work fine though, which to do you just have to place two gates next to each other and sometimes they'll make a double gate, It's not guaranteed though and some places just straight up will not let you have a double gate no matter how much you fiddle with it.

Everything to do with the animals is horrible, from building their pens like I mentioned above, to actually caring for their needs and then to using them for their resources. The size of the dogs hitbox in the Pets DLC was kind of clumsy, as in you'd think it was a hitbox for a cow or something of that size which is probably why they are so insistent on merging with ever piece of furniture possible. I'm sure you can only imagine how big a cow's hitbox is in this DLC then. You could tell me that they accidentally used the hitbox of an M1 Abrams instead of anything even close to resembling a farmyard animal and I would believe you. Unfortunately just like with the pets their animations to eat, drink and be interacted with, all use that massive Abrams hitbox meaning that I could barely get any of my animals to actually eat, drink or in the case of the pigs, find me truffles so they would just lay there looking deflated with yellow icons on my minimap. I'm also not even sure that it's a hitbox issue because in the case of my chickens they would just go over to the feeder, eat and just freeze there, unable to be interacted with. This also meant that any attempt to move or sell any of my animals food and water sources would not work as the game figured that my animals were just stuck constantly using it. I mentioned this earlier but the benefit of owning these animals is that you can sell their products as a side hustle I guess. I have no idea why the hell you would go through all of this effort dealing with these nightmare abominations just to sell a bottle of cows milk for 15$ in a game where you are constantly buying and selling properties for hundreds of thousands of $. Even selling the bottle of milk isn't without bugs as for some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ reason every time I would close the tab after selling one of these items for a pittance my entire screen would just be filled with an extremely low quality .png of whatever item I just sold. Not even returning to the main menu of the game would fix this bug as the .png would have just replaced the main menu. I was left in disbelief when I saw this and realised that I would have to restart my game every single time I would try to sell an animal product.

8 months after release and the entire animals side of the FARM DLC is complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, and even if it worked entirely as intended, it would be absolutely pointless. This DLC just seems to be an expansion of the Pets DLC, rather than it's own DLC with it's own identity. It copies the rural scenery of the Pets DLC but instead of the furniture being bohemian or cosy it's farmhouse-y. That's pretty much it. That's also why I was kind of done with this DLC after flipping one property because I managed to see all it had to offer after that one house. I made a modern farmhouse with custom built barn filled with non functional and completely pointless animals, and a vegetable patch. All while navigating the buggiest experience possible and requiring multiple restarts a session and regular poor performance. All this 8 months after launch.

I still can't give this a negative review but much like with the Garden DLC, I wouldn't really call this review positive either, it's somewhere in the middle.

A close contender to the Luxury DLC for my favourite DLC. Completely refreshes the game with a really nice looking overworld and background for the properties, but this time in a nice rural setting. All the properties in this DLC are just really nice and rustic feeling and in combination with furniture added in this DLC it's just effortless to make something extremely cosy. I'll get the elephant out of room now, I didn't care for the PETS part, of the PETS DLC, but it didn't take anything away and I liked almost everything else about this DLC. I will say that I found making cosy wooden furnished houses and bohemian styled houses really didn't keep my interest for as long as the luxury DLC did but I absolutely got my moneys worth and enjoyed this DLC, it's just that I didn't have too much of an inspiration to buy too many of the properties myself after completing the jobs because I just felt that the properties all lent themselves to the same styles that I personally struggled to get past.

Speaking of the jobs whilst not as open as the Luxury DLC jobs, the Pets DLC jobs were clearly a step up over the base game and were for the most part time consuming jobs with satisfying conclusions. The only part of the jobs that I didn't like was the mandatory pet room that was required with every job where you put in a few toys, a bed, a food and water bowl and called it a day. So much wasted space. The Pet AI is also just completely non functional, it gets really old being barked at by your dogs constantly when you're trying to finish your house because they've fused with a bathroom cabinet and can no longer get to their water bowls.

Surely seeing how bad the animal AI is in this DLC and that the animals contributed the least to this DLC this is surely the last time the developers would try and make an animal themed DLC right?

This is easily my favourite DLC, closely followed by the Pets DLC, but the luxury DLC just edges it out for the couple of features added in this but unfortunately don't reappear again. Luxury completely refreshes the game with a new urban landscape in the overworld and in the background a nice selection of unique high end properties with a ton of new expensive furniture and decorations to furnish them with. The luxury DLC objects I also got the most mileage out of, as in I was pretty much always able to incorporate Luxury DLC furniture and decorations into whatever style of house I was trying to go for whether it was classic, Art Deco or Contemporary. I even had to force myself into just using items from the later DLC's for a few houses just because I would still end up falling back on my favourites from this DLC.

This DLC also had my favourite jobs out of the base game and DLC's because of how unique the mood board system was. The first thing I'll say about the mood boards is that it's criminal that this wasn't the format that was continued for the jobs throughout later updates and DLC's. The mood boards were so nice for being able to make your own decision on how you think a room should look, whilst also being restricted to the clients wishlist. The second feature I love about this DLC that I also think is criminally underused, not just in later DLC's, but also this one is furniture restoration. Furniture restoration was a really cool feature that I wasn't expecting, that was only used a handful of times on jobs and just forgotten about after. You can't even restore furniture in any of the Luxury properties that had furniture to restore as part of the jobs. All it needed was to be expanded upon by giving you some more objects to refurbish, more options to refurbish them in properties you buy and continued into later DLC's. Just imagine, as part of the Farm DLC, you could've been able to restore an old truck abandoned in a barn or something like that.

I bought the game with this DLC and as such I may be biased with how much I consider this DLC to be necessary, but it really does kind of pain me how great this DLC really could have been with some QoL adjustments. I get that this was the first attempt at DLC for this game but between features that should have absolutely been included in the base game and other features just plain being difficult to use, mean that I find myself recommending this solely because I can cut the overgrown grass that plagues every property in this game.

To keep harping on for a second about the grass mowing, it's not even like you get to decide what length you even can cut the grass too, it's either way too long and dishevelled or it's IMO too short. It's not too bad for the suburban properties but when you get to the more rural properties where having some more taller, but still trimmed grass is clearly more suitable to the surroundings than a clean cut neatly trimmed suburban lawn/garden it got bothersome. It sounds pedantic but in a game where the entire gameplay loop is to make houses look nice; and in this DLC, the gardens too, only having two choices for something that on some properties takes up 80% of the space is a huge oversight.

To be fair, if I don't like how the lawn functions, this DLC does offer alternative surfaces such as different gravels, soils, woodchips etc, and various patterned paving slabs, these are also a complete ♥♥♥♥♥ to use. Now I'm starting to move into potential "skill issue" territory, by House Flipper standards anyway but I found getting the surfaces outside to work as intended so much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ effort, especially compared to how effortless it is in the interiors.

For placing the gravels and soils you're only option is to click and hold while moving around in first person whilst looking at the ground like making some MS Paint picture which I was just plain bad at, so making nice gravel paths or driveways was already a pain. So then I gave paving slabs a try, and for the life of me I just could not get the Paving slabs to line up properly with the foundations of the houses whilst also making them line up with the other paving slabs or other big garden objects such as Swimming Pools or Gazebos. I'm sure it's possible the majority of the time if not all the time, I mean I've seen the trailers, other YouTube videos and even done it once or twice myself, but compared to how simple and easy flooring the interiors is, I just can't understand why it's not the same or slightly modified system for the exterior.

The last part of the DLC that I take issue with is all of the large and unwieldy objects, such as the pools, gazebos and picket fences / hedges. I'm going to start with the fences and hedges, but how the hell did anyone think it was a good idea to only have the fences / hedges only come in 3 varying lengths and a post to put at the end. They don't even have measurements its just "various fence narrow", "hedge type long" and you have to try and fit these 3 options together to make a functioning hedge or fence like fitting together Lego's, Mega Bloks and Playmobiles. I've seen people make nice paths and patios but I've hardly seen anyone get the fences and hedges to look good. They even added better fences in the later DLC's that used to same system placing down walls worked, a system that was already in the game and perfectly functional at the time of this DLC's release but didn't add it to any of the garden DLC fences and hedges.

This has gone on for fer too long so I'm just gonna gloss over the last parts. placing down large objects like the pools and gazebos whilst in a first person view where not even the entire object fits into frame and is ghosted and difficult to see anyway is just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ terrible. Combine that with wanting to place the pool on the border of a patio that I'd probably already torn my hair out putting together just to have to sell and re-purchase the pool each time it didn't line up properly because there is no way to tell if the ghost of the pool was accurate until you have dug the hole and can no longer adjust the position of said pool, it's just not worth the hassle to make a nice looking garden and interact with most of the content of this DLC. It's just a real swing and a really skewed not entirely miss.

A really fun and relaxing game. Simultaneously, possibly the buggiest game I have ever played, and that includes close to 1000 hours of vanilla Skyrim. The bugs were never really game breaking (up until the last DLC), but there were a couple that I encountered that were difficult to ignore.

The base game itself has a nice amount of content but mainly revolves around stereotypical suburban properties and as such, means that the properties themselves, as well as furniture and decorations can be a little bland, especially compared to what was added in the DLC's. This did get better over time as there were often free houses and decorations added for holiday events such as Halloween and April Fools, free content for the base game alongside the release of DLC's and two smaller free DLC's. The Steam workshop also has an insane amount of content to help fill out your house with niche custom assets or people uploading the furniture from The Sims. The workshop items also miss out on some of the functionality that the developer made assets have, but between the base game, the DLC's and the Steam Workshop, I was pretty much able to find everything that I wanted.

Below I'll make a list with a quick summary on which DLC's I recommend.
1. Garden DLC - Arguably necessary due to one particular feature but otherwise disappointing. Buy on sale or as bundled with the game.
2. Luxury DLC - The first big DLC for the game. Completely transforms the game compared to base game with the new map/houses and furniture and decorations as well as other neat features. Not necessary but easily my favourite.
3. Pets DLC - Similar to the luxury DLC but instead of luxurious and urban, it's cosy and rural. Still a great DLC but I just preferred the Luxury DLC personally.
4 HGTV DLC - I don't really have much to say about this one. It was a nice DLC, but overshadowed by later additions, the only standout feature was before/after photos which gave mixed results a lot of the time. Still good but I'd get just to fill out your collection.
5. Farm DLC - I've got a lot to say about this DLC, too much to put here. The latest and with the release of the sequel most likely the last. Extremely buggy and kind of a departure from the House Flipper game itself in weird way. I don't recommend against this one entirely, just that I'd recommend all of the other ones first.

Fallout New Vegas is so cool, I wish America was real.

Made me realise how much I wasted my childhood.

Image 24 is the worst thing to happen to Christmas since Mariah Carey.

The others are good tho

Good game. Bad progression.