What’s higher than mowing lawns? Enjoying video video games! However is enjoying a online game about mowing lawns a greater various to the true factor? Let’s discover out with Garden Mowing Simulator, a fundamental but sensible single-player simulator by which you, effectively, mow lawns.
There are just a few methods you possibly can play the sport. The primary is Profession mode, which is nearly a narrative mode the place you begin your personal firm and construct your lawn-mowing empire. While you begin off on a profession, the sport has you make an organization. You select a reputation and emblem to your firm, purchase a mower and a string trimmer, and select an worker. As soon as that’s finished, you get to work taking contracts to mow lawns and construct a popularity to your firm, in addition to earn cash. As you progress by way of the sport, it is possible for you to to rent new workers and tools, and unlock new and more durable contracts…particularly within the obtainable DLC.
The second is the (at the moment) Swap-exclusive Fast Mow mode, the place you possibly can hop on to finish a contract only for some fast and stress-free gameplay. On this mode, you possibly can select between two various kinds of contracts: small and huge. Small contracts often take between 10-Half-hour to finish, whereas giant contracts take round 30-60 minutes. After your choice, the sport sends you to a random job the place you possibly can mow for a little bit of a a break from no matter you’re doing in life.
The third is Problem mode, which is simply what it appears like; you select a problem and full the contract. These challenges embody gas limits, deadlines, and stripe challenges. Gas limits and deadlines are fairly self-explanatory; you must full a contract with a specific amount of gas or time with out operating out. In Stripe challenges you must full completely different contracts whereas preserving a sure stripe sample on the garden. There are three sorts of challenges: novice, skilled, and skilled. You begin off with one problem in every class after which unlock extra as you play.
The fourth and ultimate mode is Free Mow, which is mainly precisely what it appears like. On this mode, you possibly can play on any degree you’ve got unlocked with any car you’ve got unlocked. After you select what degree and car you will use, you possibly can then select the precise minimize peak required, you possibly can toggle issues like floor checks, deadlines, floor harm, car harm, and motor harm, you possibly can change the climate, and you may select your beginning gas.
Management-wise, Garden Mowing Simulator is slightly congested. It appears the sport was made for a pc, as each single Pleasure-Con button is used, some greater than as soon as. If it weren’t for the in-game pop-ups telling me what button to press, I wouldn’t have made it previous the primary contract. After a little bit of enjoying, nevertheless, the controls develop on you and turn into so much simpler to handle.
So far as problem goes, it’s not likely troublesome in any respect, however relatively annoying at factors. You possibly can hardly ever inform once you’re breaking your motor or car except you run right into a tree or one thing (that’s self-explanatory). The digicam can be actually troublesome to make use of at instances, particularly as a result of there’s no dithering function. Issues like leaves and bushes simply block the display, which could be very annoying and trigger you to wreck your garden mower extra.
The sport does look good, nevertheless. Every lawnmower is very well-made, and a precise reproduction of actual lawnmowers. The precise lawns and buildings and whatnot look OK, however they’re nothing particular. The largest problem is the rendering of character fashions. The individuals are, within the politest means attainable, funny-looking. I don’t know if it was a improvement choice to make the people of decrease high quality than the inanimate objects, however at the very least it doesn’t actually influence the sport.
There isn’t a lot of a soundtrack to the sport. Earlier than you’re really in a contract, the sport has a really upbeat instrumental music that runs for about three minutes after which loops, however that’s about the one precise music. When mowing, all you get is the atmosphere of a garden mower doing its factor.
I solely discovered just a few glitches and bugs, which is all the time good. The primary one is that the sport didn’t ever let me give up Fast Mow mode. I might go away after I completed the contract, however I couldn’t give up the contract mid-way by way of or at first. I ended up having to shut my recreation and reopen it simply to depart it. The second is that I couldn’t make a second Profession mode save slot. I might choose my firm identify, emblem, and car, however every time I attempted to purchase a string trimmer, the sport would crash. After I deleted the second save slot I used to be attempting to create after which redo the method, I used to be in a position to do the whole lot advantageous once more.
All issues thought of, Garden Mowing Simulator could be fairly stress-free to play. Simulated yard work is probably not for everybody, however when you get used to it, it’s fairly enjoyable.
