Games like The Farmer Was Replaced
If The Farmer Was Replaced is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pawn.OS(), Rusty's Retirement and Droning On — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →The Farmer Was Replaced is a strategy and simulation game where players program and optimize a drone to automate farm operations. Released in 2025 and priced at $9.99, the game tasks players with developing algorithms and refining their code to improve efficiency in resource collection and technology progression. Players describe the experience as challenging and immersive, with reviewers noting that tactical positioning matters in solving puzzles. The game features procedural generation that creates varying conditions across sessions, supporting its medium-length gameplay. Available as a solo experience, it runs Playable on Steam Deck and holds a 96% positive rating from over 3,600 Steam reviews.
About The Farmer Was Replaced: Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.
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Steam players who put hours into The Farmer Was Replaced also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Pawn.OS()
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Top pick for The Farmer Was Replaced fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Pawn.OS() is a programming puzzle game where you use a custom scripting language to control a pawn on a grid. Solve 30 puzzles, learn logic step-by-step, and optimize your code to climb the leaderboard—even without any prior coding experience.
Rusty's Retirement
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Farmer Was Replaced fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
A relaxing idle-farming simulator that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things.
Droning On
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Farmer Was Replaced fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Write real Python to guide Gizmo through hazardous mazes, devious puzzles, and procedurally generated runs that don't end well. Learn to code, climb the leaderboards, and customize your robo-homie however you like.
Programmer Dungeon Knightress
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Ranked #4 for The Farmer Was Replaced fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Programmer Dungeon is a tactical game that challenges players to use logic programming to solve puzzles and progress through each level. Collect unique skills, use visual programming to automate your character, and defeat your enemies. Plan carefully and enjoy this exciting adventure!
ABI-DOS
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Shares an immersive mood with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Ranked #5 for The Farmer Was Replaced fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine? Design circuits, automate UBITS (coloured mobile data blocks), and optimize your system. The Admin is always watching, and he’s not what he seems.
Idle AI Factory
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Ranked #6 for The Farmer Was Replaced fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Dive into the world of machine learning! Node Factory is a node-based automation incremental game where you harvest resources and train neural networks. Manage your economy, optimize your grid, and automate your way to a multi-Centillion dollar tech empire.
Tiny Farmie
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Ranked #7 for The Farmer Was Replaced fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Farmer Was Replaced.
An ultra-tiny idle farming simulation you can place anywhere on your desktop. Start your cozy farming life anytime.
DumbBots
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Ranked #8 for The Farmer Was Replaced fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Create an AI for your DumbBots to help them achieve victory! Learn the basics of coding with guns, explosions, and ragdolls.
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Screeps: World
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Shares an immersive mood with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Reviewers of The Farmer Was Replaced cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Screeps: World is an open source MMO strategy sandbox game for programming enthusiasts. You control your colony by writing JavaScript code that operates 24/7 in the huge persistent online open world.
7 Billion Humans
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Shares a challenging mood with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Reviewers of The Farmer Was Replaced cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people. A thrilling followup to the award winning Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans!
Turing Complete
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Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Reviewers of The Farmer Was Replaced cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Bots Are Stupid
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Reviewers of The Farmer Was Replaced cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with The Farmer Was Replaced.
An ultra-precise 2D platformer where you give robots instructions instead of directly controlling them. Master the campaign levels or create and share your own. “It’s Mario Maker with coding” - Lewis Brindley, Yogscast.
Human Resource Machine
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Reviewers of The Farmer Was Replaced cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.
Screeps: Arena
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Reviewers of The Farmer Was Replaced cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Screeps: Arena is an online asynchronous PvP strategy game for programming enthusiasts. You write real JavaScript to control your units, and they fight autonomously against other players in a 1v1 match-based arena environment.
Automaton Lung
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Reviewers of The Farmer Was Replaced cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Make use of your special abilities to skate, shoot, and fly through over 40 unique locations. In a strange land with almost no information you must be resourceful and clever. Question everything you see and trust nothing you hear.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Farmer Was Replaced at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under The Farmer Was Replaced on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Farmer Was Replaced on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under The Farmer Was Replaced on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under The Farmer Was Replaced on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Farmer Was Replaced.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under The Farmer Was Replaced on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~50% under The Farmer Was Replaced on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under The Farmer Was Replaced on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under The Farmer Was Replaced on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
An Arcade Full of Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with The Farmer Was Replaced.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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Frequently asked about The Farmer Was Replaced
- Does The Farmer Was Replaced run on Steam Deck?
- The Farmer Was Replaced is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Farmer Was Replaced cost?
- The Farmer Was Replaced is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Farmer Was Replaced?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Farmer Was Replaced are Pawn.OS(), Rusty's Retirement, Droning On.
- Who developed The Farmer Was Replaced?
- The Farmer Was Replaced was developed by Timon Herzog and published by Metaroot, Timon Herzog.
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