MR FARMBOY is like Stardew Valley but with automation and optimization

By Liam Dawe - 9 Jul 2025 at 9:40 am UTC

Coming to Early Access later in July, MR FARMBOY blends elements of Stardew Valley with automation and optimisation. Sounds like it could be a fun idea and you can try this early too as there's a demo available.

It has all the usual elements you would expect from a more casual farming game like resource gathering, planting and selling crops, animal husbandry, constructing various buildings and more. Where it differs from others in the genre are the automation systems. You can hire workers to automate various tasks, as you build bigger and expand and eventually attempt to optimise and automate everything.

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Could be an interesting one.

The Steam release is currently planned for July 23rd to begin Early Access. According to what the developer said it will only be in there for a few months while they add some more content including more buildings, new crops, new resources, objectives and so on.

MR FARMBOY | Release Date: 23rd July 2025

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Tags: Early Access, Native Linux, Automation, Casual, Demo, Farming, Indie Game, Steam, Upcoming | Apps: MR FARMBOY

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tmtvl 3 days ago

I thought Stardew Valley was more about the social aspects than about the resource gathering. Still, may be interesting to see how it will hold up against Graveyard Keeper and Factorio.

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Nagezahn 16 hours ago

Tried the demo. It wasn't what I expected. The "automation" part thus far is hiring people to do work for you, but they work completely autonomously without any means to control then. There are farmers to replant crops you previously planted, marking a tile with the respective crop until you replant it with something else, and gatherers who pick up the harvest. I haven't seen any "optimisation" part so far. Maybe apart from "plant crops close to each other and plant the crops with the best yield". In its current state, I can't really see where it's going. What I like most about automation and optimisation are the puzzles you can set for yourself and then solve in hopefully interesting and smart or even brainfucky ways, and that's not what this game is at this point.

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