Zombie Farm, by Playforge

Guest Writer: Tash Shaw

Plant, Grow, Bury, and Harvest in this quirky farming game.
Pick up your plow and enjoy the countryside while you literally grow an army of darling zombies to help build your farm to greatness

Price: Free
Release Date: February 09, 2010
Platform: iPhone

Zombie Farm includes:

- Plow, plant, and harvest farm fresh veggies and fruits

- Plant corpses and harvest zombies to raise your army

- Customize you farmer, and watch him toil about your farm

- Enjoy seeing your zombies wander around your farm

- Behold bizarre zombie mutations as you plant corpse and crops

- 15 different zombies of different shapes and sizes

- Pester Old' McDonnell next door by invading his barn

- Upgrade your farm's size

- Connect to Facebook to publish your farming exploits

- Invite your Facebook friends and share the zombie farming experience

- Hours and hours of game play

- No Internet connection required

- In App purchases help invasions past level 10

- So funky and fetidly fantastic!

- It's FREE!

After weeks of game play on Zombie Farm, I decided to review the addictive iPhone app.

I’m currently on level 15, with 74726g, 1 brain and 13/16 zombies ready to raid.

At the moment I only have 1 friend with the app, which is connected through Facebook.

So, basically the aim of the game is to harvest crops and zombies, crops bring only XP and money, but zombies bring both XP and themselves ready for battle unless you already have a full undead army, in which case you are rewarded XP and money with no zombie rising to the army since it is already full..

The zombies just hang around the farm; they wander around with the occasional “brraaaaaaains” in their comedic voices. Each kind of zombie has a different voice and is a different kind of fighter.

You can purchase a zombie patch to keep them all in one square, but hey, what fun would that be?

The longer between raids the better, as zombies are quicker and stronger the hungrier they are (although as long as you have a full army you should be ok regardless of the hunger).
You can only invade every 2 hours, and need between 8 – 16 zombies.

You need to remember how long it has been between visits as crops and zombies will wither and die if left too long, this takes 3 times its growth period. (e.g Tomatoes take 4 hours to grow, so will wither and die after an additional 12 hours).

This does not apply to quick crops like carrots and mini zombies, which will wither after 1 hour.

Crops and Zombies all have different grow times so you can guess which ones are best to grow depending on when you will be back on the app.

You start with 6 patches of soil, but you can plow as many patches as space and money will allow.

You can also upgrade and unlock different zombie mutations, which are quite amusing.

Here are some bad points;

• The game is basically FarmVille, but with Zombies, so yes of course that makes it better, but it is a blatant copy
• The brains are really hard to get and most people don't want to buy them, the developer should tweak Zombie Farm, maybe to one free brain every other day or everytime a raid is won a brain could be rewarded (or something along them lines).
• The upgrades to larger farms are highly priced.
• Not really free if you want to keep playing with all the options/extras.
• After a while the farm gets so big it is annoying and you can get restless at harvesting, planting and plowing the whole area.

The good thing about the app, is that it is totally free to download and play!

It’s good for a bit of mindless fun,. You can purchase brains from within the app which you can use to harvest, plow or plant everything at once, but for a little fun game like this I think it’s a bit much to pay for brains which you can unlock them rarely when raiding the barn.
To anyone with an iPhone, it is well worth the download even just to give it a trial run since it is costless anyway.