Say what you want about causal gaming, Facebook
and Mobile games, but it’s my guess that
they’re here to stay.
So we’re faced with a choice, learn to peacefully
coexist or be at constant odds with each other.
I’m choosing the peaceful way mostly because
when I find a game under that category that
I enjoy, there’s no guilty pleasure associated
with it but rather I can proudly share the
game with friends, family and you guys!
And that’s the case with this app, Zombie
Farm.
Now the title leaves little to the imagination...
You’re on a farm and there’s zombies involved.
Developed by the Play Forge, Zombie Farm is
a real-time farm simulation game.
You play the farmer and you’ll be plowing
fields, planting crops and growing zombies.
Each crop or zombie has a certain amount of
time before it’s ready to harvest ranging
anywhere from 15 minutes to 24 hours.
Plowing and harvesting will earn you XP, higher
levels will unlock more crops, zombies and
items that can be purchased in the market.
Here you’ll spend gold earned from selling
crops or brains which are obtained by quests,
purchasing with real money, or invasions.
That’s right these zombies aren’t just
for show or to sell like the rest of your
crops they are for action and they are hungry.
There are a variety of zombies with strengths
and weaknesses, a balanced regular zombie,
a slightly quicker but weaker female zombie,
a really big, strong, but really slow brute
zombie, a really tiny, but weak mini zombie,
a headless tanking type zombie, and a fertilizing,
healing garden zombie.
Eventually as you progress and complete more
invasions you will learn new abilities to
help out during your attacks, which can be
done every two hours.
The invasions are a fun feature and it sets
it apart from a game like Farmville.
You actually send out your zombies to attack
another farmers, which award you gold and
a chance at random items and power-ups.
Youl tap your zombies to send them out as
they fight off minions until the boss comes
down to duke it out themselves.
You can spend gold on items and decorations
for your farm.
Some are functional, like the storage shed,
mausoleum, and gravestones, but most are just
for show and will award XP and “Life Force”
which will increase the chance you won’t
harvest a “lifeless” zombie and increase
chance of mutations.
You can purchases mutations in the market.
Planting that type of crop by a zombie has
a chance of giving it a bonus, to either life,
power, or speed.
You can have multiple mutations for almost
every part of the zombie, head, arms, body,
etc.
There’s a few powers-ups too mostly farming
related.
Forget to harvest your crops and they will
wilt, but you can use a regrowth boost to
revive them.
There’s also a lot of time saver boosts
that will instantly grow crops, harvest and
plow everything for you and allow you invade
without waiting!
Recently added, you’ll be able to add friends
and visit their farm.
While there you can just check out the scenery,
or give them a gift or play tag with their
zombies and earn some extra experience.
I enjoy Zombie farm a lot.
The cartoonish design adds to the humor and
charm of the game.
The music and sound effects are all well done.
Overall it provides a great way to kill some
time especially for the price of free of charge!
