Farmassone

From reviews, this is better than the game it resembles! I personally love this version. 1 change would be to please let us change the timer for online games!

Great for solo play or to play with up to four others as you pass it around turn by turn.

The game is a minor variant of Carcassonne with a different skin, and you’ll adapt to the differences quickly. Unfortunately, multiplayer is basically useless because of bugs and too few players. Single player against the AI works fine, however (occasionally a glitch at the start, but you can quit and restart). The AI isn’t very good (especially at placing farmers), but it’s actually pretty fun if you take the challenge as aiming for the highest score you can get instead of winning. I suspect there’s only a tiny target niche for a game that’s almost but not quite Carcassonne and that can’t actually be played as intended but is fun when played in unexpected way, but if you might be part of that niche, definitely give it a try. Update: the new version (1.6) doesn’t deliver on its promises. The new game variations are only available for online play, not solo or local. The fix to the post-game score tallying is impossible to tell, because the final score pops up over it (and the ad, after you dismiss it—that didn’t used to be there) so you can’t see what it’s doing, so the net effect is even worse than before (although at least it takes less time). Most of the annoying minor bugs have been fixed, which is nice. And they do seem to have gotten more online players—and you can apparently now fill out an online game with AI players—so I’ll have to try that later. Meanwhile, the game seems to waste more screen real estate, but I guess it looks a bit more clean and modern, and we’ve all got screen space to spare. It seems to have longer delays in the animation, so a game takes longer without being any more fun. It still doesn’t remember settings between games, so you have to turn off music every single time. All in all, still very flawed but still enjoyable enough despite that to be worth 4 stars—anyone who thinks they might like this probably will.