My Little Farm

Prospectus

- A casual arcade game with simple and intuitive controls; - Gather resources to build a farm; - Chop trees to get wood; - Chop rocks to get stone; - Dig a well to get water; - Breed animals to collect fertilizer for your plants; - Build a mill; - Harvest wheat and process it into flour; - Bake bread and hire helpers.

How it plays

- Move using the on-screen joystick; - Approach a tree to cut it down; - Approach water to extract water; - Accumulate resources to construct a building.

Opening an account with this game takes one press: Open the holding, above, and it loads on this page itself — nothing downloads and no form stands between you and the first decision. It is drawn for a portrait (upright) screen and takes its instructions from mouse, keyboard or touch, as the game prefers. The file is drawn tall, for an upright screen — a phone held the usual way frames it best, though it will run in any window you give it. If a fullscreen control is offered, take it — a growing enterprise deserves the whole desk.

Analyst's notes for farming holdings

• Plant for the day after tomorrow. Farm games run on delays — the crop that matters is the one that ripens when the order, the season or the market is ready for it.
• Diversify one field at a time. A second crop line protects you from a single bad price, but five half-finished systems protect nothing except the weeds.
• Animals are annuities, crops are wages. Livestock pays slowly and forever; planting pays in bursts. A farm book with both survives a bad week in either.

My Little Farm — questions from the readership

What does it cost to open My Little Farm?

Nothing, at any point. The holding is free from the first click to the last upgrade — no account to open, no download to wait for, no paywall filed anywhere in its pages. The advertising around this page is what pays the bookkeeping.

What kind of game is My Little Farm, exactly?

We file it on the Farming shelf of the ledger. It is a browser game through and through — the prospectus above is the publisher's own summary of what the game asks of you and what it gives back.

Can I play My Little Farm on a phone or tablet?

Yes — it runs in the browser on phones and tablets just as it does on a computer. The file is drawn tall, for an upright screen — a phone held the usual way frames it best, though it will run in any window you give it.

Is there anything to download or install first?

Nothing at all. My Little Farm is an HTML5 game: press the open button and it loads on this very page, and closing the tab leaves nothing behind on your device.

Closing entry

Finished the audit, or still mid-season? The full Farming shelf is one click away — Twenty-seven working farms: soil, seasons, livestock and the quiet arithmetic of planting what the market will want in nine days. The ledger's oldest profession.