The Farmer Was Replaced debuted on Steam this week, a programming and automation game featuring a whole in-game programming language that you'll use to give simple commands to your robo-farming drone army. As I understand it the complexity level present in the programming is tame compared to actually writing code... but for a game it looks relatively serious.
We can see drones in the trailer harvesting huge fields of grain, spreading like wildfire across a farm and harvesting everything in their wake, and even navigating hedge mazes. Every action they take is programmed by the player in little code windows, which you can watch as they execute commands and move your little robotic minions around the plot.
The Farmer Was Replaced advertises a continuous progression via an upgrade system, rather than the typical structure of being broken into distinct puzzle levels. When you've figured out how to execute a farming task, the resources you're harvesting can then be spent within a sprawling tech tree to unlock new farming technologies, which look to include both crops and new useful chunks of programming logic.
You can get The Farmer Was Replaced on Steam now, currently featuring a 20% off launch discount until October 24th.
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