Skip to main content

Hillshade Farm

Hillshade Farm Game Cover
71%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, story
71% User Score Based on 65 reviews

Platforms

PCWindows
Buy Nowfrom $7.49
Buy NowGet on Steam €14.62
Hillshade Farm Game Cover

About Hillshade Farm

Hillshade Farm is a single player open world role playing game with a economy theme. It was developed by New Acre and was released on November 1, 2025. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

A Farm You Build, A Life You Shape You’ve inherited a quiet piece of land and a rundown farm. It’s not much at first, but it’s yours. There’s a lot to fix, a lot to build, and even more to figure out.Work at your own pace, set your own goals, and make something real. One day, one choice, one goal at a time. This is where it starts. A World Where Everything You Do Matters Farming here isn’t about …

Genres & Tags
Play Modes
Hillshade Farm screenshot
Hillshade Farm screenshot
Hillshade Farm screenshot
Hillshade Farm screenshot
Hillshade Farm screenshot
Hillshade Farm screenshot
Hillshade Farm screenshot
Hillshade Farm screenshot
Hillshade Farm screenshot
Hillshade Farm screenshot
Hillshade Farm screenshot
+28
Skip User Reviews

Reviews

71%Audience ScoreBased on 65 reviews
gameplay6 positive mentions
grinding20 negative mentions
  • Beautiful graphics and relaxing, immersive atmosphere that many players find enjoyable and peaceful.
  • Developer is very active and responsive, providing frequent updates and fixing bugs quickly.
  • Game offers a deep and engaging farming experience with a wide variety of activities, crafting, quests, and progression.
  • Many bugs and glitches remain, including crashes, quest resets, disappearing items, and performance issues, making the game currently unstable for some players.
  • Clunky and awkward controls, including driving mechanics and movement, that affect gameplay experience negatively.
  • Lack of polish and optimization leading to lag, clipping issues, and inconsistent animations, which detract from immersion and cause frustration.

  • grinding

    20 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Grinding in Hillshade Farm offers a relaxing, low-pressure experience focused on gradual progression through crop farming, animal raising, and unlocking new features, appealing to fans of niche farming sims. While some players appreciate the steady, solo-developer-driven improvements and unique gameplay, others find the current early access state buggy and less playable, which can impact the enjoyment of the grinding process. Overall, grinding is enjoyable if one accepts some early quirks and a slower pace.

  • gameplay

    13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    46% positive mentions, 31% neutral mentions, 23% negative mentions

    The gameplay offers a fun and satisfying experience with polished mechanics, particularly in plant work, despite some bugs and occasional frustrations with driving controls. While not perfect, updates and content additions continually improve the experience, and most issues encountered do not break the game. Some users wish for more gameplay customization, such as choosing between crop or animal farming paths.

    • “I currently have 15 hours of gameplay and I’m still having fun.”
    • “Mechanics are polished enough to feel satisfying and responsive, I had no complaints or issues there.”
    • “Another bonus is the constant updates, especially the new content and gameplay changes.”
    • “I experienced numerous bugs during gameplay that eventually made it impossible to play any further, with the first being the "frozen" bug—when you're attempting to move something and the menu completely freezes, you can't escape out or anything.”
    • “It would be nice if you could choose the route you want to play: crop farmer or animal farmer and develop the gameplay from there.”
    • “Still a few bugs, nothing that has stopped my gameplay in any way whatsoever, but enough to notice.”

  • graphics

    12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    75% positive mentions, 17% neutral mentions, 8% negative mentions

    The graphics are widely praised for being beautiful, stunning, and well-crafted, with detailed visuals and smooth performance. While some feel the visuals may not fully meet future high-end expectations, most users appreciate the art style and overall quality, noting excellent support and optimization for various settings.

    • “I loved what I played so far, biggest points I noticed are the stunning graphics, very smooth performance and the depth of things like the plant systems and animal details.”
    • “The graphics are beautiful, the concept is great, and there’s clearly a fantastic game hiding somewhere underneath all the chaos.”
    • “The graphics are amazing, and performance for me was super smooth!”
    • “Visuals in general are not up to par with what would be expected in 2026.”

  • story

    10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    30% positive mentions, 40% neutral mentions, 30% negative mentions

    The story and quest system offer an engaging progression that maintains player interest through flexible farm development, but persistent bugs cause quests to reset or become inaccessible after reloading, significantly hindering gameplay and quest completion.

    • “A farming game with no pressures but quests that keep your interest in the game.”
    • “Hillshade Farm is a very enjoyable game where you initially work through quests as you develop your farm.”
    • “Even though there is a quest system in place, you still have the flexibility to build and upgrade your farm as you like as you progress through the knowledge tree and unlock the additional skills needed when you level up.”
    • “Items disappear, new missions stop becoming available after game reload.”
    • “But my quest log resets every time I play, making me lose all my progress.”
    • “When I reloaded all my stuff I had done was still there but my quests were gone and making me start over, but you can't.”

  • stability

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game is currently quite buggy and unstable, with frequent crashes and freezes that hinder gameplay. However, being in early access, it receives frequent updates and active developer support, showing promise for future improvements in stability.

    • “I experienced numerous bugs during gameplay that eventually made it impossible to play any further, with the first being the 'frozen' bug—when you're attempting to move something and the menu completely freezes, you can't escape or do anything.”
    • “Okay... I think I have never played a release this buggy before.”
    • “Audio, visual, control glitches, antialiasing not working properly.”

  • optimization

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    63% positive mentions, -1% neutral mentions, 38% negative mentions

    The game's optimization is mixed, with some users experiencing smooth performance and high frame rates, while others report typical UE5 issues like slow rendering and noticeable LOD pop-ins. Overall, the graphics are praised for their quality, but further optimization and balancing for performance, controls, and NPC behavior are expected in future updates.

    • “This game runs smoothly on my PC.”
    • “I loved what I played so far, biggest points I noticed are the stunning graphics, very smooth performance and the depth of things like the plant systems and animal details.”
    • “The graphics are amazing, and performance for me was super smooth!”
    • “The game needs some optimization and balancing for controls, system performance, and NPCs' voice/movements, which I expect will come after the major bugs are worked out.”
    • “The game needs some optimization and balancing for controls, system performance, and NPCs' voice/movements, which I expect will come after the major bugs are worked out.”
    • “But not for the performance.”

  • music

    6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 33% neutral mentions, 17% negative mentions

    The music in the game is generally praised for being relaxing and calming, contributing positively to the atmosphere. However, there are significant complaints about a bug where the music plays loudly and cannot be muted during the unskippable intro, despite settings to turn it off.

    • “The music is relaxing and calming and if you've ever dealt with anxiety, you understand why this is a big deal.”
    • “Awesome graphics, really nice music, questing and community involvement.”
    • “Nice soundtrack.”
    • “The game immediately had issues. I turned off the music entirely from the main menu before I launched the game, and the setting says 'turns off all music in the game.' Imagine my surprise when music blasted through my headphones at max volume during the entire unskippable intro.”

  • atmosphere

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Users appreciate the game's peaceful and relaxing atmosphere, finding the farm progression rewarding and contributing to a calming overall experience.

    • “I really enjoyed the peaceful atmosphere of this game.”
    • “The farm progression feels rewarding and the atmosphere is really relaxing.”

  • replayability

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Users express anticipation for improved replayability, indicating that the current experience may be limited but holds potential for enhancement.

Skip Game Offers

Buy Hillshade Farm

Some of these are affiliate links — if you buy through them, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

Play Times

14h Median play time
33h Average play time
10-100h Spent by most gamers
*Based on 4 analyzed playthroughs
Skip Videos

Videos

Skip FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

Hillshade Farm is a open world role playing game with economy theme. Common tags for Hillshade Farm include exploration, life sim, relaxing, nature, early access and others.

Hillshade Farm is available on PC and Windows.

On average players spend around 33 hours playing Hillshade Farm.

Hillshade Farm was released on November 1, 2025.

Hillshade Farm was developed by New Acre.

Hillshade Farm has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Hillshade Farm for its gameplay but disliked it for its grinding.

Hillshade Farm is a single player game.