Farming Simulator 25

Bugs and crashes are the most common complaint in negative reviews. Players report crashes while loading a map, shaders stuck compiling at 100% (especially when joining multiplayer), and save files that corrupted or vanished. Updates are a sore point of their own: reviewers describe patches that crashed their game on load or made performance worse, and one says an update brought back trees they had cleared, placing them through buildings built later. "An update should NEVER restore map objects that a player deliberately removed and place them through buildings and other objects created later." A few launch reviews, edited later, say most early bugs have since been fixed, while newer reviews keep raising fresh ones.

Stutter, frame drops and poor 1% lows come up in reviews from players with strong PCs as well as weaker ones, and a few blame the engine leaning on a single CPU core. Some say drops are worst while harvesting or with several AI workers active. "I do not expect the game to be running at 54fps with 30fps 1% lows, just because I have 2 AI workers harvesting!" Slow loading also comes up, and a couple mention grass and textures popping in around the player. A smaller group says it runs fine and smoothly, so experiences vary by setup.

Hired workers draw a steady stream of complaints. Players describe workers stuck on trees, poles and fences, "Target is unreachable" errors, missed strips on odd-shaped fields, and slow, wide turns. A few want the workers to take on different jobs: the AI won't reliably haul from a combine or unload, so the player ends up driving trucks while the AI runs the harvester. "I don't want the AI to operate the cool harvester while I haul grain. I want to operate the cool harvester. Let the AI do the hauling." A negative reviewer said: "You are basically the bus-boy for the AI." Reviewers disagree on whether the AI improved since 22: some call it clearly better, others say it is worse.

Reviewers object to the number and cost of DLC packs, the season pass, and expansions such as Highlands Fishing, which some call shallow and overpriced while others love it. A couple of early buyers complain that the base price dropped by about $20 within a year, so a bundle with the expansion later cost what they had paid for the base game. Multiplayer groups dislike that everyone must own the same DLC to share a save. A common piece of advice is to buy the base game on sale and skip the packs until they are discounted too.

Bales, pallets and logs that jump, bounce or explode, vehicles flipping on curbs, and trailers catching on objects are familiar complaints, often framed as unchanged since older entries. AI road traffic draws its own criticism: cars that can't be moved, ignore stop signs or block a tractor. A few reviewers dislike the walking movement, saying the character slides around.

Co-op players report lag, desync, steering input delay for anyone who isn't the host, connection errors and trouble joining. Hosting a dedicated server angers a smaller group because, they say, it requires buying the game again. "If you plan to host your own server the game requires you to buy a second license, I will not pay twice for something i already own"

Contract players report jobs stuck below 100% (weeding and herbicide work comes up most), contracts expiring at midnight with large penalties, unsuitable rental equipment, and fields that can't be finished. "The game randomly assigns contracts to dead fields, or fields that are unharvestable."

Reviewers find the shop hard to browse, with no clear way to see owned equipment or compatible tools, and the menus slow to navigate. Settings that move in large steps, a restart to change the display mode, missing borderless window support and keybind problems also come up.

A smaller group reports steering wheel force feedback, shifter and controller issues, and keybinds that reset. Others wish for more and larger maps, a few of them North American ones, and say the base maps feel small once a farm grows.