Farmer's Father: Save The Innocence

I had the opportunity to preview the survival videogame Farmer's Father: Save the Innocence. Prequel to the farming simulator Farmer's Life, you play as the former protagonist’s father as he, his wife, and baby child try to survive 1945 East Europe. The game begins with the Axis forces marching on your front door, forcing the three of you to flee your burning home to the safety of a nearby bunker. Once safely inside, you sleep the night off, now alone during the middle of winter. In the bunker you’ll find: a rifle with 10 rounds of ammunition, a bunk bed, a single lamp resting on a table, a working fireplace/oven, and a chest where you put all of the provisions and items.

-  Bennett Perry

As you’re now hiding behind enemy lines, you must keep your family alive by maintaining gauges representing heat and food supply for the family, as well as your basic health and needs. Everything you find (and I mean everything) can be stored in the single trunk beside the bunk bed to be used by your wife when you’re away. However, when supplies are low, she relies on you to keep the heating on and retrieve the small amount of food you can find before the sun goes down. You search for food by entering abandoned buildings for chests containing ingredients for wholesome meals, hunting with your rifle, gaining fresh meat in exchange for valuable ammunition and stealing off dead soldiers. And everything you find is one-time off, once you ransack a building, it won’t replenish. Although it seems daunting to have to manage every crumb, as your character is a farmer, you also have the ability to get food from farm animals once you find and feed them.