Big Farm
Farming SimA neglected farm left to you, brought back one shed and one field at a time. Nothing attacks it and nothing expires.
- Fields, sheds and production
- Co-operatives
- Events most months
None of these are ours. They are four free-to-play browser games from other studios, chosen because they pull in four directions: a farm nobody attacks, a stronghold and somebody else's wall, a mining run through contested space, and castles you can run from a phone on the way home.
All four open in a tab. Nothing to download, nothing left on your disk, nothing to patch. Each one is described the same way - what it is, what it does well, what a normal sitting costs you in time, and what the shop is there for.
Most pages like this one are a list of fifty names. Four is a number you can actually play through before writing about them, and these four had to clear the same bar:
A neglected farm left to you, brought back one shed and one field at a time. Nothing attacks it and nothing expires.
A stronghold, a siege engine and somebody else’s wall. Straightforward where the other strategy games sprawl, and better for knowing it.
Deep space, three companies and a great deal of ore. Fly out, fill the hold, upgrade, and find out who else wanted that sector.
Castles on a shared medieval map with troops that march in real time, built so it works properly on a phone as well as a desktop.
The session column matters more than anything else here. The difference between these four is mostly how much of your week they want.
| Game | Genre | A typical sitting | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Farm | Farming Sim | 10 to 20 minutes | Desktop, laptop and tablet. |
| Combat Siege | Siege Strategy | 15 to 25 minutes | Desktop and laptop. |
| DarkOrbit | Space MMO | 20 to 40 minutes | Desktop and laptop. |
| Lords & Knights | Medieval Strategy | Short visits through the day | Desktop, laptop and tablet. |
All four are free to begin and free to continue, and all four sell something: a premium account, a currency, a shortened timer, a better hull. That is how they are funded, and a page that stopped at "free" would be telling you half the story.
What counts is whether the game is the same game for someone who never pays, and here it is, four times. What money buys is almost always waiting you would otherwise do. Decide the figure before you open the shop, not while you are inside it.
No other kind of game lets you begin at lunch on one machine and carry on at home on another with nothing moved across. The convenience has a price:
Big Farm, if you want half an hour with nothing at stake - it is the calmest of the four and there is more to arrange than it first lets on. For the opposite, Dark Orbit will have you out in contested space and short of ore inside twenty minutes.
No. Every one of the four runs in the browser. Optional desktop builds exist for some; they add nothing you need.
Well enough to look around. All four were designed for a mouse, so a laptop is the better place for a proper sitting.
Mostly, since your world is stored on their servers. Signing up is free and happens on their site, not this one.
No. Each sells optional extras, which is how it covers its costs, and none of them keeps the good part behind a purchase.
They do not. The four are other studios' games; they appear here because the people who made this site keep going back to them.
Four free browser games the people behind this site keep returning to. Not one of them is ours.