Farm Heroes Saga comes to us from the famed mobile developer King. This is the developer that brought mobile gaming into the everyday home-their simple but addicting casual puzzle games (the Saga series) have seen amazing advertising for mobile games. The Saga games have even gotten their own daytime television commercials! You’ve likely heard of King’s most famous game: Candy Crush Saga.
With over 100 million downloads in the Play Store and over 12 million reviews, chances are you or someone you know has had an addiction to Candy Crush. This trend continues with Farm Heroes Saga- a, as the name might imply, farm-themed adaptation of King’s Saga games. With 100 million downloads and a 4.4 star rating out of 5 million reviews, you can be sure this is a highly recommended game on both iOS and Android. While some of the specifics between each Saga game differ, other than the particular theme of the game they’re all fairly similar in core gameplay mechanics. So if farming doesn’t quite catch your fancy but you like the sound of the mechanics as I review them, go ahead and give another of the King games a shot. As of writing, there are eight different variations/themes of the game on the Play store, with a theme for just about everybody, from the famous candy to pets or to witches!
The core gameplay mechanic is a match-3 style, similar to many other different puzzle games such as Bejeweled. For those who have played a game like this before, go ahead and skip to the next paragraph, for the others, keep on reading. When you start a level you have a playing field full of icons—in the case of Farm Heroes Saga, they’re cute radishes and apples and the like—and your goal is to make matches of these icons. If you get 3 or more of the same kind of icon in a row, then they disappear from the stage, the top row drops down, filling in any gaps you just made, and you get points according to how many you managed to clear. You get more points if you manage to get more than 3 in a row- this can happen by either getting 4 or more in a row, or when the top row drops down, if it makes another match—it can keep on going like this for a while if you are either a great player or get super lucky. You achieve matches by swapping 1 icon with 1 adjacent icon. You cannot make the move if you don’t make a match.
The theme behind Farm Heroes Saga is the appeal of the game. The icons on the screen all take the form of cute farm-themed items, such as apples, suns, water, carrots and radishes. Each level you attempt takes a life, of which you can have a maximum of 5, and regenerate in real time. You can of course spend the game’s premium currency to gain lives back faster. The entire game is bright and colorful, and is certainly safe for a child- the most violent task in the game is to beat up (by matching farm crops) a raccoon who is stealing your crops. This visually extends only to a picture of a cartoon fox looking more and more disheveled.
These raccoon levels are the game’s boss battles, and represent a change in gameplay. Normally, you have a set number of each type of icon you have to match, but with the boss battles you reduce his health bar by making matches-not necessarily a set number of specific matches. This can give you quite a bit of extra strategic planning, but it is certainly more challenging. You have the option to make these fights easier by spending in-game currency, magic beans.
Farm Heroes Saga progressively gets more difficult as you progress through the game. Not only are there the periodic boss fights mentioned above, but there are environmental hazards with each level-normally being specific parts of the level that are missing. So, instead of a large grid, you’ll have a large grid with a chunk taken out of the middle. This certainly affects your strategic planning, and there have been a few levels I got stuck on for a bit.
Farm Heroes Saga is a really cool puzzle and adventure game, but in the game you will need a lot of gold bars, magic beans, and lives in order to get all the needed items and upgrades. You can get the gold bars, magic beans, and lives through the app store, but this costs real money, and this is something that gets expensive in just a few in-game purchases.
Due to the popularity of this game, we have decided to add Farm Heroes Saga to our hack database, which means you can get unlimited amounts of gold bars, magic beans, and lives just by downloading our hack tool.
Check out the image below to see just how easy our hack tool is to use, with a simple options menu that allows you to input how many of each item you want to add to your account.
The first thing you need to do is download our Farm Heroes Saga hack tool, which takes about 20 seconds. The hack will automatically install after downloading, which takes about 30 seconds to complete, although the times of the downloads depend on your internet connection. You then need to choose Android or iOS depending on which device you are using. At that point, simply input how many gold bars, magic beans, and lives you want to add to your account.
Click “Start” to run the hack tool, which will take about 45 seconds or less to finish. Once that has completed, you can open up the game as usual and you will notice the gold bars, magic beans, and lives are already in your account. By downloading and installing our free hack tool, you will never have to buy anything from the app store again.
You should definitely plan out your moves. Remember, there is no time limit to the game, so you can stop and take a step back to be as strategic as possible. Plan as many moves ahead as you possibly can- obviously there’s a limit to this as you can’t see what blocks are going to fall in, but slow and steady certainly wins the race.
Don’t spend the premium currency on lives. You might be tempted to whenever you get into the game and get frustrated on a particular level, but the lives are free if you just wait! If you run out of lives, just close off the game and go play something else- if you’re particularly addicted to Farm Heroes Saga, why not go give one of the other King games a try, such as Candy Crush Saga?
You can spend magic beans, the in-game currency that is not quite as premium to use powerups and reduce boss health. You should really only do this when you’re actually well and truly stuck, as you don’t earn nearly enough magic beans per level to make up for the cost of upgrades. Thankfully, you never *need* an upgrade to beat a stage, as long as you’re strategic and sometimes lucky!
When you make a match of icons, the resource value of the icons nearby gets a multiplier for subsequent turns. So, if you need 6 strawberries to clear a level but you only have 3 on the screen, you’ve got two options- the first is to just clear them and hope more drop down so you don’t lose. This is the inferior option, for sure. The second option is to make matches of unneeded icons right next to the strawberries, making their value go up and winning you the game when you do match them next turn!
When you finish a level’s requirements, you go into a new mode which gives massive points to resources when you make a match. You should always try to be in this mode so that you get the most points- so clearing out a level’s resource requirements early is a huge goal!
Getting 4 or more in a row provides increasing bonuses. If you can manage to strategically clear more than just the 3 icons normally, the resource bonus to the nearby icons goes up by a lot. If you can manage to clear more than 5 at the same time, you can expect hefty bonuses!
Don’t waste your premium currency. From what I can tell, there’s currently no in-game way of earning more of this precious resource without spending money, so you should only spend it when it’s absolutely positively necessary, and even then think twice.
Farm Heroes Saga is a game that is obviously designed to get you to spend real money, but not in a bad or obnoxious way. During my playtime I didn’t come across any obtrusive or annoying advertisements, and all of the levels, though increasing in difficulty, are beatable without using powerups or premium currency. You can earn the magic beans by playing the game normally, so you don’t have to buy these if you’re thrifty with them. There is no way to earn the premium currency, which is a bummer, as you definitely have to wait for the lives to recharge, which can be a bummer. At no point did I feel as though I had to spend money to progress, just that it would be quicker.
Artwork: This is probably the biggest thing in Farm Heroes Saga favor here, as it is the feature that differentiates it from all of King’s other mobile games! The icons that you match are cute, as is the thieving raccoon, though he does look appropriately villainous. The game is bright and colorful, and reminds me of a cartoon, sure to amuse children and adults both.
9/10
Music & SFX: As you might imagine, with any matching game the sound effects eventually got annoying and I found myself turning them off. Same goes for the music. They’re certainly serviceable, and nothing was particularly wrong with either element, they just quickly grew old. Bonus points are given for everything synching correctly and matching up well.
6/10
Story & Originality: This is probably the game’s worst category, as there is no story to speak of. You just match icons until you reach a quota and you’re done for the level. While Farm Heroes Saga does bring quite a few new (and enjoyable!) things to the table when compared to other puzzle match games like Bejeweled, it’s hard to forget that there are 8 other games on the market with the same gameplay but different artwork- few originality points can be offered either. While this category is here, it must be stressed that a low score doesn’t mean it’s a bad game- there’s just not much story or originality in it.
4/10
General Gameplay: It’s essentially the same match-3+ game that you’ve played before, with a few new interesting features. It’s mechanically very sound, I especially appreciated that there was no time limit on the stages, which allowed me to take my time and plan out moves. If there had been a timer, it would have been more frantic instead of slow and enjoyable. There were a few levels that I got stuck on and had to use a powerup to get through, but this only represents my own lack of skill, not an issue with the game.
8/10
Addictiveness: Yes. This is certainly a high point of the game as well, the cutesy art style and addicting gameplay are evident from the very first level you start in. If you don’t find yourself immediately enjoying yourself from the first level, then there’s likely not much here for you in the game- but if you do, then you’ll certainly quickly find yourself waiting impatiently for that next life so that you can try the level that just kicked your butt again. High marks. The only real detriment is that lives mechanic- you can only play 5 levels before being forced to either spend money or take a break.
8/10
Overall: 7/10 Definitely give it a shot if you’re a fan of puzzles or match 3 games in general, it’s free! It’s a perfect lunch-break or bus stop style game if you’re just interested in killing a little bit of time, or if you’re like me and prefer to be more strategic and plan out your moves, the game’s for you too. If you’re not enamored with the thought of matching farm produce but want to try the matchmaking game, then you should try one of King’s other great games, such as Candy Crush Saga. Another positive in its favor is that it doesn’t require an internet connection- I was able to play it at the laundromat while waiting for my clothes to dry just fine. That’s what this game excels at doing: providing a quick, enjoyable distraction- then you’ve used all your lives and you have to wait.
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