FarmVille
FarmVille is a series of agriculture-simulation social network games developed and published by Zynga in 2009.[3] It is similar to Happy Farm[4] and Farm Town.[5][6][7] Its gameplay involves various aspects of farmland management, such as plowing land, planting, growing, and harvesting crops, harvesting trees and raising livestock.[8][9] The sequels FarmVille 2 and FarmVille 3 were released in September 2012 and November 2021, respectively.
This article is about the video game. For geographic locations, see Farmville (disambiguation).FarmVille
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- WW: 19 June 2009
- WW: 13 October 2011
The game was available as an Adobe Flash application via the social networking website Facebook and Microsoft's MSN Games.[10] It was previously available as a mobile app for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad for a brief period in 2010. The game was free-to-play; however, to progress quickly within the game, players are encouraged to spend Farm Cash (in FarmVille) or Farm Bucks (in FarmVille 2), which are purchasable with real-world currency. FarmVille was thus one of the first major freemium games.[11][12][13]
After launching on Facebook in 2009, FarmVille became the most popular game on the site, and held that position for over two years. At its peak, in March 2010, the game had 83.76 million monthly active users. Daily active users peaked at 34.5 million.[14] After 2011, the game began experiencing a considerable decline in popularity. By May 2012, the game was ranked as the seventh most popular Facebook game. As of April 30, 2016, its rank had fallen to the 110th most popular Facebook game as measured by daily active users, while FarmVille 2 had climbed to 42nd place.[15]
On September 27, 2020, Zynga announced that it would discontinue the first FarmVille on Facebook on December 31, 2020, as Facebook was to stop supporting games running on Flash Player—required by FarmVille—on that day.[16] Following the existing FarmVille 2, FarmVille 3 focuses on mobile devices.
Board games[edit]
In 2012, Zynga, in conjunction with Hasbro, released several kids' "Animal Games" based on FarmVille under the "Hasbro Gaming" imprint. These include versions of Memory (in a "Disco Dancing Sheep" pouch), Go Fish (in a "Groovy Chicken" pouch), Old Maid (in a "Rockstar Cow" pouch), and Hungry Hungry Herd (a redux of Hungry Hungry Hippos with the characters Gobbling Horse, Munching Pig, Snacking Sheep and Chomping Cow replacing the Hippos in the original game).
This is one of several games in the Zynga game library to be released as physical board game versions. Others include Draw Something, Words with Friends and a CityVille edition of Monopoly.[26]
Sequels[edit]
On June 26, 2012, FarmVille 2 was unveiled,[32] and was subsequently released in September 2012. It differs from the original FarmVille in a number of ways.
FarmVille 2: Country Escape for mobile devices (iOS, Android, Windows Phone[33] and Windows[34] operating systems) was released on April 10, 2014, and received a positive review from The New York Times.[35] Unlike other games in the FarmVille series, FarmVille 2: Country Escape can be played offline.
FarmVille 3 was released in November 2021.[36]