Frontierville: A ride to hell with the new Farmville

Almost everybody in the world has been enjoying Zynga games. One of them is Farmville. With a new spinoff, Frontierville is a new early-American-homestead-building-themed game which is both addictive and filled with plentiful of frustrations.

The game is mission-based and will give you rewards for doing almost anything in you do. Your place is called a homestead. You will need to build a cabin, barn, chicken coops and everything in between a rancher needs. It is mainly based on raising animals, planting crops and fruit trees for money and experience; both of them need time to get results. You can then make the best looking farm you can ever dream of. But everything has its limitations and by that, frustrations have been part of the game since I joined the game.

But let’s put the frustrations aside first. From here, you’ll have resources like horseshoes (similar to FV farm cash. Only obtainable by levelup or real cash purchase), wood, food, energy and coins; the most important of them all is energy as almost everything you do in Frontierville will consume 1 energy. Since, you have limited energy; the game rewards you with 1 energy only after every 5 minutes.

The graphics are a tad better than Farmville but very similar. Since it’s a new game, the land expansions are far off and the game is mostly played with a more zoomed view compared to FV. The game has more animation which adds to the eye candy and a lot of slowdowns even for high-end computers. Most of the time, the game won’t load or perform very slow when game updates arrive.

As a social game, the game is very good but a nightmare at the same time. If you have tons of neighbors, be prepared to waste 30 minutes of your everyday life just by accepting gifts and giving gifts back. These items are essential to finishing missions, so you can’t just ignore some of them.

You can then have the option to visit your neighbors and have a sub-levelup system called reputation. Again, this is a very tedious task if you want to show your accomplishment. If you visit a neighbor and tend a max of 5 tends, you get 5 reputation; you only get to tend once a day per neighbor.

But this is a flash-based game. So if you put anything more on your homestead, it will likely perform very slowly and there are more gripes in this game than ever. As almost every housewives will be playing the game. Be prepared of having an addictive ride to hell.