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Cattle and Crops

Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Genre: Simulation
Publisher: Toplitz Productions
Developer: Masterbrain Bytes

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'Cattle and Crops' Picked up By Toplitz, Comes To Consoles - Screens

by Rainier on Jan. 20, 2020 @ 11:30 a.m. PST

Cattle and Crops aims to provide a realistic agricultural simulation, including features such as dynamic weather (which influences growing cycles), soil conditions, real-world farming equipment, and much more.

In Cattle and Crops, players experience how exciting life in the country can be, especially when working the land with heavy-duty farming equipment!

But it’s not all fun and games as farming is a serious business, so aspiring agri-giants will need to maximize their farm’s output by balancing growing cycles with marketplace needs, all while handling day to day tasks like caring for livestock and maintaining equipment! In the game, a wide variety of aspects of agricultural life are portrayed, including detailed machinery, authentic sowing, fertilizing and harvesting, complex livestock farming, and even realistic weather and natural conditions. Cattle and Crops will not only appeal to casual gamers but will also delight simulator enthusiasts.

The goal of the game is not only to provide a fun simulation of life on the farm, but also teach the player about agriculture.  


“Cattle and Crops will deliver a veritable cornucopia of farming features that should please fans of simulations and especially agricultural simulations,” said Stefan Berger, Head of Business Development & Sales, Toplitz Productions. "We are very excited to add the game to our portfolio and are pleased to partner with Masterbrain Bytes to help them finish it.”

"Our goal was to find a publisher that would understand and share our vision of a farming simulation and can support us in the development process,” said Lars Beinsen, Managing Director of Masterbrain Bytes. “With Toplitz, we have found this partner at every level. We are very much looking forward to the cooperation and the new possibilities that this partnership will bring to the project in the future.”

German agricultural publishing house, Landwirtschaftsverlag, has also entered into the publishing partnership for Cattle and Crops. Landwirtschaftsverlag will provide consulting services for the game, helping Masterbyte Brains bring an authentic realism to the game, while also assisting in marketing Cattle and Crops.  

"Working together with developer Masterbrain Bytes and publisher Toplitz Productions, we believe our expertise will ensure Cattle and Crops is an incredibly realistic farming simulation,” said Malte Schwerdtfeger, Managing Director of the Landwirtschaftsverlag.


Key Features:

  • Highly detailed machinery, realistic harvesting methods, original sounds and an authentic vehicle physics system offer you a compelling experience in Cattle and Crops.
  • Experience the varied everyday life of a farmer. Choose between a story mode or free play. The game also provides additional tutorial missions to make you familiar with the simulation.
  • Hire employees to cultivate your fields, or to assist you when you’re harvesting. You can delegate tasks with your calendar and watch your employees do their job or take care of the work in front of you on your own. Cattle and Crops provides a complex employee system where the workers take care not to damage the harvest.
  • Skillfully avoid unnecessary driving tracks on the field to keep soil compaction low so your plants can spread their roots in the loose soil to maximize the yield.
  • Take care of your crops so don’t hang their heads and make your fields prosper. Plant growth (using the real BBCH scale) is based on multiple soil attributes like moisture, pH value, temperature, sunshine hours, NPK fertilizer and diseases.
  • Gather the harvest at the right time and try not to get stuck in the mud when it’s raining.
  • Cattle and Crops offers a range of big, well known industry brands such as CLAAS, Köckerling, Lemken, Mercedes-Benz and a lot more.
  • Extend the game with your own vehicles, implements and maps. We’re providing you with all the tools you need for it.

Currently available through Steam Early Access for PC, Cattle and Crops is coming to consoles (unspecified platforms) at a later date.


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