{"id":38718,"date":"2020-05-16T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/?p=38718"},"modified":"2020-05-16T09:04:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T16:04:00","slug":"mays-ps-downloads-grow-cities-crops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/bens-bytes\/mays-ps-downloads-grow-cities-crops\/","title":{"rendered":"May’s PS+ Free Downloads Want Players to Grow Cities and Crops"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s hard not to chuckle, at least a little bit, at the free PS+ games on offer in May.\u00a0 Right now, a lot of people have been either working from home or dealing with not being able to work at all due to \u2026 you know, the thing<\/em>. And you’d maybe think that one of the last activities they’d want to engage in during virus quarantine would be going deep into simulations of, well, the monotony of everyday life, whether it\u2019s the construction of a city landscape or growing some spuds on the farm. Yet, there\u2019s another slice-of-life game involving pulling weeds, buying furniture, and paying off mortgages that\u2019s all the rage right now, so that might not be the most accurate way of looking at things.\u00a0 In fact, maybe the feeling of getting semi-real projects done in a virtual space — either crafting functioning idealized cities or abandoning the urban rat race for food production — could be just what some people need right now instead of pure escapism, or if they don’t have the availability to do their own actual outdoor projects. Sony and PlayStation Plus have offered up two well-received executions of that concept that have near limitless play value, if that\u2019s what you looking for.<\/p>\n

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Cities: Skylines<\/h4>\n

There\u2019s no avoiding the comparisons that will be drawn between Cities: Skylines<\/em> and the SimCity<\/em> franchise, but over the years, that brand of city-shaping simulation isn\u2019t the kind of \u201csim\u201d people have latched onto.\u00a0\u00a0 While EA\u2019s The Sims<\/em> slice-of-life game has sustained a loyal playerbase \u2013 as have other open-ended routine games like Minecraft<\/em> and Animal Crossing<\/em> — interest has dwindled for the Maxis style of nuanced, complex city infrastructure design systems, resulting in a slumped attempt at rejuvenating SimCity<\/em> in 2013. Turns out, its focus was too narrow \u2026 and the ways in which Cities: Skylines<\/em> broadens and diversifies those horizons are what was needed. The levels of interactivity go beyond just making a city that functions: progression in the game unlocks social and political decision-making involving the implementation of schools, law enforcement, taxes and regulations on what\u2019s allowed to be erected in the area.<\/p>\n

Farming Simulator 2019<\/h4>\n

In the world of flashy AAA action, open-world, and even other nonlinear sim games, one might be forgiven for overlooking the world of low-key \u201croutine\u201d simulators; for the truly hardcore out there, there are games for driving semis across the US and for, well, just staring at rocks. By comparison, Farming Simulator<\/em> gives you much more to do than that. For over a decade now, Giants Software has offered the complete package for players who want to hop into just about any aspect of the rural crop-growing lifestyle, whether that\u2019s cultivating plants or raising livestock. \u00a0Farming Simulator 2019<\/em> marks the 7th<\/sup> base iteration of the game, and it has overhauled the graphics engine and introduced John Deere branded machinery into the mix, along with cotton crops and horse farming. There\u2019s only so much that can be tweaked year-to-year with simulators like this \u2026 but, then again, the same almost seems to be the case with the annual sports titles nowadays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s hard not to chuckle, at least a little bit, at the free PS+ games on offer in May.\u00a0 Right now, a lot of people have been either working from home or dealing with not being able to work at all due to \u2026 you know, the thing. And you’d maybe think that one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":38719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2248,1262,401,25],"class_list":["post-38718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bens-bytes","tag-farming-simulator","tag-ps-plus","tag-ps4","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38720,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38718\/revisions\/38720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}