Farm & Drive

Farm & Drive is a party game for up to four players, in which teams of farm trucks harvest crops, ram rivals and fight to be the last team still in the match. You steer your truck around a fenced farm; its crew rides on the truck bed and fights rivals independently. Between rounds, you shop for crew and watch them work.

Drive and harvest

Drive through ripe crops to cut them and pile the harvest on your truck bed. Ram another truck to spill its load across the farm, where anyone can collect it. When the bell rings, each truck sells its cargo: coins already banked are safe, but crops still on the bed can be lost.

Build your crew

After each round, spend coins at the market to recruit crew and seat them on your truck. The game has 27 crew members, including the Slingshot Kid, Grandma with her crossbow, the Rodeo Queen and her lasso. Fighters shoot, smash and trap rivals, while helpers harvest, plant crops, speed up the truck or protect its cargo. Each crew member also has a powerful skill on a longer timer, such as rapid fire, rocket barrages, bee clouds and sticky cider puddles.

Collect copies of a crew member to star them up and make them much stronger. The 10 traits grant bonuses for combining crew from the same origin or class: Cropland, Town, Orchard and Ranch, as well as Farmer, Gunner, Brute, Hauler, Prankster and Mechanic. There are also 21 items: collect components in pickup rounds and loot crates, then combine two components into an item.

Ribbons and upgrades

Three times per match, the market offers three Ribbon cards. Choose one to change your build for the rest of the match; Ribbons can boost a trait, give you a free crew member or pay you gold each round. There are 42 Ribbons in Silver, Gold and rare Blue. You can reroll one card once for free.

You can buy XP to raise your truck to level 10. Each level adds a longer bed, more seats and more cargo space, but also makes the truck heavier and slower. A larger truck carries more crew and rams harder, but is a bigger target and turns less easily.

Survive the match

Your truck has one health bar for the whole match, and it never refills. Every hit counts until the match ends. A truck reduced to zero health is knocked out, but continues driving as a slow scarecrow ghost that can bump and block the trucks that knocked it out.

Wave events change the crops, the farm or the rules for a round, while power-ups and hazards appear on the farm. The next wave is shown in advance, so you can plan your shopping around it.

Multiplayer

You can play online with 1 to 4 players using Steam invites or a lobby code, with up to four teams in free-for-all, 2 v 2 or 3 v 1 matches. Friendly fire is optional. Bots fill any empty seats and follow the same rules as players, with no bonus speed, money or damage. In solo play, you face three bots and can take as long as you like in the shop. A match lasts about 20 to 30 minutes.

Every match starts on equal terms: crew, items, levels and Ribbons do not carry over. Your build for each match is made during that match.