Portable Farm

Portable Farm is a SteamVR overlay that displays 3D farm scenes through a 2D portal, letting you reach in and interact with them while using other VR experiences. You can tend your farm alongside social or action games, or while waiting through loading screens, and take it between different VR games and experiences.

Grow your farm

Water crops, till the soil and plant seeds as you build from a small plot into a decorated, upgraded farm. Upgrades make farming easier and more profitable, while decorations let you customize the farm. Plants grow passively while you are away, and time continues to pass even when you are not looking at the farm.

The seasons change at the start of each month, changing the appearance of the land and making different seasonal crops available. Crops planted in the wrong season will not grow unless their plot has an upgrade that overrides the seasonal restriction. Fertilizing the soil or planting clover helps crops grow faster and keeps the ground from drying out as quickly.

Use the portal

You can reposition and resize the portal, adjust comfort settings and interact with its elements using one configurable grip button. A gesture opens and closes the portal from within other VR games, so you can use the farm without its controls interfering with the game you are playing. Settings can make the portal follow your position or rotation while closed, keeping it nearby or in front of you when reopened.

You can also move the farm terrain with temporary shift handles, or use a world grab anchor to move the portal and terrain together. The anchor can be set to rotate with your hand as well. Other options control whether the portal clips objects in front of it and how easily its opening gesture is triggered. Lowering the portal’s frame rate can reduce CPU load, though the view may look more jittery.

Farm management

You start with 20 money, usually enough for one or two seeds. If you run out of money with no crops growing and nothing to sell back to the shop, the game checks for this dead end after 60 seconds and restores your balance to 20. Other players in the VR game cannot see the farm; they see your arms moving as if you were interacting with invisible objects.