Re: Free Lawn Mowing Simulator Steam key, but...

On Thu, 06 Mar 2025 20:07:13 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

https://gg.deals/freebie/get-free-lawn-mowing-simulator-steam-key-from-lenovo-available-for-a-limited-time-only/
Need accounts for both Lenovo's web site AND Gamesplanet beside Steam.
Yeah, not my type of game and too much work for it. Pass for me! I'm
pretty sure I played its free weekend too and wasn't impressed.

I think the appeal of the game to many is twofold:

     1) there's that "My actions are affecting the gameworld"
        thing we mentioned in an earlier thread, where you
        actively change the level geometry by cutting the grass.
        It's neat to see the map change from something covered in
        tall grass down to a neatly mowed lawn.

     2) Like the "Truck Driving Sims", the quiet mundanity of the
        job is relaxing. Unlike the reality, where you're being
        blasted by the sound of overly loud motors or poisoned by
        the combustion fumes from two-strike engines, cutting the
        grass in the game is quite calming. It can be quite Zenlike.

The actual gameplay --going from job to job, building up your mowing
empire-- isn't the real attraction, I think. It's the quiet
satisfaction of doing a short task as best you can, without getting
too stressed by it (as you might in real life) that makes these sort
of games appealing.

Not everybody is into that. But some are. Myself, I sort of liked
"Lawn Mowing Simulator" but since I already get the same experience
from my truck-sims, I didn't stick with it very long.

     [Certainly I'd never jump through all the hoops to get it
      now. Having to sign up to TWO separate services is just
      ridiculous]

But if I weren't already a truck-sim fanatic, I might have become a
mowing nutcase instead ;-)