Farm Frenzy

Farm Frenzy was one of those games you'd find on a Flash gaming site in the late 2000s. It fit right in with other casual management titles of that era, simple to pick up but surprisingly easy to lose an hour to. The developer was Melesta, and it had that clean, bright look common to many games from that time.

You control a farmer, mostly by clicking. Your first task is to collect eggs from chickens, then sell them to buy more animals or structures. Bears wander in to cause trouble, so you have to manage them, too. The main goal is to earn enough money through your products to complete each level's shopping list. The pace starts relaxed but quickly becomes frantic as your farm grows and demands your attention in several places at once. It feels like a race to keep everything running before the timer runs out.