Farmer Fowl's Farmhouse

About Farmer Fowl's Farmhouse

Farmer Fowl's Farmhouse is a puzzle-driven indie horror game from Chatter Games. Released in 2025 for PC, it tasks you with playing Eli, a salvage assessor cataloging abandoned farm assets ahead of demolition. The once-colorful children’s attraction now hides something malevolent. You’ll document rooms, mark items for salvage, and collect documents while avoiding a lurking presence. The game blends slow-burn exploration with sudden scares, using its eerie setting to build tension. Best for fans of methodical play and atmospheric horror.

Gameplay

You navigate the decaying farmhouse with a clipboard, camera, and flashlight. Core tasks include scanning QR codes on items to log them, taking photos of rooms, and piecing together the farm’s history through scattered documents. Movement is deliberate, with stealth sections to avoid the shadowy entity hunting you. Puzzles involve arranging found objects or decoding notes, often timed with entity proximity. Controls are tight but require patience, backtracking is frequent. Sessions feel like a balance between curiosity and dread, with each discovery adding to the story but risking encounters that reset your progress.

What Players Think

PlayPile users rate it 8.2/10, with 78% completing the base story. Average playtime is 10 hours, though 25% report 15+ hours due to backtracking. Community moods lean “eerie” and “frustrating”, the entity’s AI has a 42% chance of triggering false positives in detection. One user wrote, “The documents drip-feed lore well, but the jump scares wear thin after 6 hours.” Critics praised the setting (92% Metacritic) but noted repetitive puzzles. 35 achievements exist, with “Salvage Master” requiring 100% item recovery, a feat only 12% have unlocked.

PlayPile's Take

At $29.99, Farmer Fowl’s Farmhouse is a niche pick. It thrives for players who enjoy slow, atmospheric horror over fast-paced action. The $15 discount on Steam during October sales makes it worth a try, especially for those patient with its repetitive loops. Achievements add replay value but aren’t essential. Skip if you dislike stealth sections or backtracking. It’s not a genre-definer, but the haunting setting and clever document-based storytelling make it memorable for horror fans.

Storyline

Step inside the abandoned Farmer Fowl's Farmhouse — once a cheerful children's attraction, now left to rot since it's sudden closure decades prior. You play as Eli, a salvage assessor sent to document and mark the building's remaining assets before demolition. You must mark items for salvage, take photos of rooms, and collect leftover documents. However something evil still lurks within the building, can you complete your job and get out of the building? Or become a part of its tragic history.