Fruits Inc. 2

Growing fruit is not a very simple task, even if we now have a lot more technology to help us with this aspect. The weather and the soil have a great impact on trees and the harvest, not to mention all the bugs and diseases that might come along over the season. It takes a few years to grow trees capable of producing enough fruit to return a profit.

Fruits Inc. 2 is a time management game in which your goal is quite simple: harvest a variety of fruits, make juice with them and sell the resulting product at the market for a profit. By doing so, you unlock even more types of fruit, as well as better facilities to increase your production. On the other hand, the game has quite a few problems you have to deal with, some of which are pretty annoying to say the least.

There is a story going on in the background as well, although you can safely ignore it from start to finish and still be able to complete the game. As it happens, everything revolves around a newly married couple that start a business with fruit. You start small, with just a few trees and a modest facility to process the juice, but you’ll soon expand and create a lot more farms all over the city.

Since this is a time management game, speed is crucial, otherwise the fruit go bad and you lose money. The harvest replenishes every couple of seconds, and you have to drag-and-drop the fruits in order to process them and load them into the truck. If you fail to take care of the fruit crates underneath the trees, any new harvest is going to be lost, although you do not actually lose money from your current balance.

As far as the technical aspects are concerned, it is worth noting that the game has a few issues in this regard. While the graphics are more or less decent for a time management flick, there are terrible hang ups and freeze frames, which shouldn’t happen at all when you consider the system requirements. You may also experience some annoyances when it comes to the mouse cursor.

As long as you are willing to put up with some inconveniences, Fruits Inc. 2 can be pretty fun and entertaining for a while. However, the weird stability problems and the lack of a proper challenge makes it difficult to enjoy the game over long periods of time.