# Orwell's Animal Farm

> Interactive game based on George Orwell's Animal Farm novella. (iPhone/iPad app by Nerial.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/orwells-animal-farm/id1540294333 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Nerial](https://appshunter.io/developer/1540294335)
- Category: Games, Adventure, Strategy
- Price: $3.99
- Rating: 4.60/5 from 96 App Store ratings · 19 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 9+
- Requires: iOS 10.0 · 240 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, European Spanish
- Released: 2020-12-10
- Data updated: 2026-09-02
- Monetization: paid
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/orwells-animal-farm/id1540294333/reviews.md

## What is Orwell's Animal Farm?

In Orwell’s Animal Farm, the animals have fought off their exploitative human masters. Now they’re in charge. Assign their tasks, manage their resources, choose their laws, and direct their propaganda. Determine which of the animals will make sacrifices and which will be “more equal than others.”
George Orwell’s 1945 novella was a scathing critique of totalitarianism in the early days of the Soviet Union. Since then, it has spoken to people of many ideologies in countries around the world. It offers a powerful awareness of how power can be abused – and of how generation after generation seeks a more just and equal society, where the many do not suffer at the hands of the few.
Orwell’s Animal Farm brings the familiar characters and situations to the medium of a game, and to the context of 2020. Depending on how you play, you may encounter situations very close to those in the book, or others influenced by events Orwell never lived to see.
Play it to explore a classic tale from inside. Play it to try your hand at running the farm – or because you dream of spreading Animalism across the world. Play it because you’ve always wanted to oversee a construction project by a herd of cows. Play it because Boxer deserved better.

## Key features

- Assign animal tasks
- Manage farm resources
- Choose laws
- Direct propaganda
- Explore consequences of power
- Experience classic story interactively

## Chart rankings

- #197 in Top Paid · Strategy (US App Store)

## Recent user reviews (10 of 19)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/orwells-animal-farm/id1540294333/reviews.md

### 3/5 — My opinions on the game

*2026-01-23*

Overall entertaining game so I’m questioning snowball and I still hate Napoleon and why is squealer so cute? Oh my God why? Anyways, I would like more endings and more choices, please.

### 4/5 — Très bon jeu

*2023-06-02*

Très bon jeu, mais il manque tout de même une possibilité : on ne peut pas faire en sorte que les autres fermes se revoltent. Sinon, le jeu est très bien

### 3/5 — Problems

*2023-03-20*

Love the game but your bug fixes didn’t fix any of the problems that it claims too! Which is too bad because it’s a good game!

### 5/5 — if you love choices

*2022-09-16*

with this game you will find out what type it leader you are, period! for the creators that get to read this, infinite gratitude for the creativity in this marvelous adventurous game. it’s complex and new for my 24 yr old brain. also you have my loyalty as a player and i’m glad my intuition told me to purchase this game💜💜💜

### 4/5 — Very Good But

*2021-08-28*

After playing the game I realized that it wasn’t as I expected, a lot actions you make give a big impact and a lot of detail. The game seems to hard tho as once in a while someone dies or has to get chased out, and the game gets very repetitive with bringing in the hay and what to do with wealth. Because of this repeat it gets very boring and can’t keep playing. But this game is still very good and much like the book and film. 
(The narration honestly makes the game depressing in my opinion)

### 4/5 — Great story, difficult gameplay

*2021-04-14*

I really appreciate the premise of this game. It’s a faithful adaptation of the book where you can make some big changes. The art is fantastic. Unfortunately, the underlying management sim gets a bit repetitive. I wish I could play the story without having to micromanage bringing in the hay year after year. Relatedly, the game is so difficult that it feels like everyone dies every time despite my best efforts, leading to more repetition. Well worth checking out, but I’m tired of it now.

### 1/5 — Just crashes

*2021-03-24, version 1.02*

I have yet to play the game because it crashes immediately upon selecting New Game. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled and I have the system requirements.

### 1/5 — Can’t believe I paid real $$$ for this!!!!

*2021-02-09, version 1.02*

What an absolute disaster of a game. Turn based text game. Reminds me of some of the games I played when BBS were a thing, except Barren Real s Elite was fun to play.

### 5/5 — Pleasantly Surprised

*2021-02-08*

I've been known to play interactive fiction games from time to time, which is what I expected when downloading this game. In most interactive fiction games, choice is little more than an illusion, but in this game, even mundane choices can impact the direction of the game. The addition of the journal was a stroke of genius. Without it, I would probably have set the game aside after my first completion. Since it's based off of an existing story, I had assumed that there would be little deviation from the plot, not so. There more than a few different endings, and the journal lists what has to happen to trigger this ending or that achievement, though it does not tell you how to get there, which isn't always obvious. The entire story is narrated, and the voice actor is perfect. Usually I mute games with excessive spoken dialogue, but I find that it adds to the overall enjoyability of this game.

### 4/5 — Great game, but a little buggy

*2021-01-17*

As other reviews have said, this game has some bugs. My windmill was destroyed twice (storm, blamed on Snowball who had already left; humans the second time, just after they killed Napoleon, which I was not sad about), and Napoleon came back from the dead to tell how we should change the flag to plain green, because it was originally designed by the traitor Snowball. Confusing to say the least. 

Still, it is interesting to play through, and has encouraged me to buy its namesake novel, and actually read it this time.

## Frequently asked questions about Orwell's Animal Farm

### What is Orwell's Animal Farm about?

This app is an interactive game based on George Orwell's classic novella. It allows players to take on the role of managing the farm after the animals have overthrown their human masters. You will assign tasks, manage resources, choose laws, and direct propaganda, exploring the consequences of power.

### What are the key features of this game?

Key features include assigning tasks to animals, managing farm resources, choosing and enacting laws, and directing propaganda efforts. The game allows you to explore the familiar characters and situations from the book in an interactive format, with outcomes that can vary based on your decisions.

### How much does Orwell's Animal Farm cost?

Based on the provided information, this application is a paid app. There are no mentions of in-app purchases or advertisements, suggesting a one-time purchase for the full experience.

### What platforms is Orwell's Animal Farm available on?

The description does not specify the exact platforms (e.g., iOS, Android, PC). However, it is described as a 'game' and mentions the 'medium of a game', implying it is designed for digital play on common gaming devices or computers.

### Who is the target audience for this game?

This game is designed for individuals who are fans of George Orwell's Animal Farm, readers interested in exploring classic literature through interactive experiences, and players who enjoy strategy and simulation games with a strong narrative component.

## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.02 — 2021-01-06

We are happy to report that we have implemented a bunch of bug fixes, balancing changes and other content improvements! 
- fixes all the bugs to do with the animals having extra lines of dialogue after death or not being dead after their battle
- revises the way the windmill is handled so that you either get it blown up by humans or knocked down by a storm, not both
- addresses the bug about being confused about the Population ending by tying population more clearly to the specific animals that are alive/dead
- changes on the onboarding to facilitate the understanding of the game mechanics by taking a couple of hidden variables (farm reputation and the success of pig propaganda) and instead associates them with the health of the birds and squealer
- shortens the later seasons a bit and tightens the pacing of narrative events to offer a higher proportion of dramatic events vs maintenance events
- makes a handful of dialogue passages shorter if the player has already seen them once, again to try to reduce the sense of repetition
- fixes the places where parsing errors were making some animal actions unavailable when the animal was in a particular numeric range
- cleans up a handful of typos encountered
- also fixed the encoding issue so there are no longer problems with the dashes
- the cat will now disappear from the barn if it's gone

### 1.01 — 2020-12-10

Added supported languages

### 1.0 — 2020-12-10

No release notes.

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