Valtteri, it’s grains: Mercedes trucks are now in Farming Simulator 25

Harvest season is upon us, which can only mean one thing: the signing of a brand partnership deal between a major automotive conglomerate and an improbably popular simulator videogame series. Ladies and gentlemen, Farming Simulator 25 and Daimler Truck AG have signed on the dotted line, and a host of Mercedes trucks and agricultural vehicles are heading to the sim as a result.

The appropriately named Mercedes-Benz Trucks Pack brings 17 new vehicles to the game, including the Actros L + Meiller - TECTRUM RS21, Bumper, MB-trac 1300-1800 Turbo, Unimog U 530-535, the brilliantly-named Push-Off Container 6800, Heizotruck V2, the likely very robust ROBUST 30 HDPM. Of course, you'll already know these off by heart.

You can see those beautiful pieces of engineering at work, being reverse-parked with suspicious ease, in this announcement trailer. Would you like a very corporate press release quote about it? Of course you would. Enjoy.

“Virtual farmers have been dreaming about the Unimog and MB-trac for some time, and we’re thrilled to finally hand them these powerful stars to work the soil,” said Thomas Frey, VP of business development at GIANTS Software.

Farming Simulator is one of those games that seems very funny, until you actually play it and realise that crop yields and soil rolling are life now, and that everything else you were doing before feels hollow and inconsequential by comparison. There are 20,000 people playing it right now at the time of writing, and no, the irony of TG writing about the surprising allure of farming has not gone un-noted.

This new pack is available via the Season One pass, which is out now, and buying that season pass grants you two other packs plus the Highlands Fishing expansion. Fishing with agricultural equipment – what could be more serene?