Farming Simulator 25 Beans & Alpacas is out now on Steam, and it’s a big one from GIANTS Software. The expansion takes the farm to South America with a brand new map, two new crops with their own production chains, and alpacas you can walk and shear. If you play on a Steam Machine or a Steam Deck, it’s an easy one to pick up, because the base game already has good ratings from Valve on both.
This is paid DLC rather than a new game, so you’ll need Farming Simulator 25 to play it. It costs £25.99 / $29.99 on its own, which is the same as the base game’s current Steam price.
Catuaí: a new map inspired by Brazil’s coffee country
The headline addition is Catuaí, a region inspired by the coffee-growing areas of Brazil. It’s a humid valley with red soil, rolling hills covered in coffee and banana plantations, dense greenery on the mountain slopes and a winding river. Narrow roads and dusty streets lead into a colourful rural town with shops and agricultural depots, and stilt houses line the riverbank.
There’s more to do than just farm, too. You can hunt down dinosaur skeleton parts and display them in the collectible museum, and the big construction project this time is a Research Center out in the forest. New materials, pigment and resin, let you repaint houses for the local community.
Farming Simulator 25 Beans & Alpacas: coffee, bananas and alpacas
Coffee is the star of the show. You need specialised harvesters to bring it in, then it goes through drying and roasting before it becomes packed coffee, capsules, drinks, tiramisu and coffee yoghurt. It’s the kind of long production chain that Farming Simulator fans love to optimise.
Bananas work differently from anything else in the series. You design the plantation layout yourself, connect it up with transport rails and washing stations, then harvest by hand with a machete or let hired workers do it. The fruit can become banana milk, chips, jam and cake.
Then there are the alpacas. You walk them to keep them happy and shear them once a year, and the fleece turns into wool, socks, pillows, furniture and even alpaca plushies. Brahman cattle join the livestock list as well, and the wildlife gets a South American makeover with parrots and caimans in the rivers.
25+ new machines and two new brands
As always, there’s a big batch of new kit: more than 25 machines and implements from brands including Case IH, Ford, John Deere, New Holland, Valtra, KUHN, Oxbo, Stara and Mercedes-Benz Trucks. Colombo Industries and Southern Spreaders are new to the series. GIANTS has also improved the ground-working animations and effects, which should make cultivating and ploughing look a little nicer.
How it should run on Steam Machine and Steam Deck
Steam Machine: Valve rates Farming Simulator 25 as Verified on Steam Machine. The default controller setup works fully, the on-screen glyphs match the controller, and the default settings run well. Both the base game and the expansion list full controller support, so this should be a great couch farming game on the TV. If you’re still deciding whether the Machine is for you, I covered that in my look at whether Steam Deck, Steam Machine and Steam Frame are worth it in 2026, and my Cyberpunk 2077 Steam Machine testing shows how much headroom it has for a much heavier game.
Steam Deck: Valve rates it Playable. The one thing holding it back is small text, as some in-game text is hard to read on the Deck’s screen. The default controller configuration, the button icons and the default performance all pass Valve’s checks, so expect to lean in a little for the menus, but the farming itself plays fine. Keep in mind that the expansion itself doesn’t have its own Deck rating yet; the ratings above are for the game it runs on.
Steam Frame: there’s no VR support and no Frame rating, so on the headset it’s flat play on a virtual screen only.
Which version to buy
You can pick it up in three ways. The standalone expansion is £25.99 / $29.99. It’s also part of the Year 2 Season Pass (£30.49 on Steam), which bundles it with the Vredo Pack and the SKY Agriculture Pack and throws in the JCB Fastrac Two as a bonus. That’s the better deal if you want all three. If you don’t own the game yet, the Farming Simulator 25 Beans & Alpacas Edition bundles the base game and the expansion, and GIANTS says that adds up to four maps and over 400 machines from more than 150 brands. There’s also a physical edition on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S if you prefer a boxed copy.
You can buy the Beans & Alpacas Expansion from Instant Gaming, which helps support the site, or get it straight from the Steam store.
Final thoughts
Farming Simulator 25 is already Verified on Steam Machine, and this expansion gives it a fresh setting that looks very different from the game’s other maps. Coffee and bananas add new production chains to master, and the alpacas are just charming. If you want something cosy with farming and town building instead, keep an eye on Emberville, which now arrives in Early Access on 7 January 2027. For a relaxed farming fix on the TV or a long session on the Deck, Beans & Alpacas is worth a look.
