Amazon's Prime Gaming service free games for January, available to download now, is one for the dads.
First on Amazon Prime Gaming's list of fatherly delights is Lawn Mowing Simulator. A game that, like a nice tin of Ronseal, does exactly what it says on the tin. It sees you become the owner of a lawn mowing business in a small rural British town, probably somewhere idyllic – like the Isle of Wight, or incredibly posh Pembrokeshire – so you can live out your fatherly fantasy of owning a whole fleet of ride-on lawnmowers. Or if you live in central London, the dream of having a garden at all.
Like every dad I've ever met, you can spend hours scratching your chin and grumbling to yourself as you adjust settings on a complex piece of machinery you have only a rudimentary understanding of. Then discussing the benefits of setting the cutting level at three millimetres instead of five for far longer than any reasonable person should.
