Chris InglisLawn Mowing Simulator 2 is a mowing simulation game developed and published by Skyhook Games and officially launched on Steam and consoles on September 23, 2026. Building directly upon the foundations of its predecessor, this sequel shifts the scenery over to the United States while promising tighter grass technology, a expanded career campaign, and a brand-new suite of lawn care tools.
Your journey begins with setting up your business, where you get to craft your character, design a custom logo, and select your firm’s work attire before making your first crucial operational decision: choosing between two starting mowers, the ZTA-26 S or the Tornado 5108e. Deciding to roll with the Tornado, I jumped straight into my first contract. Despite the mission only requiring a 96.5% cut rate for completion, I set my sights on a pristine 100% finished job.
However, the yard featured a flagpole surrounded by a ring of concrete bricks smack-dab in the middle of the lawn. Pressing the View button on my Xbox controller highlighted the remaining uncut patches in bright blue, revealing a few missed spots along my lines. Attempting to manoeuvre closely around the feature, I managed to get the mower wedged on the cement bricks twice. While the first incident only cost me a couple of minutes of persistent wiggling to break free, the second attempt stuck the machine for good. Forced to teleport the mower back to the trailer, I had to pack up and settle for a slightly disappointing 99% completion rate, wishing I had a line trimmer, or whipper snipper, as we know them here in Australia, to safely clean up those awkward edges.
Thankfully, the very next job in Lawn Mowing Simulator 2 had me purchasing both a line trimmer and a leaf blower, which was a brilliant addition to the loop. Though the blower introduced its own annoying quirk. Blasting leaves off the pavement and straight onto the freshly cut lawn satisfied the objective requirement, even though it left an absolute mess behind. While I initially wished for a way to actually clean the debris up, the very next mission unlocked the tarp, allowing me to sweep and bag everything neatly. At that point, proper zen-mode fully activated.
The leaf blower mechanics continued to test my patience on a later property stacked with potted plants. Blowing stray leaves off the walkway caused several to get trapped right behind the pots. In real life, you would simply shift the pot aside and grab the leaf, but since the environment is static, I had to strategically angle the blower to bounce leaves off walls and hover them back onto the path, to then blow them onto the pristine lawn. One stubborn leaf refused to budge no matter the angle, leaving me resigned to a frustrating 99.8% finish.
Those minor mechanical gripes aside, Lawn Mowing Simulator 2 represents a fantastic evolution over the original title. The addition of line trimmers, blowers, and tarps elevates the moment-to-moment gameplay into a deeply relaxing, methodical experience. It gets a big green thumbs up from me.
This review utilised a Steam key provided by Skyhook Games and Lawn Mowing Simulator 2 is available now on Steam, Xbox and PlayStation.
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