The Ranchers
The Ranchers · 2026 · Farming Sim, Life Sim, Agriculture, Simulation, Animals
PC
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About The Ranchers
The Ranchers is a country-life sim in an open world sandbox for 1-4 players. After years of living in the metropolis' stressful and hectic life, you finally decide to leave everything behind to buy your first lot of land in the country and start a new life, in the quiet, close to nature. However, your skills as a farmer and manager will be put to the test to make your Ranch a prosperous business and earn the villagers' respect and esteem. And who knows, maybe find love and start a family.Wishlist The Ranchers today and join our incredible community on Discord to follow updates, forward feedback and much more.
CREATE YOUR RANCH
Raise animals, grow crops, reclaim resources, buy new lots of land, and much more. You'll have plenty of space to create the Ranch of your dreams.DEVELOP YOUR RANCH
Craft objects, machines, and transform your basic resources into elaborate products to attract villagers, fill daily orders, or sell them in different markets for maximum profit.MANAGE YOUR RANCH
Optimize your Ranch's resource consumption, sign water, electricity contracts, or build your water wells, wind turbines, and solar panels and sell your surplus to the village.ONLINE COOPERATION
Invite 1 to 3 players to join you in your Ranch online! Your friends can help you develop your Ranch, fulfill your goals, or explore the vast open world of The Ranchers together.AUCTION MARKET
You can sell your resources to other players via the online auction market to maximize your profits. The auction market is directly accessible from within the game and from the companion application on iOS and Android. It seems that in The Ranchers, money never sleeps!TRADE GUILD
The Trade Guild offers you new and exciting challenges every real-world season to test your Rancher skills and collect rewards, exclusive new animal breeds, new seeds, and new in-game content - all to make your Ranch the greatest and most powerful empire ever built.A GIGANTIC OPEN WORLD
On foot, horseback, scooter, pickup, or yacht, explore a gigantic open world where mines, wild islands, shipwrecks, and dangerous monsters abound. Use your skills to recover ultra-rare minerals, gems, etc., to make and improve your tools, donate them to the village museum, or sell them at the auction market to other players.IMPROVE YOUR SKILLS
Enhance your character with various skills that will serve you in your adventures. Choose to develop your farming, ranching, crafting/building, combat, or hunter/fisher skills depending on your play style.BUILD THE HOUSE OF YOUR DREAMS
By the seaside, in the middle of the prairie, or on top of a hill, choose your decor and place your furniture to create a house that reflects your image and that your friends will love.JOIN THE COMMUNITY
Meet many colorful characters and discover their atypical personalities, everyday life, and fascinating stories. They go to work, go to the park, go to the restaurant, play sports, and interact with each other in many different ways. Take the time to get to know them, make friendships, and who knows, maybe love will be there, and you can move in together, have children and start a family?AND SO MUCH MORE
There's something for everyone in The Ranchers! Take part in the frequent festivals and many other activities. Just let your imagination run wild. Want to hone your culinary skills and prepare delicious dishes? Try your hand at game hunting, insect hunting? Or relax and spend the afternoon fishing? It's up to you!A GAME IN CONSTANT EVOLUTION
The Ranchers is a game that is continuously developing. Come back each month to discover new content additions.What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This game I wanted to be good, wanted to believe in and purchased even though the demo wasnt good I gave it a chance and sadly the game has not improved since, the game is a soulless heap of ai not many quest, no real npc interaction promised features such as dating nightlife and marriage are missing, no fishing no dialog from npc's at all they took 10 years since the concept and its like nothing has been done at all i urge anyone thinking to buy this to wait til hopefully they devs get their stuff together otherwise the money is better spend on fast food or something else this game is crap as it stands5 found this helpful
I like this game, however I can not give it a positive review at the moment for two reasons. 1) You can not change the controls, the current controls from my perspective are just awkward. 2) I have come across a few bugs that stop the story from progressing, especially around house building1 found this helpful
The Ranchers is a really fun and cozy farming game. I love the graphics, the village, and the missions. It feels fresh compared to other farming games. There are still quite a few bugs and missing content since it's Early Access, but the devs are updating it often. If you like relaxing farm games, it's definitely worth trying!1 found this helpful
Unfinnished pre-alpa looking, quick cash grab game.1 found this helpful
This game has incredible bones to be the next stardew valley but its nowhere near where it needs to be at the moment. Hopefully the devs will use the money they have made on the steam release to pump out updates for content and bugfixes because this game could be simply incredible.
This is an incomplete mess with terrible camera angles and controls and endless cycle of unfun driving to replenish seeds and sell crops, loading screens for every building (thanks, I want to take 5 minutes loading chickens into a coop when you could do it in 30 seconds). I also enjoy setting myself on fire in a failed attempt to make charcoal which I cannot buy in any shop. Not sure where you think the fun is in having more cops than citizens? And no method to obtain mining or logging rights for stuff not on your own land is frustrating. There is just no intuitive way of doing anything and it feels like AI slop. They clearly have plans for the map because over half of it is basically empty. Also, the building aspect is just bad and the need to manually pick up every item regardless of what that item is just terrible - auto pickup logs, stone, hay etc. would improve the game easily. It wastes your time by making things harder when hundreds of games have already solved the problem. There is a lot of promise here, but as it stands, it is not fun.
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