Cowboy Life Simulator

I really do love this game, but unfortunately, I have to give it a negative review. I originally played it when it was first release in November 2025. Sure, there are a few bugs here and there, but the number of issues this game has is getting a bit ridiculous. Playing this game is like the Simpson episode where Homer’s spit roast pig flew over town. “The animals are not breeding. It’s still good, it’s still good” “The rabbits are not eating their food. It’s still good, it’s still good”” “Items are disappearing from their chest. It’s still good, it’s still good” “Thing are spawning inside my farming plot. It’s still good, it’s still good” There are many more bugs when the game was released that was annoying, but since I love the game, I was able to overlook it. Take the patch that move all the tree, shrubs inside our plot around, thus messing up all our carefully planned out farm layout. The straw that broke the camel’s back for me to put this game down was the pistol stop working after upgrading it pass a certain level. I told myself that I can still use another weapon, again “It’s still good, it’s still good”. Finally, after playing for over 50 in game days, trying to go for all 5 star crops, my game started skipping days. Went to sleep on Monday, woke up and it’s Wednesday, thus ruining hours of work put into the game. This happens multiple times, and whenever I go to sleep, it’s a 50/50 chance that the game would skip a day, and noticed it happens when you reach around 50 in game days. Put the game down and give the dev some times to get the game patched out. “It’s still good, it’s still good” Came back recently in August 2026. Started a new game. Sure, there are a few bugs still, like animals spawning outside their fence, or the weather changing whenever I load a save, again “It’s still good, it’s still good”. Had my items disappear inside my chest once, shrubs are still growing inside farm plot, chicken breeding and traits not passing is still in the game etc. Lastly, got to around 40 in game days, again trying to get all 5 star crops, and you guessed it….it’s still there!! My game started skipping games, my crops all died out, animals escaped and ate a few, water level dropped. Maybe it’s a rare bug again “It’s still good, it’s still good”. Went to sleep, skipped another day hahaha. The road maps talk about fishing, there is now bug catching, potions, ghost, female protagonist etc. All these new exciting things. Instead of trying to fix your buggy game, you spent time with all these new fancy things. I’ve given up on this game. A wonderful game, and truly love it, from the music to the theme, from the NPC to storyline, but enough is enough. At this point, I am both Bart Simpson and Homer. Bart Simpson “It’s gone” Homer “I know”

How is this game "Very Positive" with over 1,000 reviews? Goofiest music of all-time. Immediate mute. Graphics are bizarrely bad and hurt my eyes. I don't think this is even a real game. The NPCs talk like villagers in Minecraft. Many NPCs don't have the same dialogue graphics. Its embarrassingly bad. Its a 0/10 for me. This is like a game that junior high kids make in computer class. The gaming industry is in complete freefall with nothing but pure jank like this. I can already hear you commenting on my review, "buT iTs EaRlY aCcEs wAt U aXpeCt?" I'm going to save anyone thinking about buying this garbage about $13: don't. This isn't a real game. Its like alpha 0.0.0.1 first attempt at a game.

[h1]A conditional recommendation made obsolete by the engine switch[/h1] This game is a strange blend of an adventure game with combat sequences and a farming simulator (though it barely qualifies as one). Under certain conditions, it used to be worth a recommendation—especially since it ran surprisingly stable even on older hardware. However, the recent switch to the Unreal Engine has drastically changed the situation. [h1]The Gameplay at a Glance:[/h1] [list] [*] [b]The Farming:[/b] A very slow, monotonous grind heavily relying on manual work. It lacks convenience features and work animals. According to clear in-game indicators, workers and other announced features are not planned for Early Access, but rather for post-release. Whether there is even room for them in the current game loop remains questionable. [*] [b]The Story:[/b] An adventure questline with a number of sidequests. It is not a big-scale adventure, but it is okay, and some of the quests are nicely written or surprisingly curious. The map is compact*, but sufficient for this type of game. *its annouced that they working on bigger extensions to the map. [*] [b]The Combat:[/b] Bandits and combat encounters are limited to certain spots. They are repetitive and quickly become easy once you upgrade your guns. If you are looking for action or a challenge, this is not your game. However, since losing does little harm, even players who dislike combat can live with it. [*] [b]The World:[/b] There are some nice easter eggs, but the NPCs and town life feel barebones and shallow. [/list] [h1]The Technical Regression:[/h1] At the time of purchase, the minimum requirements felt lower. Before the update, the game ran on my aged, low-end PC at a solid 30 to 55 FPS. The engine switch has degraded performance without offering any noticeable visual benefit: [list] [*] [b]Framerate Drops and Spikes:[/b] My normal framerate maxes out at 22–24 FPS now, with regular spikes dropping down to around 10 FPS. There are also clear new performance losses around an expanded farm area that were not present before. In the newly opened map region, performance is generally below the norm, and I have even seen extreme, occasional drops down to 1–4 FPS there. [*] [b]High CPU Load & Architecture Issues:[/b] My GPU hovers below 70% load, while my old 4-core CPU shows high load and high temperatures. The source of these new issues is clearly CPU-bound. Furthermore, the game has long suffered from persistent item-duping bugs. It seems the inventory system treats every single item as a fully instantiated world object/class rather than using a performant data list—a design choice that likely compounds the heavy performance toll under the new engine version. [*] [b]High RAM Usage:[/b] My RAM load is permanently above 11 GB. Since the Steam store officially lists 8 GB of RAM as the minimum requirement, I view this critically. While it is unclear how the game handles memory management on actual 8 GB systems, having 16 GB ready seems recommended to be safe. [*] [b]New Bugs & Glitches:[/b] Since the engine update, field tiles sometimes fail to load properly. These plots visually disappear, allowing you to accidentally build over them. Once the original tile reloads later, they overlap, creating severe glitches. Additionally, invisible barriers even on roads and other "open spaces" suddenly block movement for no reason, and inventory bugs have multiplied. It also remains questionable how long DirectX 11 will still be supported in this engine version. [/list] [h1]Conclusion:[/h1] What used to be a conditional "Yes" has now turned into a [b]"Wait it out"[/b]. Continuing the roadmap without addressing these self-made performance and architectural issues as a priority will lead to a ruined experience. Anyone running an older system should steer clear of the game for now. [b]This review will be updated if the situation changes and improves.[/b]

I don't recommend this game because the game auto saves and only keeps one save but my save has become corrupted somehow and when it loads, it immediately crashes (freezes) so I can no longer play. It even crashes on the main menu before I get a chance to load the save. I have no mods or cheats of any kind and never have so it's entirely the latest update that has broken my save. I have nearly 400 hours in this game and have dozens of animals that I have bred over many generations to have perfect traits and I can no longer access them or my farm, so as there's no way I want to start over, it's time to uninstall the game and move on. I have other games that auto save but they have 2-5 saves so if one save has a problem, another save can be used. The dev's choice to only have one save and to repeatedly save over it is ridiculous and the end result is a permanently corrupted and unusable save.

It really is a shame. The idea is great but the game is so riddled with bugs, I cannot recommend it. And no, it being in early access is NOT a valid excuse. The frustration due to disappearing tools or even rare items from your inventory is something you had better not experienced. Also, getting this game to even work without stuttering was a chore. You can see my specs. This shouldn't be the case for my setup. Other than that, the devs should've focused more on improving existing gameplay elements rather than filling the game with content.

When i first bought this game i had a lot of fun. The roadmap looked promising and the dev team was holding to it. How wrong i was. The game is full of glitches, the april update didnt even come out until mid may and that was the last content update. The devs had extremely poor communication about the delay and then when the delayed update was delayed again they hide that update in the comments of a post. They are now making a new roadmap because they bit off more than they could chew. I would get a refund on this game if i could

I bought this game as soon as it was in early access, and I was hoping it would end up being what I wanted from Wild West Dynasty: A western version of Medieval Dynasty. Unfortunately, the devs had other ideas. Other stupid ideas. Persistent bugs and bad combat aside, my biggest gripe is the presence of supernatural elements in this game. From the beginning, there was an iron mine with a jump-scare ghost that deals damage to you until you've completed a certain quest. Then for some reason, the devs did a major update that added ghost hunting and magic potion brewing. I wasn't the only one who reacted negatively to this, and the devs went on to assure us that they wouldn't add anymore supernatural elements to the game. But that just means that update was literally wasted effort. There's no romance. There's no family-building. There's not even character customization. This game is a major disappointment. And the devs have the gall to plan for this to be 1.0 in November even with the bugs and bad combat.

Performance is absolutly horrible. my PC specs meet or exceed the recommended, I can't imagine trying to play on the posted minimums I was getting stuttering the graphics and other settings menues. I got video freezes in the intro cutscence it seemed like at points part of the game unloaded and reloaded? like everything froze, all the textures went flat, 30s later it loaded back in. Watching task manager on my other monitor I see the game averaging around 4GB of ram use, and it will randomly spike to like 6, lag a bunch, then drop back to 4 and run normally for a bit. No way I'm gonna try to deal with this for a game I was on the fence about, I don't even know if the gameplay is any good as all I have done before getting too frustrated to play is yell at some animals