
The Ranchers is an open world country-life sim for 1-4 players. Raise animals, grow tasty crops, craft helpful tools and build your dream house. Explore the open world and earn the villagers' respect and esteem.
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Every market we collect.
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 25 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 10 places towards #1, and the 2,413 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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The Ranchers is a cozy country-life sim for 1-4 players set in an open world sandbox.
Try The Ranchers today in early access and join our incredible community to build the future of The Ranchers. Join us on Discord to follow updates, forward feedback and much more.
After many years of living the hectic city 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 will be put to the test to make your ranch a flourishing business and earn the villagers' respect and esteem.
Take care of animals, grow crops, claim resources, buy new lots of land, and much more. You'll have plenty of space to create the ranch of your dreams.
The Ranchers is for you if you:
Are looking for a farming simulator with sandbox freedom to play your way.
You want a cozy space to unwind, but with enough action to keep things exciting.
Love farm simulator games.
Appreciate a big open world waiting to be explored.
Want to build alone or invite up to three friends to help out.
Find joy in the creative freedom of base-building and home decoration.
Fancy the charm of indie games built on passion.
Grab your trusty hammer and head over to your workbench! Gather basic resources and turn them into useful items such as fences, sprinklers, greenhouses, and much more. Transform your humble home into a thriving ranch!
Managing a ranch can be expensive. 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.
A well-tended ranch will produce the high quality crops you need to catch the attention of the villagers, fulfill daily orders, and sell your goods at the local markets for a decent profit to keep things running smoothly.
It wouldn't be a proper ranch without animals! Build barns and coops of all sizes, and invite little (and big) friends to join you. From chickens and bunnies to goats and cows, you can pick your favorites or try to collect at least one of each.
Whether on foot, by bike, in a pickup truck, or in a fancy sports car, there is so much to explore. From markets and fashion boutiques to car dealerships, parks, or even a casino, it’s all waiting for you. But be mindful of the clock! Just like in real life, The Ranchers features both shifting seasons and a daily cycle, meaning you’ll need to plan your errands carefully while the stores are open.
A simple studio-apartment or a multi-story house? It's really up to you. Build your home from scratch and decorate it as you please. Rancher, home builder AND designer? Not too shabby.
Invite up to 3 friends to visit your ranch and enjoy country life together! Farm, build, raise animals, explore the open world, and help each other grow.
Each player has their own ranch and world progression. When you join a friend, you are visiting the host’s world, so ranch and quest progression remain tied to the host’s save.
However, playing as a guest still rewards your own progression: you earn money and Skill Points (XP), and you can bring any items and blueprints in your inventory back to your own ranch.
Play entirely solo, open your ranch to friends, or visit theirs whenever they’re online.
Are you a good citizen or living on the edge? In The Ranchers, actions can have consequences. Destroying, stealing or reckless driving may fall under the police’s radar, so be careful - or simply enjoy the rush of an action-packed getaway!
And once again - remember to join our incredible community on Discord.
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I have been waiting got this game for five years. I'm been following the progress of development and was so excited for it to release. But once I got my hands on it, things don't really feel that amazing to me. I felt the driving was extremely under developed and unresponsive. The built UI is rather confusing. Some content creators I watched couldn't even understand which side the interior/exterior side of a wall was on and multiple mistakes. With the knowledge of how long I have waited and the way the game feels just isn't yet in a place I'm willing to pay full price for. I'm sure there are plenty that do, but I can't. Will follow development and look forward to game becoming more.
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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Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, Korean, Danish, Dutch +1 more
Hours played at review time, across 455 reviews with recorded playtime.
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I think this game has a lot potential but as of right now it can be frustrating to play I use controller and I don’t think the controller has yet to be really binded to the game it’s a long process to build a house open inventory click equip place down and again open inventory click equip nd place down every time even if it’s a stack of walls can’t just seamless build it’s really annoying but other then that it’s really pretty and dose seem to have great potential I feel any of these fixes would make for way better controller support * A quick-access hotbar for tools and building materials. * A radial menu you can open by holding a button. * Keeping a stack of building pieces equipped until you switch to something else for seamless building placement till stack is empty * A quick way to cycle through equipped tools with the bumpers or D-pad
This is my first review ever, but unfortunately, the game is too frustrating to ignore. In my opinion, this is nowhere near a proper Early Access title; it feels more like a basic demo. The content is extremely limited for a game that costs over €20. I cannot recommend it at this moment for this price. From what I understand, the game has been in development for over 5 years. If this is all that can be shown after that time, my expectations for the future are very low. The Gameplay: Driving: The vehicle handling is horrible. Farming: Crops are limited to 2–3 types per season. Multi-harvest crops disappear without warning after 2 or 3 harvests, with zero in-game information about it. Progression: There are no mines yet. The only way to get Zerkonium is by buying it from Meriam for over 800 credits apiece. This is a massive grind when you need 20 pieces just for a single sprinkler. Loop: The gameplay loop is very shallow right now: plant, water, harvest, sell, and repeat. Quality of Life (QoL) Issues:Why do I have to click on every single log individually to pick it up? Why do I have to say goodbye to a shopkeeper and trigger a new conversation just to buy something right after selling items? Bugs:I encountered numerous bugs, such as the car getting stuck in the ground and being unable to pick up chickens after purchasing them. The game definitely has potential, but I feel the developers have bitten off more than they can chew.
There's no key-binding, the controls don't work as you would expect them to, you run out of things to do and it's not a fun game as advertised.
Decent to play for a day or two and then to throw in trash. Needs way more work for the price it is.
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 stands
This game is so frustrating. It's not user friendly at all. I love the idea and that's why I'm not refunding but I don't see myself recommending the game in its current stage. I'll keep playing until I rage quit.
I am sorry, I should give low rating at this time. this game is long waited on my whislist, but bugs bugging me. already do and that on a day, then it crashing, is so annoying, should restart again. and not being able to save anytime is so slow poke. look the others game such story of season, doraemon, coral island, learn from them.
Finger weg von diesem Spiel! Es Wird als EA verkauft ist aber die DEMO die man Spielen konnte. Die gleichen Fehler, Fehler Codes usw. Tiere verschwinden spurlos, Felder sind plötzlich leer, Zu wenig Inhalte. Und auf die frage ob ich die Demoversion gekauft habe oder warum ist kaum Inhalt im spiel wurden die ADMINS sehr unfreundlich: Solle mir ja ein anderes Spiel kaufen! Ich mein wenn ich schon ein Game zum Start verkacke stehe ich wenigstens mal dazu und versuche mit den Leuten zu reden und nicht sie zu verscheuchen. Ein Ja ist die Demoversion in ca 2 Wochen kommt neuer Inhalt! Hätte mir völlig gereicht. Aber nein da wird es sich schön geredet die Roadmap blabla wo kaum einer durchsteigt!
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