The Ranchers

The Ranchers is a country-life simulation game for 1–4 players, set in an open-world sandbox. After leaving city life, you buy land in the country and build a ranch, caring for animals, growing crops, gathering resources and earning the villagers’ respect. You can play alone or invite up to three friends to help.

Build your ranch

Gather basic resources and use a workbench to craft items such as fences, sprinklers and greenhouses. Expand your land, improve your ranch and build a home from scratch, from a simple studio apartment to a multi-story house. You can decorate it as you like.

Farm and trade

Raise animals in barns and coops, from chickens and bunnies to goats and cows. Grow high-quality crops to attract villagers, fulfill daily orders and sell goods at local markets. You can also manage your ranch’s resource use, sign water and electricity contracts, or build wells, wind turbines and solar panels and sell surplus power to the village.

Explore the open world

Travel on foot, by bike, pickup truck or sports car to places including markets, fashion boutiques, car dealerships, parks and a casino. The world has changing seasons and a daily cycle, so you need to plan errands around store opening hours.

Play together

Invite up to three friends to visit your ranch, or visit theirs. You can farm, build, raise animals, explore and help each other. Each player has their own ranch and world progression; when you join a friend, you play in the host’s world, and ranch and quest progress remain tied to the host’s save. As a guest, you still earn money and Skill Points (XP), and can take items and blueprints in your inventory back to your own ranch.

Actions and consequences

Your choices can attract the police’s attention. Destroying property, stealing or driving recklessly may put you on their radar, and you can try to escape.