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Rancher: A new life
Start a new life as a Rancher. Travel the forest paths by quad bike, raise cattle, build, repair, and improve your farm. Take care of animals, go fishing, cook, grow vegetables, practice your accuracy on shooting range, take photos, and much more. Relax away from the hustle and bustle of the city!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“Honestly.. This doesn't deserve "mostly negative" reviews. I rarely write reviews, but seeing this is.. sad. Guys, it's an early access game. It just launched. Give it a moment. It's also really cheap for what you get. Sure, optimisation could use some work, but from what I've…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“there are a lot of mishaps in this game but its in early access and what makes it greater is the fact that the devs are on top of EVERYTHING rolling out patches to help improve the game and fix minor mishaps. But people need to be helpful and proactive and actually voice the…”
— a player, Steam review · 33 hrs played“I really wanted to like this game and honestly gave this game more than a fair chance (+/- 13hours) and I cannot recommend it. It feels like the developer deliberately designed many of its mechanics to be as frustrating and time-consuming as possible. The cooking mechanics, both…”
— a player, Steam review · 14 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-09-26. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-25). Relative comparison only.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Patch 2026-09-25
added fire status on tooltip disabled selling the car with items inside fixes for horse tooltips fixes for Compact button behaviour fixed disappearing repair context for pickup wheels disabled connect
Patch 2026-09-23 10:30 UTC
fixes for ui layouts, fixed milking minigame with milk can fixed display of paint left on the paint roller added alert for item adding at the end of processing with table saw exiting table saw operati
Patch 2026-09-20 21:15 UTC
- map zooming fix - fix for driving seat position in pickup - fix for harvesting plants not giving resource
Patch 2026-09-19 23:40 UTC
Fix for planting seeds and harvesting plants Fix for refilling engine oil Fix for fishing breaking or crashing the game Fix for some crashing issues
Patch 2026-09-19 11:20 UTC
Fix for bottle of milk Fix for loading sprinklers and plants
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Simulation, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Life Sim · Farming Sim · Simulation · Immersive Sim · Realistic · Relaxing · Casual · Building · Crafting · Agriculture · Nature (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Custom Volume Controls · Save Anytime · Stereo Sound · Surround Sound · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Spanish - La… |
| Achievements | 25 |
| Official site | https://sim-farm.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10/11 (64-bit versions) Processor: Intel Core i5-10400F or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super or AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT (6 GB VRAM) DirectX: Version 12 Storage: 15 GB available space