About the Game
Tired of life in the big city? Escape to an American ranch. In this ranch life simulator, you’ll have to find your place in a rural and sometimes unforgiving world.
From Farm to Table
You can keep eating fast food like before, or start growing healthy vegetables to prepare your own meals. Cook freshly caught fish and enjoy a glass of fresh milk. You’ll have access to a wide variety of recipes with different levels of complexity. Prepare your meals in the kitchen, on the grill, or over a campfire.
Plant your favorite vegetables in garden beds or in a greenhouse. Create beautiful garden arrangements using flowers, vegetables, and fruit. Grow, water, and harvest your crops. Pick apples in the orchard and plant your favorite flowers along the path. Mow the grass yourself or get help from living lawnmowers, such as cows.
Renovation, Furnishing, and Workshop
The ranch you purchase will need plenty of repairs. Patch the holes in the roof, fill the cracks in the walls, and paint the rooms in colors of your choice. Once you can afford it, replace the furniture, redesign the interior, and buy decorations for the fireplace or even potted plants.
Use the money you earn to expand your workshop. Buy additional tools and equipment. Build increasingly complex structures from boards you cut yourself. Where will you begin? With a bookcase, a fence around the pasture, or perhaps a birdhouse?
Restore a forgotten car and use it to travel into town. Give it a new paint job, repair the engine, replace the tires, and enjoy the satisfaction of seeing the finished result.
Leisure Activities
Ride an ATV along nearby forest trails, walk through the woods gathering mushrooms, or take photographs of the animals you encounter. Explore your vast ranch on horseback. Visit the shooting range, go fishing, light a campfire, or have a barbecue in the nearby gazebo.
Eat well, get enough sleep, avoid overworking yourself, and enjoy the many available activities! Learn to play the harmonica, beat your personal records, and take on new challenges.
Raising Animals
Raise and sell animals, including cows and chickens. Feed them with animal feed or let them graze in the pastures, and make sure they always have access to water. Breed cows, collect eggs, and raise livestock for sale. Put your heart into caring for them. Petting is highly encouraged!
Should you decide to get a dog, you won’t regret it. Take care of your loyal companion and let it help with your work by herding animals into the pastures. You can also play fetch together.
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Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
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 operation ui when no materials are present
added missing sprite for Save button in Settings
louder sound of the ATV
added option to compact inventory - Compact Button
- fix for driving seat position in pickup
- fix for harvesting plants not giving resource
Fix for refilling engine oil
Fix for fishing breaking or crashing the game
Fix for some crashing issues
Fix for loading sprinklers and plants
- icon fix for mower and hay
- fix for fish required for reciepies
- fix for milk bottle icon
- fix for stacking resources with different spoil date
- fix for stuck issues while building barn upgrades (due to removed walls still blocking movement)
- fix for assigning animals to new slots in large barn upgrade
- fix for transparent pickup hood
- fix for buy trailer quest
- fix for weapon stand and book shelves
- fix for large courtains
Chicken food and manure stock piles are not blocking interactions for placed objects inside
Interactions raycasting improvements for objects above us (mainly for renovating, painting etc.)
Large decorative planters can now be used to plant decorative plants
Improvements to certain campaign quests (you should no longer be able to lose the fuse)
Improved the pet food model in bowls
A new hay trailer has been added, it can be towed by the cars and the ATV
Wasp nests when not cleaned up will populate again
Power and water shutting off should work correctly now
More keys can be rebound now
Mushrooms in the world should not be able to spoil sometimes
Localization improvements
- The pigeons in the barn should be saved properly
- Returned the old wallpaper to the living room for removal
- Campfire should now load its log correctly
- Fixed fuel bought at the gas station and placed around the map not working sometimes
- Sickness after eating bad food is now saved
- Trash in distant locations should not disappear after loading the game
- Animal behavior and tooltip improvements
- Dead animals should now behave properly
- Dead animals can now be ordered to be cleaned up
- Animal pregnancies should now properly save the breed of the other parent
- Caged animals should no longer behave weirdly after loading sometimes
- Caged chicks will no longer randomly become adults
- Added a highlight to junkyard scales after the quest to buy a fuse
- Localization fixes
- Added proper highlights to the wood paint bucket in the appropriate quest
- Blocked caging chickens until sufficient progress in the questline has been reached
- Fixed a rare issue with inseminating cows
- The garage power failure quest should now trigger quicker
- The woodcutting log UI will close itself when you are out of logs
- Improvements to placing items inside of the crate
- Fixed the quest to wait for an animal to grow up triggering on chickens
- Fixed an issue with insufficient slots inside the courier package when buying too many items
- Buildings with materials now cost the correct amount
- Campaign marker and tooltip improvements
- Fixed an issue with the "Repair Power" quest not fulfilling without picking the toolbelt
- Animals should no longer pathfind through chicken coop walls
- Fixed tooltips for fuse boxes
- Fixed collisions when entering the workshop
- Added a table saw tutorial
- Added a missing cat transporter icon
- Added a tooltip to the full preserves table
- Added horse riding control tooltips
- Improvements to the cooking minigame
- Added checking for collisions when purchasing new vehicles
- Disabled towing of vehicles you do not possess
- Improved the building schematics
- Additional information added to the insemination syringe
- Added a tooltip for insufficient money when purchasing at external shops
- Improved the look of the endgame cutscene UI
- Fertilizer can now be used 5 times
- Wasp spray can now be used 2 times
- Improved the BBQ tooltip
- Text improvements
- Fixed some icons in the recipe book
- Added a tooltip for the fullness of animal food bowls
- Improvements for some icons
- Added a disabled state for the 'seal the deal' button
- New carpets for the shop
- Changed the fuel price
- Fixed the stairs at the pier
- Fixed renaming the beehive
- Added a proper cow milker model
- Improvements to the 'Birds' questline and planting decorative plants
- Hay and other stockpiles in the barn are now unlimited
- You can no longer put half-empty bags of fertilizer and chicken food in the barn
- You can now exit the main menu tabs by using escape
- Better tooltip behaviour for fillable containers
- Fixed problems with positioning tools when using sawhorse
- Blocked interactions while horse riding
- Getting on horse can be done now only with empty hands
- Better reset settings behaviour
- Proper zoom to player on first map opening
- Fixed potential issues when unloading animals
- Localisation improvements
- Status of animal pairing is now saved properly
- Fixed loading of caged cats
- Improved quest ordering in the repair house chapter to prevent having to repeat some actions
- Improved the build versioning
- You can no longer make scaffolding stuck an unable to be placed sometimes
- Fixed feces sometimes becoming uncleanable
- Fixed cat carrier sometimes not saving correctly
Greenhouse and Cowshed can only be purchased when certain quests have been reached
Fixed issues that arise when too many eggs are present in the chicken coop
Fixed certain issues that can cause animals to become stuck
You can now heal chickens at the vet correctly
Fixed an issue where you could not refill the hay feeders when they are nearly full
Improved collisions in the kitchen for easier furniture placement
Improved pickup collisions
Localization improvements
You can now fix cowshed walls only from outside
Fixed fishing minigame not checking for lack of player input after the first fail
Trough at the paddock can now be filled with tap
Junkyard now sells screws and nails in packs of 20
Added missing characters to fonts
Fixed and improved the workings of the Vet
The cat can now be packed into a carrier for packing or taking to the vet
The stock and purchases of shops should save correctly
Allowed for purchasing of fertilizer bag earlier
Fixed the ending rocking chair cutscene
- The campfire stick should be detected properly after loading the game
- You should no longer be able to order more bulky items than allowed
- Multiple grass trimmers should no longer cause issues
- Beehives should now save their contents correctly
- Chickens who grow into Juveniles will no longer sometimes disappear on saving the game
- Fixed an issue where repairing the garage power can sometimes become stuck
- Fixed photos of some vegetables not counting correctly
- Added a tooltip when you are holding a bulky item and trying to repair or built an item
- Added a map marker to the quest to grab a screwdriver
- Added better colliders for table in kitchen and for the new fireplace
- Fixes for filtering behaviour in inventory
- Added double-click for adding held items/animals to the vehicle
- Fixed travelling back to the shop too quickly
- Fixed fuel bar not showing 100% on travelling window
- Changed fuel tank amounts
- Added tooltips for drinking from a mug
- Added a dirty material for the pan
- Improved checking for keys already in use in controls settings
- New quest icons
- Changed egg amount in Fried egg with bacon recipe
- Added a working tap to the trough near cowshed
- Chicks are now visible in animal registry
- Disabling cooking ui when stove is packed
- Trailers are using physics now
Cars now save their towed trailers properly
Minor optimization fixes
Fixed tooltip mentioning that the fence cannot be built until requirements are met
Fixed fonts
Current Release
Build 25269151
Uploaded Sep 13, 2026
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How to Install
Rancher.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
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