The Ranchers
Playing now
51+1 vs. yesterday
8.8%of peak
All-time peak
580Aug 2026
Playing now
51+1 vs. yesterday
All-time peak
580Aug 2026
| Published | Kind | Announcement | Build |
|---|---|---|---|
| Game update | 🔥 Major Ranching, Multiplayer & Building Update, 0.8.10.858 Hello Ranchers! 🤠💚 A new update is now available! Make sure your game is updated to version 0.8.10.858 . 🐄 Ranching This update brings another major stability and balancing pass to ranching. · Addressed all currently known cases that could cause farm animals to disappear . A huge thank you to ❤️ alfafreakgaming ❤️ and ❤️ jennoula ❤️ for helping me battle-test the ranching systems and track d… | — | |
| Game update | A new update is now available! - Version 0.8.10.842 Hello Ranchers! A new update is now available! 🔥 Please make sure your game is updated to version 0.8.10.842 or later. This update focuses heavily on quest progression, ranching stability, and quality-of-life improvements based on the issues you’ve been reporting. Quest Fixes · Fixed a major issue where quests could fail to advance or validate correctly in certain scenarios. Ranching Fixes · F… | — | |
| Game update | HotFix 0.8.10.562 now available! Hello Ranchers! A new hotfix is now available! Please make sure your game is updated to version 0.8.10.562 or later . 🛠️ Hotfix Notes 🐄 Ranching This hotfix focuses heavily on improving the stability of farm animals, barns, and coops. · Fixed a major intermittent issue that could cause animals to disappear when entering their barn or coop at night. · Fixed a major issue that could cause chick… | — | |
| Game update | A new hotfix is now available on Steam! version 0.8.10.455! Hello Ranchers! 🤠💚 A new hotfix is now available on Steam! 🔥🔥🔥 Please make sure your game is updated to version 0.8.10.455 or later . 🛠️ Hotfix Notes This update addresses two major issues: · Fixed an issue where the game could remain stuck on the loading screen when Steam was running in Offline Mode. · Fixed an issue that prevented players from joining a friend’s co-op session in certain… | — | |
| Community | 🎉 The Ranchers Is Available Now on Steam! Hello Ranchers! 🤠💚 Today is finally here! 🎉 The Ranchers has officially launched in Early Access! The Ranchers is available to purchase now on Steam! 🎉🎉🎉 Reaching this milestone means more to me than I can put into words. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for supporting The Ranchers and for being part of this incredible journey. Your patience, encouragement, feedback, and belief in t… | — | |
| Community | The Ranchers Launches in Early Access on July 30th! 🎉 Hello Ranchers!!! 💚 The wait is finally coming to an end... I'm incredibly excited to announce that : The Ranchers will launch in Early Access on Steam on July 30th at 10:00 AM PT / 7:00 PM CEST!🎉🎉🎉 This is a moment I've been dreaming about for years. From the very first prototype to today, The Ranchers has been a journey filled with challenges, lessons, excitement, and countless hours of w… | — | |
| Community | 🚗Driving Overhaul, My Garage App, Subway Travel & More🔥 Hi Ranchers, I know it's been a little while since the last update, but I can assure you I've been cooking hard behind the scenes! 😄 In addition to the incremental updates released over the past two months, a new major update is now available. Make sure your game is updated to version 0.8.10.420 or later. Let's dive into what's new! 🚗 New Driving Mechanics & Vehicle Rebalancing One of the big… | — | |
| Major update | Next Fest Update – Controls, Camera & QoL Improvements Hello Ranchers 💚 I hope you’re having an amazing Next Fest! As promised, I’m back with a follow-up to my previous post. Alongside the AI cleanup, I’ve been working heavily on bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements based directly on your feedback. The reviews and messages you’ve shared have been incredibly valuable. There have been so many thoughtful suggestions, and over the past few days,… | — | |
| In-game event | Update on AI Changes and Next Steps Hello Ranchers! What a week it’s been. 🔥 Seeing the demo in your hands during Steam Next Fest has been an incredible milestone for us. Watching you explore the world, stream the game, and share your thoughts has been both exciting and motivating. ❤️ We’ve been reading every review and piece of feedback carefully. That’s the purpose of this demo, to learn, adjust, and make The Ranchers stronger… | — | |
| Community | Play The Ranchers demo now! Hello Ranchers!! Today is the day, The Ranchers demo is finally live! 🔥 To celebrate this incredible milestone, I’m excited to share our brand-new demo trailer with you: The goal of this demo is simple, to give everyone a first taste of The Ranchers, share the heart of what we’re building, and shape its future together with you. ❤️ We’ve put a lot of care into making this demo as smooth and en… | — | |
| Community | The Journey Begins in 48 Hours!🔥 Hello Ranchers 💚 In less than 48 hours , the demo of The Ranchers will finally be live.🔥🔥🔥 I’m incredibly excited, but also deeply humbled, to share years of work, love, and dedication with you. Building a game with the scope and freedom of The Ranchers, while being a very small team led by a solo developer, is honestly a bit of madness.🤯 None of this would be possible without the support,… | — | |
| Community | 🧑🌾 The Ranchers is coming to Steam Next Fest and Early Access Locked!🔥 Hello Ranchers, I hope you are all doing great, and I wish you an amazing start to this new year. 🎄🎁 Thank you for being here, for your patience, and for the trust you have shown us over the years. ❤️ Today is a very special day for us, and honestly, one we have been waiting a long time to share. I have two big announcements, and both mark a major step forward for The Ranchers. First, I am in… | — | |
| Community | Bigger, better and truly next level!🚀🎉 Hello Ranchers!! 🤠💚 Today is a truly special day! Our biggest, most beautiful update is finally here! 🎉🎈 This milestone brings The Ranchers to the level of quality I’ve been dreaming of since the very first line of code. Seeing it come to life, and sharing it with you, feels like a dream finally becoming real.🤩 I want to take a moment to thank each and every one of you for your incredible… | — | |
| Community | 🚨👮The Ranchers Police District Update! Hello Ranchers! Hope y’all are safe and doing great! Today, I’m excited to introduce our newest feature: The Ranchers Police District (R.P.D). 🎉🎉🎉 From the start, The Ranchers has given you tons of freedom to play the game your way. You can stick to the rules and enjoy a calm, relaxed experience, or you can mix things up—maybe even try something a little daring, like swiping NPCs' crops, car… | — | |
| Community | 🏙️🏛️🚕🚦❤️Sunvale's city center and more! Hello Ranchers! Today is a big day!!! You can’t imagine how happy and thrilled I'm writing these lines! The Ranchers' big overhaul is complete! And I couldn't be more proud and happy with the final result! ✨✨✨ It was by far the most reckless decision I've made in the last three years, and oh boy, was it tough—really tough! After the Kickstarter campaign and the overwhelming support The Ranchers… | — | |
| Community | 🧑🎨🎧🚀🍎🗺️Fresh and consolidated Art Style! Hello Ranchers, 👩🌾👨🌾 Hope you all are safe and doing great. Since our last big update, I was hesitating about what the next move for The Ranchers' development will be. There were two paths: whether we should prioritize the mines exploration with the Monsters/combat system or the open-world production. It was a hard question to answer as each choice brought its pros and cons. For me, I wan… | — | |
| In-game event | The Ranchers Community Update 👨🌾 Hello Ranchers👩🌾 Welcome to the Beta version of The Ranchers! We want to celebrate this new step by showing you the very first update in this phase. Let's take a closer look at the big changes in the new update: 🌟Revamped UI/UX We have introduced a brand new, modern, and immersive user interface that enhances the player experience. The entire game UI has been rebuilt from scratch, wit… | 11557006 | |
| In-game event | The Ranchers, Ranching v2 update! 🐐 Hello Ranchers 🧑🌾 Long time no see! Since the last time we posted, we’ve been busy with our alpha version of The Ranchers and with all the amazing feedback that we received from everyone who’s played this version. Thank you to each and everyone of you who’s taken the time to help us make The Ranchers the best possible version of itself for the future ahead.💕 Our latest and final update in t… | — | |
| Community | 🍷Vintner & Brewmaster🍺 Unlocked + 🎁Our gift to this incredible community! Hello Ranchers !! We did it !!! The 🍷Vinter & Brewmaster🍺 stretch goal is unlocked! Thank you sooooooooo much for making our dreams game come true ❤️❤️❤️ Now you will be able to transform a variety of fruits and even vegetables into exquisite wines, beers and whiskeys and other exotic liquors! You can also transform your truffles, corns, sunflowers to delicious oil that can be used to cook yo… | — | |
| Community | 🐦Birds & Insects UNLOCKED!🦋 Happy Monday Ranchers!! Our first Stretch Goal is reached!! 🥳 We've unlocked " Birds & Insects " thanks to your amazing support and trust!❤️🔥 The Ranchers sky will now be populated with flying birds and insects making it more alive than ever! We are introducing a variety of flying birds and insects including -but not limited to- Crow, Parrot, Pigeon, Seagull, Eagles, Vultures and colorful ot… | — | |
| Community | 🎉The Ranchers is officially funded!🎉 You are all AMAZING!!!😭❤️ This launch has completely blown us away! The Ranchers has reached its funding goal in less than 18 HOURS thanks to your overwhelming support! I can’t believe we’re making our dream game come true and we couldn’t have gotten here without all of you!! THANK YOU!!! 🌟Support our Kickstarter: Stretch Goals With the funding goal met, we’re thrilled to share with you the s… | — | |
| Community | The Ranchers is live on Kickstarter! Hello Ranchers! We are LIVE on Kickstarter! 🥳 This is your chance to secure your exclusive alpha access by supporting us on Kickstarter and join us on this incredible journey! ❤️ Players who secured their exclusive alpha access will be able to play The Ranchers from this October 2022 (maybe before…) till the final release planned for Q3 2023 and beyond 🚀 🌟Support our Kickstarter: As always,… | — | |
| Community | The Ranchers Dev-Update #2 Hello Ranchers, I hope you are all safe and doing great! First of all, my deepest apologies for the recent silence. As you all know, the recent world situation was a bit scary for all of us and we were affected like everyone else with what's going on as we do have partners, friends, teammate in both sides and our top priority was to make sure that everyone is safe first! Despite all this turbul… | — | |
| Community | The Ranchers Dev-Update #1 Hello Ranchers, Welcome to The Ranchers first dev-update! First of all I want to deeply thank you all for all the love and support we did get from this great community! Things went really fast and in an incredible way since we first announced The Ranchers trailer! Today, We are more than 3 000 members on Discord ! and The Ranchers is hiting new wishlists record everyday! Thank you again for all… | — | |
| Community | Announcement Trailer & We're coming to Kickstarter! Hello Ranchers! Hope y’all doing great. Announcement Trailer The day is finally here! The Ranchers announcement trailer is now live! Click on the following link to check it out: Everyone here is so excited to hear what you think. You can let us know by joining our Discord server ! Kickstarter Pre-Launch Page Our Kickstarter pre-launch page is also live. Click the "Notify Me On Launch" and you'l… | — | |
| Community | Let me introduce myself! Hello Ranchers! First of all I want to thank you all from the deep of my heart for all the kind words and support about The Ranchers! My name is Ethan, I'm a father of a 4 year old little girl, a geek and an old time farm SIM lover. Like many of you, I grow up with games like Harvest Moon, The Sims and GTA and I played the hell out of games like Stardew Valley and Animals crossing... Till' drea… | — |
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