After years of living in the metropolis' stressful and hectic 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 and manager will be put to the test to make your Ranch a prosperous business and earn the villagers' respect and esteem. And who knows, maybe find love and start a family.
CREATE YOUR RANCH.
Raise animals, grow crops, reclaim resources, buy new lots of land, and much more. You'll have plenty of space to create the Ranch of your dreams.DEVELOP YOUR RANCH.
Craft objects, machines, and transform your basic resources into elaborate products to attract villagers, fill daily orders, or sell them in different markets for maximum profit.MANAGE YOUR RANCH.
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.ONLINE COOPERATION.
Invite 1 to 3 players to join you in your Ranch online! Your friends can help you develop your Ranch, fulfill your goals, or explore the vast open world of The Ranchers together.AUCTION MARKET.
You can sell your resources to other players via the online auction market to maximize your profits. The auction market is directly accessible from within the game and from the companion application on iOS and Android. It seems that in The Ranchers, money never sleeps!TRADE GUILD.
The Trade Guild offers you new and exciting challenges every real-world season to test your Rancher skills and collect rewards, exclusive new animal breeds, new seeds, and new in-game content - all to make your Ranch the greatest and most powerful empire ever built.A GIGANTIC OPEN WORLD.
On foot, horseback, scooter, pickup, or yacht, explore a gigantic open world where mines, wild islands, shipwrecks, and dangerous monsters abound. Use your skills to recover ultra-rare minerals, gems, etc., to make and improve your tools, donate them to the village museum, or sell them at the auction market to other players.IMPROVE YOUR SKILLS.
Enhance your character with various skills that will serve you in your adventures. Choose to develop your farming, ranching, crafting/building, combat, or hunter/fisher skills depending on your play style.BUILD THE HOUSE OF YOUR DREAMS.
By the seaside, in the middle of the prairie, or on top of a hill, choose your decor and place your furniture to create a house that reflects your image and that your friends will love.JOIN THE COMMUNITY.
Meet many colorful characters and discover their atypical personalities, everyday life, and fascinating stories. They go to work, go to the park, go to the restaurant, play sports, and interact with each other in many different ways. Take the time to get to know them, make friendships, and who knows, maybe love will be there, and you can move in together, have children and start a family?AND SO MUCH MORE.
There's something for everyone in The Ranchers! Take part in the frequent festivals and many other activities. Just let your imagination run wild. Want to hone your culinary skills and prepare delicious dishes? Try your hand at game hunting, insect hunting? Or relax and spend the afternoon fishing? It's up to you!A GAME IN CONSTANT EVOLUTION.
The Ranchers is a game that is continuously developing. Come back each month to discover new content additions.Hello Ranchers!!
[p align=\"start\"]Today is a truly special day! Our biggest, most beautiful update is finally here! [/p][p align=\"start\"]This milestone brings The Ranchers to the level of quality Ive 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.[/p][p align=\"start\"]I want to take a moment to thank each and every one of you for your incredible patience, love, and support throughout this wild journey. This game simply wouldnt exist without you, truly.[/p][p align=\"start\"]From the bottom of my heart, thank you for being here with us and believing in The Ranchers. [/p][p align=\"start\"][/p][p align=\"start\"]Now this update is by far our biggest yet (you can imagine how long the changelog is ), but dont worry, Ill keep it as short and sweet as possible for all the curious Ranchers![/p][p align=\"start\"] TL,DR[/p]A bigger open world, roughly 3x the previous playable area, with new zones and neighborhoods.
[/*]New quest engine, new quests, and an airborne intro to Sunvale City.
[/*]Visual upgrade, sharper shadows, and a seethrough camera for clear visibility.
[/*]Smoother driving, major balance pass, lots of quality of life.
[/*]Heavy performance work across world streaming, terrain, and profiles for handhelds and PC.
[/*]New localization system with many languages.
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[p align=\"start\"]Alright, lets dive into the changelog:[/p][p align=\"start\"] Bigger, better, truly next level![/p][p align=\"start\"]The open world is now content complete for Alpha, a key step toward our Early Access goals.[/p][p align=\"start\"]The new world introduces multiple additional zones and neighborhoods, expanding the playable map to about 3x the previous version.[/p][p align=\"start\"]New zones and neighborhood highlights:[/p]The Ranchers Airport
[/*]Sunvale Port district
[/*]The Ranchers Museum
[/*]The Ranchers Ferris Wheel
[/*]Suburban villas and housing
[/*]Farmers Market district
[/*]New Police Station
[/*]Multiple new fuel stations
[/*]New highways, including Route 66 ;)
[/*]Low density commercial streets
[/*]Low density residential buildings
[/*]Subway stations and elevated tracks
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[p align=\"start\"] New shops and landmarks[/p]NovaGen Corp Headquarters (the bad guys)
[/*]Vitalis Corp Headquarters (the good guys)
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Star Motors, standard cars, operating
[/*]Prestige Auto, premium cars, operating
[/*]Berrari Motors, supercars, opening very soon
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[p align=\"start\"][/p][p align=\"start\"] New game intro scene[/p][p align=\"start\"]A new introduction sequence shows the player arriving by airplane, flying over Sunvale Citys landmarks (The Ranchers Museum, Sunvale Port, Sunset Casino, and more) before landing at The Ranchers Airport.[/p][img src=\"https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/39397151/8bc9b762d52fdbbea93c8a31545dd7a9c94fb10b.jpg\"][/img]
[p align=\"start\"] New Quest Engine[/p]Fail conditions supported, including police chases, player death, or NPC death.
[/*]Main quest NPCs can follow the player across the open world and interiors, and can participate in activities.
[/*]Failed quests can be replayed at any time, with automatic state resets.
[/*]Multiplayer ready, friends can play coop quests together.
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Tutorials appear the first time you attempt a new mechanic.
[/*]Each tutorial explains how the mechanic works, how it affects gameplay, and includes visual examples.
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[p align=\"start\"] New plantation mechanics[/p][p align=\"start\"]Clearer, more consistent behavior, plus regrow seed functionality and quality of life improvements:[/p]Seeds only disappear when the plant dies.
[/*]Fruits and vegetables no longer get destroyed if you forget to harvest them.
[/*]A simpler, more intuitive regrow flow for recurring crops.
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[p align=\"start\"][/p][p align=\"start\"] New NPC visitors and upgraded dialogues[/p][p align=\"start\"]Visitors, 13 new NPCs stroll through the city with distinct jobs and personalities. Interact to learn more about their lives or professions.[/p][p align=\"start\"]Residents, improved nonquest dialogues with deeper conversations. Choose personal or job topics to discover each characters story.[/p][img src=\"https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/39397151/50cb691ed7d505844aeb6d6191c69a9070450b9d.jpg\"][/img]
[p align=\"start\"] Visual upgrade[/p]A refreshed art style with our most beautiful grass and foliage yet.
[/*]Characters, improved player and NPC textures, body and clothing, matched to the new style.
[/*]Animals, updated farm animal textures for better integration with the world.
[/*]Lighting and shadows, sharper, smoother, and more natural rendering across the map.
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[p align=\"start\"] Seethrough camera[/p][p align=\"start\"]A new system smoothly fades or hides any object that blocks the camera, so you always keep a clear view of your character.[/p][img src=\"https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/39397151/8a658ae8d643f75c594f19c102218227d8717b1d.jpg\"][/img]
[p align=\"start\"] Driving mechanics[/p][p align=\"start\"]Vehicles finetuned for greater stability and a smoother feel. Handling is more accessible and more fun.[/p][img src=\"https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/39397151/43b037566d2795bfe3d344b624c0084f909b1ab7.jpg\"][/img]
[p align=\"start\"] Game balance[/p]Adjusted police severity to be less punishing.
[/*]Economy pass, fruit, vegetable, and seed prices adjusted so plantations feel less grindy.
[/*]Larger area of effect for the Fire Extinguisher and the Watering Can.
[/*]Spring rain probabilities adjusted, slightly less frequent, still present.
[/*]You can light wood logs and other flammable objects while it rains if you are under a roof or inside a shelter.
[/*]Farm animals are now visible on the map when they are outside their barn or coop, no GPS tracker needed.
[/*]Unified probability engine with true weighted picks and Bernoulli gates.
[/*]All probability systems, for example fruit counts, newborn animal quality, now use the new engine and are influenced by player luck.
[/*]Updated graphics for several seeds and vegetables.
[/*]Blood effects disabled by default in game settings, in line with ESRB and PEGI guidance.
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Malcolms and Angelas shops now display opening hours.
[/*]Pickaxes are easier to find.
[/*]Icon legend added to item popups, helpful for gamepad users to read status icons, for example sick animals or failed egg incubation.
[/*]Item popups now show how much energy and health a tent or bed will restore when sleeping.
[/*]A progress bar in popups shows how close you are to chopping a tree or breaking a rock.
[/*]End of day summary animation is 4x faster.
[/*]Sprinkler timings adjusted to water plantations more quickly.
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[p align=\"start\"] Performance, world streaming, and optimization[/p]Extensive optimization across core systems.
[/*]Custom terrain replacement system, more than 10x lighter than Unitys native terrain in our tests, able to render more foliage and detail at a fraction of the cost, while avoiding Unity terrain streaming overhead.
[/*]Nonterrain scene streaming cost reduced to roughly 10 percent of the original.
[/*]New Performance and Quality profiles for Xbox ROG Ally,ROG Ally, Steam Deck, and PC and macOS.
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New localization system with adaptive UI components, dynamic fonts, and layout adjustments.
[/*]Added support and integration for the following languages, English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese Simplified, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Korean, Danish, and Turkish.
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Try The Ranchers for free!
Starting today, we are opening early access tests of The Ranchers through our Ranchers Insider Program. These sessions are limited and focused, we are looking for players who want to help us validate features, spot issues, and push the game forward.
If you want to try The Ranchers for free before it reaches the wider public, and you are ready to give concrete feedback, you can sign up here:
Join The Ranchers insider program!
[p align=\"start\"]\nThank you for reading. More news is coming very, very, very soon!!!! [/p][p align=\"start\"]With love,[/p][p align=\"start\"]Ethan[/p][dynamiclink href=\"https://store.steampowered.com/app/1501310/The_Ranchers/\"][/dynamiclink]
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