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Released Jul 30, 2026

The Ranchers

2026 · Role-playing (RPG), Simulator
RedPilzStudio · PC · Mac · Linux

The Ranchers is an open world country-life sim for 1-4 players. Raise animals, grow crops, craft machines, build your dream house and explore the gigantic open world where mines and dangerous monsters abound. Earn the villagers' respect and esteem. And who knows, maybe find love and start a family.

Real Score
54
Divisive
from 288 reactions
very high confidence
53% positive2% mixed45% negative
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3Platforms

What people are saying

Updated nightly
The Real Review

The Ranchers is a divisive open-world life sim from RedPilzStudio. The core gameplay loop of farming and building is decent, but it's completely dragged down by terrible performance and technical jank that many players are calling out. The driving mechanics are a particular low point, described as awful, and the value feels poor for the current state. Some are enjoying the multiplayer, but it's a hard sell considering the crashes and bugs that plague PC and Steam Deck players.

Synthesized from 288 real reactions · very high confidenceGraphicsGameplayStoryPerformanceDifficultyMultiplayerValue

Sentiment split

Every qualifying reaction, weighted.

53%positive
  • Positive53%
  • Mixed2%
  • Negative45%

By aspect

What people scored, piece by piece.

graphics64
gameplay53
story53
value38
multiplayer29
difficulty27
performance18

How opinion moved

The Real Score, night by night.

525456Oct 10162125Nov 25454

Buzz

20 reactions over two weeks, counted by the day they were posted.

012Oct 7: 0 reactionsOct 7Oct 8: 0 reactionsOct 9: 1 reaction9Oct 10: 0 reactionsOct 11: 0 reactions11Oct 12: 1 reactionOct 13: 0 reactions13Oct 14: 0 reactionsOct 15: 1 reaction15Oct 16: 0 reactionsOct 17: 0 reactions17Oct 18: 0 reactionsOct 19: 0 reactions19Oct 20: 2 reactions20

Where the signal came from

Volume and platform mix only.

Steam280
Social Media8

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Names and topics that came up

Mentions across all reactions, with the share that were positive. Anything mentioned fewer than twice never shapes the review.

RedPilzStudiodeveloper67×60%+
Steam Deckplatform10×50%+
drivingfeature10×10%+
chickenscharacter6×0%+
vehiclesfeature6×33%+
carsfeature6×33%+
multiplayerfeature5×60%+
carfeature5×20%+
Steamplatform5×20%+
driving mechanicsfeature5×0%+
house buildingfeature5×40%+
policefeature5×40%+
PCplatform4×25%+
camera anglesfeature4×25%+
controller supportfeature4×25%+

Trailer and screenshots

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