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Sim Farm S.A. · Published by PlayWay S.A., Sim Farm S.A. · Official site ↗
Mixed — 64% positive (295 reviews) · 25 achievements
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
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!
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Indie, Simulation, Early Access, Casual · 2026 · More £15 - £30 games
Explore the forest as a Rancher, raising livestock and building your farm from scratch. With activities like fishing, cooking, and shooting, take your time to relax away from city life.
About this 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.
Relax with Rancher: A New Life!
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →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
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10/11 (64-bit versions)
- Processor: Intel Core i5-13600K or AMD Ryzen 7 7700
- Memory: 32 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 or AMD Radeon RX 9070
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 20 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD required. Target: 1920×1080, Ultimate settings, 60 FPS. 12 GB VRAM or more recommended.
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Patch 2026-09-12 11:00 UTC
pickup wheel bolts interactions improvements Chicken food and manure stock piles are not blocking interactions for placed objects insideRead full article on Community Announcements (Sim Farm)Patch NotesOfficial
Patch 2026-09-11 23:40 UTC
Pickup cleaning and repairing improvements 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 improvementsRead full article on Community Announcements (Sim Farm)Patch NotesOfficial
Patch 2026-09-08 18:20 UTC
- You can now unjam the barn doors - 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 no...Read full article on Community Announcements (Rafał)Patch NotesOfficial
Patch 2026-08-28 20:00 UTC
- 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 correctlyRead full article on Community Announcements (Rafał)Patch NotesOfficial
Patch 2026-08-26 10:25 UTC
You can no longer open the horse UI while sitting upon it to prevent issues 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 cutsceneRead full article on Community Announcements (Rafał)
