Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm
Skip · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 47, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce RTX series / Radeon 500 series or above, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
Builder. Farmer. Hunter. Trader. Ranching certainly isn’t your average job. Think you have the skills to turn your family’s rundown homestead into the most prosperous ranch in the valley? Then it’s time to head out into the wilderness in this captivating single and multiplayer open-world simulator.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 50 in the 6 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 19 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Farming Simulator 15 ($12.99, scores 84) outscores it, and so does Farming Simulator 17 ($14.99, scores 89). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 27 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2026 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 629 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 37 percent of the 4,846 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
It came out 3 years ago, and 672 were online in it when we last checked, on Sep 26, 11:45 UTC.
The drop-off
68% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
672 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 11:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1119730/ranch-simulator-build-hunt-farmReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Oct 1.
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