The Ranchers

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First impressions: Currently very early in its early access phase, so the price that they're asking is very steep for what it is, HOWEVER, I'm getting the same vibes that i got from a different top-down open world life sim called Big Ambitions during it's EA days, so I'm trusting the process and putting full confidence in the devs, so I'm giving it a thumbs up. I will revisit this review throughout the game's develop so the review is subject to change, but as of right now it's a buy when on sale

我后悔啊，我是祥林嫂啊，众筹了退不了钱我悔啊

For starters the game needs to constantly be online never thought I would see that as a requirement for an Indie game but here we are. The Multiplayer is absolutely horrible instead of getting a farm we build up with friends the Devs decided that it would be collaborative only you own your own farms and you invite friends from their farm to help you do some of the more tedious work. I was absolutely in awe to realise that apparently this game had been in the works for years allegedly 5 years and yet it's incredibly unpolished it took me multiple attempts to finish the prologue because I kept falling through the map. Early access should still be playable and this isn't especially not for something that apparently was being worked on for 5 years or more. I absolutely hate the character creator I've never seen such a messy UI and the options are so well basic??? Theirs almost no real choices and all the options are mashed together with no real thought. To touch on the characters I've never played a game at max settings where somehow the game still looks awful, theirs all this weird graphical glitches going on where in some areas it looks fuzzy or I don't really know how to explain it point is on max settings it still looks awful. Furthermore with no true single player mode if this game flops it'll be unplayable I took my refund and I don't think I'll look back.

C'est un véritable désastre. Le jeu a énormément de potentiel, mais dans son état actuel, il risque de décevoir beaucoup de joueurs. Je comprends parfaitement qu'il soit en accès anticipé, mais là, on a davantage l'impression d'avoir acheté une démo qu'un véritable Early Access. À mes yeux, le jeu ressemble plus à une alpha qu'à une version suffisamment avancée pour être commercialisée à ce prix. Quelques exemples de problèmes rencontrés : Le casino est annoncé, mais n'est pas encore disponible. Seulement 3 cultures sont accessibles. Les poules disparaissent, même avec un poulailler clôturé et en m'en occupant tous les jours. Les arroseurs automatiques... n'arrosent tout simplement pas. La quête principale se termine en quelques heures, puis le développeur confirme qu'il faudra attendre de futures mises à jour pour la suite. Et ce ne sont que quelques-uns des problèmes que j'ai rencontrés. Je suis convaincue qu'il en reste encore beaucoup d'autres. Pour le moment, je ne recommande pas l'achat. Je conseille d'attendre plusieurs mises à jour avant de se lancer. Le jeu possède une excellente base et beaucoup de potentiel, mais dans son état actuel, je ne trouve pas que son prix de 30 $ CAD soit justifié.

Hopped into the ranchers for the first time and immediately knew this dev was passionate with this project, can really tell the amount of effort is put into this and very excited to be in this community from now on.

Thanks for getting rid of the AI first of all. That was garbage and hope it will stay this way. I prefer it this way. Now I understand it is early access. So my review may change at a later time depending. However for the moment. Driving has improved, still a little iffy but that will get better with updates and time. It is still an amazing improvement since the demo. Great job. I liked the demo, I like this. Thanks for getting rid of the biggest contributing negative factor. For the moment, this gets my approval. Perhaps multiplayer wasn't what was expected but I say give it a bit of time. The developer listens. They listened during the demo, they will listen now.