The Ranch of Rivershine on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
Saddle up and build your own horse ranch! Raise foals, care for your horses and train them as you explore the western wilderness! Participate in cross country competitions and become your town's champion. Befriend the villagers who'll help you on your adventure at the Ranch of Rivershine!
The Ranch of Rivershine is a simulation, horses and farming sim game
developed and published by Cozy Bee Games.
Released on May 12th 2023 is available only on Windows
in 2 languages: English and French.
It has received 1,267 reviews of which 1,198 were positive and 69 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: Intel Core i5
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 5 GB available space
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This is the horse game that horse people have been waiting for. If you're in the market for a cozy game with a light farming aspect that rewards leisurely exploration through beautiful scenery, this is the game for you. The cross country competitions are fun, although they can get a little bit repetitive, so there's definitely the midgame "grind" aspect seen in a lot of cozy games, but updates with new content are consistent and generally not buggy. The breeding system is cool and I appreciate the amount of customization (both horse tack/appearance and character design) that's been added since I began playing. I do wish there were a couple other riding sports to decrease the show repetitiveness and the game mechanics are such that I think it'd be possible to add show jumping for sure, if not some other types of riding. The seasons are also lovely and add some excitement to the scenery, although it would be cool if it rained or snowed sometimes! Lastly, this is a surprisingly diverse game. The characters all have different backgrounds, which is something severely lacking in the real horse world, but I love that the makers clearly put thought into representation. I really can't recommend this game enough, it's brought me a lot of warmth and happiness during the tumultuous last few years.
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Where to begin? I did my research about this game before buying since it isn't completed yet. Usually would never buy a game still in development but I took the risk & I'm more than happy! Pleasantly surprised! I grew up playing all the early 2000s horse games so that's the game play I'm looking for & this game delivered on that in most areas. This is more of a cozy, relaxed game though with a small story line with adorable horses. Pros - Really nice graphics/gorgeous maps, cozy music, LOTS of pretty coat colours, cute tack, horse races with levels easy - advanced, horses mane & tail grows that you can cut, taking care of your horse in the barn with grooming/stall cleaning/feeding, expanding your barn/farm to train/buy horses, the auction house to buy/sell horses, breeding & the adorable foals, training foals/horses, horse pastures, catching wild horses to sell or train, different maps to explore, Rivershine Town with the tack store, general store & town market, different NPCs to interact with for upgrading jumps/training courses & also gardening/selling stuff. Cons - Not enough character customization, keyboard/mouse controls take some getting used too, tiny story line yet good, just wish it was longer/more in-depth, needs the option to hire a stable hand because it's time consuming to care for multiple horses sometimes, not enough tack choices, & while grooming your horse I wish that you could pick it's feet, feel like that's missing since we can only brush. What I'd also like to see in the future is show jumping & dressage! So far it's just cross country races.
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Ranch of Rivershine is everything i've wanted in a horse game since the fall of horse games genre in the early 2000's. Buy, tame,and train horses to be the best cross country rider in the town and bring people back to the struggling town. Seems simple enough right? In other horse games in the past you'd just win some competitions and be done with it but Ranch of Rivershine is so much more. the art style is adorable, and everytime i play i find a new horse colour or pattern design in a wild horse in the fields, or even hitched in the town that just makes me go "wow". i love seeing the combos i can make in the "fertility paddock" in my little foals running around- and now with the latest update where i can train my foals and wild horses before riding them? so much more fun to have babies in my paddock! a valid concern i have seen with a few of the reviews here is about the manes and tails and the horses movements within the game. personally i am unbothered by the manes and tails physics as they stand but i can see why others would be bothered with them flailing around as you ride or move, however i do know that in about 2 months (if current track record of update releases stand) there will be a mane and tail hair update released, and as such the hair will not be a problem most likely. horses personalities and the way they behave is a cute little update that was released alongside the foals update, and has been a net positive i have found with training my horses and gameplay. training is fun and feels quicker now than when i first started playing, and with it comes a satisfying leap in difficulty when it comes to each level of competitions, beginner, intermediate, advanced and i havent quite reached the next level even after 30 hours of active gameplay! with each level up in difficulty there is a significant skill increase the player must use and practice- however finishing in first place each time has felt all the more sweeter! the tack and accessories are super cute, and the clipping of the reins through the neck is something even triple AAA studios struggle with so that complaint i find ridiculous considering this is a one man game. i love giving each of my horses a specific colour of tack and blankets to match, and going each day to the shop to see what is in stock has been super fun and rewarding. i also love the touch of the pregnant mummas bellies poking out the bottom of their blankets so endearing and an adorable touch that simply HAS to stay. my only gripes i truly have with this game is it needs more information stored somewhere like in a journal of what has happened each day and where, such as what plants are ready to harvest in your plots, who is in the town each day and where the wild horses if any are in the world. sometimes the text at the start of each day goes too quick for me to see who and what is going on, or when i click exit of a letter i forget where things are. maybe a journal or calendar of all the characters and places would be a nice touch to solve this problem? maybe even having a data base on each area and what colours of wild horses would appear more where? id also love a preview of possible foal colours and patterns and skills that might occur with each breeding, i know its not realistic but i feel it would make my choices on babies a little easier to make whether i would breed two horses together or not. in short- the art of the characters, the beauty in the world, the cuteness of the horses both young and grown, the cute tack, the music AND the gameplay as it stands is fantastic and a firm favourite of mine. i have recommended this game to non horsey cozy game friends and have been told its a delight so that is what my review hopefully reflects. for a one man team this game is a delight and a joy to play and see grow and i cant wait to see how the finished project looks.
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This game really covers the horse ranch fantasy, but I wish I could romance npcs and have more character customization options. The breeding mechanic is super easy, and I love that you get to keep your favorite horses in the retirement pasture. I haven't played for that long, but I'm hoping that you can have generations and the retirement horses pass over time. (my hopes are not that sturdy as I'm pretty sure you can only keep or sell your horses, and the retirement pasture just keeps them as long as you want them.) Overall great mechanics once you get used to them. It is a bit of a learning curve, but not that hard to pick up. Overall like a 6/10
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It's like someone finally made a horse GAME instead of a horse simulator. Everything feels fun with a ton of quality of life features that make "horse chores" NOT feel like a chore! I'd honestly compare it most to a Slime Rancher that is focused on horse raising and riding instead of gathering slimes and farming plorts. There is farming, you can grow food, treats, etc that you can feed to your horses for basic needs and for extra bonuses. You can buy seeds or find them, in addition to raw wild materials (crops, bedding) in the several environmentally distinct open-world areas like in Slime Rancher, including your ranch and the town. You can ride your horse pretty much anywhere, including inside people's houses! Instead of your CHARACTER having energy, each HORSE has its own energy. You can use the energy to progress with them. You can train them to increase one of 4 stats that help in races (speed, dash, turning, and jump). You can train them in arenas or on courses, but you also can just train them in the open world areas while foraging materials if you want to. You also participate in racing competitions that award money based on how you place, which each use a chunk of the energy bar, and seem to progress the story. When your horse runs out of energy, if you have another you can go swap horses and keep racing or training. When you spend time and win competitions with your horse, its trust in you increases and it unlocks different features like being able to whistle to call your horse from farther and farther distances and to mount it from behind. Horses will wander around if not hitched to a post (which is very easy and smooth to do), but the more your horse trusts you the closer to you it will stay, sometimes even following you. It's a small thing that I don't find to be very annoying but makes the game feel a lot more immersive and like your horse is their own being. There are tons of horse coat patterns, colors, and modifiers that can be passed down to foals utilizing the breeding mechanics. You can eventually capture and tame wild horses with unique coat colors and patterns to breed into your herds. The method of adopting wild horses is incredible. You herd wild horses to a wild horse pen you purchase, and gradually gain trust with the wild horse. It will let you pet its head and it will reveal some more information about it. Then you can pet both its sides to reveal its gender and coat details, and finally you can approach its rump (the most defensive part of a horse!) to learn its skill levels. After you gain the wild horses' trust, you can choose to adopt it and it will be sent to an open stable. Oh yeah, did I mention certain genes and coat colors are native to certain areas? This might be my favorite part of the game so far. The controls can feel wonky and take some getting used to, but I think it's intended to make you feel like you're controlling a horse. It reminds me of RDR2 but more responsive, and training flexibility can make it feel a bit better. I think it's really worth a try if you are at all interested in it, it's a surprisingly immersive and in-depth horse raising game that feels like a very complete experience, even in its current Early Access state. I can't wait for more updates! After some more time playing, I wanted to touch on a few negatives or annoyances that might be dealbreakers for people. I still can't get enough of the game, but these are things I think should be mentioned There are 2 control schemes: mouse controls the camera which controls the direction of your horse, and "free camera" where you use WASD to control the horse and mouse to control the camera direction. There doesn't seem to be a way to use WASD with a following camera and it can be difficult juggling the camera's position and your horse's direction with at the same time. Additionally, free camera can be disorienting at times, I mostly notice it when I'm dismounting my horse with free camera and the camera snaps to follow my character. The resources out in the field can be hard to notice. The white sparkles that are supposed to denote them aren't very visible from afar, and I often find resources that aren't even sparkling (hopefully due to a bug). The design of resources in an area tends to be very similar to the surrounding environmental decoration, so picking them out of the foliage can be really difficult, if not impossible (some fruits/treats are so small they are just hidden by the height of the grass, for instance). I actually turned the graphics down to "Fast" when foraging because it's SO much easier to see resources out in the world without the grass. There is a bug where sometimes your horse won't jump an obstacle even if you press the button at the right time; this seems to happen most often on bridges, for some reason. There is also currently a bug where if you retire a horse to the retirement pasture (essentially a "non-active horse storage" that you can store and retrieve horses from as long as you have an open stall) with a dapple coat, it will lose its dapples permanently!
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Online players
107
Developer
Cozy Bee Games
Publisher
Cozy Bee Games
Release
12 May 2023
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